Page 6A-THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, February 2, 1995
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two of his team-leading 22 points in Friday's 84-75 loss to East
Rutherford at the KMHS gym. KM host South Point Friday.
Girls hold on for 58-52 win
Cavaliers edge
East Rutherford's Cavaliers
stayed neck and neck with
Burns in the race for the regular
season Southwestern
Conference championship, but
not without being taken to the
limit by the hungry Kings
Mountain Mountaineers Friday
night at the KMHS gym.
The tall and talented
Cavaliers finally prevailed, 84-
75 in overtime, to run their
record to 5-0 in the conference
and set up a showdown with
Burns, also 5-0, in the first
round finale Tuesday night.
Kings Mountain fell to 3-2
and into third place but Larry
Sipe's youngsters served notice
that they would be a team to
contend with in the stretch run
of the conference season and in
the annual SWC tournament.
The two teams played almost
perfect basketball and neither
team could mount a big lead un-
til the Cavaliers broke the game
open in OT. Jason Pintuff led
the Cavaliers in scoring with 21
points, Tyrone Hamilton added
20, Jason Bailey 14 and Kevin
Gettys 13.
Bryan -Leftwich, whose
shooting touch had been off in
recent games, returned to his
old form with 22 points, includ-
ing 12 points from three-point
range. Steve Surratt added 16
and Albert Perkins 15, an
Donnie Minor came off the
bench to score 10 points and
lead the Mountaineers in re-
bounds with 12.
East Rutherford held a 21-19
edge at the end of the first peri-
od and led 37-35 at halftime,
thanks to a half-court 3-point
shot by Hamilton. The
Cavaliers built a quick 46-37
lead in the third period but
Kings Mountain came back and
scored on a half-court 3-pointer
by Todd Huntsinger to take a
59-57 lead going into the fourth
quarter.
The Mountaineers built a 72-
68 lead with 2:40 to play but
East tied the game with 51 sec-
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Keisha amrick 21) leads the fast break for Kings
Mountain's girls in Friday's 58-52 victory over East Rutherford
at the KMHS gym.
KM in overtime
Tameeka Anderson led the
KM scoring with 19 points,
Keisha Hamrick added 14,
Karen Queen 12 and Tami
Welch 9. Heather Fowler and
Lacy Bates scored 16 points
onds left on a jumper by Darian
Logan. Kings Mountain at-
tempted to hold for a final shot
but lost possession with 14 sec-
onds left.
Kings Mountain grabbed a
Mountaineers upset
by R-S Central teams
Kings Mountain High's bas-
ketball teams suffered a double
upset at the hands of R-S
Central Tuesday night at the
KMHS gym. .
The Mountaineers begin the
second half of Southwestern 3-
A Conference play Friday at
home against South Point. They
travel to Mooresville Tuesday
for a non-conference game.
Kings Mountain's girls, play-
ing without the services of their
leading scorer, Tameeka
Anderson, saw R-S Central
charge from behind in the sec-
ond half to claim a 44-41 over-
time victory. Anderson sprained
her ankle in practice Monday
but should return to the lineup
soon.
The Mountaineers, coming
off a tough loss to unbeaten
East Rutherford Friday night,
also were victims of a second
half R-S comeback as the
Hilltoppers erased a 38-32 half-
time deficit to win 75-67.
Kings Mountain's girls
grabbed a 15-10 first quarter led
and a 27-18 halftime advantage,
but managed only 10 points in
the second half. R-S, getting
good balanced scoring and tak-
ing advantage of numerous KM
turnovers, cut the margin to 32-
26 going into the fourth quarter.
Kings Mountain had the ball
and a two-point lead in the clos-
ing seconds, but turned it over,
and R-S Central scored with 10
seconds remaining to tie the
score at 37-all and force over-
time.
Tony Leigh's KM ladies took
a 41-40 lead with 20 seconds to
go in overtime, but again R-S
Central came through with a
crucial basket to win the game.
"Our girls played hard up and
down the court," Leigh said.
"We just had too many
turnovers in the crucial parts of
the game."
Karen Queen led the KM
scoring with 14 points and Tami
Welch added nine.
BM Kings Mountain's boys
grabbed an 18-14 lead in the
first quarter and held a 38-32
advantage at halftime, but man-
aged only 10 points in the third
quarter as R-S came from be-
hind to win.
The Hilltoppers placed three
men in double figures, led by
Emory Smith with a game high
20 points. Donnell Simmons
added 19 and Dwayne Wilkins
18.
Bryan Leftwich and Eric Tate
led the Mountaineers with 17
points each. Kings Mountain hit
only 2 of 5 free throws while
the Hilltoppers hit 11 of 18.
GIRLS GAME
RS (44) - Ford 15, Hutchins
12, Ledbetter. 5, Tutt 6, N.
Hutchins 4, Page 2.
KM (41) - Queen 14, Ta.
Welch 9, Ash 5, Littlejohn 5,
Putnam 4, Hamrick 3, Ti. Welch
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BOYS GAME
RS (75) - Patterson 4, Smith
20, Hines 4, Simmons 19,
Wilkins 18, McDowell 8,
Walker 2.
KM (67) - Sizemore 35,
Leftwich 17, Tate 17, Perkins 8,
Bell 6, Williams 2, Surratt 2,
Minor 2, Champion 4.
74-72 lead on a bucket by
Minor early in overtime, but
East Rutherford went on a pair
of 6-0 runs to put the victory on
ice.
BM Kings Mountain's girls.
held onto a share of the SWC
lead in the opener by taking a
hard-fought 58-52 victory over
the Lady Cavaliers.
Kings Meuntainied 15-10 af-p
ter the first period and 31-24 at
halftime, and Tony Leigh's
ladies built what appeared to be
an unsurmountable 19-point
lead early in the fourth period.
But East Rutherford took ad-
vantage of Kings Mountain foul
trouble and came within four
points late in the fourth period.
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Christie Hughes helps lead Kings Mountain High's swimmers to victory in recent meet at
Neisler Natatorium. The Mountaineers will host the Southwestern 3-A Conference champi-
onship February 14 at 5S p.m.
KMHS swimmers win again
Kings Mountain High's boys swim team contin-
ued to roll up the victories Wednesday at Neisler
Natatorium with Southwestern 3-A Conference
wins over East Rutherford and South Point.
The Mountaineers compiled 126 points to 76
for South Point and 25 for East.
Meanwhile, the Kings Mountain girls split.
East Rutherford was the big winner with 145
points, followed by KM 76 and South Point 73.
Kings Mountain was scheduled to face South
Point and West Henderson Wednesday afternoon.
Coach Amy Gordon's swimmers remain at home
next Wednesday at 5 p.m. to face Salisbury and
Chase in non-conference action. Kings Mountain
will host the SWC Championships WEdnesday,
Feb. 14 at 5 p.m.
First place winners for Kings Mountain last
week were Nathan Mayse (two events), Holly
Parker, Rick Clary, Bergen Hall and Dan
Messenger.
Girls results:
20%) free - Kristina Sutherland, sixth, 3:16.48. :
200) IM - Bethany Jimison, second, 2:38.30: Michelle
Fugita, fourth, 2:54.35.
5() free - Christie Hughes, third, 30.54: Andressa Lasalvia,
sixth. 39.08: Beck Taylor seventh, 43.84
100 fly - Josephine Chan, fourth, 1:29.87.
100 free - Holly Parker, second, 1:05.08: Christie Hughes,
fourth, 1:08.72; Taylor, 1:48.63.
500 free - Jimison, second, 6:24.06; Chan, fifth, 8:05.09.
200 free relay - Nancy Ely, Jennifer Kies, Lasalvia,
Sutherland, third, 2:29.66.
100 back - Fugita third, 1:18.81; Amy Dixon, sixth,
1:29.14.
1(X) breast - Parker, first, 1:17.46.
400 free relay - Fugita, Jimison, Hughes, Parker, second,
4:39.52; Chan, Ely, Dixon, Sutherland, fifth, 5:38.96.
Boys results:
200 medley relay - Rick Clary, Nathan Mayse, Messenger,
Angeles, first, 1:51.85:
200 free - Angeles, second, 2:19.97.
200 IM - Clary, first, 2:10.82;
50) free - Angeles. third, 26.22; J. Sloan, fourth. 27.34.
Diving - Bergen Hall, first. 195.25; Darrel Myers, second,
157.15; Allen Ware, third, 141.5: Tim Schwantes, fourth,
119.4.
100 tly - Justin Chan, third, 1:38.43.
100 free - Mayse, first, 52.59: Messenger. third, 55.27.
500 free - Clary, second, 5:23.62; Sloan. third, 6:34.09.
200 free relay - Messenger, Angeles. Clary, Mayse, first,
1:38.06: Hall, Ware, Jonah Ingle, Sloan, third, 1:56.01.
100 back - Messenger, first, 1:04.10; Ingle, fourth,
1:35.56.
10) breast - Mayse, first, 1:07.42; Chan, fourth, 1:27.75.
400) free relay - Chan, Sloan, Ingle. Schwantes, first.
each for East Rutherford.
The Kings Mountain victory
left the Mountaineers, Shelby
and Burns deadlocked for! first
place with 4-1 records.
GIRLS GAME
ER (52) - Fowler 16, Bates
16, Crotts 9, Morgan 6,
Philbeck 2, Melton 2, King 1.
KM (58) - Anderson 19,
Hamrick 14, Queen 12, Ta.
Welch 9, Ti. Welch 2, Ash 2.
BOYS GAME
ER (84) - Pifiplft 21,
Hamilton 20, Bailey 14, Gettys
13, Logan 8, Williams 6,
Withrow 2.
KM (75) - Leftwich 22,
Surratt 16, Perkinsl5, Minor
10, Champion 4, Tate 3,
Huntsinger 3, Sizemore 2.
Booster Club
meets Monda
The Kings Mountain High
Booster Club will hold its
. monthly meeting Monday,
February 6 at 7:30 p.m. at B.N.
Barnes Auditorium.
The general public is invited
* to attend the meeting and join
the Booster Club. It is not nec-
essary to have a child involved
in school or sports to partici-
pate.
Among topics to be discussed
are fund-raisers and the upcom-
ing spring events.
AAU basketball
tryouts at club
Tryouts for the Kings
Mountain 10, 11 and 12-year-
old and under AAU Junior
Olympics basketball team will
be held February 4-5 at 3 p.m.
at the Kings Mountain Boys
Club. A player's age as of
September 1 determines eligi-
bility.
All players are urged to take
birth certificates.
For more information, call
Danny McDowell at 739-7026
after 3:30 p.m., Tom Bennett at
739-3667 from 8:30 a.m.-5:30
p-m., R.A. Bell at 739-0102 af-
ter 5 p.m., and Gerome Parker
at 739-1867 after 5S p.m.
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