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Stewart
Editor
Rusty comes home,
Clark joins Wildcats
Short cuts from the world of football:
Start-up: The start of football practice Saturday
* has fans and players excited about the opening of
- the season, which is just two weeks away for
- some teams, and three for most.
Teams playing endowment games are allowed
to open on Friday, August 21. There are 68 games
= slated that night, including Bessemer City at
: South Point and Forestview at East Gaston...
Coaching Moves: Kings Mountain High has
- added former player Rusty. Bumgardner to its
= football coaching staff. Bumgardner will fill a
© teaching position at the Middle School which for-
- mer Mountaineer JV baseball coach Scott Earley
= vacated to take a job in South Carolina...Diron
Bell, who was a volunteer assistant at KMHS last
season, has moved to Florida where he hopes to
: hook on with an Arena League football
team...Former Mountaineer assistant Bruce Clark,
who resigned after three seasons as head coach at
- Southern Guilford, will be an assistant at North
Gaston, and taking Clark's place at Southern
Guilford is Eugene Everhart, who did a magnifi-
cent job at Jamestown Ragsdale. Two years ago
his Tigers played for the state 3A championship,
- and last year they lost out in the third round to
Kings Mountain...
Up-and-comers: Although they probably won't
be ready to contend for a championship yet, one
of the most improved teams in this area will
probably be East Gaston's Warriors. Coached by
former KMHS and Burns assistant Tommy Pruett,
the Warriors have 13 starters back from last year's
team which was competitive against some of the
top teams in the area...Hillsborough Orange,
“coached by former Crest Coach Mike Stewart,
hopes to make some noise in the Pac 6 this year.
See Gary, 8A
Kings Mountain Herald
August 6,1998
Kings Mountain Mountaineers go through light workouts Monday at Gamble Stadium
Some Mountaineers could change positions
Kings Mountain's Mountaineers will wind up
their six days of conditioning Friday and end
Saturday's first day of heavy workouts with an
“intrasquad scrimmage at 6:30 p.m. at John
Gamble Stadium.
Head Coach Ron Massey and his staff are
working with 75 JV and varsity prospects every
afternoon, and they're hoping that more freshmen
will join the team by the end of the week.
With all of the "guessperts” pointing to Kings
Mountain as the team to beat in the Southwestern
3A Conference, the veteran coach knows his play-
ers will have to play their best every Friday night.
The Mountaineers have nine starters back on
offense from last year's team which went 10-5
overall and made it to the state semifinals, but the
coaching staff will be moving some players
around on defense to try to make up for the loss
of some key players. Massey, who has used a
two-platoon system to perfection his first three
years here, may play a couple of players both
ways this fall.
“It's still early, and we're still trying to evaluate
a little bit more," Massey said. "It will probably be
another week before we get a real feel of where
we're at and the progress we're making." :
Massey said some shifting of personnel is nec-
essary because some players the coaches were
counting on came out late and/or didn't do what
was expected of them during the summer.
"Defensively, we're trying to put the best 11 out
there and we may have to move some kids
around to put them where we feel like we'll have
a competitive defense,” he said.
Offensively, he hinted that Mountaineer fans
may see a change in philosophy this year because
the team doesn't have the breakaway speed it had
in his first three years here.
"We're trying to adapt our running game a little
more to the type personnel we've got," he said.
"We won't be as much of a big play team like
we've been the last couple of years. We're going
to be more of a sustained drive team."
That means, with the season opener with East
Gaston just three weeks away, the coaches will be
looking to experienced players to play mistake-
free football and provide leadership for the
younger players.
"With the first six days in light equipment only,
we're limited now," he said, "and with school
starting Monday we're not allowed two-a-days.
We're pressed to get prepared initially and we're
having to overload the kids mentally to get to the
point to where we can get everything in before
we play. But I'm not really going to worry about
that too much. We'll have enough in at the first of
the season, and by the fourth or fifth game hope-
fully we'll be to the point that we have all the:
bugs out." fi
+ Massey said he'll use Saturday's scrimmage to
evaluate some of the younger players that the
coaches have some "question marks" on.
"A lot of the older kids, we know what they can
do," he said. "We don't know how much actual
scrimmage time we'll use for them."
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