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Mounties sweep Burns
in SWFH makeup game
Kings Mountain swept Burns
in a Southwestern Foothills 3A
basketball doubleheader
Wednesday night at Donald L.
Parker Gymnasium. The games
had been postponed because of
the early-January snow.
The Lady Mountaineers won
61-50 to break a three-game los-
ing streak and improve their
record to 2-3 in the SWFH and
8-9 overall.
The Kings Mountain men fell
behind early but regrouped to
post a 61-53 victory that kept
them tied for first place in the
SWEH with Hickory.
Shonda Cole scored 25 points,
Crystal Miller 17 and Danielle
Gill 13 for the KM ladies. Tia
Sanders scored 13 points and
Markita Lee had 12 for Burns.
Kings Mountain jumped out
to a 20-11 first quarter lead and
led 33-17 at halftime. Burns
closed the gap by outscoring the
Lady Mountaineers 18-12 in the
third quarter but KM was still
able to maintain a double-digit
lead most of the fourth quarter.
“We finally put four strong
quarters together and picked up
a much-needed win,” said KM
Coach Kevin Moss. “We had a
well balanced scoring attack all
night long. Crystal Miller was
hitting shots from the outside
and Shonda Cole and Danielle
Gill were scoring on the inside.
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Orlando Curry (right, top photo) and Tyler McDaniel (top, bot-
tom photo) helped lead Kings Mountain High's wrestling team
over Burns Tuesday night to grab the second State playoff spot
from the Southwestern Foothills Conference.
Mountaineers tame Ti
take over first place in
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By GARY STEWART
Editor of The Herald
Kings Mountain High men’s
basketball coach Danny
McDowell said he could sense
during Thursday's practice that
something special was going to
happen at Donald L. Parker
Gymnasium Friday night when
the Mountaineers hosted top
ten-ranked Fred T. Foard.
“They were so psyched out it
was amazing,” McDowell said.
“It was unreal that those guys
could be that focused.”
Their focus was a Tiger team
that had taken advantage of KM
fouls in an earlier meeting and
eked out an eight-point victory
in Newton. At that time, Foard
was unbeaten and ranked fifth
in the State.
Coming into Friday’s game,
the Tigers had dropped a couple
upsets, but Kings Mountain's
77-57 victory could not be
regarded as an upset.
“Our guys played their hearts
out,” McDowell said. “When
they came into the locker room
. before the game you could see
- the gleam in their eyes - from
the freshmen all the way to the
seniors. It carried out on the
' court, for all four quarters of the
game.”
Before a packed house, the
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KMHS wrestlers beat
Burns for playoff spot
By SHARON PUTNAM
Special to The Herald
The Burns Bulldogs came into
Kings Mountain’s Donald L.
Parker Gymnasium Tuesday
night with what they believed
to be their best shot in school
history to make the dual team
state playoffs.
Burns and Kings Mountain
had each lost only one
Southwestern Foothills
Conference match this season,
each losing to the number 1-
ranked 3A team in the State, St.
Stephens. With only two playoff
spots available to the SWFH,
both teams came out with fire in
their eyes.
The Mountaineers, coming off
an impressive 42-30 victory over
14th ranked Fred T. Foard,
knew it wouldn't get any easier
because Burns came into the
match ranked #10.
But the Mountaineers were
up to the task and defeated the
Bulldogs 34-27 to end their reg-
ular season with a 5-1 confer-
ence record and grab the second
playoff spot.
Burns, boasting a pair of
highly touted seniors, 140-
pound Josh Wortman and 215-
pound Calvin Bostic, both
ranked #2 by NCMAT, came in
with a lot of confidence. The
Bulldogs grabbed an early 3-0
lead, but it didn’t last long as
the next four matches went to
the Mountaineers. Tyler
McDaniel, Tanner Putnam,
Mountaineers’ pressing defense
held the much-bigger and more-
experienced Tigers without a
shot for the first thee minutes of
the game. The Mountaineers
rolled to a 21-8 first quarter lead
and a 49-19 halftime advantage.
The crowd gave them a stand-
ing ovation when they left the
floor at intermission.
“It was special,” McDowell
said. “We jumped out to the big.
lead in the first quarter, and in
the second quarter we didn’t
miss a beat. We played four
good quarters against them this
time.”
Foard made a slight run at the
Mountaineers early in the sec-
ond half, but it didn’t last long.
The Mounties built their lead to
65-29 going into the fourth
quarter.
In the earlier game at Foard,
the Mountaineers not only saw
Foard hit 32 shots from the foul
line but they didn’t get any free
throw opportunities. This time,
KM hit 14 of 16 from the charity
stripe and hit 70 percent of their
shots from the floor in an amaz-
ing display of wide-open
offense.
The Mountaineers hit nine 3-
point field goals. Dashon Young
came off the bench and hit four
3's.
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ranked 6th by NCMAT, Deric
Carroll and Johnny Gilliard all
put up points to give the
Mountaineers a 16-3 lead that
they never relinquished.
Orlando Curry, Brad Camp,
John Bryant, and Brandon
McClain also won for KMHS.
The Mountaineers travel to
Hickory Saturday to compete in
the conference tournament.
Action begins at 9 a.m.
The dual team State playoffs
begin next Tuesday, with the
Mountaineers taking on power-
ful East Gaston of the Big South
3A at East Gaston High.
The individual Western
Regional Tournament is sched-
uled for February 15-16 and the
State Championship
Tournament is slated for
February 22-23.
147 - Bryan Beattie (B) d. Kyle
Hargraves 9-3; 154 - Tyler
McDaniel (KM) major dec. John
Grellman 15-5; 162 - Tanner
Putnam (KM) d. Ricky Hall 7-3;
191 - Johnny Gilliard (KM) p.
Angelo Lee; 217 - Calvin Bostic
(B) p- Josh Yon; 277 - Orlando
Curry (KM) d. Luke Mascato 4-
3; 105 - Chris Albea (B) won by
forfeit; 114 - Brad Camp (KM) p.
Brandon Spangler; 121 - John
Bryant (KM) p. Chris Sparks;
127 - Nathan Davis (B) d.
Brooks Tate 6-5; 132 - Alejandro
Uribe (B) d. Vince Keller 10-5;
137 - Brandon McClain (KM)
d.Dan Grellman 12-9; 140 - Josh
Wortman (B) won by forfeit.
ers,
SWEKFH
out,” McDowell said, “It was
boom, boom boom all night.”
Four players scored in double
figures for the Mountaineers,
led by Josh Gash with 16 points.
Young added 14 and Brandon
Houze and Brandon Roberts
scored 12 points each.
The victory gave the
Mountaineers a 6-1 record in the
Southwestern Foothills 3A and a .
half-game lead over Hickory,
which was idle Friday and
ended the week with a 5-1
record after knocking off Foard
the previous Tuesday. -
The victory puts the
Mountaineers in an excellent
position to contend for one of
the four state playoff berths
allotted to the SWFH, but
McDowell warned that the
Mountaineers can’t afford to
take anyone lightly.
“Sometimes when you get a
big win like this you tend to
have a letdown the next time
out,” he said. “We can’t afford
that. We've got five games left
and we have to try to win all of
them. We don’t want to be in a
position that we have to win the
conference tournament to make
the playoffs.”
The Mountaineers, were
scheduled to play at Burns
Tuesday night. They travel to
Crest Friday and host R-S
Central next Tuesday. Their final
regular season home game is
Friday, Feb. 8 against St.
Stephens and they close out the
regular season on Tuesday, Feb.
12 at Hickory in what, at this
point at least, appears to be a
game that could decide the con-
ference championship.
“It will take four wins” to nail
down a playoff position prior to
the conference tournament,
McDowell predicted.
“But I think we can win them
all,” he said. “We may come up
short, but I really believe we can
get beat them all. I just hope we
don’t have a letdown.”
The victory over Foard was
KM'’s third straight against a
taller and more experienced
opponent. KM had earlier beat-
en St. Stephens and Hickory.
“It’s good to win a big game
like that,” McDowell said of
Friday's victory. “I knew we
had a shot at beating them but I
didn’t think it would be any-
thing like that.
“It was a total team effort. It
was exceptional from the begin
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