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BRUCE CLARK
Clark named head coach at Southern Guilford
Bruce Clark fulfilled a life-
time dream last Wednesday
when he was named head foot-
ball coach at Southern Guilford
High School.
"This is one of the greatest
feelings I've ever had." Clark
said. "I've always wanted to be
a head coach. There were op-
portunities at other schools. but
none where | felt the circum-
stances were right. I'm really
excited about the chance to
coach at Southern Guilford."
Clark, who spent 12 seasons
at King Mountain as an assis-
tant football coach and five as
head baseball coach in which he
won two state 3-A champi-
onships. replaces Mickey
Atkinson. who resigned after 10
years as head coach of the
Indians.
Clark went to Southern
Guilford in the fall to become
offensive coordinator, a position
he held at Kings Mountain for
the past three seasons. He was
offensive line coach at KMHS
for one season and then became
defensive coordinator. He
coached one year at Forest Hills
before coming to Kings
Mountain.
Southern Guilford compiled a
3-8 record this past season but
its offense improved tremen-
dously under Clark's guidance.
The Indians averaged 28 points
per game in one of the toughest
2-A conferences in the state.
"When you average that
many points, you are supposed
to win more than three games,"
Clark said. "We will have a
whole new look on defense."
Clark, a native of Mebane,
graduated from Eastern
Alamance High School, where
he played football and baseball,
and graduated from Wingate
College. He is a history teacher.
In 1985 and '86, Clark helped
coach the Mountaineers to two
of their best seasons since their
glory years of the fifties in six-
tics. The '85 team finished sec-
ond in the Southwestern 3-A
Conference but went three
rounds in the state playoffs, and
the '86 team shared the SWC
championship with Shelby and
East Rutherford and also went
three rounds in the playoffs. As
line coach and defensive coor-
dinator, he helped develop the
talents of Kings Mountain's on-
ly Shrine Bowlers since 1957,
Calvin Stephens in 1985 and
Aubrey Hollifield in '86.
Clark compiled a 100-31
record in five years as baseball
coach and led the Mountaineers
to state championships his first
and last seasons on the job. In
five years, his baseball teams
won three conference champi-
onships and finished second
twice, and went at least three
rounds of the state playoffs in
four of the five years.
Clark left KMHS at the
Christmas break last year to be-
come Director of the City of
Kings Mountain Parks and
Recreation Department. He left
that post in August to go to
Southern Guilford High.
Basketball teams host Ashbrook Monday
Kings Mountain High's bas-
ketball teams open a tough pre-
season slate Monday night at
home against Ashbrook's Green
Wave.
Girls action will begin at 6
p.m.
With depth they haven't en-
joyed since their Regional
championship year of 1990, the
Mountaineers of Larry Sipe are
hoping to be greatly improved
this year and make a run for the
Southwestern 3-A Conference
championship.
With not a whole lot of depth
but with a wealth of talent from
their first seven players, the
Lady Mountaineers of Tony
Leigh also hope to be a champi-
onship contender. The girls are
coming off a second place fin-
ish of a year ago and hope to
advance several rounds in the
state tournament.
Kings Mountain faces anoth-
er stern test next Tuesday when
they travel to Crest. Both Crest
and Ashbrook teams are always
in the running for their confer-
ence championships and both
have enjoyed successful treks
into the state playoffs in recent
seasons.
The Kings Mountain teams
also face strong non-conference
opposition from the likes of
Clover, Blacksburg and
Mooresville, and both KM
teams will be involved in holi-
day tournament action in late-
December. The Mountaineers
will host the Shelby Star
Holiday Tournament Dec. 27-
29 and will face some of the
strongest 3-A and 4-A teams in
North and South Carolina.
Coach Leigh, whose team
steadily improved in his first
four years as coach, has a team
that is tall, quick and smart.
He's hoping several young play-
ers will gain some valuable ex-
perience during the non-confer-
ence games so the girls will hit
their peak during the conference
_race.
"We've looked pretty good in
both of our scrimmages," Leigh
said. "The girls are working
hard and running the floor real
well. We're spending a lot of
time with the young girls so
they can catch up with the vet-
erans. They're making some
mistakes but they are hustling
and working hard."
Leigh said quickness will be
the team's biggest asset and
should make the Lady
Mountaineers a strong transition
team.
Leigh has returning starters
Keisha Hamrick at the point
guard, Tameeka Anderson at
one wing, and Karen Queen and
Alica Cole at the posts. The oth-
er starter is wing Tina Welch,
who is a transfer student from
Maryland and has adapted well
to the KM system.
Welch's twin sister, Tammy,
is the top reserve at the wing
and returning letter-winner
April Putnam is the top reserve
at the post positions.
Registration today
at Boys/Girls Club
Deadline for registering for
the winter basketball program at
Kings Mountain Boys' and
Girls' Club is Thursday, Dec. 1.
Teams will be selected
Saturday at 12 noon at the
Central School gym.
Registration is free for boys and
girls ages 7-16.
The club is open Tuesday and
Thursday from 5-8 p.m. and
Saturday from 11 am.-3 p.m.
For more information, call
Danny McDowell at 739-7026,
Tom Bennett at 739-3667, R.A.
Bell at 739-0102. Gerome
Parker at 739-1867, Judy
Bowen at 739-7000, Dena Allen
at 739-6461, or Jewel Watson at
739-9374.
Sophomore Niki Ash was re-
cently called up from the JV
team and will also see action at
the post positions.
"The other girls are working
hard to adapt to our system,"
said Leigh, "and as they come
around they will receive more
playing time."
Kings, Mountain's top offen-
sive thréat is Anderson, who is
a three-time All-Conference
choice and was SWC Player of
the Year her sophomore season.
She has 914 points, will hit the
1,000 mark early in the season
and will challenge the school
scoring record.
Queen is also a returning All-
Confeten:e player and has
made tremendous progress dur-
ing the past two seasons. She
should rank as one of the top in-
side players in the conference.
"The biggest thing the girls
are having to adjust to is the
transition from JV to varsity,"
said Leigh. "That's a big jump
as far as the quality of play, es-
pecially if you're having to play
right now. I think they realized
that in our scrimmages.
"We have a very tough non-
conference schedule," he added.
"We could come out of our non-
conference games with not
many wins, but that won't show
the kind of ball club we've got.
We have the makings of a good
ball club. We just have to polish
ourselves as a team."
The boys face one of their
toughest tests of the season
right off the bat Monday.
Ashbrook, featuring 6-8 Old
Dominion recruit Skipper
Youngblood and 6-5 point
guard David Walker, expects to
make a strong run for the state
4-A championship.
Coach Larry Sipe was very
impressed with his
Mountaineers in scrimmages
with East Gaston and
Independence, and he plans to
give at least 11 players an op-
portunity to see extensive ac-
tion.
"In the scrimmages we were
able to score easily by increas-
ing the tempo," Sipe said. "We
felt like that was one of the ar-
eas we really need to improve
on. We saw last year that we're
just not able to go toe to toe
with people in a physical
game."
Sipe is putting a lot of em-
phasis on a fast-paced offense
and believes it will be exciting
for the fans.
"We stress the importance of
kids being able to come off the
bench and play really hard for 2
1/2 minutes," Sipe said. "I can't
see any one player playing an
entire 32-minute game simply
because of the way we want to
play."
Sipe said every player on the
bench may see action in the first
quarter.
One possible drawback to the
new offense may be the number
of fouls the team commits, Sipe
said.
"Against Independence, in
four quarters we outscored them
79-76 but they shot 36 free
throws - 12 more than us," he
said. "I think we're in a position
where foul trouble won't affect
us, but the fact that the other
team gets the free throws will
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hurt us. In our two scrimmages
we fouled entirely too much."
Kings Mountain's starting |
five could change almost daily,
but Sipe said in the team's
scheme of things this year it ,
won't matter which five start the
game.
"If I had to pick a starting
five right now, it would be Todd
Huntsinger at point guard,
Bryan Leftwich and Steve
Surratt at wings, and Eric Tate
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