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5 winch 4, 1YY SPORTS THIS WEEK W..... Coon, High School Tennis Thurs., March 4 - East Gaston at Kings Mountain, 3:30 Monday, : March 8 - KMHS at Lincolnton, 3:30 Tuesday, March 9 - R-S Central at Kings Mountain, 3:30 High School Softball Saturday, March 6 - KMHS at Crest (multiple scrimmage) TBA. Monay, March 8 - Kings Mountain at Ashbrook 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 9 - Shelby at Kins Mountain, 4 p-m. ; High School Baseball Thursday, March 4 - North Mecklenburg at Kings Mountain (varsity scrimmage) 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 8 - Kings Mountain varsity at Crest, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9 - Crest at Kings Mountain junior varsity, 4:30 Wednesday, March 10 - East Gaston at Kings Mountain (JV and varsity doubleader, 4 and 7 p.m.) High School Girls Soccer Monday, March 8 - Kings Mountain at Hunter Huss, 4 p.m. High School Golf Tuesday, March 9 - Chesnee, SC at Kings Mountain, 3:30 High School Girls Track Wednesday, March 10 - Kings Mountain, South Point, and East Rutherford at North Gaston, 3:30 Se NOTABLE Seesestetatatatetcateraerr trate tsteanreareriosrnnns Kings Mountain's Freddy Smith finished fourth and : ro won $3,800 ; in Sunday’s Carl Black Buick, : Pontiac, GMC 100 at Dixie Speedway in , Woodstock, SMITH GA. 3 Gardner-Webb University has announced that it will in- vestigate seeking NCAA Division I status for academics and athletics, and will formal- ly announce its intentions this fall. GWU recently added three new sports - men’s and women’s track and field, and women’s swimming. Kings Mountain High is second in the Southwestern 3A Conference Wachovia Cup race following the fall season. R-S Central leads with 30.5 points to KM’s 27. South Point has 24, Forestview 23, East Rutherford 21, North Gaston 20, and Burns 19.5. Shelby leads the South Piedmont 1A/2A with 36 points, fol- lowed by West Lincoln 33, Lincolnton 32, Cherryville 26, Maiden 22, Chase 20, and Bessemer City 8. Crest is fourth in the NWC 4A. Watauga leads with 29.5, fol- lowed by Freedom 28.5, East Burke 19, Crest 18, Alexander Central 16.5, McDowell 14.5. A highlight video of the 1999 championship Kings Mountain High football sea- son will go on sale next week for $20 each. For more infor- mation call Coach Ron Massey at 734-KMHS ext. 35. OTS INSIDE Baseball season opens for Kings Mountain's Mountaineers Monday at Crest. B2 Kings Mountain High’s wom- en’s softball team hopes to make a run for the = Southwestern 3A Conference title. B2 Herald/Times SPORTS Page 1B Classifieds, B3 Patriots win Division 1 crown ‘Top Burns 47-40 for 141th win By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald Kings Mountain Middle School’s Patriots turned up the pressure in the second half and came from behind to defeat Burns 47-40 for the Tri-County Conference Division 2 champi- onship Thursday night at the KMMS gym. The Patriots swept their divi- sion opponents, and finished the season with 11 straight wins after losing to Shelby in a non- division game to open the sea- son. East Rutherford won Division 1 with a perfect 12-0 record. Burns set the tempo of the game in the first half with a half-court set which kept the Patriots out of their run-and- gun style. The visitors led 19-18 at the half, but KM Coach Monty Deaton sent his charges into a 1- 3-1 press in the second half and the Patriots came back to lead 32-30 after the third quarter and gradually pulled away in the ~ fourth. “The boys on the team need to be commended on a good job and for keeping focused after that first game loss to Shelby,” Deaton said. “They could have lost heart and gone the other way, but they worked hard and finished out on a good note.” The conference championship was the Patriots’ first in four . years under Coach Deaton, who ~ has 5 of his 15 players returning next year. “Three of those five played Women’s track team opens Wednesday at North Gaston Humphries, Charmaine Johnson, Ebony Moore, Kings Mountain High's wom- en's track team opens its 1999 season Wednesday, March 10 at North Gaston. Joining the Lady Mountaineers and Lady Wildcats in the Southwestern 3A Conference event will be South Point and East Rutherford. Veteran Coach Diane Dooley has a young team this year, but one that shows promise in many areas. Returning players are Keisha Brooks, Ebony Caldwell, Kristen Feemster, Nikki DOOLEY Action was fast and furious inside the paint in Thursday's Kings Mountain-Burns Tri-County Conference championship game at the KMHS gym. In photo at left, Kings Mountain’s Caleb Williams (44) has his shot blocked by an unidentified quite a bit and started much of the time,” Deaton said. “Derek Smith started at point guard, Orlando Curry played center, an Grayland Elliott played the wing.” Eighth grader Cortney Smith had one of his best all-around games, scoring 20 points and | playing an exceptional floor Meredith Ware, Tina Smith, Jennifer Platt and Krista Morris. New players are Kim Bowden, Cherlyn Cole, Sherica Cole, Miranda Byers, Georgia Dawson, Katrina Eagle, Ashley Henson, Jenny Kliever, Ashley Limbaugh, Paula Mercier, Sheen Owens, Rashonda Stowe, and Damika Wallace. “We should have pretty good speed in our sprinters,” Dooley noted. “Jennifer Platt has run cross country and will help us in our long distance. “The shot and disc are stronger, but I have no idea what any of the other teams have.” game. “He has really 'played well the last three games as far as of- fense,” Deaton said. “He's al- ways been a great defensive ‘player but the last three games he really came up big against Crest, Shelby and Burns.” Brandon Houze contributed eight points, and Warren Shirey = Kings Mountain High se- nior Michael Jolly hopes to line up another shot at the state 3-A golf champi- onship. GARY STEWART / THE HERALD Burns player, and in photo at right the Patriot wing player Grayling Elliott (32) has the Burns defense towering over him. Kings Mountain won 47-40 to win the Division 1 championship with an 11-1 record. added six. “I was pleased with our balanced scoring,” Deaton said. “Most of the other guys scored three and four points.” Acquino Reynolds came off the bench in the second half and put pressure on the ball, and Deaton also credited David Brinkley, Shirey, Cortney Smith, Houze and Derek Smith for cre- ating turnovers. “Burns had trouble getting the ball up court in the second half,” he said. “We messed their tempo up. In the second half we set the tempo and they had to _press us. That's what we want- ed, so we could use our quick- ness and speed.” KMHS golf team eyes one Kings Mountain High's golf team has the potential to go a long way this year. With his top four players and five of his top six back from last year, veteran Coach David Ballenger feels his team could make a strong run for the Southwestern 3A Conference and Western Regional crowns, | and possibly even a run for the state title. “But,” he cautions, “every team in the conference is going to be good. It will be real com- petitive. We finished fourth last year and didn’t play bad. You have to play well and every- thing hinges on the conference and regional tournaments. You can be the best team and have a bad day and not get to go to the state. You're not going to get in- : L of best seasons in SWC 3A to the state championship with- out your best effort.” If the Mountaineers make it to the state, though, they will have experience in that event. Senior Michael Jolly won the state individual championship last year and has competed in the state in each of his three sea- sons at KMHS. Evan Osteen al- so qualified for the state tour- ney last year as a sophomore and finished in the top 20. Other returning players for the Mountaineers are Justin Etters, Will Hendricks and Ben Godfrey. Ballenger also has a talented group of freshmen which includes Gray Howard, Adam Maddox, Zack Ramey, Chad Bridges ad Lane Echols: See Golf, 6B KM kicks off first women’s soccer season Monday game at Huss first of three on the road By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald Kings Mountain High School will kick-off its first-ever wom- en’s soccer season Monday at 4 p-m. at Hunter Huss High in Gastonia. Coach Dan Potter doesn’t have a senior on his team and said in some ways it feels like he’s coaching a JV team. But, in the Lady Mountaineers’ favor is the fact that all of the other teams in the Southwestern Conference are starting from scratch, too. “The season is going to be a challenge for us,” he says. “We may take our lumps with some of the more experienced teams. But the kids are working hard and I've been pleased with their efforts. Some are having to get used to more stringent training. They haven't really trained that hard in some of the other sports they've played, and many have not played sports at all on the high school level.” Potter does have some play- ers who have played recreation league soccer, but most of them played on different teams and will have to adjust to playing with each other. “The biggest thing right now is to get them to work together as a team,” Potter said. “We've been working on small skills and trying to piece it together slowly. I've had a lot of help from John Forrest (one of Potter’s former players on the KMHS men’s team), and that’s really been good.” Three players are sharing the goal position, and all are look- ing good. They are Lindsay Hamrick, a ninth grader; Mindy Belt, a junior; and Nicole Hagner, a sophomore. “It’s very interesting, because some of these girls have never See Soccer, 2B i ‘GARY STEWART / THE HERALD Coach Dan Potter gets his KMHS women ready for first-ever soccer game Monday at Hunter Huss ey a
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