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Kings Mountain's Kenny Bridges finished third in his weight division in the Western Regionals
Wrestling Tournament last weekend at Enka High School. Bridges will join three other Mountaineers -
Robbie Ruff, Shon Byers and Cedric Moore - in the state individual tournament this weekend in
Greensboro
Kings Mountain's Robbie Ruff (back) ran his school record number of career victories to 102 last week
by winning the 140-pound division in the Western Regionals Wrestling Tournament at Enka High School.
Heavyweight Shon Byers of the Mountaineers also. won the Regionals. | Ruff, who finished second in the"
pi last year, hopes to. complete an undefeated season by winning the State championship this weekelid in
Gréensboro.
Ruff, Byers win Regionals
Kings Mountain was dethroned
as team champion but Robbie Ruff
and Shon Byers won individual
championships in the annual
Western Regionals Wrestling
Tournament Saturday at Enka High
School.
The Mountaineers, who had won
the team title the past three years,
finished fourth. Enka won the
event with 151 points, followed by
Pisgah 136.5, North Gaston 135,
Kings Mountain 106, East
Henderson 79.5, Shelby 75, North
Buncombe 72, Brevard 69, R-S
Central 65.5 and Hibriten 56.
Ruff, who is undefeated for the
season and is the Mountaineers’ all-
time winningest wrestler, won the
140-pound division with a 5-2 de-
cision over Mason Manship of
Hibriten.
Byers, who has lost only one
match this year, won the heavy-
weight crown with a 5-1 decision
over Rankin Muse of T.C.
Roberson.
Middle School girls win
Kings Mountain Middle School's
girls basketball team knocked off
West Lincoln 37-36 in Bi-County
Conference action Tuesday.
The victory gives
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free, Paula Eckard in the 500 free,
and Carrie Hardin, Eckard, Mayse
and Holly Parker in the 400 free re-
lay.
Mayse was fifth in the 100 free,
Eckard sixth in the 200 free, Parker
seventh in the 100 breast, Katie
Benton seventh in diving, and
Nicki Gladden, Parker, Mayse and
Eckard 11th in the 200 medley re-
lay.
Kings Mountain's boys will be
one of the favored teams in this
week's state meet. The
Mountaineers finished second to
Shelby last year and had one indi-
vidual and one team to win their
events.
BASKETBALL
From Page 6-A
conference games for the KM
ladies, and sixth in 18 decisions
overall.
Tony Leigh's ladies came from
behind after trailing 28-25 at inter-
mission. Kings Mountain cut the
margin to 36-35 going info the
fourth period and tied the score at
45-all after regulation play.
Tameeka Anderson scored 25
points to lead the KM attack, and
Heather Harrison added 14. Nikki
Geter scored 14 and Natasha
Lawrence 12 for
Burns.
Candy
Albergine's ladies a 3-7 record
heading into a road game today at
Burns. They close out their season
nest Thursday at home against °
Lincolnton.
Keisha Hamrick led the scoring
with 20 points, Jackie Houston
added six and Tamra Webber and
' Dee Byers five each.
"This was a tough game,"
Albergine said. "There were 61
fouls called and three of our play-
ers and four of West Lincoln's
fouled out. But we hit some key
foul shots down the stretch to hold
‘on for the win."
The KM ladies fell to Shelby 32-
25 last Thursday. Hamrick scored
12 points, Amy Huggins six and
Allene Barron four.
Kings Mountain rallied from a
12-point halftime deficit to cut
Shelby's lead to two points in the
fourth quarters, but critical
turnovers late in the game hurt the
Patriots.
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Kings Mountain's Cedric Moore
finished second in the 189-pound
class. He was pinned by West
Henderson's Robbie Heaton in the
championship match.
Kenny Bridges finished third in
the 199-pound class and Derek
Houser was fourth in the 130-
pound division.
The top three finishers in each
weight class advance to the state
tournament this weekend in
Greensboro. Kings Mountain has
had two state champions in the past
two years (Victor Bell in 1991 and
Tony Young in '92).
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Baseball
hit-a-thon
at KMHS
Kings Mountain High baseball
fans will get a preview of things to
come Saturday, Feb. 27 when the
Mountaineers host their second an-
nual hit-a-thon at Lancaster Field.
Each JV and varsity player will
get 100 swings at balls thrown by a
pitching machine. They will solicit
pledges for each hit they get, with
proceeds going to the KMHS ath-
letic program.
Coach Bruce Clark said the
event will get underway at 9 a.m.
and will run all day. Admission is
free and hot dogs, hamburgers and
other concession items will be
sold.
"This is an effort by the baseball
team to be self-sufficient and to al-
so help the entire athletic pro-
"Last
year's event was very successful.
We're looking forward to another
successful season this year, espe-
cially with the guys we have com-
ing back, and the anticipation of
the community is very high."
Coach Clark said Mayor Scott
Neisler will be a guest hitter this
year. Anyone wishing to sponsor
the Mayor should give him a call.
"We're really looking forward to
this day," Clark said. "I think this
event did more for our program
last year than anything I've ever
seen. It just makes it a lot easier on
everybody when you don't have to
worry about financial help from
anybody except yourselves. This
has not only been beneficial to our
baseball team but to the total ath-
letic program at Kings Mountain
High School.”
Clark said in case of rain the hit-
a-thon would be held on the first
Saturday in March.
"We'd like to encourage every-
‘body to come out and see how
these kids are going to hit this
year," Clark said.
Naggers
lead by two
in duckpins
The Naggers won three of four
games from the Alley Cats while
the TarPack lost three of four to the
Flufs, giving the Naggers a two-
game lead in Mixed Duckpin
Bowling League action Thursday
night at Dilling Heating.
The Naggers now have a 15-9
record while the TarPack slipped to
13-11. The Cats are 12-2 and the
Flufs 8-16.
Bill Myers rolled a 126 line and
338 set and Jack Barrett added a
118-328 to lead the Naggers over
the Alley Cats. Allen Myers rolled
a 151 line and 359 set and Bob
Rathbone added a 126 line and 351
set for the Cats.
John Caveny's 133 line and 351
set and Ken Maney's 109-314 led
the Flufs over the TarPack. Tommy
Barrett rolled a 122-341, Dan
Dilling a 116-338 and R.W.
Hullender a 106-316 for the
TarPack.
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