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Page 6A-THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, December 22, 1994 ARO i. Kings Mountain's Alica Cole (24) makes a strong inside move to score two of her eight points in Thursday's 53-47 victory over Clover at the KMHS gym. Girls beat Clover 53-47 in non-conference game Kings Mountain's girls bas- ketball team evened its early- season record at 2-2 Thursday night at home with a 53-47 vic- tory over Clover. Kings Mountain grabbed the lead early and held it most of the way. Kings Mountain built leads as high as 12 points in the second half but couldn't put the determingd Blue Eagles away. Adame Ander, son led the KM scoring with 17 points, Karen Queen added 11 and Alica Cole eight. Leah Boyd scored 16, Renalda Phillips 11 and Jenny Cauble 10 for Clover. "The biggest thing for us was balanced scoring, which we haven't had all year long," said KM Coach Tony Leigh. "Alica Cole came in and had a big KM teams In Kings Mountain High's varsi- ty basketball teams will com- pete in Christmas tournaments next week. The Mountaineers will host the Shelby Star Holiday Classic which begins Tuesday and runs through Thursday. Some of the top high school talent in the area as well as other parts of North and South Carolina will be showcased. The Kings Mountain girls will defend their championship in the Lincoln Bank Classic which runs Wednesday through Friday at East Lincoln High School. The Star Tournament field in- cludes Kings Mountain, Crest, Shelby, Burns, Anson County, Olympic, Wren High of Greenville, SC, and Gaffney. The Mountaineers will face Anson County in the 8:45 p.m. game Tuesday. Burns and Olympic will open the tourna- ment at 7 p.m. While those four teams are playing at the KMHS gym, Shelby will battle Wren and Crest will oppose Gaffney in first round games at Crest High near Boiling Springs. Wednesday's semi-finals con- tests will be played at KMHS, with the Burns-Olympic winner facing the KM-Anson County RECLINE, RELAX & RESELL with the Classifieds game on the boards and scoring wise. We had several good spurts where we'd push the lead up to 10 and 12 points, but it seemed like we'd always relax a little bit and let them back in the game." Clover battled back to tie the 2 score early i in the fourth quarter, » but Kings Mountain went back % in front and maintained a 6-to- 8& point lead the rest of the game. GIRLS GAME KM (53) - Anderson 17, Queen 11, Cole 8, Tami Welch 6, Tina Welch 4, Hamrick 4, Webber 2, Putnam 1. CL (47) - Boyd 16, Phillips 11, Cauble 10, Wyte 2, Jeter 2, Plemmons 2. tournaments winner at 7:30, and the Shelby- Wren winner taking on the Crest-Gaffney victor at 9:15. Consolation games will be played on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. The third place game is set for 7:30 Thursday and the championship game is set for 9:15. BM Kings Mountain's girls will battle Mooresville in an open- ing round game at 3 p.m. Wednesday at East Lincoln. Burns and South Caldwell get the tourney underway at 1:30. Lincolnton plays South Iredell at 4:30 and East Lincoln meets North Gaston at 8 p.m. Loser's bracket games will begin Thursday at 12 noon, with the first round winners playing at 4:30 and 7:30. The KM-Mooresville winner meets the East Lincoln-North Gaston winner at 4:30. The third place game is scheduled for Friday at 4 p.m., and the championship game will be at 7:30. Big plays lift KM over Clover While Kings Mountain's Mountaineers have been con- centrating on a fast-paced of- fense this basketball season, its defense has suffered somewhat. The defense is still a long way from where Coach Larry Sipe and his players would like for it to be, but it was big defen- sive plays at the end of the game which gave the Mountaineers their first victory, a 73-72 win over Clover's Blue Eagles Thursday night at the KMHS gym. A big rebound by reserve for- ward C.T. Williams, a blocked shot by Steve Surratt, and a de- flected pass by Jarvis Bell helped the Mount S serve the victory in the i 2) nine seconds. Kings Mountain, which led 33-31 at the half and 52-45 go- ing into the fourth quarter, had a 70-65 lead with 2:26 to go but went on a two-minute scoring drought and saw Clover take a 72-70 lead. Eric. Tate, who scored 14 points for the game, hit a jumper with 32 seconds remain- ing to tie the score. Clover missed a shot with nine seconds remaining and Williams cleared the board and got the ball to Tate, who was fouled. He hit the first of a one-and-one to give the Mouptaineers the final lead of 73-72. But, the game was far from over. Clover guard Rob Wallace drove the length of the court, had his man beat and appeared to have a wide-open layup which would have given the Blue Eagles the lead, but KM's 6-4 wing man Steve Surratt saw what was happening, left his man and appeared to come out of nowhere to block the shot. That resulted in a tie-up un- der the Clover basket, and Clover still had the arrow pos- session and two seconds to try again. But Bell deflected the in- bounds pass to ‘mid-court, and the glock ran; out. " . ha “1. It was an exciting, win," 35 ¢ 10] Coach Larry Sipe. "Surratt Wi the man on the spot." Surratt also led the KM of- fense with 22 points, Tate added 14 and reserve Donny Minor 10. Travis Robbins and Terrence Rainey led Clover with 16 each. "Qur intensity level was the biggest factor," Sipe said. "That has been the main focus of our practices recently. We've talked about self-motivation and play- ing 32 minutes. In our first three games the third quarter was our downfall, but we knew we had to go out this time and play the third quarter just like it was the first." Once again, the Mountaineers got a big lift’ from the bench. Maurice Jarrett played well de- We Carry Appliance Parts *Ranges *Ovens ‘Refrigerators Washers & Dryers Ee TG AND HOME CENTER LRN: HTS EEE EGE [eer y eda NES CREDIT QUICK CAR CREDIT Zo NYA ell] Beside of Griffin Motors 735-3056 Hwy 321 By-Pass ¢ Lincolnton (across from Walmart) iii is 3 "We knew we had to go out and play the third quarter just like it was the first." fr -Larry Sipe fensively, Williams had two. big rebounds and two key baskets in the fourth quarter, and Minor was one of the team leaders in scoring with 10 points and re- bounds with six. "We've got to get a big lift from players coming off the bench," Sipe said. "We have to have people come in and pick 00d on-de- fense as we hope to be when our conference play starts in January," he said. "But Clover has a fine basketball team: and I'm sure they will do well this year and go a long way in the South Carolina playoffs." BOYS GAME §™ « KM (73) - Jarrett 3, Leftwich 8, Tate 14, Perkins 6, Bell 6, Williams 4, Surratt 22, jMinor 10. CL (72) - Wallace oh Mikes 11, Gore 6, Ware 2, T: Robbins 16, Rainey 16, S. Robbitis' 10." Kings Mountain's Steve Surratt (33) leads the fast break in Thursday's game with Clover at the KMHS gym. 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