Page 2B-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, March 21, 1985
Sports Briefs
Junior High Baseball
Opener Slated Thursday
Kings Mountain Junior High’s scheduled baseball opener
Monday with West Lincoln was postponed. The game will be
played Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at the KM field. :
Major League Tryouts
Friday, Draft Saturday
Dixie Youth Major League baseball tryouts will be held Fri-
day from 6-8 p.m. at the Deal Street field. The draft will be
Saturday from 1-3 p.m. Players may continue to register until
the time of the draft.
Minor League Tryouts
Monday, Draft Tuesday
Dixie Youth Minor League baseball tryouts will be held
Monday from 6-8 p.m. at the Deal Street field. The draft will
be Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. at Deal Street. Players may con-
tinue to register until the time of the draft. :
day and Chase Monday. The Mountainettes dropped both
games last week to fall to 0-1 in the Southwestern 3-A Con-
ference and 4-3 overall. :
SOFTBALL STANDOUTS - Veterans Susie Moore, left, and
- Leigh Anne Odell will be trying to give Kings Mountain High’s
softball team a lift in games this week against Burns Thurs-
Softballers Lose Pair
Kings Mountain High's
girls softball team will be try-
ing to rebound from back-to-
back losses to Hunter Huss
and R-S Central when they
entertain Burns Thursday
afternoon.
The Mountainettes fell to
Huss 5-3 in a non-conference
game Saturday and then
dropped a 8-3 decision to R-S
Central in their opening
Southwestern 3-A Conference
contest Monday.
Coach Bruce Clark, whose
Cage
Optimist will battle Ole
Country Store at 5:30 p.m.
Thursday for the champion-
ship of the City Recreation
Department’s 11-12 year. old
basketball league.
The game will be played at
the Kings Mountain Com-
munity Center.
Optimist defeated First
Federal and Ole Country
Store defeated the Med
club was 4-1 after their first
five non-conference games.
says his girls need to get back
on the winning track in order
to make a run for the SWC
playoffs.
“We're just not hitting the
ball and aren’t playing loose
on defense,’ he says. ‘This is
the first time in two years
that we’ve lost two in a row. |
really can’t understand how
we played so well in our first
five games and then made a
complete turnaround.’
Although the loss to R-S
will count against KM's con-
ference record, it's the divi-
sion. record that determines
the teams that make the SWC
playoffs.
“I'll just attribute those
two losses to poor coaching.’
says Clark. “We'll be back.
We still haven't played any
division games and that’s
what gets you in the tourna-
‘ment. You have to hit and
play good defense to win in
this league. We have good hit-
Finals Thursday
Shoppe in semi-finals action
Monday. FUN Bank and Med
Shoppe were scheduled to
play yesterday for third
place. ;
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An eight-team, double-
elimination tournament for
the Men’s Industrial League
championship will be held
this week and next at the
Community Center.
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Action was scheduled to get
underway Wednesday at 5:30
with Eaton taking on Foote
Mineral. Other games includ-
ed Kinmont against KM
Hospital, Clevemont against
Dicey Fabrics and Commer-
cial Shearing against Spec-
trum. :
Second round action will be
held Friday, beginning ' at
5:30. Four more games will
be played Saturday. beginn-
ing at 4:30, and the semi-
finals and finals are schedul-
ed for Monday, beginning at 6
p.m. The championship game
is scheduled for 7 p.m. If the
team from the loser’s bracket
wins, another game would be
played at 8 p.m.
Kiwanis defeated Optimist
to win the 8-10 year old tour-
nament last week.
Kiwanis defeated Optimist
in the winner’s bracket semi-
finals and Optimist earned
another shot at the eventual
winners by defeating Thombs
Tigers in the loser’s bracket
finals.
Other teams entered were
Plonk Oil. C&C Metal,
Deacons. Jaycees and
Custom Metal.
Penner
Wins CC
Tourney
Pete Penner of Kings
Mountain caught 13 pounds,
11 ounces of bass to win the
Cleveland County Bass Club
Tournament Saturday at
Lake Murray, S.C.
Penner also caught the big-
gest fish, a four-pound, nine-
ounce bass.
Richard Blanton of Kings
Mountain took second place
with a total catch of 11
pounds, eight ounces. Third
was James Osborne of Shelby
with six pounds, three
ounces. :
The club’s next tournament
will be at Santee Cooper on
April 20.
Tennis
From Page 1-B
(Practice Matches)
Eddie Scruggs (KM) def.
Chad Ballad 6-0, 6-3; Daryl
Chen (KM) def. Brian Ford
6-0, 6-3; Wayne Hamilton
(KM) def. Jerry Woodsby 7-6,
6-3; Davey Lovelace (KM)
def. Randy Thomas 8-3;
Brienes-Tanner (EL) def.
Henderson-Lovelace 6-4, 4-6,
6-3; Hamrick-Webster (KM)
def. Gais-Thomas 4-6, 7-5, 7-6.
ters but we're just not hitting
the ball.”
Clark cited Stephanie
‘Owens for her hitting in the
two losses...
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