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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The Kings Mountain Herald
Page 3B
By GARY STEWART
SPORTS EDITOR
Shelby used a methodical run-
ning game and overpowering de-
fense to defeat Kings Mountain
27-8 in Wednesday’s Tri-County
Conference championship game
at Shelby’s Blanton Memorial
Stadium.
The Blue Devils finished a per-
fect 8-0 season after winning the
Western Division title with a 5-0
record. Kings Mountain was 5-3
overall with a 5-0 record to win
Sports
the Eastern Division.
Shelby built a 27-0 lead before
the Patriots scored their only
touchdown midway of the fourth
quarter.
Ryheim Huskey was the
biggest thorn in KM’s side. He
capped a 54-yard scoring drive
with a 15-yard touchdown run to
give the Blue Devils a 7-0 first
quarter lead.
Early in the second quarter he
intercepted a KM pass and re-
turned it to the 19 yard line to set
up a 4-yard scoring run by Wesley
Norris and a 14-0 Shelby halftime
lead.
Shelby scored again on a five-
yard run by Marquise Walton to
go up 20-0 on its first possession
of the second half. Early in the
fourth quarter, Kings Mountain
failed to convert on a fourth and 8
play from its own 43.
After a 13-yard loss on fourth
down and an unsportsmanlike
conduct penalty by the Patriots,
Shelby got the ball on the Patfiots’
15 yard line and scored on a three-
yard run by Spencer Clark to go
Hicks rarely puts down a club
She’s the first
-KMHS woman
golfer in state
tournament
By GARY STEWART
Sports Editor
Erica Hicks first picked up a
._golf club at age two. Now, the
‘Kings Mountain High sopho-
more rarely puts it down.
Hicks recently became the
first woman golfer from KMHS
to compete in the NCHSAA
State Tournament in Pinehurst
after finishing 15th in the West-
ern Regional Tournament at
Cedar Rock in Lenoir.
Although she works hard to
improve her game, golfing is the
natural sport for the Hicks fam-
ily. Her father, Eric, Uncle Mike,
and Grandfather Dennis Hicks,
former football and golf coach at
KMHS, are all very good at the
game.
“I just started playing seri-
ously a couple of years ago,”
says Erica. “My whole family
got me started. Uncle Mike was
the golf pro at Kings Mountain
and Cleveland Country clubs.”
He is now a bank manager in
Hendersonville.
Hicks can be seen playing
golf just about every day now at
KMCC. She played on the
KMHS men’s team as a fresh-
man and enjoyed it, but thought it
would be good if the school had
a women’s team. She called her
high school coach, Kevin Moss,
and told him she wanted to have
a girls team, and athletic director
Suzanne Grayson gave the okay.
“They were both very help-
ful,” Hicks said.
With only three players —
Malyn Bailey and Tori Braunns
were the other two — the Lady
Mountaineers weren’t able to be
placed in a conference but they
scheduled regular season
matches against South Point and
Hunter Huss. The team went 1-1
with a victory over Huss.
By next year, Hicks is confi-
dent other KMHS female stu-
dents will become interested and
the team will have enough play-
ers to compete in a conference.
“I think it will happen,” she
predicted. “The other two girls
had a good time and want to play.
I think the girls team will con-
tinue and we’ll be in the confer-
ence with Hunter Huss.”
Hicks said she was at a disad-
vantage when she played on the
men’s team because she had to
play from the white tees instead
of the ladies’ tees.
“It was really tough, but it
was good for me,” she said. “I
got a lot of experience against
good competition.”
~ Although the season is over,
Hicks is on the course almost
every day, either playing a round
with members: of her family or
working on her game.
“I usually take a different club
a day and hit a bunch of balls,”
she said. “I try to make myself
more consistent and get better.
My dad helps me all the time. I
usually go out-every day, even if
it’s cold, and do whatever I can.”
She said the experience of
playing in a state tournament on
the tough Firefox course at Pine-
hurst really helped her game.
“I came back and I knew what
I need to work on to be more
competitive next year,” she said.
“I want to play college golf one
day.” :
. She hopes to attend either
UNC-Chapel Hill or Wake For-
est and some day become a
physician’s assistant to a sur-
geon.
up 27-0.
Kings Mountain drove the en-
suing kickoff 65 yards in four
plays, with Chris Ballen taking a
pitch around right end for a 39-
yard touchdown run with 4:48 re-
maining. Kanez Byers passed to
Ballen for the two-point conver-
sion. ;
Kings Mountain recovered an
onside kick and drove to the
Shelby four where it was second
and goal, but two passes fell in-
complete in the end zone.
Kings Mountain finished with
KMHS golfer Erica Hicks
Patriots drop conference title game 27-8
.83 yards rushing, led by Ballen
with one carry for 39 yards and
Donatris Simmons with seven car-
ries for 29.
The Patriots had 93 yards pass-
ing. Simmons caught three passes
for 47 yards, Ballen two for 27,
Jose Sappia one for 11, and Jerick
Dabbs one for eight.
The championship game ap-
pearance was the first for Kings
Mountain in six years. Shelby
won its first conference title in
four years. Crest had won the past
three conference crowns.
Duckpin
Bowling
October 30, 2008:
LUCKY DUCKS 6, ALLEY CATS 2
Lucky Ducks - Bonnie Warren 118
game, Greg Evans 357 set; Alley
Cats - Allen Myers 140 game, 343
set.
Mighty Ducks 8, Duck Masters 0
Mighty Ducks - Bob Paramore 146
game, 397 set; Duck Masters -
Tommy Barrett 158 game, 391 set.
November 4, 2008:
DucksRUs 6, Buckshot Bowlers 2
Ducks-R-Us - Greg Evans 140
game, 389 set; Buckshot - Bob
Paramore 119 game, 355 set.
No Ideas 6, Philczyk 2
No Ideas - Ed Philbeck 127 game,
339 set; Philczyk - Zeke Rybczyk
133 game, 327 set. >
Thursday, Nov. 6
Lucky Ducks 6, Mighty Ducks 2
LD — Greg Evans 149 game, 402
set. MD — Bob Paramore 140
game, 353 series.
Duck Masters 4, Alley Cats 4
DM - Zeke Rybczyk 119 game,
Tommy Barrett 327 set. AC —
Margo Barrett 128 game, Allen
Myers 314 series.
Monday, Nov. 11
Ducks R Us 4, Philczyk 4
Ducks — Wilma Wilfong 124 game,
See BOWLING on Page B6
Dillard Phillips
Gastonia NC
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LUCKILY, HE HAD ON
Dr. Thompson told us.
we put it there.”
“| was driving up Cramer Mountain
one night, all alone in my truck, when | started feeling
extremely light-headed and faint. | had never felt like that
before in my life. | looked down and the front of my shirt
was jumping out. And | knew immediately that my
defibrillator had gone off. So | pulled over to the side of
the road and called 911."
As Dr. Mark Thompson would later explain, /
Dillard's defibrillator had indeed gone off. And it saved
his life. Because Dillard Phillips was what Dr. Thompson
referred to as a high-risk heart patient. Which is why, five
years ago, he suggested a new product called a pacemaker
defibrillator that they could implant in Dillard's chest.
“And five years later, long after Dillard had
forgotten it was there, he was driving up that mountain,
when his heart started racing very fast. He had developed
something we call ventricular fibrillation, where the heart
doesn’t pump at all, it just quivers, and in about 15 or 20
seconds, it would have killed him.
Luckily the defibrillator was there. It shocked him
back before he even passed out, and it saved his life,”
“| want to thank all people at Gaston Memorial
for saving my life,” Dillard added.
“Actually it was the
defibrillator.” Dr. Thompson
concluded. “But it's a good thing
( CaroMont Heart Center
The Carolinas Heart Institute- Gastonia
www.CaroMont.org
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