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HB Golf/14-A B Fearless/15-A B Volleyball/16-A ; Wednesday, October 19, 1988 13-A Mounties Still In Run For Playoff Spot Raiders Host KM This Week Two young teams who have revved up their engines in recent weeks will clash Friday when Kings Mountain’s Mountaineers travel to South Point for a Southwestern 3-A Conference football contest. Both teams are on two-game winning streaks after having lost their first two conference games. The winner of Friday’s contest will still have a good shot at mak- ing the state playoffs but the loser will likely be eliminated. Kings Mountain takes a 4-3 overall record into the contest while the Raiders are 2-4-1. In the past two weeks, though, both clubs have shown a lot of im- provement. South Point is coming off back- to-back victories over North Gaston and Chase. The Red Raiders scored over 30 points in each contest. Kings Mountain has won back-to-back games over Chase (49-0) and R-S Cen- tral (19-12). The Red Raiders have the top 1-2 rushing combination in the conference in Willie Strain and Jamie Boyd. Strain, who gained over 1,000 yards as a sophomore last year, already has over 900 yards rushing this year and Boyd isn’t far behind. “They’re both good running backs and Strain is probably as good a runner as there is in this league,” says KM Coach Denny Hicks. ‘“They’ll line up in a three- back set 90 percent of the time and just come straight at you.” Hicks says South Point, which is young but big up front, will be the most physical team the Mountaineers have faced. “They just play hard-nosed football,” said Coach Hicks. “They’re big and strong and just keep powering you and powering you. They have enough trick. plays that they create a lot of problems for your defense. You ave to commit a lot of people to stopping their running game, and when they find you doing that, they’ll throw in some trick plays to create problems.’ South Point, which was picked by many to be a SWC contender, is a young team overall, but the Raiders have gained a lot of ex- perience over the first seven games and are now playing much better. ‘Defensively, they’ve got some unusually large folks on the front line,” Hicks said. ‘‘They take six down linemen and cover our six and then put a inebacker over your center. It makes it almost impossible to try to run inside. They're so big and massive. They must have a heck of a weight program. “We’ll have to work real hard and stay after it all night,’’ he ad- ded. ‘‘Noboby gets anything easy against them. You have to work for everything you get.” Turn To Page 16-A Kings Mountain tailback Victor Bell (27) is wide open behind the blocking of fullback Toby Deaton (38) in Friday’s Southwestern 3-A Conference game with R-S Central at Gamble Stadium. However, Blank R-S Central 22-0 Kings Mountain High's jayvees rolled to their third straight vic- tory Thursday night at R-S Cen- tral, 22-0. The Mountaineers face their. toughest two games of the season over the next two weeks. They travel to East Rutherford Thurs- day and return home a week from Thursday to play East Rutherford again. East is undefeated and Kings Mountain has lost only one conference game. Eugene Morgan scored on a 12-yard run to give Kings Moun- tain an early 6-0 lead last week at Spindale. Eric Byers scored on a 13-yard run and D.J. Williams ran for a two-point converson to make it 14-0 at halftime. Kings Mountain closed out the scoring in the fourth quarter when Williams ran a 97 yard touchdown and also added a two- point conversion. Williams’ exciting score was set up by an outstanding goal line || stand by the KM defense after | R-S Central blocked a KM punt and recovered inside the five. KM stopped R-S cold on three running plays and then the Hilltoppers were awarded a first and goal at the two following a KM penalty. Kings Mountain held on four consecutive running plays and took over inside the one. Two inside running plays mov- ed the mall only three yards and resulted in a third and seven situation. Williams tried to go off tackle but when the hole closed, he moved to the outside and outraced everyone down the sidelines. KM Netters Clinch Tie For First League Crown Kings Mountain High's girls tennis team clinched at least a tie for the Southwestern 3-A Con- ference title Tuesday at Forest City when they defeated a good East Rutherford team 6-3. The KM ladies were scheduled to host Chase today in their final regular season game. If the Lady Mountaineers win that match, they will unseat Shelby as con- ference champions. Shelby, which was beaten last week b Kings Mountain 6-3, has won a 16 SWC tennis titles to date and the Lady Lions had won 146 straight conference matches before falling to KM. J.J. Warlick, who is unbeaten in conference play, got the KM team started right Tuesday with an impressive 6-4, 6-4 win over heretofore unbeaten Tammy Matheny. Lee Ann Masters, Susan Hendricks and Christi Dix- on also won their singles mat- ches. Hendricks and Dixon won in doubles and Masters teamed with Ashley Champion for a doubles win. The top six KM ladies will go to T.C. Roberson near Asheville next Wednesday and Thursday for the regional tournament. Turn To Page 16-A KM Ladies Blank North For Fifth SWC Victory Kings Mountain High's girls tennis team won its fifth straight Southwestern 3-A Conference match Thursday at home, defeating North Gaston 9-0. Coach Diane Dooley’s ladies hope to wrap up their first ever SWC championship today when they host Chase. Kings Mountain recently defeated Shelby, which had won 16 straight conference championships and 146 straight conference matches, KM will compete in the regionals Oct. 26-27 at T.C. Roberson. THE RESULTS J.J. Warlick (KM) def. Leslie Taylor 6-1, 6-1; Paula Morris (KM) def. Pam Josie 6-0, 6-0; Ashley Champion (KM) def. Laura Taylor 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; Lee Ann Masters (KM) def. Tammy Rushing 7-6, 6-2; Susan Hen- dricks (KM) def. Kelli Quinn 6-2, 6-2; Christi Dixon (KM) def. Kelli Clemmer 6-2, 6-2. (Doubles) Warlick-Morris (KM) def. Taylor-Taylor 8-2; Champion- Masters (KM) def. Josie-Quinn 8-3; Hendricks-Dixon (KM) def. Rushing-Clemmer 8-2. Williams finished with (174 yards rushing, giving him 100-yards plus for three weeks in a row. Scottie Hopper added 47 yards rushing and Brent Wilson, Morgan, Byers and quarterback Andy Hollifield also did a good job on offense. Coach Paul Bolt ~ Oops! | Photo By Gary Stewart the official at right of picture is reaching for his flag because the unidentified KM player at left is clipping a Hilltopper. Kings Moun- tain won 19-12. Do It My Way Kings Mountain High’s jayvee football coach Paul Bolt talks to his team during timeout of a recent Southwestern 3-A Conference game. The Little Mountaineers have won three straight games. They travel to East Rutherford Thursday and return home next Thursday to play East again in their final home game. cited Hopper, Wilson, Mike Byers, Diron Bell, Morgan, Williams, Dale McClain, Tim Roseboro, Era Vaughn and Mit- chell Morrow for their defensive play. “You can’t ask for a better defensive performance than we Jayvees Continue To Roll got at R-S Central,”’ Coach Bolt said. “Our guys really showed a lot of character. It was a good win for us. Our biggest challenge lies ahead as we play East Rutherford for two straight Yooks. We have to win these wo.’ Mounties Edge R-S On Friday From beginning to end, fans attending Friday’s Kings Mountain-R-S Central homecom- ing football game at Gamble Stadium could sense that it would go down to the wire. A missed extra point following Kings Mountain’s second and third touchdowns of the night kept the Hilltoppers within strik- ing distance and Jack Huss’s of- fense gave the Mountaineers some anxious moments in the final minutes of a 19-12 Moun- taineer win. Taking over on their own 20 following a Kings Mountain touchdown and missed extra point which made it 19-12 with three minutes remaining, the balanced R-S offense moved gradually down the field to the Kings Mountain 20, where a final attempt for a touchdown pass at the buzzer was batted away by the KM defense. Four times during the march, it appeared the Mountaineers had the talented Hilltoppers stop- ped. But two accurate fourth down passes from sophomore quarterback Todd Harris and two good plays by the KM defense which backfired on them kept the drive alive. M defensive back James Roberts batted away a fourth down pass attempt by Harris early in the drive, but a Hilltop- per who was lying on the ground caught the ball for a first down. Three plays later, the Hilltoppers faced third and eight and KM’s Tracy Wright intercepted a Har- ris pass only to fumble it back to R-S for a 12-yard gain. “It was kind of weird,” said KMHS Coach Denny Hicks. ‘‘We did some good things that backfired on us and really helped them keep possession.” Hicks couldn’t fault his players for those twists of fate, nor for any other part of their perfor- mance. “We felt like our kids showed a lot of composure,” he said. ‘The defense had a lot of pressure on it all night, and especially in that last drive. R-S was sending out four and five receivers and their quarterback showed a lot of poise for a sophomore. He was throw- ing all over the field and his runn- ing also put a lot of pressure on us. We felt real good about our composure in the closing minute of the ballgame.” Kings Mountain’s clinching touchdown with three minutes remaining was the result of an R-S mistake and a smart play by the KM defense. The Hilltoppers tried to fake a fourth down punt at its own 34 and the snap to an up back was dropped as KM defenders gave a mighty rush. Senior Jeff Lockhart scooped up the ball and raced 34 yards for the TD. Kings Mountain never could break the game open against the Turn To Page 17-A The KM victo ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Kings Mountain High's girls tennis team members are saluted as Herald Athletes of the Week for their win over Shelby last week. broke a 146-game conference winning streak for Shelby, which has won all 16 Southwestern 3-A Conferenct tennis titles. Front row, left to right, Karen Bush, Christi Dixon, Susan Hendricks, Ashley Champion, J.J. Warlick and Kim Ware. Back’ row, Betsy McIntyre, Gail Hardin, Paula Morris, Kerry Angie Subler and Becky Bridges. Not pictured, Lee Ann Masters, Rhyne,
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