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1940 MOUNTAINEERS - Pictured above is the 1940 KMHS
baseball team which finished second in the Western 2-A Con-
ference and lost only two ballgames. Many of the players
were members of the 1941 team which lost only one game and
won the Western Conference. Back row, left to right, Coach
A.E. “Red” Smart, Gene Tignor, George Womack, Whitey
Patriot Wrestlers Win Seventh
Kings Mountain Junior
High’s wrestlers won their
seventh straight match last
Wednesday, 55-24 over Crest.
The win boosted the Patriots’
conference record to 4-0.
Coach Phil Weathers’
charges had their Monday
match with West Lincoln
snowed out, and today’s
scheduled match with
Newton-Conover will pro-
bably also be re-scheduled
for later in the year. The
Patriots’ next scheduled
match is Thurs., Jan. 21
against St. Stephens at Cen-
tral School.
“Crest gave us a good
match the first time we met
them, so we made some ad-
justments in our lineup,”
KM Grapplers
Weathers said. ‘We moved
some people around in the
middle and upper weights
and wrestled some different
people in certain classes. We
threw a different look at them
because we thought they’d be
well prepared for us.
“Our kids gave a good ef-
fort, probably the second best
effort we’ve had all year,” he
added. “I was very pleased
with the win.”
Weathers cited Marvin Bid-
dix, Bo Phongsa, Andy
Hollifield, Derek Williams,
Gene Smith and Tony Young
for their excellent effort.
THE RESULTS
80 - Marvin Biddix (KM)
dec. Jimmy Faller; 90 - Bo
Snowed Out,
Host North Gaston Thursday
Kings Mountain High’s
wrestlers will see action for
three consecutive nights
“after snow postponed two
Southwestern 3-A Conference
matches during the past
week.
The Mountaineers of Steve
Moffitt, 0-1 in the SWC and 4-1
overall, will host North
Gaston’s Wildcats tonight at 7
p:m. They travel to 4-A East
Gaston Thursday for a non-
conference match and return
home Friday at 7 p.m. to bat-
tle Chase in a conference
meet.
The North Gaston match
was originally scheduled for
last Thursday night and the
Chase match was postponed
from Monday night.
Moffitt will be without the
services of heavyweight
Mark Crawford, who was in-
jured in a sledding accident
last week and will probably
be out for the year. He had
recently pulled out two close
victories for the Moun-
taineers by winning the final
bout of the matches.
“We'll really miss him,”
said Moffitt, whose team has
won five conference titles in
the 1980’s. ‘That means we’ll
have to forfeit in the
heavyweight match, but we
still have an excellent chance
to grab a share of the con-
ference title if someone
knocks off Burns.”
Burns, which fell to Kings
Mountain in an early-season
non-conference match, came
back to edge the Moun-
taineers 35-30 in the opening
SWC bout. The Bulldogs host
a strong R-S Central team
Thursday night.
AN HBO FM SIMULCAST
di -
Bridges, James Goins, George Allen, Floyd Smith, Dorus
Bennett, Pride Ratterree, Charlie Moss and Don McGinnis.
Front row, Clarence Plonk, James Gibson, James Bennett,
Charlie Ballard, Chalmers Goins, Foley Cobb, Buck Early,
Jim Willis and Burton Bennett. Not pictured, Pink Ware, Nor-
man Roper, Curt Gaffney and John George.
Phongsa (KM) pinned Matt
Gardner; 100 - Tee Cole (KM)
pinned Dewayne Webb; 107 -
Andy Hollifield (KM) pinned
Daniel Green; 114 - Chuck
Bryson (C) dec. Grant
Holder; 121 - Shun Russell
(C) pinned Souli Sourisoud;
128 - Derek Williams (KM)
dec. Steve Kistler; 134 - Gene
Smith (KM) pinned Jeff
Thomas; 140 - Timmy Mec-
Clain (KM) pinned Jason
Patterson; 147 - Ronald Ross
(C) pinned Robbie Wilson;
157 - Victor Burris (KM) pin-
ned Don Cline; 169 - Jermaine
Mounties
Host BCHS
Thursday
Kings Mountain High's
basketballers will try to get
back on the winning track
Thursday at home in non-
conference action against
Bessemer City.
Jayvee action begins at 4
p.m., followed by the varsity
girls at 6:30 and the varsity
boys at 8 p.m.
The Mountaineers gave
defending Southwestern 3-A
Conference champion R-S
Central all it could handle in
opening league action Tues-
day night. R-S won 87-83
behind the combined 50-point
effort of Dwayne Ledbetter
and Adrian Rucker. Ledbet-
ter scored 28 points and
Rucker 22.
Cliff Meeks scored 19 points
and Brent Bagwell added 19
points and seven rebounds for
the Mountaineers, who fell to
5-3 overall.
R-S Central streaked to a
30-18 lead after the first
quarter but Kings Mountain
caught fire early in the se-
cond period and cut the
margin to 44-42 at halftime.
R-S led 64-61 going into the
fourth period.
R-S Central's girls held
Kings Mountain to just three
points in the third quarter
and eight in the fourth to
break open a close game and
Grier (KM) pinned Shawn
Hart; 187 - Carl Love (C) pin-
ned Bart Guin; Hwt. - Tony
Young (KM) pinned Frank
Hoppes.
PAUL CAMERON
WBTV Sports Director
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How'd the rookies fare on the PGA Senior Tour?
50 year old Al Geiberger won $264,798 with three victories, and
wound-up 9th on the money list. The hands-down seniors champ of '87
was Chi Chi Rodriguez—cashing-in at $509,145 —despite putting on the
green at the GTE Classic in Los Angeles, only to watch the ball roll out
of bounds.
When 38 year old Artis Gilmore (the former Gardner-Webb Bulldog)
got waived by Chicago, that left only three players in the NBA who also
played for the ABA. Can you name them? (answers below)
Walt Disney World recently released a poll of sports fans who visit
the park. 68 percent voted in favor of a playoff system to decide the national
1-A college football championship. I'm surprised—not that a majority of those
polled favored the playoff—that 32 percent of the sample must be employed
by the major college bowls.
Two names to remember come college football signing period nev*
month—Chester “The Molester’” McGlockton from Whiteville, an
Gerald Dixon of Rock Hill. Both men made the 1987 All-American High
School list as compiled by super scout Max Emfinger. At 6-4 and 273 pounds,
McGlockton made first team as a defensive end. Dixon is a 6-3, 21C pound
wide receiver named to the second team offense.
Answers to questions:
1. Moses Malone, Washington
2. Caldwell Jones, Portland
"3. Maurice Lucas, Portland
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Hattie Young scored 22
points and Felicia Twitty 15
for the winners. Adrienne
Woods scored 12 points and
Carmen Simth had 16 re-
bounds for Kings Mountain.
GIRL‘S GAME
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