March 29, 2001
The Kings Mountain Herald
Page 7A
County Champions!
BEN LEDBETTER / THE HERALD
Kings Mountain’ Ss Meredith Ware easily wins the hurdles in Tuesday’s Cleveland County Track meet at Gardner-Webb University.
KM Tadies dominate track meet
By BEN LEDBETTER
Staff Writer ok or
BOILING SPRINGS - Kings
Mountain's gjrls’ track team
won the Cleveland County
Track and Field Championships
Tuesday afternoon at Gardner
Webb University’s Spangler
Stadium.
The Mountaineers scored 84
points while Crest came in sec-
ond with 61, and Shelby fol-
lowed with 16.
The Mountaineers took seven
of 12 running eve nts.
HOA AD TOFONIR
Hayley Flynn, who anc ored
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the Mountaineers winning 3200
relay team, also won the 1600.
Jordan Wollak also won multi-
ple events by winning the 800
and 3200.
In the 100 hurdles, Kings
Mountains Meredith Ware
paced the field with a 16.97
mark.
Kim Bowden won fhe 100
meters for the Mountaineers in
13.01.
In the boys” events Crest won
with a 143.5, while Kings
Mountain followed with 50.5,
Shelbys scored 42 and Burns,
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Aquino Reynolds won the
200 meters in a 23.76 and Alan
Gibson was one event short of
sweeping the distance events
Gibson won the 800 and 3200
but came in second in the 1600.
Kings Mountain's boys’ will
host Burns and North Gaston in
a Southwestern 3A Conference
meet today while the girls” team
will host host Burns, East
Rutherford and R-S Central
next Wednesday.
Team results:
Boys - Crest 143.5, Kings Mountain
80:5, Shelby 42; Burns 8 -
Kings Mountain results » Shatput
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2. Moore, Pole vault - 2. Sigmon,
4x100 relay - 2. Kings Mountain
45.01, 800- 1. Gibson 2:18, 1600 - 2.
Gibson, 3200 - 1. Gibson 11:23.
Girls
Team scores - Kings Mountain 84,
Crest 61, Shelby 16.
Kings Mountain results - Shotput -
2. Miller, High Jump - 2. Cole,
4x200 relay - 2. Kings Mountain
1:54.94, 4x800 - 1. Kings Mountain
12:08, 4x100 - 2. Kings Mountain
52.97, 4x400 - 1. Kings Mountain
5:05.64, 100 hurdles - 1. Ware 16.97,
2. Williams, 400 hurdles - 2. Owens,
100 - Bowden 13.01, 200 - 2. Brown,
400 - 2. Wallace, 800 - 1. Wollak
3:42, 1600 .- 1. Flynn 6:39, 3200 - 1.
Wollak 15. pg ; ¢
GARY STEWART / HERALD
Courtney Osteen (4) helped Tead Kings Mountain’s women’s soccer team to victory in’ last week’ s County Tournament at Crest. The
Lady Mountaineers blanked Bums and Shelby to run their overall record to 9-1.
Kickers roll over
Kings Mountain High's wom-
en’s soccer team won the
Cleveland County
Championship Friday and
Saturday at Crest High School.
Dan Potter's Lady
Mountaineers shutout Burns 9-0
on Friday night, and defeated
Shelby’s Golden Lions 4-0 in
Saturday’s championship game
Meredith Ware was voted
most valuable player for the #«
Mountaineers, who improved .
their overall record to 9-1 and
handed Shelby its first loss of
the season.
Nine different players sere :
a goal apiece in the win over,
Burns. Shelby advanced to the?
finals with a 5-2 win over Crest..
“They were ranked number,
eight in the state in the 2A" =
polls,” noted Coach Potter,
“and they were primed and™
ready for the championship.
They have a very good team.
We had scouted them on Friday
night and saw a couple of
weaknesses, and our girls
played by far their best game of
the year.”
Kings Mountain grabbed a 2-
0 first half lead on goals by
Katie Bennett and Jenni Wilson.
Bennett scored first after a
Lesley Potter shot hit the goal
and came back out.
Wilson's goal came on an as-
sist from Meredith Ware.
Kings Mountain controlled
the game, outshooting Shelby
15-3 in the first half and 33-7 for
* the game.
“That's a big, big advantage,”
noted Potter, “and was a real
surprise to me.
“I kind of thought they'd
come out in the second half and
really show what they were
made of, but instead we came
out and asserted ourselves.”
Ten minutes into the second
half Wilson scored her second
goal to make the score 3-0, and
Shelby
with 15 minutes remaining
Lesley Potter closed out the
scoring with a goal off an assist
from Margaret Mauney.
Melissa Cooke recorded her
second shutout of the tourna-
ment, and sixth of the year at
goal. gi
Kings Mountairi hosts South
Point today in a JV/ varsity
doubleheader that begins at
4:15. Friday, the Mountaineers’
travel toStatesville for a dou-
is against one of the
p-soccer programs,
KM visits RS
Central The ay and Burns
Wednesday.
“After that, we'll have spring
break,” Potter noted. “If we
play the way we're capable of
playing we could go into spring
break with just one loss.
“I'm real proud of the way
our girls played in the County
Tournament, especially in the
championship game.”
Mounties lose
to Forestview
Kings Mountain High's base-
ball team dropped tough games
to two of the Southwestern 3A
Conference’s best pitchers last
week.
On Thursday, the
Mountaineers fell to Jonathon
Hovis and the Forestview
Jaguars 5-1. Hovis struck out 13
Mountaineers and allowed only
three hits.
Kings Mountain's only run
came in the sixth inning when
David Brinkley led off with a
single, went to third on Matt
Bridges’ second hit of the day,
and scored on a fielder’s choice
by Trent Hopper.
Joey Asis led the Forestview
plate attack with 3-for-3, includ-
ing a two-run home run in the
first inning, and four runs bat-
ted in.
Hunter Gaffney pitched for
the Mountaineers.
“Hunter did an outstanding
job,” said KM Coach Tony
Leigh. “He struck out two,
walked only two and gave up
only five hits. Other than a few
errors that we made, we played
fairly well. We just couldn't
catch up to Hovis’ fast ball.”
The Mountaineers gave the
state’s 7th-ranked 3A club,
South Point, all of the baseball it
could stand Friday night at
Lancaster Field but the Red
Raiders escaped with a 4-3 vic-
tory.
Chris Ensley started for the
Red Raiders but Devon Lowery
came on in the sixth and got the
win. Derek Dixon went the
route for the Mountaineers.
Kings Mountain grabbed a 1-
0 lead in the first inning when
Brinkley and Bridges singled,
and Ross Ellis later delivered a
two-run single. Ensley settled
down and the Mountaineers
managed only two hits after
that.
South Point battled back to
tie the game at 2-all after five
innings, and B.]. Richmond hit
an opposite field home run in
the sixth to put the Raiders on
top 8-2.
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KM’s Trent Hopper reached
base on an error and Tyler Falls
tripled him home to tie the
game at 3-all.
Burns beats KM
in SWC action
Burns used a three-run sev-
enth inning to defeat the
Mountaineers 5-1 in baseball -
Tuesday afternoon at Lancaster
Field.
The Mountaineers were
plagued by errors as the team
dropped four pop flies, of
which two turned into runs for
Burns.
Pitching was the bright spot
for the Mountaineers, as it held
Burns to two hits before the
seventh inning.
Matt Bridges scored the lone
run for Kings Mountain.
Trent Hopper, who did not al-
low an earned run, took the loss
for the Mountaineers.
Hunter Gaffney, the Kings
Mountain starter, left the game
in the seventh inning with an
elbow problem.
Kings Mountain travels to
Spindale Friday to play R-S
Central.
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South Point won the game in
the top of the seventh when
Lowery singled and later scored
on a passed ball.
“We couldn't ask for our boys
to play any harder,” Coach
Leigh said. “They were in the
game, they played hard and
played the game the way it’s
supposed to be played.
“Derek Dixon did a super job
on the mound.” He struck out
nine and walked only one.
Kings Mountain was sched-
uled to host Shelby in a JV /var-
sity doubleheader Wednesday
afternoon. The Mountaineers
travel to R-S Central Friday
SPORTS
THIS
WEEK
Thursday, March 29
3:30 - High School tennis,
Kings Mountain at Burns
3:30 - High School men’s
track, North Gaston and Burns
at Kings Mountain
3:30 - High
‘School golf, Kings
Mountain at North
Gaston
4 p.m. - Middle
School baseball, East
Lincoln at Kings
Mountain
4:30 - High School JV soccer,
South Point at Kings Mountain
6 p.m. - High School soccer,
South Point at Kings Mountain
7 p.m. - High School JV base-
ball, R-S Central at Kings
Mountain
Friday, March 30
4 p.m. - High School softball,
Kings Mountain at North
Gaston
5 p.m. - High School JV soc-
cer, Kings Mountain at
Statesville
* 6:30 - High School varsity
soccer, Kings Mountain at
Statesville
7 p.m. - High School baseball,
Kings Mountain at RS Central
Monday, April 2
3:30 p.m. - High School ten-
nis, Forestview at Kings
Mountain
4:15 p.m. - Middle School
baseball, West Lincoln at Kings
Mountain
7 p.m. - High School JV base-
ball, Kings Mountain at East
Rutherford
Tuesday, April 3
4 p.m. - High School JV soft-
ball, East Gaston at Kings
Mountain
5:30 - High School varsity
softball, East Gaston at nm
Mountain
6 p.m. - High School soccer,
Kings Mountain at RS Central
7 p.m. - High School baseball,
East Rutherford at Kings
Mountain
Wednesday, April 4
3:30 p.m. - High School wom-
en’s track, Burns, East
Rutherford and RS Central at
Kings Mountain
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