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Tuesday, August 29
3 p.m. - North Gaston at
Kings Mountain
Thursday, August 24
7 p-m. - East Gaston at
Kings Mountain (JV)
Friday, August 25 =
7:30 p.m. - Kings Mountain TRI-COUNTY
atEast Gaston (Varsity) : PRE-SEASON
A RANKING
Soccer Sh LE
Monday, August 28 Rank ‘99 Record ‘99 Rank
6 p.m - Crest at Kings
Mountain
1 - Crest 10-2 2
Tuesday, August 29 2 - Shelby 831 3
6 p.m. - Ashbrook at Kings 5 - Boresiview- ‘8.3 4
Mountain 4-K.Mmn. 641 5
5 - S. Point 12-1 1
Volleyball 6- Ashbrook 56 7
7 - Chase 6-4 8
Saturday, August 26 8 - E. Ruth. Gabui- 119
10:30 a.m. - Fred T. Foard 9-N. Gaston 7-4 6
and Providence at Kings 10 - E. Gaston 5-6 10
Mountain (varsity only) 11 - Burns 3-8 12
Tuesday, August 29 12 - Huss 1-10 Ti4
4:30 p.m. - Kings Mountain ~~ 13-RSCent. 3-7 11
at South Point (JV and varsity) 14 - B. City 1-10. .Ti4
15 - C'ville 3-8 13
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“season at East Gaston
By GARY STEWART
Editor of The Herald
With almost a month of prac-
tice and scrimmages behind
them, Kings Mountain's
Mountaineers get down to seri-
ous business Friday when they
travel to East Gaston for their
season-opening nonconference
game.
First-year head coach Dave
Farquharson'’s offense should
be able to put a lot of points on
the board, but the big question
is whether a young and inexpe-
rienced defense can hold off the
pass-happy Warriors.
Despite their youth and
young mistakes, Farquharson
said he is pleased with the
progress his defense has made
and the hard work they've put
forth.
Kings Mountain fell to 4A
power Freedom in the
Cleveland County Jamboree
Saturday night at Crest. Led by
experienced senior quarterback
Matt Ash, the Mountaineers
moved the ball well but the de-
fense had trouble stopping the
quick Patriots.
“1 felt like we did well,”
Farquharson said. “We would
like to not have had the
turnovers and the penalties, but
that’s what scrimmages are for -
to iron out those mistakes.”
Kings Mountain moved the
ball almost at will against the
Patriots, but lost 21-6 in what
amounted to one half of a game.
The Mountaineers took the ball
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. members of
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almost the length of the field on
their first drive and had a third
and goal at the Freedom three,
but fumbled. They later scored
when Ash rambled 35 yards on
a quarterback keeper.
“I thought we moved the ball
well, Farquharson said. “Our
offense is one of those situa-
tions where you can look like a
million bucks or you can look
like a million bucks and hurt
yourself. We put the pitch on
the ground inside the five-yard
line, which is something you
shouldn’t do when you're as ex-
perience as we are. You can’t do
that and give up an opportunity
to score.”
A Freedom player recovered
“the fumbled pitch and rambled
97 yards for a touchdown. It
was called back on a clipping
See Football, 7A
Thanks
GARY STEWART / THE HERALD
Kings Mountain backs Matt Ash (7), right, and Cortney Smith
(30), below, try to turn the corner against Freedom’s defense
in Saturday’s First Charter Jamboree at Crest.
for the memories
of SWC and things to come
Although Kings Mountain's
conference opener is still a few
weeks away, Friday marks the
beginning of the 47th and final
season of Southwestern 3A
Conference
football.
+ In the only
conference
the night,
original
R-S Central,
will battle ~~ Stewart
the newest REE
member, Forestview, on the
Jaguars” home field in Gastonia.
R-S Central, KM, South Point
and East Rutherford are the on-
ly remaining original members
of the SWC, which organized in
1954. Burns has been in the
league since it began playing
football in 1968.
After this season, KM, Burns
and R-S will join Crest, Hickory,
St. Stephens and Fred T. Foard
in the new Southwestern -
Foothills Conference, and
Forestview, South Point and
North Gaston will join
Ashbrook, Hunter Huss, East
Gaston and East Lincoln in a
new conference to be named
later.
Gaston County schools have
been wanting their own confer-
ence for a number of years. That
was one of the goals of the
consolidation of Gaston County
schools back in the late 1960s,
and they were able to finally re-
alize that dream in the state’s
most recent realignment, when
the Gaston 4A schools saw their
enrollment drop to the 3A level.
The SWC has long been rec-
ognized as one of the toughest
conferences in the state. With
Crest and Hickory coming in,
the new league will be just as
tough. If Shelby gets its num-
bers back up to the 3A level and
joins the group in a couple of
years, it will be the most com-
petitive league in the state, in-
cluding 4A.
In a way, it’s sad to see the
SWC go. There have been many
good rivalries such as KM-
Shelby and KM-South Point,
and East Rutherford-R-S
Central. All of those rivalries
should continue in the new set-
up; they will just be nonconfer-
ence games.
I've been covering the league
See Gary, 7A
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