Track Team Third
In Thursday Meet
Kings Mountain High's
boys track team finished
third in a four-team
Southwestern 3-A Conference
meet Thursday at East
Gaston.
The host Warriors won the
event with 122 points, follow-
ed by South Point 621-, Kings
Mountain 60 and North
Gaston 34.
The Mountaineers travel to ;
North Gaston Thursday for a
meet with the Wildcats and
South Point.
Calvin Stephens and Thur-
man Thompson were the only
first place: winners for the
Mountaineers last week.
Stephens won the shot put
with a throw of 47°11
Thompson took the pole vault
with a leap of 10’6”’
Second place winners for
the Mountaineers included
Keith Pettus, who threw the
discus 127'4’’, Mike. Grier.
who won the 100-meter dash
in 11.1 seconds, and John
Foster, who won the 1600
Baseball
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in the bottom of the sixth tied
it and forced an extra inning.
Consecutive walks to Larry
Yarborough, Fleming and
Proctor set the stage for
Ballew’s double.
After R-S took the lead in
the top of the eighth, Proctor
led off the bottom of the
eighth with a single and mov-
ed to third on a passed ball
and fielder’s choice. But Har-
ris came up with a big
strikeout to end the game.
THURSDAY GAME
By Innings: R H E
HH 000 100 0 1:5 5
KM 121 100 x 1:55.65
Huffstetler, Fletcher (2) and
Haney; Bumgardner and
Stewart
TUESDAY GAME ;
By Innings: RH E
RS 002 011 01 5. 29:20
S
KM 001 003 00 4 6
Harris and Shehan;
Bumgardner,
Bridges (6)
gd Stewart. ; a
CASTIN’
ABO UT
by Ron Shearer,
the Red Man Fisherman
Three Time National Champion
and World Record Holder
for The Largest Daily
Tournament Catch
Two techniques for fishing
the plastic worm that we're using
now on the pro circuits are
“flippin’” and “skippin’.”
Flippin’ is the use of a long
rod on which the bait is swung
(not cast) with a pendulum
motion on a short amount of line.
Hold .the rod in the right hand
and swing the lure toward a likely
spot. Meanwhile, you hold some
slack line in the other hand and
feed it through the first rod guide
to control the amount of line that
is out and control the worm as it
swings toward the target.
Flippin’ works well in heavy
cover because you can use 25- or
30-pound line and horse out the
big fish.
Skippin’ is a technique I
developed which allows the
fisherman to back further away
from the cover than is possible
with flippin’. Naturally, I'll be
doing it while fishing along the
Red Man Tournament Trail. ?
Often, fish are too spooky or
the water too clear for flippin’, so
we can turn to skippin’. This calls
for a seven-foot, six-inch spinning
rod, like the one I designed for
sidearm casting.
I've won about 30
tournaments on Kentucky Lake,
my home waters, by skippin’
around buckbrush' that lines the
banks. What this amounts to is
using a two-handed, golf-type
- swing that lets me throw a worm
low over the ‘water, actually
skipping when it hits the surface.
The worm literally will skip under
and into ‘bushes and other
flooded cover, -going into places
you can’t reach with a regular
cast.
Once the bait is inside the
cover, | work it out to the edge
fairly quickly, then slow it down. I
sometimes jig it up and down
there if the line is over a limb. A
lot of strikes come right at the
edge of the cover. Fish will follow
the worm from the inside.
I like to use 17- or 20-pound
line and a strong, stainless steel
Eagle Claw hook for this
technique. This enables me to
really lower the boom when a
fish hits. Big fish can break you
off easily in the heavy cover, so
you've got to disorient him when
the hook is set.
You'll usually get more strikes
skippin’ than the guy who is
flippin’ or just casting around the -
edge of the cover. You'll lose
some of the fish you hook, but
you'll still end up with more at
the end of the day.
meters in 3:53 minutes.
Junior Melton was third in
the 400 with a run of 55.5
seconds, Monte Huffstetler
was third in the 800 in 2:07
minutes, and Foster was
third in the 3200 in 10:56
minutes.
SOFTBALL
Thursday, 4 p.m., Burns at KMHS
Monday, 4 p.m., KMHS at Chase
Kings Mountain Junior High-Senior High sports schedule
for the coming week:
GOLF
BASEBALL
Thursday, KMHS at East Gaston
Thursday, 4 p.m., Junior High at West Lincoln
Friday, 4 p.m., KMHS at Burns
Tuesday, 4 p.m., Chase at KMHS
TRACK
Thursday, KMHS boys at South Point
Wednesday, KMHS girls at East Gaston
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