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SUSIE EIN ‘ tr Ra URES 1) EUV IDES nay SPOR : q Thursday, November 14, 1985 Mounties First Post-Season Appearance Since 1964 KM At Pisgah For Playoff Opener Kings Mountain's Mountaineers will make their first appearance in post-season play in 21 years Friday when they travel to Canton to take on a Pisgah team which is one of the perennial powers of North Carolina prep foot- all. Gametime is 7:30. Pisgah, coached by second year mentor Jim Fox and whose efensive coordinator is Kings Mountain’s Tony Leigh, finished 3-3 in the Mountain Athletic Conference and 4-6 overall. However, the 4-6 overall record is very misleading because the MAC is a com- bined 3-A and 4-A league and three of Pisgah’s losses were to highly-ranked 4-A teams. Pisgah tied for first place among the MAC’s 3-A teams but had to settle for the se- cond playoff position because of a regular season loss to Asheville Erwin. Pisgah upset the state’s second-ranked 4-A team, Asheville Reynolds, 17-14. Pisgah, which KMHS coach Denny Hicks refers to as the ‘Shelby of the Mountain ‘Athletic Conference’’, plays perhaps the toughest schedule of any team in the state. The Bulldogs lost to Brevard, which finished FACTS ABOUT PLAYOFF GAME Kings Mountain at Canton Pisgah Friday, 7:30 p.m. Seating capacity: 6,800. : Records: Canton 3-3 in Mountain Athletic 3-A/4-A Conference, 4-6 overall; Kings Mountain, 6-1 in Southwestern 3-A, 9-1 overall. Admission: $4 at the gate; $3 in advance, 500 tickets available at the KMHS Prin- cipal’s Office. Broadcast: WAAK, Dallas, N.C., 960 A.M. dial; play-by-play by Ernie Payne. . Directions to game: Take I-40 to East Canton exit. Take Highway 19-23 into Can- ton and go through four lights. One block past the fourth light, there will be a YMCA on the right. Turn left at YMCA and go straight to high school stadium. Transportation: Several chartered buses through KMHS and Mountaineer Club. KMHS students may ride a bus for $7 but must sign up at the Principal’s office. Pisgah (4-6) 7 Brevard 21 7 West Henderson 21 17 Sylva Webster 7 7 Asheville 13 17 Reynolds 14 6 East Henderson = 0 21 Enka 19 7 Cook Co., Tn. : 19 0 Erwin ; Sang Gn REO rn rm dian) The Records Kings Mountain (9-1) 40 Bessemer City 28 20 East Lincoln 14 13 Hunter Huss 7 0 Shelby 10 59 Chase 0 20 Burns 0 31 R-S Central 14 19 South Point 21 * __EastRutherford ‘North Gaston + 7 (Soiith Point later forfeited) 9-1 to win the Western Athletic Conference; West Henderson, which was the Western State 3-A finalist last year; Asheville, a perennial favorite in the Western 4-A ranks; Cock County, Tennessee, which is regarded as the best 4-A team in the Volunteer State; and Waynesville Tuscola, still another 4-A playoff team. Their victories, besides the one over . Reynolds, included a 17-7 win over traditional 2-A power Sylva-Webster, a 6-0 victory over East Henderson, and a 21-19 victory over Enka. “I think we play like a 7-3 team,” said Leigh, who was head coach at Bessemer City before moving to Canton two years ago. “We lost a couple of games we should have won.” Pisgah is very similar to Kings Mountain, both on offense and defense. They average about 11 passes a game and run out of a split . back veer while KM runs veer plays out of the I formation. Both teams run use a split four defense. The Mountaineers will have a big size ad- vantage as Pisgah’s linemen average about 175 pounds. However, the Bulldogs are very quick and quarterback Greg Smith is a talented passer as well as a strong option ‘quarterback. “They're a real consistent offensive team,” says Coach Hicks, who is no stranger to Canton football. As an assistant at West Henderson and Asheville several years ago, he went head to head with Canton when the were the power of North Carolina football, winning four state championships in six years. “Offensively, we don’t plan to change,” said Hicks. “We'll stay with the inside attack and the outside veer. We'll stay with the short passing game because they go deep real we 2? 4 . “Defensively, we’ll have to stop their dive plays without leaving them open to go out- side,” Hicks added. “A lot of times, kids have a tendency to help out others and let their responsibilities go. We can’t let them fake 4:1 their dive plays into the line and then pull out - BSS (pee nai farmer a “Their biggest asset is their speed and that TONY LEIGH ...Pisgah Assistant they play hard,’”” Hicks added. ‘We saw three films on them, and in every one of them, they played Jt as hard in the fourth quarter as they did in the first. They’re pretty much like Shelby is here. They win year in and year out. They played Tuscola Friday night and had over 7,000 fans there, so we’ll need a big crowd to go up there and give us some sup- port.” Leigh, who didn’t play football here but helped lead the KMHS baseball team to a SWC championship, says he’s very impress- ed with the Mountaineers. “They're 9-1, and you can’t overlook them,” he said. ‘They're big and ver talented, and I'm especially impressed wi their quarterback, Roderick Boyce. “We're very small, but quick and we like to hit hard,” he added. “I think the big dif- ference will be the size. We throw the ball well and mix our plays well.” This will be Canton’s first appearance in the 3-A playoffs since revamping of the ‘state’s conferences, and Leigh said their fans areexcited.. od tgicd dior moi oo sda _ “The boys have played hard all year,” h said. “We've been in every ballgame.” iA Mountaineers Defeat North 45-9 To Finish Second TEASER ARRAS AR APARNA DARN ANAT ANAT ABARAT AARATANAATD GAINS 190 YARDS - Daron Hillman (5) goes around Thursday's KMHS jayvee victory over N the Mounties to a 20-8 win. The jayvees end for one of three touchdowns in orth Gaston. Hillman gained 190 yards rushing to lead finished their season with a 7-1-1 record. Jayvees Defeat North 20-8 To Complete 7-1-1 Season Kings Mountain High's junior varsity football team closed out its best season in the decades of the seventies and eighties Thursday at Gamble Stadium when they defeated North Gaston 20-8 to bring their final record to 7-1-1. The Mountaineers were unbeaten against Southwestern 3-A Conference opposition. They tied Shelby 6-6 and defeated all other SWC foes. Their only loss was to 4-A Hunter Huss of Gastonia, which finished its season undefeated. The jayvee record was the best since 1961, when the Mountaineers were 6-0-1 with a scoreless tie with Belmont. Members of that team went on to lead the 1964 varsity Seven to the SWC champion- ship. ‘year’s junior hi Anthony Hillman scored all three touchdowns for the Mounties, going in from 21, 15 and 30 yards out. Brent Bagwell kicked two of three extra Dols. Hillman finish- ed with 190 yards rushing in 18 carries. “We also had a good perfor- mance out of Brian Ramsey, our freshman quarterback,” noted Coach Gary Brigman. “Of our 33 players, we will send 11 to the varsity next year and will have 22 freshmen coming back which should give us a good nucleus for Kings Mountain High foot- ball. We hope to get about 22 more good players from this team.” Brigman cited Daniel Long for his blocking in the backfield and several other players for their line block- ing, including Shawn Smith, had a real strong, Chris Herndon, Chris Morris, Mark Crawford, Lee Guin, Bagwell and Alan Chisholm. “We knew North Gaston hard- hitting ballclub because they played such a good game oni in the season at their place,” Brigman said. “But they made a couple of mistakes and we capitalized on them. All of our players ot to play and that’s going to Jeave a good taste in their mouths for next year. “Basically, things look real good for us next year,” he ad- ded. “Combining the ninth and 10th grade teams is going to prove very beneficial to Kings Mountain football. We had only 11 sophomores and the ninth graders filled in and really did a great job. Kings Mountain’s Moun- taineers closed out their best regular season since 1964 Frri- day at North Gaston when they defeated the Wildcats 459 in a Southwestern 3-A Conference game. The victory gave the Moun- taineers a final 6-1 SWC and 9-1 overall mark and second Place in the conference ehind Shelby (7-0 and 9-1). The Mountaineers enter the North Carolina High School Athletic Association 3-A playoiis Friday at Canton isgah. The Mountaineers rolled to a 24-0 halftime lead and played the entire team in the second half in an effort to hold the score down on the winless Wildcats. Reserve running backs accounted for ‘the last two Mountaineer touchdowns. Kings Mountain rolled up 284 yards rushing in only 28 plays. Most of the touchdowns were either scored or set up by long runs. Kings Mountain scored on seven of its nine possessions, with one being stopped on a - pass interception in the first alf and the other being stop- ped by North Gaston’s defense against the second string KM offense in the fourth quarter. The Mountaineers drove 43 yards following a North Gaston punt to go ahead 6-0 on their first possession. Quarterback Roderick Boyce rolled six yards on an option play for the score. On their next possession, Boyce clicked with flanker Otis Brooks for two pass lays covering 42 yards efore an interception stop- ped the drive. Early in the second period, tailback Jerry Jordan return- ed a North Gaston punt 35 yards to the seven yard line, from which point he skirted right end on first down to make it 24-0 at intermission. make it 12-0. On KM’s next possession, reserve running back ‘Raynard Roberts ran 45 yards to the North 11 to set up a seven-yard TD run by Boyce which made it 18-0. Jordan scored from four yards out late in the half to Kings Mountain drove the * second half kickoff 67 yards for a TD with fullback Sam Smith going over from two yards out. Rusty Bumgard- ner’s PAT from placement made it 31-0. Turn To Page 3-A How They Did It KM NG First Downs ‘10 : 14 Yards Rushing 284 155 Passes 2-6-1 11-21 Yards Passing 42 110 Fumbles Lost 0 1 Punts 1-35 5-30 Yards Penalized 20 55 Score by quarters: KM 6 18 14 7 --45 NG 0 0 0 9 -9 Scoring: KM - Boyce 6-run (Kick failed) KM - Jordan 7-run (Run failed) KM - Boyce 11-run (Run failed) KM - Jordan 4-run (Run failed) KM - Smith 2-run (Bumgardner kick) KM - Hillman 34-run (Bumgardner kick) NG - Sanders 32 field goal. KM - Sullens 43-run (Bumgardner kick) NG - Wallace 8-run (Kick failed) MOUNTAINEER RUSHING - Player Carries Yards Jordan 8 69 Boyce 9 64 Sullens 2 45 Roberts 1 46 Hillman 2 36 Smith 7 18 Wilson 1 6 Brown 1 0 McCulloughl 0 : MOUNTAINEER PASSING Player Att. Comp. Int. Yds. Boyce 6 2 1 42 MOUNTAINEER RECEIVING Player Catches Yards Brooks 2 42
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