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Wednesday, September 10, 1986
SPORTS
Win $100
Pages 2-3B
New Golf
Course Opens
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Photo by Gary Stewart
FIRST KM TD - David Ledbetter (38) lowers his head and bulls his way into the endzone for
the first touchdown of the season for the Kings Mountain offense in first quarter of Friday’s
game with East Lincoln. The Mountaineers won 42-0.
Tie-Breaker Decides Contest
S.S. Howell of Route 2, Cherryville, pick-
ed 18 of 19 winners and came within four
points of the tie-breaker to win the $100
prize in last week’s Herald football contest.
Howell’s only miss was Union’s 6-3 vic-
tory over Clover on Friday night. The
Shelby-Hunter Huss game, which ended in a
scoreless tie, was not counted.
Howell won over Bobby Bolin and Gary
Bess, both of Kings Mountain, by coming
1 closer to the tie-breaking score of 50 points :
scored in the East Gaston-North Gaston
game which was won by East Gaston 26-24.
Bolin also missed the Clover-Union game
and predicted 38 points on the tie-breaker.
Bess missed the Nebraska victory over
Florida State and predicted 24 points on the
tie-breaker.
Winners of last week’s games were Crest
over Burns, East Rutherford over R-S Cen-
tral, Kings Mountain over East Lincoln,
Howell Football Winner
East Gaston over North Gaston, Ashbrook
over South Point, Union over Clover, Miami
over Florida, Duke over Northwestern,
UNC over The Citadel, N.C. State over East
Carolina, Virginia over South Carolina,
Wake Forest over Appalachian, Oklahoma
over UCLA, Nebraska over Florida State,
Ole Miss over Memphis State, Penn State
over Temple, West Lincoln over Lincolnton,
Kannapolis over Statesville, and York over
Blacksburg in overtime. dg
The second of 10 weekly contests is inside
today’s Herald. Pick the most winners and
get us your entry by 4 p.m. Friday and you
will be the next winner. Mail your entry to
Football Contest, P.O: Box 752, Kings Moun-
tain, N.C. 28086, or bring it by our office at
East King and Canterbury Road. Only one
entry per person will be allowed. Any en-
tries judged to be the same handwriting will
be disqualified.
East McDowell Here Wednesday
Patriots Open Next Week
Kings Mountain Junior
High’s football team will
open its season Wed., Sept. 17
at John Gamble Stadium
against East McDowell.
Game time is 5 pu
Coach Gary Blake, beginn-
ing his third season as head
coach of the Patriots, will
field an inexperienced, but
talented ball club.
“We're just going to have
to go out there and fight and
see what happens,” said
Blake. ‘“We lost a lot of
starters. We hope
slee
g talent, we’re just inex-
perienced.”’
Heading the Patriots’ at-
tack this year will be quarter-
back Tim McClain, a good
passer, and a pair of good
tailbacks, Darius Ross and
Jeff Lockhart.
Blake and his assistants,
Tomm
Batchler, hope they can
develop a good blocking line
to spr those backs and
give McClain a lot of time to
throw.
Linemen and defensive
players who’ll be seeing a lot
of action include Billy Appl-
ing, Ray Roseberry, Mark
Bowlers Needed
Kings Mountain’s Mixed
Dickpin Bowling Leagues
will begin their fall season
soon at Dilling Heating’s
lanes.
All area men and women
interested in bowling on
Tuesday and/or Thursda
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Wease and Keith
Rhea, Cedric Byrd, Derek
Byrd, Tony Young and Benji
Foster.
Blake points to East
Rutherford and Shelby as the
teams to beat in the Western
N.C. Junior High Athletic
Association. “They’re the on-
ly two teams to beat us last
year. We played them close
last year, and hope we can
come out a winner against
them this year.”
THE SCHEDULE
Sept. 17 - East McDowell;
Sept. 24 - at R-S Central; Oct.
8 - at Burns; Oct. 15 - at
Shelby; Oct. 22 - East Ruther-
ford; Oct. 29 - at Chase; Nov.
5 - Crest.
Seek Third Straight Win
Kings Mountain High's
footballers go after their
third straight victory Friday
at 8 p.m. when a strong
Hunter Huss eleven invades
John Gamble Stadium.
The Huskies,
ballclub from the
Southwestern 4-A Con-
ference, played Southwestern
3-A Conference favorite
Shelby to a scoreless tie last
week on a wet Hunter Huss
field.
“They’re very explosive,”
said KMHS Coach Denny
Hicks. “They have a good
solid team with a lot of talent.
It should be a good
ballgame.”
The Huskies, who operate
out of a Pro-I, are a better
running team than they were
last year when they fell to
Kings Mountain 13-9 at Huss
stadium. Sparking the of-
fense is quick tailback Kevin
Armstrong, who gained 650
yards last year and who had
95 yards rushing last week
against a strong Shelby
defense.
“He is a good running
back,” noted Hicks. “We'll
have to do a good job on him
and keep him contained.”
Will Coleman, the leading
Jayvees
At Huss
Thursday
Kings Mountain High's
junior varsity footballers
dropped a 16-0 decision to
East Lincoln in their season’s
opener Thursday night in
Denver.
Coach David Bolton takes
his Mountaineers to Hunter
Huss in Gastonia Thurday for
a 7:30 game.
Kings Mountain marched
to the East Lincoln five on
three occasions but each time
penalties took them out of
scoring range. The Moun-
taineers gave up the ball on
downs twice and missed a
15-yard field goal attempt.
“We should have won the
game, but a lot of fumbles
and penalties hurt us,” said
Coach Bolton. “We need to
work on our blocking and
tackling.”
Alan Moore led the KM
rushing effort with 54 yards
and center Brandon Morgan
did a good job of blocking.
Chris Brown and Reggie
Gamble led the KM defensive
effort.
Photo by Gary Stewart
HEMMED IN - Kings Mountain defenders Kevin Champion (52) and Danny Hamrick (66)
nigh 1 corner East Lincoln quarterback Keith Rendleman in Friday’s non-conference game at John
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a veteran q
rusher on last year’s
undefeated junior varsity
team, starts at fullback for
the Huskies and Neil
Cochran, also up from the
jayvees, is the starting
uarterback.
“They don’t throw the ball
as much as they did last year,
but they have a good passing
attack,” said Hicks. ‘They
have some good receivers
with good speed.”
Hicks is hoping his offense
can continue to improve,
because the Huss defense is
solid.
“They run a 50 defense
which is very similar to
Shelby’s, and their front five
are real solid,” said Hicks.
‘““They have good
linebackers. They have a lot
of faith in their line and
linebackers because their
secondary plays real deep to
take care of the pass. We'll
have to do a good job coming
off the football.”
The Huskies finished with a
2-8 record last year but
second-year coach Jack
Huss, an R-S Central and
Lenoir-Rhyne product, hopes
to make a run for the state
playoffs this year.
The Mountaineer offense
began to jell in last week’s
420 win over East Lincoln
after failing to move the ball
consistently in the opening-
season 17-7 win over
Bessemer City, a game in
which the defense scored
both touchdowns on pass in-
terceptions.
Hicks and his staff were
forced to change their offen-
sive scheme last week
because quarterback Jerry
Mountaineers Host
Hunter Huss Friday
Jordan was operating on a
tender ankle. ;
“We had to take out most of
the option plays, and all of
our players adjusted well,”
said Hicks. “Our execution
was good, the line blocked
real well and the backs did a
ood job of running to the
oles.”
Jordan ran the ball only
twice, both out of passing
situations. The rest of the
night, he depended on
brothers Anthony and Daron
Hillman, Raynards Roberts
and Monty Deaton to do the
work. They responded with
213 yards rushing.
The defense continued its
fine work, holding the opposi-
tion to under 100 yards
rushing for the second week
in a row.
Coach Bruce Clark’s
defense was dealt a severe
blow, however, when
linebacker David Ledbetter
went down to a knee injury in
the second half.
“There’s a possibility the
injury wasn’t as bad as it
looked on the field,” said
Hicks. ‘“David’s one of the
best defensive linemen I've
coached since I was at
Asheville 13 years ago. We'd
be tickled to death to get him
back in time for our con-
ference opener at Shelby
(September 26). :
Except for Ledbetter, the
Mountaineers should be
healthy for Friday’s contest.
“It’s going to be a big
challenge for us,” said Hicks.
“We anticipate a good, close
ballgame. We hope everyone
will come out and support
us.” :
Volleyball Team Wins
Two Of Three In SWC
Kings Mountain High’s volleyball team won two of three
Southwestern 3-A Conference matches during the past week
and dropped a non-conference battle to Crest.
The KM ladies, defending SWC champions, are 2-1 in the
conference and 3-3 overall. They play at East Rutherford this
afternoon in a big SWC clash.
In action last week, the Mountainettes defeated South Point
15-9, 10-15 and 15-9 and lost to Chase 15-9 and 15-11 in con-
ference games. In non-conference action, they fell to Crest
3-15, 16-14, 3-5, 15-3 and 15-5.
The KM ladies bounced
back Monday afternoon to
defeat Burns 15-12 and 15-7 in
SWC action.
Kings Mountain’s B team
lost both of its matches last
week, 13-15, 15-13 and 15-7 to
South Point, and 13-15, 15-8
and 15-11 to Chase. Monday
afternoon, KM’s B team
defeated Burns 4-15, 15-8 and
15-11.
Coach Diana Bridges got
good performances from
several players last week.
Chris Shelby scored 15 points
in three games against South
Point and good spiking in the
third game by Regina Brown
and Jennifer Boheler, with
key assists by CarmonSinun, Hike
gave the Mountainettes the Ga :
momentum they needed to CARMEN IIH
pick up the victory. reliRy ee
“Against Chase, we never could get our momentum going,
but we got some good play from Carmen Smith who led us
with five points,”’ Coach Bridges said.
Poor serving cost the Mountainettes in the loss to Crest but
Bridges still saw some benefits.
“We always enjoy playing them because they play good
volleyball with an attack offense which mades for good, ex-
citing volleyball,” Bridges said. Brown, a returning All-
Conference standout, led the Mountainettes in the five games
with 30 points.
Coach Bridges said she was pleased with her B team’s pro-
gress despite two losses last week.
“They are a hustling team,” she said. “Tonya Ballew and
Robin Watterson have been leaders with their ace serving.”
In Monday’s victory over Burns, Bridges said ‘“‘we had a
steady attack by the offense despite poor serving. Smith and
Ballew did an excellent job of setting up the offense.”
Smith, a freshman, was cited by Bridges as KM’s first
Player of the Week for an outstanding effort in last week’s
games.
““She is carrying the majority of our setting responsibility,’
Bridges said. ‘‘Setting is the key to what makes the offense
work and she has a natural touch with setting and a good, con-
sistent serve. ;
‘She works hard to improve her skills in practice and is a
very coachable young lady,” Bridges added. ‘I look forward
to coaching her during the next four years.”
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