Kings Mountain's 9-10 year-
old Dixie Youth Minor League
all-stars are World Series-bound
after defeating perennial State
Champion Columbus County 6-
4 and 3-0 in last weekend's
State Championship finals at
Biscoe.
Kings Mountain fought back
through the loser’s bracket after
a narrow 3-2 loss to Hope Mills
in the third round. KM avenged
that defeat with a 9-1 win over
Hope Mills in their Zone cham-
pionship game.
The World Series will be
played August 13-19 at
Bedford, VA. Kings Mountain's
first game will be at 8 p.m.
Monday, August 13 against the
Texas State Champions.
Kings Mountain posted a 7-1
record at Biscoe, defeating
Clinton 13-1, Albemarle 9-4,
Mar-Mac 8-1, West Stanley 7-1
in addition to the victories over
Hope Mills and Columbus
County.
Preston Lee led the hitting for
the tournament with a .500 av-
erage (12-for-24). He had seven
runs batted in and scored 10
runs.
Rai Robinson hit .333 (10-for-
30), drove in five runs and
scored nine. Kyle Bell and Cody
Smith also hit .333.
Other averages were Tyler
Ross .259, Stephen Butler .240,
Jeffry Howell .280, Jamie York
.188, Justin Heinbach .286, Cody
Austin .260, Hogan Sellers .125,
Daniel Moss .222, and Anthony
Dalton .111. Howell led in RBI
with 12, Austin had eight and
York six.
: Kings Mountain fell behind
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State Champions!
Columbus County 4-0 in the
first game of the best-of-three
championship series, but
Preston Lee came on in the sec-
ond inning to put out the fire.
Kings Mountain scored five
runs in the fourth inning to put
the victory on ice. Ross had a
dcuble, Robinson, Lee and
Austin had consecutive singles,
and Howell and Heinbach later
had singles.
In the championship game,
Rai Robinson went the distance.
Kings Mountain scored all three
of its runs in the fifth inning,
~ with Butler, Moss and Lee get-
ting back to back hits, and an-
other run scoring on a bases-
loaded walk.
KM 13, CLINTON 1
In opening round action, KM
scored three runs in the first in-
ning and went on to rout
Clinton 13-1. KM added two
runs in the third, three in the
fourth and five in the fifth.
~ Robinson and Howell pitched
two innings each, and Lee
pitched the fifth. Ross,
Robinson, and Lee had two hits
each and Howell, Heinbach,
and Austin had one each.
KM 9, ALBEMARLE 4
In the second round, Howell
pitched three strong innings
and Robinson and Butler
‘pitched 1 1/2 each to beat
Albemarle. KM broke the game
open with a run in the fourth
and four more in the fifth,
Robinson, Lee and Heinbach
led the hitting with two hits
each, and Butler, Howell, York,
Austin, Dalton and Bell had one
each.
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HOPE MILLS 3, KM 2
Kings Mountain managed
only four hits against Hope
Mills. Two of them came in the
sixth inning, when they scored
both of their runs.
Lee had a pair of singles, and
York and Bell both had bunt
singles. KM left eight men on
base.
KM 8, MAR-MAC 1
Howell went the distance as
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KM bounced back with a victo-
ry over Mar-Mac. After taking a
1-0 lead in the first, KM broke
the game open with four runs
in the third and three in the
fifth.
Howell and Ross led the hit-
ting with two hits each, and
Butler, Robinson, Lee, Austin,
and York had one hit each.
KM 11, WEST STANLEY 7
Lee hurled 5 1/3 innings to
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get the win, and Robinson came
on to pitch the final two outs
and earn a save in the fifth
round win over West Stanley.
KM had 11 hits, with
August 2, 2001 Section B, Page
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Kings Mountain 9-10 year-olds win at Biscoe, next stop World Series
Kings Mountain’s 9-10 year-
old Dixie Youth All-Stars
won the State
Championship Saturday at
Biscoe. Front row, left to
right, Tyler Ross, Daniel
Moss, Justin Heinbach, Rai
Robinson and Jeffry Howell.
Second row, Cody Austin,
Hogan Sellers, Jamie York,
Anthony Dalton, Preston
Lee, Kyle Bell and Stephen
Butler. Back row, coaches
Rodney Sellers, Ray
Robinson and Scott Howell.
Not pictured, Cody Smith.
the KM team defeated Hope
Mills 9-1 for the Zone A
Championship and the right to
face Columbus County in the
State Championship series.
Robinson going 3-for-4. Lee and
Howell had two hits each, and
Ross, Butler, Austin, and Bell
added one each.
KM 9, HOPE MILLS 1
Howell, Butler and Robinson
pitched two innings apiece as
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Robinson and Lee led the hit-
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