The Kings Mountain Herald March 6, 2008
GARY STEWART / HERALD
Brantley Blalock takes a turn on the mound in recent Kings
Mountain High School baseball ganie. The Mountaineers trav-
el to West Lincoln Friday and host Chase in their first
Southwestern Conference game Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Mountaineers lose
to Crest Monday
Kings Mountain took a 2-0
lead in the top of the first
inning but Crest came back to
win 5-2 in a non-conference
baseball game Monday at
Crest.
The Chargers cracked eight
hits against two KM pitchers
and also took advantage of a
pair of Kings Mountain errors.
Kyle Nanney pitched five
innings to get the win for
Crest. He gave up only three
hits but walked six batters.
Jeffry Howell started for the
Mountaineers and took the
loss. He gave up seven hits
over four innings and struck
out eight. Luke Proctor
worked the final two innings,
giving up one hit and fanning
three.
Leadoff batter Tyler Ross,
who got two of KM’s four hits,
led off the game with a single
to center. After Cody Austin
walked and Brantley Blalock
popped up to second, Brent
Hunt walked to load the
bases. A bases-loaded walk to
Howell forced in Ross for a 1-
0 lead, and Proctor’s single to
right drove in Austin for the
Mounties’ final run.
Crest trimmed the margin to
2-1 in the bottom of the first
when Kyle Kendrick singled
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and later scored on a single by
Adam McFarland.
The Chargers took a 3-2 lead
with two runs in the third.
With one out, Kendrick
walked and later scored when
Tisdale reached base on an
error. An out later, Tisdale
scored on a single by Corey
Cline.
The Chargers added their
final two runs in the fifth on
consecutive singles by Julian
Ridings, Kendrick, Tisdale,
and McFarland.
After the first, the Mounties
got only two players in scor-
ing position. In the third
Howell singled to center with
two outs and his pinch-run-
ner, Chris Allen, made it to
second on a passed ball but
was stranded as Proctor
struck out.
In the seventh, Ross singled
with one out and Austin
walked. But Blalock struck out
swinging and Hunt grounded
to the pitcher to end the game. .
Kings Mountain travels to
West Lincoln Friday at 4 p.m.
for a JV / varsity doubleheader
before opening its conference
schedule Tuesday at 7 p.m.
against Chase at Lancaster
Field.
‘home Justin Heinbach with the
Mountaineers open baseball season
with losses to Gaston County teams
Kings Mountain's
Mountaineers fell to East
Gaston 6-1 Thursday and South
Point 3-1 Friday in non-confer-
ence games.
The Mountaineers managed
just three hits in each game.
Against East Gaston, they com-
mitted three errors and left 10
men on base.
Brantley Blalock singled
Mountaineers’ only run in the
fifth inning. Heinbach opened
the inning with a walk and
moved to second when Tyler
Ross singled to center.
Jeffry Howell took the loss.
He struck out the side in the
first and second innings but
three Mountaineer errors and a
balk led to three East Gaston
runs in the third inning.
Kyle Bell pitched the final 2
2/3 innings, giving up one hit
and fanning one.
Puckett pitched five innings
to get the win. He walked two
and struck out six. Russell
pitched the final two innings,
walking two and fanning five.
Kings Mountain's only other
hit was by Brent Hunt.
Kings Mountain’s Justin Heinbach (3) pulls into third base fol-
lowing a hit by a teammate in recent scrimmage with East
Gaston’s Warriors.
Bm South Point tagged
Brantley Blalock for three runs
in the bottom of the second, and
they were enough to defeat the
Mountaineers on Friday. The.
Raiders and Mountaineers fin-
ished with just three hits each.
Kings Mountain committed two
errors and left six men on base.
Blalock retired the first four
batters he faced before an error
and hit batsman opened the
floodgate in the second. With
two outs, Derek Tiefinger laced
a run-scoring single to right for
a 1-0 Raider lead. Blalock quick-
ly worked an 0-2 count on Matt
Darnell, but on ‘a 2-2 count
Darnell ripped a two-run single
to center. Proctor came on and
got Ryan Honeycutt to ground
into a fielder’s choice to end the
inning.
Hunt, Howell and Rai
Robinson had a hit apiece for
the Mountaineers. Their only
run came in the top of the third
when Ross reached base on an
error, moved to second when
Cody Austin walked, and
scored on Hunt's single to cen-
ter.
Blalock gave up two hits over
1 2/3 innings. Proctor pitched
the final 4 1/3 innings and gave
up no runs and one hit while
striking out three.
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