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Herald/Times
Lady Mountaineer swimmers
win against conference teams
Diving begins at 4:30 p.m.,
swimming warm-ups at 5:30,
and swimming action at 6 p.m.
Kings Mountain High's girls
swim team picked up a big win
against conference opponents
South Point, R-S Central and
Forestview Wednesday at
Neisler Natatorium.
The Mountaineers compiled
345 points to 231 for R-S, 173 for
South Point, and 135 for
Forestview.
In boys action, R-S Central
won with 276 points, followed
by KM with 237, South Point
159, and Forestview 130.
Kings Mountain got first
place finishes from Wes Frye,
Elise Mayse and Naoki
Nishyama. The KM girls also
won all three relays.
Coach Sarah Mayse’s team is
idle until Wednesday, January 6
when they host T.C. Roberson.
Girls results
200 medley relay - Neisler,
Mauney, Mayse, Propst, first;
Causby, McGinnis, Burgess,
Shannon, sixth.
200 free - Mayse second, Nicole
Hagner fifth, Blair Cannon sixth.
200 IM - Wendy Neisler second.
50 free - Laura Propst third,
Hagner sixth, Shannon eighth,
Hannah Ware, Leah Hall, Brigitte
Struchen, Kerri Brutko, Jennifer
Fredell.
Diving - Tiffany Ely first, Abby
Haynes second.
100 butterfly - Mollie Patterson
fifth, A‘me Mauney sixth, Christy
Burgess seventh.
100 free - Neisler second, Propst
third, Jessica Branham fifth.
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500 free - Mayse first, Cannon
fourth.
200 free relay - Propst, Hagner,
Neisler, Mayse first; Haynes,
Shannon, Ware, Brutko fifth;
Burgess, Hall, Fredell, Tate eighth.
100 back - Ely second, Heather
Causby fifth.
100 breast - Mauney second,
Haynes third.
400 free relay - Branham,
Patterson, Causby, Hagner first;
Brutko, Burgess, Struchen, Tate
fourth.
Boys results
200 medley relay - Miller,
Goforth, Nishyama, Frye third;
Kies, Lovelace, Poole, Falls fifth.
200 free - Daniel Miller third,
Brad Goforth eighth, Clark Poole
ninth.
200 IM - Nishyama first
50 free - Wes Frye first, Trent
Goforth fourth, Justin Kies 11th;
Ben Sabetti, Clint Falls, Jonathan
Tittle, Jesse Frisina, brandon Gist.
Diving - Brad Goforth first, Kyle
Lovelace second.
100 butterfly Naoki Nishyama
first.
100 free - Marty Goforth first, T.
Goforth sixth.
200 free relay - Lovelace, T.
Goforth, Frye, M. Goforth second;
Sabetti, Falls, Tittle, B. Goforth sev-
enth.
100 back - Miller third, Kies
eighth, Poole ninth.
100 breast- M. Goforth fifth,
Lovelace sixth.
400 free relay - Nishyama, T.
Goforth, Frye, Miller first; Sabetti,
Frisina, Poole, B. Goforth fifth.
Mounties
to host
tourney
Kings Mountain High's boys
basketball team will host the
annual First Charter Bank
North-South Doubleheader
Friday and Saturday at the
KMHS gym.
Games are slated for 7 and 9
p-m. each night, with North
Carolina schools Kings
Mountain and Hunter Huss
taking on South Carolina
schools Blacksburg and. Boiling
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Sipe will welcome back his
players from the championship
KMHS football team and will
look to them to provide the
leadership to turn around a 1-4
start. :
The Mountaineers dropped
their third game in a row
Monday night at Shelby, 88-56.
The Lions of Ken Napier rolled
to a 22-14 first quarter lead and
a 48-31 halftime advantage and
continued to turn on the burn-
ers in the second half.
Marcus Odoms led the KM
scoring with 12 points, and
Bryan Houze added 10.
KM (56) - Henderson 8, Adams
1, Moore 1, Odoms 12, Odell 2,
Cureton 6, Byers 4, Houze 10
Thompson 4, Young 8.
Shelby (88) - Petty 7, Littlejohn 6,
Whitesides 18, Peterson 5, Parrish
11, Baxter 4, Borders 7, Olwier 12,
Smith 2, Vircher 2, Lawrence 4.
Kings Mountain Coach Larry
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December 17, 1998
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KICKOFF RETURN - Kings Mountain’s Chad Jones (22) returns a kickoff in Friday’s state champi-
onship game with Winston-Salem Carver at UNC's Kenan Stadium. Carver came from behind in
the fourth quarter to win 33-28.
CARVER
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teams put four touchdowns on the board in each
of the first two quarters, with the only difference
in scoring being a missed extra point following
the Jackets’ fourth TD.
The Mountaineers, who took 76 years to get to
their first state championship game, took only 10
seconds to score as Bell returned the opening
kickoff 79 yards, and Ben Howell added the extra
point for a 7-0 Mountaineer lead.
But Carver came right back with a 72-yard
scoring drive, capped by a two-yard run by game
MVP Weaks, and a PAT by Wesley Gant.
The Mountaineers took just 46 seconds to score
again, this time on a 25-yard burst up the middle
from fullback Anthony Hillman. Bell set it up by
catching a short wide receiver screen and turning
up field for a 47-yard gain.
But Carver came right back with a four-play,
47-yard scoring drive. Weaks hit Jackson with a
13-yard touchdown pass.
After a change of possession in which the
Mountaineers had to punt and Landon Benton re-
covered a Carver fumble, the Mountaineers got
another quick score when quarterback Anthony
+ Ash hit slot back Jamal Byers on a quick pass:
across-the middle. Byers split. the Carver defense
and rambled 72 yards for a 21-14 lead.
But the Yellow Jackets had another answer in
the form of all-everything Lashun Peoples, who
faked a punt and rambled 45 yards to tie the score
again at 21.
Carver took its only lead of the first half late in
the second quarter, driving 44 yards in just three
plays to score on a 15-yard run by Tyre Kirby. But
Gant’s extra point attempt failed, leaving the
score at 26-21.
The Mountaineers bounced right back and cov-
ered 80 yards in eight plays to score on a four-
yard run by Hillman with 1:06 remaining.
Howell's extra point kick broke the tie and gave
KM a 28-27 halftime edge.
In the second half, the Yellow Jackets stacked
the middle to take away Kings Mountain's power
running game, and even though. the
Mountaineers were able to get on the perimeter
Carver’s defensive speed quickly closed off the
running lanes.
“Their speed showed up in the second half,”
noted KM Coach Ron Massey. “They started clos-
ing the middle on us and we thought we could
get the perimeter, but their team speed just didn’t
allow us to.”
Carver Coach Keith Wilkes said he got his de-
fense together at the half and told them “they’ve
scored enough,” and challenged them to shut
down the big KM offense in the second half.
The Jackets did a great job on Hillman, limiting
him to four carries for 22 yards in the second half
after he had gained 93 yards in 11 carries in the
first half. And, the Yellow Jackets won the ball
control battle, running 69 plays to just 41 for the
Mountaineers and keeping the ball for 29:30 com-
pared to 18:30 for the Mountaineers.
“I was glad we didn’t see Hillman much in the
second half,” Wilkes said. “He’s a great back.”
The big difference in Carver’s win, other than
its excellent speed, Wilkes said, was the passing
game. The Yellow Jackets were able to use the
height of their receivers to get overtop of the KM
defenders on several occasions, including the
winning touchdown pass on which Carver’s 6-3
Jackson out-jumped KM’s 5-5 defensive back
Antonio McClain on a fade pattern in the front
corner of the end zone.
Wilkes credited his quarterback, Weaks, for
making that play successful.
“He’s the best quarterback I’ve ever had,”
Wilkes said. “He's a leader. He's a coach on the
field, and he calls his own plays a lot.of the time.”
Weaks returned the compliment, crediting
Wilkes and assistant coach Greg Scales for teach-
ing him the fade pass.
“We've been practicing that for 17 weeks,” he
said. “Coach Scales and Coach Wilkes taught me
how to throw it. You have to throw it over the left
shoulder, and with their small defensive backs we
could really just throw it up as a jump ball.”
Despite that go-ahead touchdown, the
Mountaineers felt they had plenty of time to
drive for the winning score, as they did in the
state champion Kannapolis 26-21.
“I thought we were in good shape,” Massey
said. i
The Mountaineers immediately went to their
ace, Hillman, and he responded with a 15-yard
run and a first down at the 50. Joe Williamson's
big four-yard run on fourth down kept the drive
alive at the 37, and on a first and ten call Ash hit
Bell on a receiver screen. But as he cut up field
Carver’s Allen Pinkney lowered his shoulder into
Bell’s mid-section, and his helmet into the foot-
ball, the ball popped loose and Carver’s Sean
Wilkes recovered at the 29 to seal thé victory.
Pinkney said he was looking for that pass play,
and was prepared to make a big hit.
“We had seen them run it twice before,” he
said. “When he caught it I just gave it all I had.”
Massey also gave Pinkney the credit.
“He just made a great hit,” Massey said.
“There’s not a receiver in the state of North
Carolina that could have held on to that football.
It was just a tremendous shot.”
Despite the loss, Massey was proud of his play-
ers who gave him and the school its best football
season ever.
“I thought our kids played real hard,” he said.
“The effort they gave was all we could ask for. I
am proud of them. I hope nobody feels like
there’s someone to blame. If they do I hope they'll
blame me and not any of the kids. The effort they
gave was more than we could ask for.
“Carver deserves the credit for winning it. I
thought their kids played extremely well. My
hat’s off to Carver and Coach Wilkes.”
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