Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The Kings Mountain Herald
Sports
Mountaineers played great game,
but couldn’t corral fast C
« GARY STEWEART
Sports Editor
Kings Mountain’s ~~ Moun-
taineers played one of their best
games of the season Friday night at
Crest but came out on the short end
of a 39-27 score.
Crest’s speed was the big differ-
ence in the game, although the
Mountaineers were still within a
shot of winning late in the game.
Trailing by the final score with
over four minutes remaining, a
tipped pass in the end zone that
Tyrece Crawford kept in the air for
what seemed like several seconds
was almost caught, but fell incom-
plete. A different outcome there,
and, assuming the Mountaineers
would recover their third onside
kick of the game, could have put
them in position to win at the end.
The Mountaineers played the
contest without the services of two
starters. One was dismissed from
the team late in the week and the
other, wide receiver Phillip Quinn,
missed the game because of the
death of his grandfather. Then, with
two minutes left in the first half the
Mountaineers lost the services of
their big receiver and kicking spe-
cialist, Edward Blackburn, who
suffered a concussion on what was
obviously a helmet to helmet hit
when he went up to catch a pass
deep in Crest territory.
He was taken by ambulance to
the hospital and checked out okay,
but he will not be able to play in -
this week’s final regular season
game against Forestview and prob-
ably will also miss the Moun-
taineers’ first state playoff game.
But the players that were avail-
" able gave an outstanding effort.
Crawford set a school single game
pass receiving record with 205
yards on eight receptions, includ-
ing two touchdowns and a remark-
able reception down the sidelines
to set up another TD.
“I was really pleased with the
effort that all of our guys gave,”
commented head coach Greg
Lloyd. “We played very well. We
played very hard. We did a lot of
good things. Looking back, we had
two untimely fumbles on a kick re-
turn and after we got an onside
kick.”
Kings Mountain actually. had
more total offense than the Charg-
ers, but Crest’s speed was the dif-
ference. On the game’s opening
kickoff, Crest’s Harvey McSwain
Jr. fumbled the ball at the 15 but
picked it-up and reversed his field
and took it to the KM 34 yard line.
A 33-yard reception by Devonte
Wilson set up Rhaheim Ledbetter
for a one-yard run and a 7-0 Crest
lead.
The Mountaineers were able to
bounce back against a very huge
and athletic Crest defensive line to
finish with 370 yards total offense,
including 297 in the air.
See CREST on Page 2C
GARY TEWART/HERALD
Kings Mountain receiver Tyrece Crawford fries to haul in a tipped pass in Friday’s game at
Crest.
GARY STEWART/HERALD
Kings Mountain quarterback Jon Clark (6) rolls away from Crest’s Rhaheim Ledbetter in Fri-
day’s game at Crest.
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Postgame
PLAYER OF THE GAME
Tyrece Crawford, WR, 8 catches for 205 yards and
two touchdowns, including a 96-yard touchdown
catch and run.
THE YARDSTICK
KM Cc
First downs : 16 11
Yds. rushing 73 247
Yds. passing 297 93
Passes 15-41-1 6-10-0
Fumbles/lost 7 1
Penalties \ 6-50 13-132
Punts 3-27: 4-31
KM RUSHING - John Robbs 20-66, Trevin Torres 3-
9, Jonathan Clark 6-(-2).
KM PASSING - Clark 15-40-1-297. Torres 0-1.
KM RECEIVING - Torres 4-45, Crawford 8-205,
Jacob Lineberger 1-22, Robbs 1-18, Ed Blackburn ‘1-
7.
BY THE NUMBERS
Kings Mountain 3.002 86 27
Crest 14..:7::15,:.3:. 30
FIRST PERIOD .
C - 10:44 - Ledbetter 1-run (Alex Trejo kick). Third
play after Harvey McSwain Jr. returned opening kick-
off from Crest 15 to KM 34.
KM - 5:43 - Edward Blackburn 22 FG. 83 yard drive,
13 plays. Crawford 18 and 27-yard reospions, Robbs
6-26 rushing.
C - 4:08 -Jerry Currence 63-run (Teo kick).
SECOND PERIOD
C - 4:46 - Currence 63 run (Trejo kick).
KM - 2:14 - Crawford 18 pass from Jon Clark (kick
failed). 19 yard, 2 play drive following recovery of
Crest fumbled punt.
KM - 1:06 - Jacob Lineberger 22 pass from Clark
(pass failed). 34 yard, 3 play drive after Ed Blackburn
executed and recovered an onside kick.
"THIRD PERIOD
C - 8:09 - Ledbetter 2 run (Bullard pass from Gul-
latte). 35 yard, 4 play drive following KM punt and 15-
yard penalty against KM for personal foul.
C - 7:56 - Demonte Wilson 24 pass from Gullatte
, (Trejo kick). 1 play drive after KM fumbled kickoff.
KM - 6:26 - Crawford 96 pass from Clark (run failed).
Third play after Crest kickoff.
FOURTH PERIOD
C - 11:55 - Trejo 39 FG.
KM - 6:31 - Robbs 2 run (pass failed). 81 yard drive,
14 plays. Key plays 32 and 15 yard receptions by
Crawford and 18-yard reception by Robbs.
“THIS WEEK 2
Forestview at Kings Mountain, Friday, 7:30. Final reg-
ular season game and KM Senior Night.
NOTABLE :
Tyrece Crawford's 205 yards receiving broke the
school single game record of 180 set by Cedric
Thompson last season against Shelby. Crawford is
now in the KMHS record book on offense and de-
fense. Earlier in the season he intercepted three
passes against Burns.
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