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_ | GARY STEWART
Sports Editor
With good showings against
Ashbrook and North Gaston
behind them, Kings Mountain's
Mountaineers face A.C.Reynolds in
their final pre-season test Friday at 8
pm. in the annual Cleveland
County Jamboree at Crest High
School.
Greg Lloyd's Mounties tied
Ashbrook with two scores apiece in
their scrimmage Thursday night at
John Gamble Stadium and then
demolished North Gaston 56-7 in
the opening game of the annual
Gaston County Jamboree Saturday
at Gastonia Forestview. Against
Ashbrook, Michael Roberts threw a
long touchdown pass to Terrance
Young and scored on a one-yard
sneak. Against North Gaston, the
Mounties scored on all of their
offensive possessions, including six
touchdowns from the first team and
three from the second and third
units.
Lloyd was happy with those per-
formances; however, he has a cou-
ple observations he hopes his play-
ers will keep in mind this week as
they prepare for A.C. Reynolds: It’s
not likely the Mountaineers will
have another waltz like they did
Saturday, because North Gaston's
team was almost completely wiped
~ out by graduation after last year’s
best-ever season for the Wildcats;
and A.C. Reynolds is always one of
the best football teams in North
Carolina.
“We'll get back to reality this
~ week,” Lloyd said. “If we can play
AC. Reynolds tough we're going to
be alright.”
a there's still a lot of
work to do to get ready for the reg-
ular season, Lloyd is very pleased
with the progress his team is mak-
ing.
“I thought we made some
pro; in both scrimmages last
week,” he said. “We played decent
defense but we need to improve our
tackling”
Matt Young, a sophomore corner-
back, did an impressive job against
Ashbrook’s talented wide receiver
Jheranie Boyd. Even though Boyd
caught two touchdown passes later
in the game, Young kept him out of
the end zone while the two teams’
first unit was on the field. “Young
did a good job on him (Boyd) and I
was really happy with that,” Lloyd
said.
“The guys we've been counting
on played well,” he said. “We had a
really good effort Saturday and
everybody got to play.”
A.C. Reynolds, which has won
state championships in both 3A and
4A in recent years, will bring a
wealth of talent to the Cleveland
County Jamboree. They have 16
starters back, including 10 on
defense, and have a returning All-
State linebacker who is a pre-season
All-American.
“They run a two-back and
spread,” Lloyd noted. “They'll
probably be real strong because
they have an established program.”
Some of Lloyd's goals for this
week are to eliminate penalties, see
the offensive line improve on its
execution, and do a better job of
tackling, “If we get those three done
I think we'll be ready to play,” he
said.
Except for safety Anthony
Dalton, who is out for about two to
three more weeks with an elbow
injury, the Mountaineers are in
good shape, physically:
“Dalton has his elbow out of the
sling and has it wrapped,” he said.
“He's getting ready to do rehab on
it. When he can get full movement
without pain he can come back.
That could be. about three weeks,
and maybe a little quicker.”
Dalton’s injury has left the sec-
ondary without any varsity experi-
ence. Sophomore Shelton Watson
has moved from corner to free safe-
ty and will probably start there, at
least until Dalton returns. Dalton
can play either free safety or corner.
“The young secondary is doing a
pretty good job,” Lloyd said. “I will
say it’s going to be very exciting for
the future. They're doing well cov-
ering and lining up right. I wish
their tackling was better.”
KM's offensive line is also young
but is progressing as well, he said.
“It's going to take some game situa-
tions,” Lloyd said. “So far they've
basically been blocking our own
guys. They have to adjust to hitting
the other team’s best players. ”
As soon as the Jamboree is over,
the Mounties will focus all of their-
attention on the regular season
opener on August 29 at Hunter
Huss. Huss was also in the Gaston
County Jamboree and will be bat-
tling Burns in the Cleveland County
Jamboree, so coaches from both
schools will have ample opportuni-
ty to evaluate their opponents. Also,
Huss and KM will exchange game
films on Saturday morning,
“Then we'll get our game plan
organized and spend all of our time
- Clyde Adams shoots 67
in Senior Golf outing
Clyde Adams’ 67 at
8 Woodbridge Golf Links on July 31
= was the lowest net score for the
month of July in Cleveland
= County Senior
]
Men's Golf
* Association outings. Adams also
"turned in the low score of 71 on
July 17 at Deer Brook.
Other winners for the month
were Gene Funderburke (77),
"Roger Thompson (76), Roy
PWhitaker (two events, 76 and 71),
iLawrence Bolin (71), Larry
ackson (70) and Robert Scism
4).
Low net winners were H.D.
lanton (63), Wade Carpenter (62),
ick Hammitt (66), Eddie Clayton
9), Lawrence Bolin (63), Clyde
dams (66), Ken Cash (62), Albert
eed (63), Tim Leu (65) and
arles Drewery (60).
Closest to the pin winners were
Harold Hord, Joe Borders, Charles
Propst (two events), Dwight
Shuford, Dean Bowen, Steve
Humphries, Toby Thrift, Tony
Bumgardner and Hubert Clark.
Longest putt winners were
Ernest Larsen, Clyde Harris,
Charles Cabiness, Jim Earl, Doug
Shuffler, Steve Phillips, Howard
Shuford, Bill Pearson, Ken
Bridges and Merdith Davison.
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next week working on Hunter
Huss,” Lloyd said. “Their quarter- ,
back (Marshall Williams) is super
quick. He's a guy that scares you.
And they hit hard.”
Schedule for Saturday night's
Cleveland County Jamboree at
‘Mounties face A.C. Reynolds in Jamboree on Friday
Crest:
BM 6 p.m. — Burns vs. Hunter Huss
BW 7 p.m. — Shelby vs. Lexington
HB 8 p.m. — Kings Mountain vs. A.C.
Reynolds
M9 p.m. — Crest vs. Hickory
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