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By BEN LEDBETTER
Staff Writer
In line speed skating has
started to take the place of quad
speed skating. And Kings
Mountain's Amber Bolden has
been capitalizing on the recent
skating trend.
“Basically they still have
what they call a quad nation-
als,” Dense Miller, Bolden’s
mother said. “In line speed
skating has actually been very
hot. It started getting really
popular when she was about
seven years old.”
She will be heading to the
United States Amateur
Confederation of Speed Skating
National Meet in Pensacola, Fla.
on August 10 - 16.
Miller said a new league is
starting in New York but thinks
USAC will make speed skating
an Olympic sport.
Currently, speed skating is
not an olympic sport.
Since the family finances the
cost of going to meets, Miller
said Bolden does meets around
the southeast to save time trav-
eling.
KM skater eyes
national tourney
“What they do is have several
meets during the year,” Miller
said about hte league’s meet
schedule. “They have meets all
over the United States. It’s basi-
cally what you can afford to
take your kid too. We basically
keep her in the region.”
Bolden goes to approximately
six meets a year then competes
in the state and regional com-
petiton. The state competiton,
where she won two first place
medals, was held in Hickory.
There is no qualifying format
for the state meet, but skaters
are grouped with people of a
similar skill level.
Miller said usually the top
three at the state competition
go on to the Southeastern
Regional competition, and the
top three from there go to the
National meet.
Besides individual events,
Bolden also takes part in relay
events, involving a one boy and
one girl combination and a
combination of two girls.
Bolden qualified for another
relay event at the regional meet
in Hickory.
See Skating, 4B
The Kings Mountain Herald
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Amber Bolden holds several medals she won in speed skating
events this year. She will be competing in a national tournament
in August in Pensacola, Fla.
Columbus County wins tourney
By BEN LEDBETTER
Staff Writer
Columbus County defeated
Brunswick County in the final
of two games last Friday during
the North Carolina Dixie base-
ball 13-14 year old tournament
Friday at the Kings Mountain
Family YMCA.
In Friday’s first game,
Brunswick County turned a
triple play in the sixth inning to
defeat Columbus County 4-2.
Rand Smith hit a one-run
homer in the third inning for
Brunswick County.
In the seventh inning,
Columbus County had the ty-
ing run on second base but nev-
er scored, which forced a sec-
ond game.
In Friday's final game,
Columbus County built on an
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8-1 lead after five innings to de-
feat Brunswick County 13-3.
Columbus County will repre-
sent North Carolina in the Dixie
World Series August 4-9 in
Sulphur, La.
Other news and observations
from the tournament:
Rain delayed the tourna-
ment by a day on Wednesday
night. Thursday’s champi-
onship was moved to Friday.
“The past couple years it’s
been par for the course,” North
Carolina Dixie Director George
Page said. “It’s part of life, you
have to deal with it.” Other
than the weather, Page said he
has seen no other problems
with the tournament.
“I think all these kids have
enjoyed themselves and had a
good time,” Page said. “I think
they've really enjoyed them-
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° In a game last Sunday,
Rockingham County’s Matt
Burdette hit two home runs
against Kings Mountain to help
his team defeat Kings Mountain
21-10. Page said he has not seen
anybody hit multiple home
runs since has been running the
state tournament. “That’s not a
usual thing,” Page said. “I'd say
that would be something worth
reporting.”
e In game nine of the tourna-
ment last Sunday, Brunswick
County's pitchers struck out 15
Midway batters. But Midway
returned the favor and struck
out 11 batters. “You don’t find
many games with pitching per-
formances like that,” Page said
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Columbus County and Stanly
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LaLisa Carpenter, a young 35-year-old wife, mother of
three, RN at Cleveland Regional Medical Center and part-
time UNCC student, found a knot on her neck last year. She
knew she needed a biopsy immediately.
The diagnosis was Hodgkins lymphoma and LaLisa
became a patient at Blumenthal Cancer Center at Cleveland
Regional Medical Center, an affiliate of the prestigious
Blumenthal Cancer Center at Charlotte’s Carolinas Medical
Center.
There, Dr. Warden L. Woodard III prescribed
chemotherapy and radiation for her early-stage disease.
“I had worked with Dr. Woodard a little,” she says, “and
was really impressed with him. I was confident that I would
get the care I needed.
“The doctors at Blumenthal Cancer Center also practice
in Charlotte, so they know what's being done there and at
other big hospitals and they do the same thing here. You're just
closer to home.”
LaLisa also liked the cancer center itself. “It has its own
entrance and the stat was very receptive to my kids coming
in when I'd get chemotherapy. They were great to them and
my husband.”
Today, tests show LaLisa is cancer-free. She has resumed
exercising and is regaining her strength, and she works one day
a week at Cleveland Regional’s maternity center.
LaLisa is grateful that Cleveland Regional offers top-
“You couldn’ get any better care in
Charlotte. And with chemotherapy, there are lots of times you
quality cancer care.
don’t feel like making that long trip.”
Cancer treatment doesn’t have to be a long, lonely
journey for you and your family.” Because Blumenthal
Cancer Center at Cleveland Regional is right here at home.
heal cancer.
ay just down the road”
County's first round game also
provided highlights to specta-
tors. With the score tied at two,
Coulmbus County’s Justin
Batchelor scored the winning
run in the bottom of the seventh
to win.
“You don’t think in those first
day match ups you're going to
get a sterling ball game,” Kings
Mountain YMCA Director
David Ozmore said. “To this
point it was the best played
baseball game in the tourna-
* ment. It just so happened it was
the first day,” Ozmore said last
Wednesday.
The YMCA was in charge of
this year’s Dixie baseball tour-
nament.
e The number of North ;
Carolina teams has grown from
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Football focus
of area sports
Excitement is in the air at
over 300 schools in North
Carolina which began pre-sea-
son football
practice
Monday after-
noon.
Two
schools that
expect their
football for-
tunes to rise
tremendously
are 2A South
Brunswick in
Eastern North Editor
Carolina, and 3A Franklin in
Western North Carolina.
During the summer, South
Brunswick hired perhaps the #1
prep football coach in the State,
Darryl Barnes, who had posted
a 105-5 record over the past
eight years at Richmond Senior.
During two coaching stints with
the Raiders, Barnes won four
State championships and
turned out a number of All-
American players including
Rabbit Waddell, now a starting
cornerback at Carolina.
The word is that Barnes re-
ceived a salary package worth
more than $100,000 a year from
the school and community. In
addition, after Barnes was hired
the Booster’s Club and commu-
nity persuaded the school sys-
tem to adjust its plan to build a
500-square foot weight room.
The weight room is now going
to be 3,100.square feet and will
include 92 lockers, huge weight
and conditioning centers,
coaches offices, film rooms and
rest rooms for coaches and ath-
letes. The community is also
“supporting an effort to put in-
door batting cages in all of the
high schools in Brunswick
County.
South Brunswick has won no
more than three football games
in any of the past five seasons,
and the Cougars have had four
different head coaches during
that span. The Cougars are
picked to finish fifth in the six-
team Waccamaw 2A Conference
this fall, but don’t be surprised
if they make the State playoffs.
And, write this down too: With
the backing the community of
Oak Island is giving Barnes
he'll win a State championship
within four years.
Franklin, a member of the
Mountain Athletic 3A, has hired
former Duke University head
coach Fred Goldsmith as its
new coach.
The Panthers” immediate out-
look isn’t too bright. They're
coming off a 5-5 season in
which they lost most of their
starters, and they’re in a tough
conference that includes Enka,
Asheville, Tuscola and Erwin.
But the word is that
Goldsmith has a lot of good,
young talent and that could
mean a good future.
Tidbits:
Gaffney’s Indians will 1 likely
be going to the air more often
this year. Clay Merchant, who
broke all of South Carolina QB
Gary Stewart
August 2, 2001
Phil Petty’s records at Boiling
Springs High School in
Spartanburg, has transferred to
GHS. Joe Montgomery doesn’t
look for a repeat of last year’s 5-
7 season...
Mark August 24 on your cal-
endar. On that night, some of
the top football talent in the
State will be at KM’s John
Gamble Stadium for the third
annual First Charter Bank
Jamboree. Crest, Hickory,
Burns, A.L. Brown and South
Point should be among the top
3A teams in the state, and
Shelby should be in the running
for the 2A state championship...
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College notes:
Two former Kings Mountain
High School football players
have made the team at
Appalachian State University
this year as walk-ons. Torrey
Cureton, a defensive back, and
Torez Leach, a wide receiver,
are both red-shirt freshmen...
Another freshman with the
Mountaineers is 6-3 quarterback
Perry Woolbright of Clover, SC,
who will probably see some
playing time. He is the son of
former South Carolina quarter-
back Marty Woolbright, who is
the head coach at
Clover...Junior Erik Rockhold of
Shelby is the Mountaineers’
place-kicker. He hit 5 of 8 field
goals and 24 of 27 extra points
last year...
Former Kannapolis A.L.
Brown star Nick Maddox is in
line to become the starting tail-
back at Florida State this year.
He was a back-up wide receiver
and kick returner last year but
‘was moved back to tailback
during spring drills...
Kings Mountain's Riko
Feemster is currently listed as a
back-up offensive tackle for
North Carolina’s Tar Heels. A
red-shirt sophomore, Feemster
played on 17 snaps in last
year’s season-ending victory
over Duke...
Kareem Marshall, a transfer
from Gulf Coast Community
College, is listed as the #2 offen-
sive tackle on the University of
Georgia's pre-season depth
chart. Marshall, who was a JU-
- CO All-American last year,
transferred to UGA after
Christmas and took part in the
Bulldogs’ spring training. Look
for the 6-6, 335-pounder to k
break the starting unit early in
the season...
"Former North Gaston player
Nate Gillespie is slated for start-
ing action at offensive guard at
Clemson this fall. He played in
eight games last year to help
lead the Tigers to a 9-2 |
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ening to read over the weekend
that when Mack Brown left
Carolina for Texas, Tommy
Bowden was expecting an offer
from Chapel Hill but it never
came. If it had, he said he prob-
ably would have taken it.
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