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The Kings Mountain Herald
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Kings Mountain fullback J.J. McClain (44) finds going tough up middle against Shelby defense.
Shelby hands
Bepiamber ; 18, 2003
KM opens
SWFH play
at Foard
By GARY STEWART
Editor of The Herald
Kings Mountain has never lost a football game to Fred T.
Foard. In fact, in all previous meetings the Mountaineers
won by lop-sided margins.
Even though the Mountaineers will be favored when the
two teams open their Southwestern Foothills 3A schedule
Friday night in Newton, KM Coach Dave Farquharson is
warning his players not to take a win for granted.
“They have a riew lease on life,”
have a new coach and they're doing some things new and
trying to get their program going in the right direction.”
Kings Mountain appears to be improving, too, since a
pair of lop-sided losses to open the season (to East Gaston
See Foard, 5B
says Farquharson. “They
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Shelby scored on its first
four possessions to build a
24-3 halftime lead and went
on to defeat Kings Mountain
38-24 in a non-conference
football game Friday night
at Shelby’s Blanton
Memorial Stadium.
The victory improved the
Lions’ early-season record to
2-2 heading into their first
Midwest 2A Conference
"» game Friday against Chase.
The Mountaineers
dropped to 0-4 heading into
their Southwestern Foothills
3A Conference opener
Friday at Fred T. Foard.
The quick start by Shelby
- much like East Gaston and
South Point in previous lop-
sided losses - was some-
thing the Mountaineer
coaching staff hoped to pre-
vent.
“I was disappointed with
how we came out in the first
half,” said Coach Dave
Farquharson. “That's some-
‘thing we had addressed
since the beginning of the
season. We've worked on it
and we've tried a bunch of
different strategies to be
improved and excited in the
first half, but again we were
flat and kind of lackluster
and didn’t get after it, and
gave a good football team a
lead that we're going to
‘have a hard time coming
back from.”
After the Lions’ defense
‘held the Mountaineers to
‘three and out on the open-
ing kickoff, the Lions
launched a 75-yard touch-
down drive which ended
‘with a six-yard touchdown
made the score 7-0.
Moments later the Lions
recovered a blocked punt at
the KM 13-yard line, and
three plays later Jones
cracked the middle of the
line for a three-yard touch-
down run and a 14-0 Shelby
lead.
After another three-and-
out, the Lions drove to the
Mountaineer 15 before two
costly penalties pushed
them back to the 23 with a
fourth and 18. Ingle drilled +
a 37-yard field goal to make
the score 17-0. At that point
the Mountaineers had not
had a first down.
But they began to find a
measure of success on
offense as J.J. McClain and
Sidney Goode finally found
some running room to pick
up back-to-back first downs,
and then quarterback
Montrell Banks hit tight end
Derek Hilley on a 12-yard
pass to put the
Mountaineers on the Shelby .
20. Shelbys defense tight-
ened to force fourth and 15,
but KM'’s Will Franks was
true on a 37-yard field goal
to put the Mounties on the
board with 5:47 left in the
half.
Things looked good for
the Mountaineers when
Wesley Dixon and Aaron
Bolton sacked Shelby quar-
terback Keith Brooks to
force a third and 12, but
Brooks hit Marquis Cannon
on a slant across the middle
for a first down at the
Mountaineer 46, and then
scrambled away from a
heavy Mountaineer rush to
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Kings Mountain kick returner Montrell Banks (9) is
stopped by Shelby defender in Friday’s game at Shelby.