Page 8A-THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, March 24, 1994
KM coach resigns AD responsibilities
DENNY HICKS
Kings Mountain High School
athletic director Dennis Hicks has
resigned his duties effective the
end of the 1993-94 school year.
Hicks, who has been AD since
1983, said he will continue to serve
as head football and golf coach.
Principal Jackie Lavender said
she will not name a replacement
immediately but will talk to other
coaches who are currently on staff
as well as others who are being in-
terviewed as prospective teache-
Jones Intercable slates
coverage of French Open
Jones Intercable will present ex-
clusive, early-round coverage of
the 1994 French Open, direct from
the historic Roland Garros Stadium
in Paris, France, on USA Network,
seen locally on Channel 15 in the
Gastonia and Clover areas and on
Channel 30 in Kings Mountain and
Cherryville.
This marks the return of the
French Open to USA after a nine-
year absence. USA telecast its top
coverage of the French Open from
1983-85. This year, USA will serve
up all the early-round French Open
action viewers won't find anywhere
else, with marquee matches and
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A total of 24 hours of coverage
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KM
Kings Mountain High's girls
softball team dropped three of its
first four games of the season but
Coach Tony Leigh sees improve-
ment each time his young ladies
take the field.
With five freshmen in the start-
ing lineup, the Lady Mountaineers
fell to Pisgah 5-0 and Enka 15-2 in
the first two rounds of last week-
end's Anton Invitational at Canton,
but they bounced back to win a
third round game against a good
Crest team, 7-4.
The Mountaineers opened
Southwestern 3-A Conference play
Tuesday at home with a 10-5 loss
to R-S Central.
Coach Leigh takes his girls to
TRACK:
From Page 7-A
Eric Tate was second in the 100
high hurdles in 17.45 seconds, Bell
was second in the 100 meter dash,
Hart Wells was second in the 1600
meter run, Tate was second in the
300 intermediate hurdles, and
Littlejohn was second in the 200
meter run.
Third places included Jones in :
the long jump, Tedder in the triple
jump, Brian Odums in the high
jump, James Greene in the discus,
Daniel Gardner in the 100 high
R-S CENTRAL
From Page 6-A
3 and Hoper, Robert Wingo and
Kenny Bridges added a hit apiece.
The Mountaineers got only two
runners in scoring position after the
first inning. Wingo singled and
stole second with two away in the
third inning and Timmy Harrelson
walked and was sacrificed to sec-
ond by Michael Bell in the fourth.
Beam struck out eight
Mountaineers, and fanned the side
in the seventh inning.
The Hilltoppers had men in scor-
ing position in four of the seven in-
S. CALDWELL
From Page 6-A
ning run in the first inning on a
pair of walks and Jim Nichols' sac-
rifice fly to left field. They added
two unearned runs in the third and
another unearned tally in the top of
the sixth to take a 4-0 lead.
Kings Mountain scored its only
run in the bottom of the sixth when
Wingo hit a sharp double to right-
center and later scored on a single
to left by Kenny Bridges.
"We faced a pretty good ball-
club," said Connor, "but we're cer-
tainly a lot better than we showed,
especially in the hitting depart-
ment. Kenny Bridges made a play
in left field in the first inning that
was a high quality major league
play when he fielded a base hit and
threw the runner out at third base.
We're capable of playing excellent
defense, and I am not at all con-
cerned about our pitching, but hit-
ting does concern me."
Score by innings: R-H-E
SC 1020010 4-6-3
KM 0000010 1-3-3
Banks and Anderson; Wingo,
Hopper (4) and Melton. W -
Banks (1-0). L - Wingo (0-1).
Monday, may 23, and will culmi-
nate with a men's semifinal match
on Friday, June 3.
The French Open represents the
second Grand Slam tennis event on
USA's action-packed sports sched-
ule, adding to the network's more
than 90 hours of coverage of the
US Open, a staple of the USA
Network lineup since 1984. French
Open viewers can expect a high-
energy presentation similar to the
US Open broadcast, which Tennis
Magazine described in 1993 as the
"best tournament coverage on tele-
vision."
USA Network is one of a variety
of cable services available on Jones
Intercable, serving over 20,000
customers in Gaston, Cleveland
and York counties.
‘Shelby Thursday for a conference
game. They host Hunter Huss
Friday and Bessemer City Monday,
and then travel to Hunter Huss next
Wednesday in non-conference ac-
tion.
Canton Pisgah scored all five of
its runs in the same inning to defeat
the Mountaineers in the opening
round of the Anton tournament.
Keisha Wilson, Anita Whitaker,
Amanda Burns, Melanie Ellison,
Michelle Pense and Crissy
Johnsonbaugh had one hit each for
KM.
Against Enka, Kings Mountain
managed just four hits against one
of the top teams in Western North
Carolina. Amanda Burns, Rhea
hurdles, Jones inthe 100 meters,
Putnam in the 400 meters, Gardner
in the 300 intermediate hurdles,
and Jason Rhodes in the 3200 me-
ters.
Fourth places included Jonathan
Shipp in the pole vault, Odums in
the triple jump, Tate in the high
jump, David McDaniel in the 110
high hurdles, Shane Logan in the
300 intermediate hurdles, Tedder in
the 800 meters, and Gary Hughes
in the 200 meters.
The Mountaineers face a tough
test Thursday afternoon when they
travel to East Rutherford to take on
the host Cavaliers, Burns and R-S
Central.
nings, but were only able to pro-
duce a run in the sixth when Bill
Burgess doubled and later scored
on an error. Centerfielder Robert
Wingo cut down a runner at the
plate to end the fifth inning, and
the defense time and again came
up with potential rally-killing
plays.
"Overall, I was pleased with our
defense, especially in being in po-
sition for cut-offs and relays," said
Connor. "Kevin Melton caught an
outstanding game. I still think
Kevin is probably trying too hard
at the plate. His hitting will come,
but he's an outstanding defensive
player. I'm certainly glad he's on
my team."
Score by innings: R-H-E
KM 300 000 0 3-5-2
RS 000 001 0 1-7-1
Duane Patterson and Kevin
Melton; Beam. and Burgess. W -
Patterson (1-0). L - Beam.
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Hicks said he wanted to devote
more time to rebuilding the
Mountaineer football prdgram.
"Basically, I have been involved
in athletics for the past 44 years
and the past 27 years in coaching,"
he said. "During most of those 27
years I have coached two or three
sports while serving as athletic di-
rector. It's very time consuming,
and it was just the point in time
that I thought being athletic direc-
TONY LEIGH
girls softball team defeats
‘Herndon, Catie Brannon and Kellie
Stepp each had a single.
Against Crest, Burns and Keisha
Wells each collected two hits and
Herndon went 1-for-3 with a pair
of runs batted in.
Against R-S Central Tuesday,
Burns, Whitaker and Nancy Ely
each went 2-for-3.
"We've had a couple of set-
backs," Leigh reported. "We lost
Mountaineer netters young, inexperienced
. Kings Mountain High's boys
tennis team will take on a different
look this year.
The four-time defending
Southwestern 3-A Conference
champions are young and inexperi-
enced, according. to fourth year
coach Chris Cole. = |
"Our hustle, desire and team
quickness are our strong points,"
he said. "This team has a tremen-
dous work ethic and plays as hard
as any team I've coached."
Defending the SWC champi-
onship will be tough because of the
lack of experience and overall
power, but Cole says this is a good
team to build on.
"All of these young men are in-
terested in improving their tennis
skills and doing well as a team," he
said.
The Mountaineers are led by
sophomore Jason Cash and junior
Todd Huntsinger. Two seniors,
Eddie Henson and Chuck Kaylor,
also show promise. Four freshmen
with potential are Jordan Angeles,
Bobby Ormand, J.D. Ledford and
Siban Gofolth. Rounding out the
team are Clark Stowe and Carey
McCrarey.
The Mountaineers recently par-
ticipated in the Gaston County
Tournament against Crest, Hunter
Huss, Bessemer City and East
Gaston on March 8. Four non-con-
ference matches against Hunter
Huss, East Gaston, Ashbrook and
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tor was taking too much time."
Hicks said he hopes to get his
football program back to the level
that it was in 1983 through '87,
when the Mountaineers were con-
sistently ranked among the top
teams in the Southwestern
Conference and a frequent com-
petitor in the state 3-A playoffs.
"I felt like we got the most out
of what we had in those years," he
said. "The last several years we
have fallen a little short. It hasn't
been a catastrophe, but there we
had some 6-4 teams that we
thought should have been 8-2. Our
number one objective is to get back
on track and get the program to
where everybody in the community
wants it. That's going to be our
main area of concentration for
awhile."
Hicks said he appreciated the
support the total athletic program
received from the Booster's Club,
administration and community.
“[ really do appreciate the won-
derful support we've gotten from
the Booster's Club over the past 11
years," he said. "It's really amazing
that a very small group of people
have hung in there with us. A lot of
times they didn't get the support
they should have, but they just kept
working and doing things that
“needed to be done. They allowed
us to do some things for our ath-
letes that we couldn't have done
otherwise."
Leigh Coach of Year
Kings Mountain High was well-
represented on Winter Sports All-
Southwestern 3-A Conference
teams which were announced
Monday night at a conference
meeting.
In Wachovia Cup competition,
the Mountaineers are running sec-
ond behind Shelby as the athletic
year heads into the spring sports.
Shelby has compiled 80.5 points in
fall and winter competition com-
pared to 77.5 for the Mountaineers.
R-S Central is third with 71.5
points, followed by North Gaston
63.5, South [Point 62.5, East
Rutherford 60.5 and Burns 54.
Kings Mountain's Tony Leigh
was voted SWC Girls Basketball
Coach of the Year for leading his
Lady Mountaineers to a 17-9
record and second place finish in
Crest 7-4
one of our top hitters when Misty
Smith broke her ankle sliding into
second base, and another top hitter,
All-Conference Karen Queen, is on
crutches with a bad sprain. That
took some punch out of our lineup.
But the girls are playing hard and
every game we play is that much
more experience. I'm pleased with
the way we're playing. We're going
to get better as we go along."
ence against more powerful teams.
Hunter Huss defeated the
Mountaineers 4-2 and East Gaston
won by a 7-2 margin.
"The physical size of these
teams is really apparent to our
freshmen when they step off the
van," said Cole. "Our conference
championship team led by Andres
Alvarez last year probably ap-
peared just as awesome to the other
teams."
The Mountaineers begin confer-
ence play at R-S Central on April
12. Cole looks for South Point and
Shelby to be the top contenders but
says his team has the desire to up-
set any team on any given day.
Home matches will begin
around 3:45 p.m.
PAUL'S
the regular season. The KM ladies
advanced to the state playoffs for
the first time in four years.
Mountaineers on All-Conference
teams included:
Wrestling - 125-pound Gary
Hughes, 130-pound kenny Bridges,
140-pound Michael "Bell, and 189-
pound Cedric Moore. Player of the
Year: Stewart Fulcher, North
Gaston. Coach of Year - Mike
Mabry, R-S Central.
Girls basketball - Tameeka
Anderson and Karen Queen. Coach
of Year - Tony Leigh, Kings
Mountain. Player of Year - Latoyia
Whiteside, R-S.
Boys basketball - Brian
Leftwich. Coach of Year - Richard
Feemster, Burns. Player of Year -
Marques Lynch, North Gaston.
Girls swimming - Michelle
Fugita, diving; Angela Bunzel, 200
IM and 100 fly; Holly Parker, 100
free and 100 breast; 200 meter and
200 freestyle relay teams (Bethany
Jimison, Michelle Fugita, Holly
Parker and Angela Bunzel). Coach
of Year - Tim Queen, Shelby.
Swimmer of Year - Denise Stamey,
Shelby.
Boys swimming - Bergen Hall,
diving; Chuck Kaylor, 200 free;
Nathan Mayse, 200 IM and 100
breast; Dan Messenger, 500 free;
Israel Angels, 100 free and 100
breast; 200 meter and 400 free re-
lay (Rick Clary, Nathan Mayse,
Israel Angels, Dan Messenger).
Coach of Year - Mike Kernodle, R-
S; Swimmer of Year - Sean
Stockton, R-S.
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7" The Family of the late Douglas M. McClain, of 126 Ebenezer Rd., 4
Kings Mtn., NC would like to thank each of you for your
thoughtfulness during our time of sorrow.
Your kind words of condolences, your visits, the food you brought,
the beautiful flowers you sent, your words of expression through
cards, but most of all, your up lifting prayers and your words of
encouragement.
Many thanks to each of you again, and may God bless you.
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