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July 26, 2001 The Kings Mountain Herald : BEN LEDBETTER/THE HERALD Rockingham County’s Matt Burdette holds the two baseballs that he hit his two homeruns with Sunday afternoon as he stands with his head coach Kenny Booth. KM ousted in State Tournament By BEN LEDBETTER Staff Writer It might have been a baseball game, but Dunn scored six runs at a rate suited for a basketball game, as it defeated Kings Mountain 19-4 Saturday night in the first round of the North Carolina Dixie Baseball Tournament at the Kings Mountain YMCA. In the second game of the double elimination tournament for Kings Mountain, Rockingham County came back from a 9-1 deficit to defeat Kings Mountain 21-10 and putting the host team out of the tournament. Sunday’s game started with Chris Patrick capitalizing on Rockingham errors and stealing ~ second base through home to .| Open 7:30pm put Kings Mountain up 1-0 in the first inning. Patrick and Christopher Carpenter batted in two runs apiece while limiting... Rockingham County to three runs. Rockingham County used a seven-run fourth inning to take a lead it would never relin- quish. Drake Booth made it home .on a wild pitch, as Kings Mountain fielders mishandled the ball. -- Matt Burdette bought in mul- tiple runs for Rockingham by hitting two home runs, with his last one being a two-run shot in the bottom of the sixth. The game ended after six in- nings because of the 10 run rule. The field at the YMCA goes 280 feet deep. “Matt’s a big hitter,” ; Rockingham head coach Kenny Booth said. “He had a good lev- el swing and got all the ball. We're proud of him.” Burdette said he was thinking West sites needed for state tournament By BEN LEDBETTER Staff Writer This year’s North Carolina Dixie Baseball tournament is the first one to be played in the west of Raleigh since Albermarle and West Lincoln hosted the 13 and 14 year old tournaments in 1997. North Carolina Dixie Baseball Director George Page said the . tournaments have not been west because no one has bid on it. “If nobody bids on them, we'll take them because it brings a lot of folks in,” Page said. ¥ Last year Brunswick County, near Wilmington, hosted the tournament. Kr Page said he’s trying to give the tournament a bigger pres- ence out west. “As long as they've got the facilities and the support from the community, we'll give it to them,” Page said. : 6 a car 704-739-2150 WED. - SUN. Cl DRIVE IN THEATRE Show at 9:00 Don Phifer smiles during Saturday night play at the North Carolina Dixie Baseball tournament. Kings Mountain played its opening game Saturday against Dunn. about getting everybody in to score. “I was just working on trying to get the runners in so we _ couldyin,” Burdette said. = Concentration and over confi- - dence were two issues Kings Mountain Coach Pete Ruff said were weaknesses he spotted in his team. “I guess the guys got over - confident, just thought they had it and quit playing ball,” Ruff said. “The latter innings we left a lot of potential runs on the base. We got up there and we just didn’t hit the ball when we needed to. And the game got out of our reach.” Saturday, Dunn built on a six- run first inning and held Kings Mountain scoreless through three innings to win. Dunn continued its scoring drive after Nathan Glover and Sterling Hilburn cappéd the first inning’s scoring to put the visitors up 6-0. Kings Mountain started to break out of its slump when it Introducing Medical EL Tr Of Kings Mountain loaded the bases in the bottom of the fourth when John Swink came to bat. While Swink was still in the Pattets’ box, J.R. Ruffimade it home from a Christopher Faircloth wild pitch for the first Kings Mountain run. Tanner Hagans and Patrick later scored in the fourth for Kings Mountain from two ~ Dunn errors. Ruff scored again in the fifth followed by Tanner Hagans who reached home from a Patrick triple. The game was stopped after the fifth inning because of the 10 run rule. Burns 13, Dallas 3: In Saturday’s first round game of the North Carolina Dixie Baseball Tournament, Burns took a 7-1 lead after the second inning to defeat Dallas. Dallas scored two more runs in the fourth inning before the game ended because of the 10-run rule. ; : Columbus County 3, Stanly The Experience You Need. The Care You Deserve. 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Brunswick Co. 12, 8 Rockingham Co. 1: Josh Howard, Scott Long and Austin Cox combined for seven runs to lead Brunswick County over Rockingham in Saturday's first round of the North Carolina Dixie Baseball Tournament. Bra Turner was the sole scorer for Rockingham County. Tire Rotation a Dll Phone: 704-445-0640 (Old Keeter Ford Location) Fax: 704-445-0647 Cherryville Your Complete Car and Truck Care Center AutoServiceR]Js@aol.com Sunday’s Games Columbus Co. 13, Burns 3 Brunswick Co. 4, Midway 0 Stanly Co. 8, Dallas 3 and residency training in internal medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians and the American College of Emergency Physicians. If you're looking for a physician with the experi- ence you need and the care you deserve, call Medical Associates of Kings Mountain located at 608 West King Street, Suite A. To schedule an appointment call 704-739-7880. 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