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Dr. George Plonk stands beside his horse Selecta and trainer Shaw Laney after Selecta
won its second straight Garnd National Championship recently in Perry, GA.
Dr. Plonk’s horse wins
second National crown
Dr. George Plonk’s horse Selecta recent-
ly won its second straight title in the Paso
Fino National Championship in Perry,
GA.
It marked the third time in the past four
years that one of Dr. Plonk’s horses had
won the national crown. Belalika won in
1999. ;
Selecta, a four-year-old filly that won
most of the shows she entered this year,
won the national crown over 27 other
four-year-olds.
Shortly after the show, Dr. Plonk sold
the horse that he acquired about a month
before last year’s national championship.
“She is a good one,” he said. “A month
after I bought her she went ut and won
the national championship in the there-
year-old class, and won it again this year.
So in just a little over a year’s time she
won two national championships.”
Selecta was shown by trainer Shaw
Laney.
“TI showed her four times,” Dr. Plonk
noted, “but I didn’t win a first place with
her. The trainer (Laney) broke her to ride
and he runs her every day, and I knew if
we had a chance to win it would be with
him.”
Next year, Selecta will move into the
five-year-old class which includes all
horses ages five and above. Since he
received a good offer, he sold her.
“I thought since she had won a couple
championships I would take advantage of
it,” he said.
Selecta won out over a horse shown by
trainer Pat Figoroa of Landrum, SC.
“She came up to me after the show and
said ‘I gave you a run for your money,
didn’t I?,”” Plonk noted. “I said ‘you
scared me half to death.”
Plonk has been impressed with the Paso
Fino breed since first being introduced to
it. He said it is the “smoothest gated horse
in the world, and when they breed them
they breed them for elegance.
“They have a lot of pep,” he said. “They
call it Brio . If they don’t have it they
won't be a good show horse. But she has
it.
The Paso Fino, he explained, was devel-
oped from some a select’ group of mares
brought to Santo Domingo by Christopher
Columbus on his second voyage from
Spain. The horses were a mixture of Barb,
Andalusian and Spanish Jennet. The
Spanish Jennet possessed an extremely
comfortable saddle gain, and was able to
pass its gate to its offspring.
The Kings Mountain Herald
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D ce ber 5,2002 Section A page 6
ER Cadi
4th quarter rally
lifts Mountaineers
over Green Wave
By GARY STEWART
Editor of The Herald
Kings Mountain's
Mountaineers came from 16
point down in the second
half to defeat Ashbrook 56-
51 in their first home game
Wednesday night at Donald
L. Parker Gymnasium.
It was the third straight
win for Danny McDowell’s
charges following an open-
ing season loss to Charlotte
Garinger. Kings Mountain
was scheduled to host
Shelby last night and will
entertain North Gaston
Friday. The Mountaineers
play at Shelby next Monday
at at East Gaston next
Wednesday.
Ashbrook led 13-10 after
the first quarter, 27-24 at
halftime and 40-32 going
into the fourth quarter.
At one point late in the
third period, Ashbrook was
up 40-24. Coach McDowell
called a time out and
switched to a pressing
defense, and Ashbrook final-
ly wore down.
“If we had stayed back in
a zone, they would have
beaten us by 40 points,”
McDowell said. “They could
really shoot the ball.”
Before a packed house and
without one of their best
inside players‘Gabe Blair,
the Mounties used outstand-
ing shooting performances
by Derrick Smith and
Dashawn Young and tough
[inside play by D.]J. Byrd to
turn the tide. Smith scored
"17 points, including 10 of 14
from the foul line, and
Young hit four 3-pointers to
lead the comeback.
Byrd scored 12 points and,
along with Smith pulled
down a ton of rebounds.
McDowell said when he
called the time out down 40-
24, some of the players
looked up at the scoreboard
and said they were not
going to lose.
“It was a tough, uphill
battle to get down that
much to a really good team,
but the kids never quit,”
McDowell said. “It’s a big
win anytime you beat a
team of that calibre.”
Young hit a couple of big
3-pointers to get the rally
going, and Byrd and Smith
began controlling the
boards.
“All of them played good,
all-around ball games,” he
said. “D.J. had a great over-
all game. He was mostly on
the boards by himself
because Odems had four
fouls at halftime.
“But the guys just would-
n’t quit. I was proud of
them. We were thrilled that
the fans came out and sup-
ported us like they did.”
KM (56) - D. Smith 17,
Young 16, Byrd 12, Houze 6,
Odems 4, Crosby 1.
Ashbrook (51) - Falls 17,
Liptay 12, Adams 9, Sanders 6,
Floyd 5, Smart 2.
KM girls
post 1st
victory
ol After three near misses,
Kings Mountain High's
girls basketball team posted
their first win of the season
Wednesday night at home
against Ashbrook.
~ Kevin Moss's ladies won
32.22 after losing earlier
road games to Garinger,
North Gaston and Hunter
Huss.
Candace Springs led the
Km scoring with 10 points,
and Danielle Gill added
eight.
_ Kings Mountain held
Ashbrook scoreless in the
first quarter. The Lady
Mountaineers led by 12-0 at
the quarter break and 18-8
at halftime.
“It’s nice to get our first
win of the season,” Moss
said. “We are improving as
we go along but we still
have a long way to go to
play like we are capable of
playing. We need to cut
down on our turnovers and
mental lapses. The girls are
really working hard in prac-
tice and are getting better
each day. ”
KM (32) - Bell 2, Gill 8,
Spring 510, Cole 6,j)Adams 6.: »
Ashbrook (22) - Cavin 2,
Urban 6, Kiwala 4, Pate 2,
Davenport 6, Fox 2.
Mountaineers place 11
on All-SWFH grid team
Kings Mountain High
School placed 11 players on
the All-Southwestern
Foothills Conference football
team for the 2003 season.
Making the first team
offense were quarterback
Chris Jolly and offensive
linemen Chris Yon and
Wilder Clark. -
Making the first team
defense were linebackers
Orlando Curry, Adrian
Parker and Brandon Houze.
Making the second team
offense were wide receiver
Derek Smith and running
back Aquino Simmons.
Making the second team
defense were lineman Walt
Williams, linebacker Josh
Etters and defensive back
not a number.
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Offensive player of the
year was quarterback Troy
Goss of Burns. Defensive
player of the year was Kyle
Travis of Crest.
Place kicker of the year
was Ryan Succop of Hickory
and punter of the year was
Chris Jolly of Kings
Mountain.
Coach of the year was Ron
Greene of Burns.
Tournament dates
to be selected
Gaston County Parks &
Recreation has scheduled a
meeting for Wednesday,
Dec. 18 at 3:30 p.m. at the
Citizens Resource Center in
Dallas to assign fields and
dates for softball tourna-
ments at George Poston and
Dallas Park for the year
2003.
Persons attending should
use the front entrance and
go to Meeting Room A. All
time slots for tournaments
in 2003 will be assigned at
the meeting.
Those who do not have a
representative at the meet-
ing will not receive a field
for a tournament next year.
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