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Very few athletes ever win a state championship.
But Kings Mountain High's Jackie Houston isn't your
usual high school athlete.
Houston, a KMHS junior, won her third straight
state singles tennis championship - and her fourth state
title overall - last week at Elon College when she de-
feated Brooke Skeen of Burlington Williams 6-1, 6-2.
Houston brought her season's record to a perfect 20-
0'and her overall high school record to 64-0. During
her stellar prep career, she has lost only four games in
regular season matches, and she lost only four games
in state tournament matches this year.
In fact, according to her coach, Diane Dooley, one
of Houston's toughest matches came against her team-
mate and doubles partner, Kristin Koenig, in the
Western Regionals Championship match played at the
KMHS courts. Houston won 6-2, 6-1.
Houston, who won the state 400-meter champi-
lonship in track last spring, could become just the sec-
ond high school girls tennis player to win four consec-
utive state titles. According to the North Carolina High
School Athletic Association Record Book, Laura
Cowman of Charlotte Catholic won the 1A/2A singles
titles in .1989, '90, '91 and '92. If Houston wins, the
state. crown her senior season she will become the first
3-A player to win four state tennis crowns.
Dooley says there is very little coaching she can do
with Houston, who was a junior tennis champion even
before she entered the high school ranks.
“Coach Diane Dooley congratulates Jackie Houston on winning state championship
Houston wins state tennis crown again
"Jackie was already great when she came here in the
ninth grade, but her level of play just keeps going up
and up and up," says Dooley. "It is hard for a lot of
girls to play Jackie. When you know you're going to
play her you panic. She hits every ball, she's very de-
termined. She's the type of athlete that doesn't get
down on herself a lot. If the person is playing well
against her she automatically picks her game up be-
cause she gets more determined. That's a big part of
her success."
One of Houston's victims in the earlier rounds of the
state tournament this year was Christine Caldway of
Wilson Hunt, who lost to Houston in the state champi-
onship match last fall. This time Houston won 6-0, 6-
0.
Dooley said Houston has the knack of blocking out
crowd noise and focusing on the task at hand.
"In the finals of the state the crowd bothered her the
first couple of games," Dooley noted. "But she didn't
let that get to her like a lot of athletes do. She got it out
of her system. She knows what she has to do and gets
her mind focused. Her play is very consistent."
Houston has already won more matches than any
other girls tennis player in KMHS history and could
become the first Lady Mountaineer to never lose a
match.
"Jackie's a real joy to be around," Dooley said. "It's
a real pleasure to coach her. I don't know that I coach
her a lot. She knows what she needs to do and goes out
there and does it."
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Sports Briefs
Boys/Girls Club basketball registration to begin
Registration is underway for the
1995-96 basketball season at the
Kings Mountain Boys and Girls
Club.
Anyone ages 7-16 may join.
There is no fee.
Registration will be held each
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
from November 2-December 7.
The club will be closed Thurs.,
Noy. 23 for Thanksgiving.
Team selection will be held
Saturday, Dec. 9 at 12 noon at the
Central School gym.
Club hours are 5-8 p.m. Tuesday
and Thursday and 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Saturday.
For more information call
Danny McDowell at 739-7026,
Tom Bennett 739-3667, R.A. Bell
739-0102, Gerome Parker 739-
1867, Judy Bowen 739-7000, Dena
Allen 739-6461, or James Smith
734-0398.
Bulldog Golf Days
set at River Bend
Women's Bulldog Golf Day will
be Tuesday, Nov. 14 and Men's
Bulldog Golf Day will be held
Wednesday, Nov. 15 at River Bend
Golf Club, Shelby. Proceeds will
support the Garland Allen
Scholarship Fund and the Gardner-
Webb University golf team.
There will be handicap and
scratch divisions. Prizes will be
awarded to the top three individual
scores as well as closest to the hole
on every par three, closest to the
line on 17 and longest putt on 18.
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of last Friday's heavy rains. He said
he was well-pleased despite over
200 yards in penalties.
"We're tickled to win this one,"
he said. "I didn't know how we'd
react after the layoff but I thought
we handled it fairly well. We came
out strong early and that was a big
plus for us."
The Mountaineers scored on
their second offensive play. After
C.C. Smith returned a North
Gaston punt to the Wildcat 34,
Logan hit the middle for two yards
and then Smith rambled 32 yards
on an inside reverse for the touch-
down. Chris Wallace's extra point
gave KM a 7-0 lead.
On their second possession, the
Mountaineers drove 65 yards for
another touchdown with Smith go-
ing over from 18 yards out and
Wallace kicking the PAT again to
make it 14-0 with 1:49 still show-
ing on the first quarter clock.
"They really had a lot of people
up on the line of scrimmage trying
to take Shane out of the game,"
Massey said. "That's what opened
up Marcus for, the two touchdown
runs. We were. fortunate to jump
out real quick."
Linebacker Emory Brown recov-
ered a fumble at the North Gaston
32 with 27 seconds left in the first
quarter, and on the first play quar-
terback Lance McClain hit Smith
with a 20-yard pass and a first
down at the 12. After a clipping
penalty and an illegal procedure
penalty pushed the Mounties back
to the 30 with a first and goal,
Logan hit the middle twice for a to-
tal gain of 12 yards and then
McClain threw an 18-yard touch-
down strike to Smith to make the
score 20-0.
At that time it appeared the rout
was on, but because of an enor-
mous amount of penalties against
the Mountaineers and the passing
of quarterback Justin Cloninger the
Wildcats were able to stay in the
game. Cloninger hit 9 of 23 passes
for 115 yards, including a touch-
down pass with 3:35 left in the
third period and a two-point con-
version pass which cut the KM
lead to 20-8.
North Gaston was driving again
in: the fourth quarter when C.C.
Smith intercepted a Cloninger pass
atthe KM 27 and returned it to the
25. From that:point, despite 30
yards in penalties, the Mounties
launched a 65-yard drive which put
the victory in the bag. Logan had
runs.of 21 and 10 yards and, after a
10-yard holding penalty ripped off
a 36-yard run for a first down at
the 12. Still another penalty for
clipping pushed the Mounties back
tothe 22 yard line, but McClain
found Corey Jones behind the de-
fense #or the touchdown and threw
a two-point conversion pass to
Marcus Smith for a 28-8 lead with
7:23 left.
Moments later, Justin Champion
intercepted a Cloninger pass at the
North 20 and returned it to the 10
to set up an 11-yard touchdown
pass from McClain to senior wide
receiver Chris Henderson.
"In the second half they started
loosening up a little bit and we
were able to get the ball to Shane,"
Massey said. "Lance did a good job
making some key checks on the
line of scrimmage, and he threw
the ball well when he had to." For
the night, McClain hit 4 of 10 pass-
es for 71 yards and three touch-
downs - his most TD tosses in a
single game. Logan gained 84 of
his 126 yards in the second half.
"Our offensive line did a pretty
good job," Massey pointed out. "I
was pretty well pleased overall
with the offense even though the
penalties hurt us.
"Defensively, I thought we were
very aggressive. We gave them
some different looks that caused
them some problems. We shut their
run down completely. Anytime you
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throw the ball as much as they do
you're apt to get a big play every
once in a while, and they did. But
overall we controlled them pretty
much the way we wanted to.
"Our defensive front put a lot of
pressure on (Cloninger). Our
linebackers were real active and I
thought C.C. Smith had a good
game in the secondary."
Massey said playing on a
Monday night, plus the unusually
large number of penalties probably
took some of the thrill out of the
game, but clinching a state playoff
berth and going unbeaten (5-0) at
home were outstanding accom-
plishments for his young team.
"I think it will set in and we'll
have good practices the rest of the
week and the players will be excit-
ed," he said. "They've worked real
hard to get to this point. I'm just
happy for the kids. As far as a
group of kids working and coming
to practice and doing what they're
supposed to do, this is one of the
best groups I've ever been associat-
ed with. I'm glad they're seeing
some dividends from their hard
work."
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