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November 30, 2000
November 30, 2000 Section A, Page 6
Mountaineers split opener with Shelby
Mountaineers have ‘Goode’ night,
but fall 68-65 in McDowell's debut
court to boot, is tough.
“But I was real pleased with
our effort, especially my fresh-
men and sophomores who I call
around games of his career with
23 points and 20 rebounds.
“The Big Boy (McDowell's
nickname for Goode) showed
Even though they lost 68-65,
first-year Kings Mountain High
basketball coach Danny
McDowell said he couldn't be
more pleased with his team’s up,” McDowell said. “I talk to my Young Bucks,” he said.
effort in Monday's season open- the players a lot in practice “They showed up too.”
er at Shelby. about showing up to play, and McDowell said his young
The Mountaineers played they did.” players made some mistakes,
Shelby held the advantage in
the first half, leading 19-12 after
the first quarter and 37-31 at the
half. Kings Mountain battled
back to take a 50-49 lead going
into the fourth quarter, but
Goode picked up his fourth foul
a minute into the fourth quarter
and had to sit down for a cou-
but that's to be expected in his
team’s high intensity and pres-
sure philosophy
“We pressed a lot, and with
young kids you're going to miss:
a lay-up and drop a pass and
have a turnover here and a
there,” he said. “Without those
things we beat Shelby at their
place.
“But you can expect those
first game jitters on the road. nor
without the services of two
starters who were disciplined
for missing a recent practice
session, and two others who are
still bothered by football in-
juries.
But, all of the players who
were available put forth an out-
standing effort against a veter-
an Shelby team which features ~~ Ple minutes.
four seniors in its starting line- After Goode returned to ac-
up. ; tion, the Mountaineers battled
“Tas pl eased with the ef- back to tie the game at 65-all ) We're young and are having 3 J
fort,” McDowell said. “Anytime and had the ball. But they Some growing pang, but you 1% ip * QWENSHON GOODE
you go into a place like thatand ~~ Missed a three-point attempt can’t fault their effort. “7100 Ye 23 Points, 20 Rebounds
and Shelby got the rebound and
forced the Mounties into a foul-
ing situation.
McDowell said coming from
behind against a veteran team
like Shelby, and on its home
McDowell said he was appre- :
ciative of the KM fan support. » years ago, McDowell said. “It's
The Mountaineers actually had ns tribute to the Kings Mountain
a bigger cheering section than ans’ love for basketball.
the Lions.
“It was like it used to be
have only two seniors and they
have four, and do that well you
have to be pleased.”
Kings Mountain's 6-6, 315-
pound senior center Qwenshon
Goode had one of the best all-
Ash top rusher, passer
for Mounties in 2000
The injuries and personnel
problems Kings Mountain
© Bee Mounties, 7A
As a team, the Mountaineers
compiled 2,397 yards rushing completed high school, and for
High's football team experi- and 714 yards passing in 11 the most part college, football
enced this year showed up in games, an average total offense season.
the final statistics. of 283 yards per game.
Coming off a five-year peri-
od in which the Mountaineers
had seven 1,000-yard rushers
and three 1,000-yard passers,
this year’s team showed only
one player to top the S00-yaid
mark in’'each category.
Ash had 100-yard rushing
games against Forestview,
Burns and South Point; and had
100-yard passing efforts against
East Gaston and South Point.
Senior Joe Leach led in the re-
7 cetving-department with 13:
HM Except for South Point,
~ which had a very good football
team, the Southwestern 3A
Conference was the weakest
I’ve ever seen it this year. None
of the other.
teams ‘could
Senior quarterback K MateASH F# 7881 yards. F have fin-
led the rushing with 553 yards 100-yard games against East ished first in
in 111 carries, and also topped Gaston and South Point. a competi-
the passing department with Ash also led in the scoring tive 1A con-
37-for-74 and 559 yards. See Ash, 7A ference.
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“with Ashbrook losing a host of
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girls to 60-47 victory
The Coles were hot - and so
were the rest of the Lady
Mountaineers - as Kings
Mountain High's girls basket-
ball team opened its season
Monday at Shelby with an im-
pressive 60-47 win over the
Lady Lions.
Sophomore Shonda Cole
scored nine of her 14 points and:
senior Anna Ramey scored sev-7i5i«
en of her 13 points in the first
quarter as the Lady 1
with his team’s opening night
effort.
“We played hard and played
with intensity which we didn’t
do at times last year, especially
on away games,” he said. ;
“We still have a lot of things
we need to improve on, but for
this being our first game we
played very well.”
2 The Lady Mountaineers will
| lsly spend a lot of time work-
1, ing on their defense and free
Mountaineers grabbed the he throw. shooting between now
lead and held it the rest.of the
night.
Kevin Moss’ ladies, who led
20-13 after the first quarter and
30-26 at halftime, broke the
game open with a 17-6 run in
the third quarter. That run was
sparked by Cole's sister,
Cherlyn, who scored five of her; ,
game-high 16 points during ~~
that span, and Ebony Moore, i
who hit six of her 10 points.
With a well-balanced offen-
sive attack and an intense de- + .
fense, Moss was highly pleased
tain their level of excellence
(and maybe even take it to a
higher level) in the next several
years.
The other six SWC teams
have their work cut out. North
Gaston and Forestview will join
the Raiders, Ashbrook, Huss,
East Gaston and East Lincoln in
the new Big South 3A next sea-
son. With the young talent they
and middle school teams) and
talented seniors, you’d have to
say South Point will be the class
of that league, too.
Kings Mountain, Burns and
R-S Central will join Crest,
Hickory, St. Stephens and Fred
T. Foard in the new
Southwestern Foothills 3A. If
you think the SWC was tough,
wait ‘til next year. Battling Crest
and Hickory for a SWC playoff
berth each year will be a monu-
mental task; and don’t be sur-
prised if Shelby’s not in the mix
in two years. Whether the
merger of Cleveland County,
_and their next game on
December 5 against Charlotte
Latin at the KMHS gym.
“We need to do a better job
on defensive rebounding and
free throw shooting,” he said.
“We were 13 of 25 on the line
and several of those opportuni-
ties were one and ones.”
KM (60) - Ramey 13, Thomas 1,
C. Cole 16, Moore 10, S. Cole 14,
‘Hardin 4, Leigh 2.
‘Shelby (47) - Hamilton 7, Russell
i 8, Bratton 12, Jeffries 2, Cannon 15,
Mclntyre 2, Smith 1.
Look back at football
KM and Shelby schools goes in-
to effect or not, there's a good
chance the Shelby and
Cleveland County attendance
zones are going to change, and
that means Shelby will be get-
ting a lot of the football players
who otherwise would be going
to Crest.
M Could Carolina’s search for
atop ten football coach follow
the same’ pattern: ak their’ recent
search for the man to take over
their basketball fortunes?
The Tar Heels apparently had
Roy Vilna; all locked up, and
then got a “no” from several
other et: of the “Carolina
family” before settling on Matt
Doherty, who had just one year
of head coaching experience.
UNC seemed to have Virginia
Tech’s Frank Beamer all locked
. up Sunday, but by the time he
returned to Blacksburg, VA
Monday morning to meet with
his assistants something hap-
pened to remind him that his
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