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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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The Kings Mountain Herald
Sports
Mountaineers blank North Gaston
Young sets school receiving record
By GARY STEWART
Sports Editor
Kings Mountain became playoff eligible and several
players hit some milestones for the season and their career
in Friday’s 26-0 homecoming victory over North Gaston at
John Gamble Stadium.
The Mountaineers’ second straight and fourth overall
win made them eligible to be selected for the upcoming
state 3A A playoffs. They improved to 4-5 overall to set up
some big games with Crest and Forestview over the next
two Fridays to end the regular season.
Senior wide receiver Terrance Young broke the school
career yards receiving record with a 9-yard catch on the
Mountaineers’ first touchdown drive in the first quarter.
After Young’s reception, junior tight end Zach Hopper
hauled in a 34-yard pass from Cameron Harris to give the
Mountaineers a 6-0 lead.
Harris, a junior ‘who has played in only cight of the
Mountaineers’ nine games because of a concussion, hit 8 of
16 passes for 122 yards to top the 1,000 mark for the sea-
son. His two touchdown passes (the other coming on a 9-
yard reception by Cameron Roseboro late in the second
- quarter to put the Mountaineers up 19-0 at the half) gave
him 12 for the season and brought him to within four of
tying Pat Murphy’s all-time season record.
Junior running back Shelton Watson became the first
Mountaineer back this season to-rush for 100 yards. He ac-
cumulated 115 yards on 21 carries with 47 of them coming
on 10 attempts in the Mountaineers 75-yard drive early in
the fourth quarter that completed the scoring. KM kept the
ball on the ground for all 15 plays of that drive, with Wat-
son taking a pitch around left end for the score.
KM’s other touchdown came in the second quarter on a
one-yard run up the gut by Carlos Bell, who finished with
76 yards on 14 carries. Watson had runs of 11-and 12 yards
during the march, and Young caught a 15 yard pass.
Young also added catches of 22 and 17 yards on the 76-
yard drive that resulted in Roseboro’s second quarter touch-
down. The four catches totaling 58 yards have Young at
1,412 yards for his varsity career. The previous school
record was 1,361 set by Kendrick Bell in 1996-98.
Kings Mountain’s defense continued its outstanding
play of late, holding the Wildcats (1-9) to just five yards
rushing and 37 passing. The Wildcats had minus 7 yards
rushing and 36 of their 41 yards passing in the first half.
The'Mountaineers had them at minus rushing until the next
to last play of the game when quarterback Cramoroh Russell
gained 13 yards against the KM reserves.
The out-manned Wildcats did an admirable job on de-
fense and Kings Mountain also hurt itself \with 16 penal-
ties totaling 145 yards. North Gaston was flagged six times
for 55 yards.
“It was a pretty well- played game by us. There were too
many penalties,” KM Coach Greg Lloyd said. “Penalties
killed our drives and kept their offense on the field.
“But we played a good game, especially on defense.
We’ve gone eight straight quarters and our defense hasn’t
been scored on, and that’s a good thing.”
Lloyd was pleased to see his offense run the ball better
than it has all year. “Maybe that’s partially because of who
we were playing but North Gaston’s defense is not terrible
by any means. We were able to move them some. We’re
steadily improving and are playing as good as we have all
year.” :
GARY STEWART/HERALD
Terrance Young keeps his feet inbounds on sidelines after catching pass in Friday’s game with North
Gaston.
THE YARDSTICK
NG
First downs 7
Rushing 22-5
Yds. Passing 37
Passes 7-32-1
Fumbles /lost 1-0
Penalties 6-55
Punts 6-31.5
Score by quarters: T
NG 0010.8 0
KM: 12:7 07726
KM - Zach Hopper 34 pass from Cameron Har.
ris (kick failed).
KM - Carlos Bell 1 run (pass failed)
Homecoming game was big},
KM | KM - Cameron Roseboro 9 pass from Harris
20 (Edward Blackburn kick) -
46-219 KM - Shelton Watson 3 run (Blackburn kick)
122 KM RUSHING - Watson 21-115, Bell 14-76,
8-16-2
John Robbs 4-45, Harris 4-minus 15.
1-1 KM PASSING - Harris 8-16-2-122.
16-145
2-39.5
Robbs 1-4.
KM RECEIVING - Terrance Young 4-58, Zach
Hopper 2-51, Cameron Roseboro 1-9, John
- KM INTERCEPTIONS - Matt Young 1.
KM TACKLES - Torrey Belcher 8, Trey Funder-
burke 9, Edward Hopper 7, Xavier Jeffries 5,
“Josh Haraszkiewicz 3; Jaris Williams 4, John
Robbs 2, Jeff Douglas 2, Austin Black 2, Trey
Edgerton 2, Zach Hopper 2, Matt Young 1,
Young sets school record
sMove into contention for state playoffs
Shelton Watson 1, Dustin Stone 1:
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eHarris tops 1,000 yards this season
‘Watson first 100 yard rusher this season
GARY STEWART/HERALD
Zach Hopper catches
touchdown pass for
Kings Mountain in last’
week’s homecoming
win over North Gaston.
Kings Mountain edges St. Stephens 3.21 in
first round of state 3A volleyball playoffs
By GARY STEWART “They are a very good
Sports Editor team,” noted KM ‘coach
Brian Grant. “We didn’t
- Kings Mountain stepped know a lot about them.
its game up a notch in the
fifth and deciding game to
defeat St. Stephens 25-15,
20-25, 25-21, 17-25, 15-9 in
the opening round of the
state 3A volleyball playoffs
Saturday afternoon at Don-
ald L. Parker Gymnasium.
The Lady Mountaineers,
#2 seed from the Big South
Conference, were scheduled
to face the Enka Sugar Jets,
the #1 seed from the Moun-
tain Athletic Conference,
last night in Enka. The win-
ner will advance to a third
round game, probably ei-
ther Thursday or Saturday,
against the winner of the
West Henderson-Fred T.
Foard match. West Hender-
son is the #1 seed from the
Appalachian Athletic Con-
ference and a first round
winner over Forestview,
and Foard is the #3 seed
from the Northwestern
Conference.
The Lady Mountaineers
started out as if they’d make
short order of the visiting
Saints, building a quick 11-
4 lead en route to a 25-15
win. But Saint Stephens
grabbed an early lead in
game two and held it the
rest of the way to square the
match and make it close the
rest of the way.
They hit the ball very well
and are an excellent defen-
sive team. They were pass-
ing very well, had some big
hitters and played a much
quicker tempo than we’ve
been used to.”
But Grant also had some
high praise for his own
players.
“We’ve had some prob-
lems with consistency but
we learned a lesson from
North Gaston (which de-
feated the Lady Moun-
taineers in a recent
five-game match to decide
first place in the BSC) on
how to step it up and not
wait for the other team to’
beat themselves.”
Several ladies stepped it
up for the Lady Moun-.
taineers in all five games,
but especially in the fifth.
The Mountaineers came out
fired up and grabbed a
quick 3-0 lead when Saint
Stephens’ couldn’t defend
Sarah Fedyschyn’s block
over the net. Fedyschyn
added a kill for a 5-2 lead
and the Mountaineers added
four more points in a row to
go up 9-2. St. Stephens ral-
lied to cut the deficit to 11-
8 before the Mountaineers
pulled away to win.
Hayley Hoyle, Morgan
GARY STEWART/HERALD
Kings Mountain players get fired up for fifth and deciding game in Saturday’s 3-2 win over St. Stephens
in opening round of state 3A volleyball playoffs.
Robinson, Nicole Ford,
Fedyschyn and Tiara Mc-
Clain were outstanding
along the net and Cailyn
Hughes had a hand in al-
most every point with 30
assists and two aces.
Fedyschyn had 10 kills and
Ford eight blocks. Emily
Gates and Tori Glass were
outstanding in the back-
court with Gates recording
26 digs.
Kings Mountain, which
improved to 16-6 on the
season, got the #2 seed and
home court advantage by
defeating Forestview 25-13,
25-15, 25-27, 25-17 Thurs-
day at Hunter Huss in a tie-
breaker for second place in
the BSC.
Fedyschyn recorded 12
kills. Emily Yarbro had an
outstanding game with 27
assists but had to sit out Sat-
urday’s playoff game due to
illness. Hughes had five
aces, Ford five blocks and
Gates 12 digs.
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