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then we held them just three or four inches away from
the goal line. Those two plays certainly set everything
going in another direction."
The 14-0 halftime lead was enough to get the
Mountaineers pumped up, but what was to come early
in the second half completely drove the final nail in
South Point's coffin.
D.J. Williams took the second half kickoff at the
goal line and raced down the South Point sidelines 100
yards. Scottie Hopper's PAT from placement made it
21-0. Moments later, South Point had to punt from in-
side its own five and KM's Daniel Honeycutt returned
the punt for a touchdown. Hopper added the PAT again
and with just over a minute gone in the second half the
score had doubled to 28-0.
"It was so enjoyable to see us produce so many
points out of our kicking game," Hicks said. "Three or
four weeks ago we mentioned that we thought our
kicking game was ready to explode. We knew we had
the skill and we work on the kicking game every day
and it finally paid off for us. That's really what broke
the game wide open.
"To finally see our kicking game produce was very
gratifying," he added. "Sometimes you get a little de-
pressed when you spend so much extra time on some-
thing and it doesn't produce like you want it to, but it's
a great feeling when you see all that hard work come
together."
The Mountaineers added their final two touchdowns
in the fourth quarter, scoring on a two-yard run by full-
back Jeff Lockhart and a 28-yard run around end by
Williams. Hopper added the points-after from place-
ment.
The Mountaineer offense had its best showing since
an early-season victory over East Lincoln. In fact, in
the last two games and in three of their first five
games, the Mounties had been held to less than 100
yards rushing. But Saturday they had 194 yards in 42
carries and added 111 more in the air on two comple-
tions in five attempts.
Meanwhile, the defense completely shut down
South Point's lethal weapon, Willie Strain. He had
rushed for over 800 yards in the first six Raider games
but KM held him to 45 yards in 15 carries. He had on-
ly nine yards rushing and minus six yards of total of-
fense in the second half. He caught one pass for minus
15.
For the game, South Point was held to 69 yards
rushing in 30 attempts and added 121 yards with a-11-"
for-20 passing performance. But the’ Mountaineers
picked off three Raider passes-and recovered two fum-
bles. SAR =
“That was probably one of the most complete foot-
ball games we've ever played," said Coach Hicks. "We
had exceptional production from all phases of the
game."
The veteran: KM mentor said he's known all along
that the Mountaineers had the talent to play that kind
of football, but he was surprised that the team was able
to beat a solid South Point team by such a huge mar-
gin.
"We felt good about our defense going in, but had
no thoughts of holding Strain to the yardage he got,"
said Hicks. "We really didn't think we could shut them
out. We felt like we'd have to score two or three times
to beat them because they're a very strong football
team, with good running backs and a good offensive
line. We felt like we wouldn't have a lot of cracks at
scoring and felt like they'd punch one or two touch-
downs in. But we felt like we could win the ballgame.
We just didn't feel like it would be that lop-sided."
The 42-0 score was the most lop-sided ever in the
KM-South Point series. It was the first time either
team has scored over 40 points in the series, although
both teams had scored in the high 30's several times.
It was the first time South Point had been held
scoreless in three years. The Raiders had scored in
each of their last 29 games.
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cheap in the kicking game, will
win. And if we play like we played
last Saturday at South Point, we
can beat them."
Hicks said the key to KM's im-
pressive back-to-back victories
over R-S Central and South Point
was a positive attitude on the part
of the players. :
"When we came out of the East
Lincoln game, it was a big victory
but we had a lot of people injured,”
he recalled. "We lost our quarter-
back and there was a lot of talk
about it and we went over to Crest
and played a real fine team, but
didn't play well at all and lost big.
We had people blaming each other
and we told our kids we were tired
of hearing it, that they could either
let it get them down and take the
low road or take the hard road and
make something good happen.
"I think our kids have taken the
hard road,” he added. "They played
a real good game against R-S
Central and played an even better
game last Saturday at South Point.
Our kids showed a lot of character
by trying to make something good
come out of all the distractions and
injuries we had in that two-week
span."
Another big key to the
turnaround was the consistency of
the offense and lack of turnovers.
Kings Mountain lost only one fum-
ble in last week's game while
South Point lost two fumbles and
had three passes picked off by the
KM secondary.
"We were plus four in the
turnover department, and anytime
you can force your opponent into
McAbee
Contest
Winner
Kenny McAbee of Kings
Mountain picked 15 of 18 winners
to take the $100 prize in last week's
Herald football contest.
McAbee was one of seven con-.
testants to get 16 correct but he
came closer to the tie-breaking
score of 42 points scored in the
KM-South Point game. McAbee
predicted 47 points.
Others missing just three games
but losing out on the tie-breaker
were Jeffrey Stokes Gladden of
Kings Mountain, William Leach of
Kings Mountain, Donna Gingles of
Kings Mountain, Tommy Frederick
of Vale, Tedd Mauney of Kings
Mountain, and Steve Hamrick of
Kings Mountain.
McAbee's misses were Kings
Mountain over South Point,
Garinger over Ashbrook and West
Caldwell over Lincolnton.
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four more turnovers than you have
you're running 12 extra plays a
game even if you don't pick up a
Maintaining possession of the
ball this week will be a must for
first down," Hicks said. "Twelve
extra plays add up to about an extra
quarter of football. We've got
enough skill that, if we can main-
tain the ball when we're supposed
to, that we can control the football
game. Turnovers cost us two ball-
games. There's no doubt about that.
That's probably the bottom line as
to why we were so successful last
week."
the Mountaineers because Burns
has one of the most dangerous run-
ners in the SWC in tailback Donnie
Malachi. He's leading the confer-
ence in scoring and is second to
South Point's Willie Strain in rush-
ing.
“They're the most solid team I've
seen at every position, but quite
obviously Malachi is their biggest
threat," Hicks said. "He can score
on you anytime he touches the
football. He's a different type run-
ner than Strain in that he's a speed
runner. He has great eyes and if we
give him the running lanes or get
caught out of position, he'll hurt us.
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Scores on 99-yard pass reception
If he gets into the secondary free,
he's going to present problems. We
have to keep him running right and
left and not north and south."
The Bulldogs' offensive line re-
sembles a college team. All of the
down linemen, both on offense and
defense, are over 6-3 and 250
pounds each.
"With our small defensive peo-
ple, they can get tied up underneath
those folks and not even see
Malachi," Hicks said. "Our slant
people up front are going to have
to get their hits on people and fill
the running lanes and be in a posi-
tion to move left and right and
keep him from turning upfield.
"On defense, they just turn the
same people over and put those re-
ally big people up front and just
stack in there on you and try to
control your front people and keep
their linebackers free," Hicks said.
"Our people responsible for the
linebackers are going to have to do
the best job they've done all year. If
we don't block their linebackers,
we can't beat them."
Hicks said he's been kidded a lot
for scheduling the Bulldogs for
homecoming but hopes the activi-
ties and the Mountaineers’ big
How They Did It
KM SP
First downs 9 13
Yds. Rushing 194 69
Passes 2-5 11-20-3
Yds. Passing 111 121
Fumbleslost 1 2
Punts 4-36 5-32
Yds.Pen. 55 35
By quarters: T
KM 014 14 14--42
SPO 0 0 0-0
Scoring:
KM - McNeal, 99-pass from
McClain (Kick failed)
KM - McClain, 1-run (Bell run)
KM - Williams, 100-kickoff re-
turn (Hopper kick)
KM - Honeycutt, 30-punt return
(Hopper kick)
KM - Lockhart, 2-run (Hopper
kick)
KM - Williams, 28-run (Hopper
kick)
RUSHING
KM - Williams 8-55, Moore 7-
36, Lockhart 8-28, Bell 4-25,
McClain 13-21, Ross 1-20,
Hopper 2-5, Gash 1-4.
SP - Young 9-(-10), W. Strain
15-45, J. Strain 8-33, Adams 1-1,
Woods 1-0.
PASSING
KM - McClain 2-5-0-111.
SP - Young 11-20-3-121.
RECEIVING
TM - McNeal 1-99; Brooks 1-
2.
SP - Rumfelt 3-60, D. Wilson
3-54, L. Wilson 2-23, Hunt 2-9,
W. Strain 1-(-15).
turnaround over the last two weeks
will work together to give KM the
edge.
"It's a big time for everybody,"
he said. "I just hope our players
keep it in the proper perspective.
Their concentration has to be on
the football game. I really feel like
if they put their minds to it they
can handle it."
Hicks said the Mountaineers will
be at full speed physically.
"When you play the way our
kids played last Saturday you usu-
ally stay away from injuries," he
said. "Injuries occur when you're
not going at full speed."
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