June 22, 2000
ALAN HODGE / HERALD
Kings Mountain High baseball standout Matt Biddix, second from right, last week signed a
scholarship with North Greenville College. Pictured, front row, left to right, are Sherri Biddix,
Tim Nihart, Matt Biddix and Donnie Biddix. Back row, Tony Leigh, Phil Weathers and Steven
Fisher.
KM’s Biddix to play baseball
at North Greenville College
Kings Mountain High base- ing a 1-0, one-hit shutout of first
ball standout Matt Biddix last place R-S Central. He pitched
week signed a grant-in-aid with an 11-inning three-hitter against
pitcher.”
Leigh credits Biddix with
helping turn the Mountaineers’
North Greenville College. season around late in the year. South Point in the :
A righthander, Biddix was “We were so young, our Southwestern 3A Conference
the ace of the KMHS and statistics don’t do him justice,” tournament.
American Legion staff this year,
and as an outfielder was also
one of the team’s leading hit-
ters. He made the All-
he said. “He came on strong
late in the season. He hurt his
arm midway through the sea-
son and we sat him down from
“He was a key player for us:
on the mound, and the boys
played tremendous defense be-
Southwestern 3A Conference playing outfield and pitching. hind him,” Leigh said.
team. asia He got some rest and came back
“Their coach feels like Matt and was one of the main rea- “I think North Greenville will
can come in and be a player sons we were so strong in the be a good place for Matt, and he
right off the bat,” said KMHS ‘second half.” will do well for them,” he said.
Biddix had several low-hit
games late in the year, includ-
Coach Tony Leigh. “He's look-
“They play good baseball down
ing to use him strictly. as a. .
there.”
By GARY STEWART
KM'’s Rickenbacker joins coaching
staff at Loyola University Chicago
Editor of The Herald
i Kings Mountain native
1 Priscilla Rickenbacker has been
MN named assistant women's bas-
ketball coach at Loyola
University Chicago.
Rickenbacker coached this
past season at the University of
Wisconsin-Green Bay where she
helped guide the Phoenix to the
2000 Midwestern Conference
championship and the NCAA
tournament. She spent one sea-
son as an assistant at Johnson C.
Smith University in Charlotte.
“Priscilla will do a good job
recruiting for us because she
has worked in our conference
and knows the talent level we
can get here,” said head coach
Helen Walker. “She believes in
what we're trying to do here.”
Rickenbacker was a standout
basketball and softball player at
North Carolina Wesleyan in
Rocky Mount. She led her team
to the NCAIAW Division III
National Championship and
was a Division III Honorable
Mention All-American.
Rickenbacker was an All-
Southwestern 3A Conference
basketball and softball player at
Kings Mountain High School in
the 1970s. She served five years
as women’s JV basketball coach
at KMHS and two years as head
GARY STEWART / THE HERALD
Former Kings Mountain High and North Carolina Wesleyan
standout Priscilla Rickenbacker has been named assistant
women’s basketball coach at Loyola University Chicago. She
spent last season at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay..
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Rocker (don’ t we all?)
spoke without thinking
I've kept quiet about the John Rocker episode
as long as I can, so here is my one and only
Rocker column.
I read the story in Sports Illustrated which got
him in trouble, and frankly, I thought it was fun-
ny. There are people in New York City with mul-
ti-colored hair. There are people riding the sub-
ways who have just been released from jail, and
there are probably a fair assortment of pregnant
teenage girls. You can bet there are people who
have AIDS. Can there be any doubt a significant
segment of New York inhabitants are foreigners?
The news media has blown this story all out of
proportion and have come close to destroying a
young man's career. There will be people who
say: "Who cares?" They will be some of the same
people who go to church every Sunday and pro-
fess to be Christians.
I care, that's who cares. The kid is 25 years old
and lest we forget, young people sometimes
speak without thinking. So do older people for
that matter.
Why is it that when somebody such as Tiger
Woods wears a frown when he is participating in
a sports event the media says he has on his game
face, but when John Rocker does the same thing
he is glaring at the crowd?
Now comes a professor from a highly respected
university, Emory University Law School, who
writes a syndicated column with national distri-
bution who calls Rocker a "human Confederate
flag."
The professor's name is David J. Garrow, and
he is also a Pulitzer Prize winner. After years in
the newspaper business, I have finally found out
what it takes to win a Pulitzer Prize, a low LQ.
Here is a quote from the Garrow column:
"Thousands of fans stood and roared in a manner
reminiscent of a George Wallace campaign rally
or the infamous 1962 Ole Miss football game
where tens of thousands of Confederate flag-wav-
ing fans cheered Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett's
defiance of a federal court desegregation order.”
Jim Heffner
Guest Columnist
mound from the bullpen.
Do you see the significance of that paragraph?
In other words, if you support John Rocker or dis-
agree with those who have come to despise him,
you are a racist. Garrow even goes so far as to say
that fan support for Rocker is much more about
racial antipathy than it is about baseball.
There is nothing racist about Rocker's quotes in
the SI article in my opinion. It is true he called
Randall Simon a fat monkey, but you must under-
stand these guys have played baseball together
for years, and anybody who knows anything
about clubhouses knows a lot of kidding goes on
there. Anyway, Simon is the player whom the
Braves released, even after hitting .316. Why do
you think that is? Could it be Simon was a trou-
blemaker?
Garrow also likens Turner Field to Stone
Mountain, which he calls "A rallying ground
where hateful sentiments can be symbolically yet
openly expressed." The people of Stone
Mountain, Ga. will be surprised to learn that be-
cause of a Braves pitcher, they are now racists.
It always amazes me that some people think
the whole world is wrong and they are right.
I am outraged that there is a growing number
of Americans who think it is better to be political-
ly correct than to be fair. I am further outraged
that a law professor would trample on anyone's
first amendment rights.
Garrow closes out his column this way: "Never
again can Rocker represent Atlanta in a Braves
uniform.”
Well, learn to live with it Davey boy, John
Rocker has been called back up.
is s what i we do bes.
coach at North Gaston High
School. Her first year at North
Gaston her team had a 23-2
record and she was SWC Coach.
of the Year. A
Kathy Neely
She welcomes the opportuni
ty to coach at Loyola and take
an active role in recruiting.
“I'm going to really like it
here,” she said. “It’s a step up,
promotion wise, and an oppor-
tunity to get out and do recruit-
ing and help build a program.”
Rickenbacker said Walker is
bringing stability to the basket-
ball program, which has had
five coaches in the previous five
years
“This program has been on
the bottom, but they played
Green Bay a six-point game in
the first round of the playoffs,
and Mary Helen Walker is dedi-
cated to putting Loyola on the
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a contribution to that. I'm look-
ing forward to the challenge.”
Rickenbacker’s primary
coaching duties will be with the
offensive guards.
“We have eight players re-
turning and had a good recruit-
ing class and that will make a
difference in this program,” she
said. “I'm used to winning and
I wouldn't have left Green Bay
if I didn’t think I could help
turn this program into a win-
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