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The Kings Mountain Herald
Lady Mounties remain unbeaten
with mercy rule win over Hickory
Kings Mountain High’s women’s softball
team remained atop the Southwestern
Foothills 3A standings Friday with a 13-3,
five-inning victory over Hickory at
Lancaster Field.
It was the fourth straight conference win
and ninth straight overall for the Lady
Mountaineers, who are ranked fifth in the
State 3A poll.
Sophomore Kristyn Funderburke went the
distance for Suzanne Grayson'’s squad, scat-
tering five hits and striking out two.
The Mountaineers grabbed a 7-0 lead after
two innings. After Hickory scored three in
the top of the fourth for their only runs, KM
put the game away on the mercy rule with
four runs in the fourth and two more in the
fifth.
Funderburke helped her own cause by
going 3-for-3 with two runs batted in.
LaRonda McClain also had a big day on
offense. She went 3-for-4, including two
doubles, two runs scored, two stolen bases
and three runs batted in.
Broke Blackburn was 2-for-3 with four
RBI, two runs and two stolen bases. Brittney
SPORTS THIS WEEK
Thornburg and Casey Camp also had two
hits.
Heather Hale, Laura Clark, Amber
Milwood, Alicia Dodge and Jessica Yarbro
“had one hit each.
For the year the Mountaineers have a
team batting average of .427. Morgan
Childers leads with a .600 mark, followed
by McClain .528, Blackburn .516, Clark .500,
Camp .424, Thornburg .419, Amber
Milwood .412, Funderburke .400, Yarbro
.350 and Courtney Tate .333.
Childers heads the mound staff with a 6-0
record, and Funderburke is 3-0. Childers has
given up only 13 hits in 37.1 innings of
work. She has struck out 66 and has a 0.19
earned run average. Funderburke has given
up 15 hits in 17.2 innings. She has 15 strike-
outs and a 1.58 ERA.
Kings Mountains home game with Burns
on Tuesday evening was rained out and was
to be played on Wednesday. The
Mountaineers travel to Fred T. Foard Friday
and St Stephens next Tuesday. They return
home on Wednesday for a 4:30 game with
Cherryville. :
Thursday, April 1
4 p.m. - Middle school
baseball, Shelby at Kings
Mountain.
4 p.m. - High school track,
R-S Central at Kings
Mountain.
TBA - Middle School girls
soccer, Kings Mountain at
East Lincoln
Friday, April 2
4:30 pm. - High school
softball, Kings Mountain at
Fred T. Foard. iia
4:30 p.m. - High school JV
baseball, Fred T. Foard at
Kings Mountain.
5 p.m. - High school soc-
cer, Charlotte Catholic at
Kings Mountain (JV / varsity
DH).
7 p.m. - High school varsi-
ty baseball, Kings Mountain
at Fred T. Foard.
Monday, April 5
4 p.m. - Middle school
baseball, Kings Mountain at
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5 p.m. - High School soc-
cer, Kings Mountain at Fred
T. Foard (JV /varsity).
TBA - High school golf,
Southwestern Foothills
teams at Kings Mountain
Country Club.
Tuesday, April 6
TBA - High school golf,
Kings Mountain and
Hickory at Crest.
‘+4 p.m. - High school track,
Cleveland County meet at
Shelby
4:30 p.m. - High school
softball, Kings Mountain at
St. Stephens.
4:30 p.m. - High School JV
baseball, St. Stephens at
Kings Mountain.
TBA - Middle school girls
soccer, R-S Central at Kings
Mountain.
7 p.m. - High school varsi-
ty baseball, Kings Mountain
at St. Stephens.
Wednesday, April 7
1 p.m. - Tri-County
Middle School golf tourna-
ment at Kings Mountain
Country Club.
Shelby.
4 p.m. - High school ten-
nis, Kings Mountain at R-S
Central.
1 p.m. - Tri-County
Middle School track meet at
East Rutherford.
TBA - Middle school girls
soccer, Kings Mountain at
4:30 p.m. - High school
softball, Cherryville at Kings
Mountain.
5 p.m. - High school soc-
cer, Kings Mountain at St.
Stephens (JV / varsity).
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April 1, 2004
GARY STEWART / HERALD
Kings Mountain’s Jennifer Lingg (1) races Hickory’s Carrie Williams for control of the
ball in Monday’s soccer game at John Gamble Stadium.
: GARY STEWART / HERALD
Kings Mountain first baseman Brittney Thornburg tags out Hickory’s Brandi Goolsby,
who was picked off first base on a throw from catcher Kala Buchanan.
Hickory,
KM tie
in overtime
Kings Mountain High's
women’s soccer team won
two big games during the
past week but saw confer-
ence rival Hickory score in
the closing minute of over-
time to tie the Mountaineers
3-3 Monday night at
Gamble Stadium.
The result left the Lady
Mountaineers with a 2-1-1
confererice record and 10-1-
1 overall mark and in third
place in the Southwestern
Foothills 3A. Hickory leads
with a 3-0-1 conference and
10-0-2 overall mark, fol-
lowed by St. Stephens at 3- |
1-1.
The Mountaineers, who
were scheduled to play
Burns last night, will host
defending State 2A champi-
on Charlotte Catholic
Friday night. JV action
begins at 5 p.m. and the
varsity game will begin at 7.
The Mounties travel to Fred
T. Foard Monday and St. -
Stephens Wednesday in
what could be one of the
most important games of
the season.
Jenny Betzwieser’s goal
with a minute left in over-
time gave Hickory the tie
Monday night. Kings
Mountain had scored two
second half goals to force
overtime.
Although Kings
Mountain dominated play
and scoring chances in the
first half, it was Hickory
that got on the board after a
deflection allowed Carrie
See Tie, 8A
GARY STEWART / HERALD
Kings Mountain (light jerseys) and Hickory players battle for control of ball in JV soccer
match Monday at John Gamble Stadium. Hickory won 3-0.
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