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High School Wrestlers
Are Second In State 3-A
Kings Mountain High's
wrestling team finished second in
the State 3-A dual team tournament
Saturday at the Greenshoro
Coliseum.
‘The Mountaineers of Steve
Moffitt won four straight matches,
including one impressive win over
previously unbeaten St. Stephens,
to make it to the finals against
three-time state champion High
Point Andrews. KM lost to
Andrews 51-10.
VICKY ARROWOOD
SCHOOL OF DANCE
Kings Mountain finished with an
18-2 overall mark. The 18 wins
represent a new school record for
most wins in a season. The two
losses were to state championship
. lecams, to 4-A champion East
Gaston in the regular season and to
3-A champ High Point Saturday.
"I'm really proud of our guys,"
said Coach Moffitt. "You never
know how you're going to do in a
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CHEERLEADERS TRAINING
A five week course in cheerleading skills to girls interested in becoming cheer-
leaders or improving their current cheerleading skills. The classes will focus on
the skills used by most cheerleaders. All classes will be held on Saturday
beginning March 3rd.
McNeal, Shane Sessoms, Quan Smith, Daniel Honeycutt, Rodgerick
McClain, Ryan Hollifield and Darian Hager. Standing, Darius Ross,
Kevin Moss, Era Vaughn, Mark Byers, Scottie Hopper, and Tony
Currence.
Photo by Dieter Melhorn
SWC CHAMPIONS - Kings Mountain High's Mountaineers won
their first SWC championship in eight years this season and are now
awaiting the SWC and state tournaments. Seated from left, Petie
Crest
Mounties Eye SWC Tourne
Kings Mountain's Mountaineers
have had a week to enjoy their
Southwestern 3-A Conference bas-
ketball championship. Now, it's
time for a new game to begin,
The Mountaineers now set their
sights on post-season tournaments,
beginning this week with the annu-
al SWC tournament at Gardner-
Webb College. The only thing at
stake there is honor because the
Mountaineers get the conference's
top seed by winning the regular
season.
After the three-day shootout at
Gardner-Webb Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, the Mountaineers
will enter the state playoffs. They
will receive an opening round bye
and will then host a second round
game on Thursday, March § at 7
p.m. at the KMHS gym.
"As far as the conference tourna-
ment goes, I can't see any advan-
tage because we finished number
one," says KMHS Coach Larry
Sipe. "The teams are so strong
from top to bottom. You can't sit
back and think about who you'd
rather play because every team is
strong." :
The Mountaineers will receive a
bye in the opening round and will
battle the: winner of the South
Point-North Gaston game Friday at
6:30. The winner will advance to
the championship game Saturday
night.
Girls action got underway
Tuesday night. Boys action gets ¢
underway tonight with South Point
battling North Gaston, East
Rutherford playing Shelby and R-S
Central facing Burns.
Kings Mountain has been idle
KM Girls
Eliminated
In Tourney
Kings Mountain High's girls
basketball team saw its season end
Tuesday night in the opening round
of the Southwestern 3-A
Conference tournament at Gardner-
Webb College.
R-S Central pulled away in the
fourth quarter to take a 49-32 vic-
tory and advance to Friday's semi-
finals game against North Gaston.
KM's final record dipped to 6-17.
Kings Mountain trailed most of
the game but cut the R-S lead to
29-28 with 6:50 to play following a
pair of free throws by Tessie Ruff.
But R-S scored the next nine points
and finished the game by outscor-
ing KM 20-6 in the fourth quarter.
Tarah Miller and Becky Young
scored 15 points each to lead the
Hilltopper attack. Suzette Feemster
led KM with 12.
TUESDAY GAME
KM (32) - Smith 6, Hardin 0,
Ruff 4, Feemster 12, Roseboro 6,
Barnes 4.
RS (49) - Hamilton 4, Miller q5,
Young 15, Long 9, Logan 6.
Legion Baseball
Meeting Monday
The Kings Mountain American
Legion Baseball Booster's Club
will meet Monday at 7:30 p.m. at
the American Legion building.
The club has three fund-raising
projects underway as it plans to re-
enter a team in Area IV competi-
tion this summer.
The boosters are currently sell-
ing advertisements for a baseball
program which will be distributed
at the home games. The prices for
ads are $200 for a full page, $100
for a half page, $50 for a quarter
See Legion, 9-A
since Tuesday of last week, when
the Mountaineers defeated South
Point 76-72 in the final conference
game. All of the remaining confer-
ence teams played Friday night.
"We practiced real hard last
Wednesday and Thursday and then
took the day off Friday," said Sipe.
"We've been going at it hard this
week too. It's given us an opportu-
nity to iron some things out and
work on parts of our game that we
really hadn't had a chance to work
on."
The Mountaineers, 21-1, have
one of their most balanced teams in
years. Although they're not big,
they have out-rebounded their op-
ponents by 36 to 25 rebounds per
game and they're outscoring their
foes by an average of 74 to 62
points per game.
“That's really a super effort,"
said Sipe. "I think we've stayed
with everybody on the boards ex-
cept maybe for R-S Central."
Senior Daniel Honeycutt leads
the KM scoring attack with 398
points and an 18.9 average. He's
hitting 55 percent of his field goal
attempts and 76 percent from the
foul line. He also leads the team in
assists with 105 in 22 games.
Junior forward Era Vaughn is
second in scoring at 11.4 points per
game and leads in rebounding with
a 7.6 per game average. He also
leads in field goal shooting per-
centage with 66 percent.
Senior center Darian Hager is
averaging nine points and six re-
bounds per game and junior for-
ward Mark Byers is averaging
eight points and six rebounds.
As a team, the Mountaineers are
shooting 55 percent from the field
and 65 percent from the foul line.
Kings Mountain will not know
who its state playoff opponent will
be until after next Monday night.
The Mountaineers will meet the
winner of the game which pits the
Western Athletic Conference num-
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Crest
Julie Jones
— 11 yrs. cheerleading experience
— Crest High Carrousel Princess
— Gardner-Webb Cheerleader
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Uptown Kings Mountain - 739-3631
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THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY
TO THE FIRST 20 CUSTOMERS EACH DAY
Tammy Arrowood
— 11 yrs. cheerleading experience
— 1989 Miss Cleveland County
— Chosen for Who's Who for
High School Students
— Creative & Performing Arts Winner Jr. Miss
Burns
Tracey Meade
-Tracey cheers at Burns High School and is a
Universally Acclaimed dance star, visiting
London, England in 1988. Tracy brings 9 years
experience to our staff.
Cheerleading will be held at The Shelby Studio — 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. and
Kings Mtn., Studio — 11:00 a.m. to 12:30. For further information Call
484-3419. Deadline will be March 2nd.
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