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OM SUA ling ds RB a Sh EA FE TT YT Tr SO a f Thursday, October 8, 1992 -THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Page 7A Tennis tourney held Gastonia 6-2,6-3. In the men's doubles final played on September 29, Jason Cash of Kings Mountain and Gary Moss of Shelby defeated Todd Huntsinger and Bob Phongsa of Kings Mountain 6-1, 6-1. In the mixed doubles final played on Saturday, October 3, Kings Mountain Tennis Association held a fall doubles tournament at the Kings Mountain High School courts Saturday and Sunday, September 26-27. Sunday's matches were rained out, so the finals were held throughout the week. In the women's doubles final played on Scptember 28 Jerrie Tom and Julie Smith of Shelby de- Cates and Bridget Martin of Kings feated Melanie Bumgardner and Mountain defeated Sherry David Dellinger of Kings | Anderson and Carol Recse of Mountain 6-1, 6-0. | ’ ns 1 It's Our Fa a el 3 Selected Group 2 0 i 207 of 1 All Sale Items RTT Ee ESE RS tp Kings Mountain running back Pat Ross (40) rambles for a big gain in Friday's 14-7 victory over R-S Central. Mounties down Nakia Brown and his R-S Central Hilltoppers gave Kings Mountain's Mountaineers a wake up call in the third quarter of Friday's Southwestern 3-A the third quarter. The young R-S tackling him by the face mask. Operating with a first and 10 at Meat & Cheese Trays Sales Meetings «Award Banquets Conference football game at the offense pushed the big That gave the Mountaineers a first his own 44, Woods attempted to hit Retirement Dinners new Hilltopper Stadium. Mountaineer defense all over the down at the 12. After a three-yard = Simmons again but Bell intercept- WE FURNISH EVERYTHING YOU NEED... The Mountaineers, who had been impressive in three straight games going into the contest, had only gone through the motions of playing football until Brown broke a 54-yard run right down the mid- dle of the field to set up a one- -yard which gave R-S a 7-0 lead. After that, the Mountaineers got serious. And, senior running back Robbie Ruff and his offensive line - really got serious! Ruff, coming back after sitting out the previous week's game with an ankle injury, gained 94 of his game-leading 112 yards rushing and scored on touchdown runs of. four and 30 yards in the fourth quarter to lift the Mountaineers to a ing game against South Point at John Gamble Stadium. um, : Punts 2-31 - 4 Kings Mountain failed to score the third quarter. g ii ! on two long drives in the first half. Kings Mountain's offense, led by gym 0 0 0 1 4 1a The R-S Central defense, which the blocking of Norris McCleary, rg 0.50 7 0 7 has been giving up points by the plays in the first half and gained 126 yards to just 14 plays and 35 yards for the Hilltoppers, looked like an entirely different team in field and drove the kickoff 81 yards to grab the lead. Junior quarterback Todd Woods scrambled and hit Curwin Simmons on a 12-yard pass for a first down at the 35, and an eight- yard quarterback sneak by Woods anda two-yard run by Brown net- ted another first down at the 45. From that point, Brown went right up the middle, then cut to the right flat and appeared to be going all the way but Black pulled him down from behind at the one. Simpson went into the end zone untouched and Jason Abrams kicked the extra point to give the Hilltoppers a 7-0 lead with 8:03 showing on the third quarter clock. After the Mountaineers ran three rolled into the end zone for a touchback with 23 seconds left in Phillip Caldwell, Travis Smith, Kings Mountain quarterback Jerry Black (3) uncorks a pass for Mountaineers in Friday's game at R-S Central. Ruff rambled 20 yards on a counter option, and the Hilltoppers were assessed an 11-yard penalty (half the distance to the goal) for run by Holland and a five-yard gain by Black, Ruff scored from four yards out. The Mountaineers began their winning TD drive late in the game after Marcus Bell fumbled a Hilltopper punt, but fell on it at the KM 38. The Mountaineers covered 62 yards in six plays, with Ruff" carrying the ball three times for 63 yards, including the final 30 for the TD with 2:51 remaining. There would still be some anx- ious moments, though, as the Hilltoppers tried to air out a victo- ry. Woods completed an eight-yard RT THE YARDSTICK Yds. penalized 10 16 bushel this fall, held the Shon Byers and Cedrick Moore, RS - Ti : : Mountaineers at the two twice dur- who time and again opened huge uy Bump SON Ls (Jason ing the first half. holes for Ruff and the other KM Fullback Kasey Holland led a Mountaineer charge right down the field following the opening kick- off. He reeled off consecutive runs of 10 and 20 yards on the first two plays from scrimmage to put the Mountaineers on the R-S 28. After two more runs by Holland netted seven yards, Pat Ross took an op- tion pitch from quarterback Jerry Black and went around right end for 10 more yards and a first down at the 11. After losing a yard and over- throwing a pass intended for Calvin Mathis, Black kept the ball on an option and went around the left side 10 yards to the two. But on a fourth and one situation, the Hilltoppers' Seth Matthews nailed Marcus Bell for no gain aad R-S took possession. backs, then took charge of the game. The Mountaineers moved 80 yards for the tying score, with Ruff going over from four yards out and Sarimaha Rithiphong’ booting the point-after with 9:35 remaining. Ruff did most of the damage, but it was a 14-yard run by Black around the left side on first down which got the march underway. Another big play was a short pass in the left flat to Sherman Witcher, who reversed his field and zig- zagged all over the R-S Central turf for a net gain of 14 yards and a first down at the R-S gt KM - Robbie Ruff 4-run (Sarimaha Rithiphong kick) KM - Ruff 30-run (Rithiphong kick). INDIVIDUAL TOTALS RUSHING - KM: Ruff 11-112, Holland 9-62, Black 14-44, Ross 8- 28, Bell 3-5, Moore 1 (-13). RS: Simpson 14-37, Dwayne Wilkins 6-22, Brown 4-63, Woods 9-16. PASSING - KM : Black 2-5-0- 17. Bell 0-1. RS: Woods 5-11-2-44. RECEIVING - KM: Witcher 1- 14, Ruff 1-3. RS: Simmons 4-40. Wilkins 1-4. INTERCEPTIONS - KM: Bell 1, Witcher 1. Kirk D. Williams, M. D. Board Certified 5 Hilltoppers 14-7 pass to Simmons for a first down at the 34, and hit Simmons again for a 12-yard gain and a first down at the 44. ed at the KM 40 with 1:18 remain- ing. He attempted to run the ball back and was hit, and fumbled, and R-S recovered at its own 43. On the exchange, the Hilltoppers end- ed up losing one yard but picking up a first down. After an incomplete pass, Witcher sealed the win for the Mountaineers by picking off anoth- er Woods aerial at the KM 41 with 41 seconds left. { | 30 Rit ihe Moun BM. Bs 14-7 victory in their first SWC plays and punted, R-S launched an- 14 qowns 14 10 0 @® | game. other drive from its own 49 but this yg rushing 238 138 The victory gives the one ended when the Mountaineers pgeees 2.6-0." 5.112 N erior ed er [es | Mountaineers a 4-1 overall mark partially blocked Abrams’ 45-yard = vq. passing 17 44 heading into this week's homecom- field goal attempt and ‘the ball gEymples lost 1 0 «Dresses Sportswear . «Sweaters Blouses Thur.-Fri.-Sat. 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