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3 <3 $7 1h 5 February 29, 2012 The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.net Baseball: Mountaineers look to contend in Big South FROM Page 1B noted. “Pitching is always ahead of hitting at this point but we’re looking for the hit- ting to come around.” King has five returning players with varsity pitching experience. They include Dallas Conner, Heath King, Wil = Sellers, Jonathan Borchert and Mitchell Cloninger. All start at other positions when they're not on the mound. Sophomore Alex Reynolds, who starred on the JV team last year, will also see some time on the mound as well as in the outfield. Others who started last season, either on JV or var- sity, are third baseman Tyler Gilliam, second baseman Seth Ferrell, catcher/out- fielder Chris Webster, sec- ond baseman Gary Bennett, first baseman Trey Fulbright, outfielder/second baseman Andrew Moore, catcher Ad- dison Stinnett, pitcher William Ruffalo and second baseman/outfielder Daniel’ Barrett, Conner, who was the ace of the mound staff last sea- son and also an All-Big South catcher, will draw the starting assignment Wednes- day at Shelby. Heath King will start Friday’s home opener against Burns. Coach King said he will ‘wait and see how things go in the first two games before deciding on Saturday’s starter, but he GARY STEWART/HERALD Kings Mountain High base- hall’ coach Eric King. Play begins Wednesday at Burns. The Mountaineers host Burns Friday and Fred T. Foard Sat- urday. is leaning toward Sellers. The three opening non- conference opponents are traditionally strong baseball programs that King feels will help get the Mountaineers ready for what shapes up to be another rugged Big South schedule. Defending state champion South Point, pitcher-loaded Forestview, Crest and North Gaston will also be strong, King says. He looks for Ashbrook and Hunter Huss to be much im- proved as well. “South Point is always tough and will be again, even though they lost some people,” King said. “Forestview is very good and Crest is always good. North Gaston lost some peo- ple but they’re still good, too. Huss is always a team to of young people last year so KMHS BASEBALL ROSTER Name No. Position Class Mitchell Cloninger 23 OF/SS/P 12 Jonathan Borchert 12 BP 1 Seth Ferrell a2 2B 12 Dallas Conner 19 C/P 12 Chris Webster *- 25 OF/C 12 Tyler Gilliam 10 3B 12 Gary Bennett 4 28 12 Heath King 1 OF/P 12 Trey Fulbright Hild 1B 12 Colton Wade : 1 OF/2B 12 - Wil Sellers 18 SS/P = 1 Andrew Moore 22 3B. 11 Addison Stinnett 9 C 11 William Ruffalo 3 OF/P 11 Alex Reynolds 5 OF/1B/P 10 Daniel Barrett 7 2B/OF 10 Head Coach - Eric King Assistant - Trey Robinson watch. Ashbrook played a lot rors last year and that killed us,” he said. “But so far in 20 scrimmage innings (against East Gaston, Olympic and West Lincoln) we’ve only committed three or four.” “We started hitting the ball in Saturday’s three-way at West Lincoln and tied Olympic 2-2 and beat West Lincoln 6-3,” he noted. “We hit pretty good and the pitch- ing and defense did good t00. : “Another plus for us is that the players get along real*good,” King said. “We have good team chemistry so far. That might help us in tight pumeet you don’t know about them.” - Frankly, King expects his Mountaineers to compete for the championship and will be disappointed if they don’t make a regular season and playoff run. “The key for us will be the bottom. third of the lineup,” he predicts. “They have to produce. I'm not too worried about the top four or five. We have to get hits when we need them.” King also looks for the team to cut down on errors this year. “We made 68 er- Scholar Athletes: announced for fall/winter sports seasons FROM Page 1B Nicole Ford, Annamarie Ful- bright, Alyssa Greene, Taylor Halvorson, Caroline Hardin, Emily Harris, Tiffany Harris, Daria Hart, Kayla Heisler, Katie Holland, Jordan Holli- field, Katherene Holmes, Chelsie Humphries, Talajah Hutchens, Allison Ingra, Casey Johnson, Hanna John- son; Ethan Anderson, Timothy Ausburn, Alexander Austin, Samuel Baker, Eric Barnes, Tyler Bafchler Edward Black- burn, Will Boyles, Andrew Buchanan, Cameron Bullock, Dustin Burgess, Taylor Cash, Austin Champion, Chandler Champion, Jacob Cole, Michael Cole, Noah Coleman, Douglas Edgerton, Jeffrey Falls, Mason Fleisher, Bran-- don Floyd, Collin Foster, ‘Brandon Gilbert, Gregory Grabert, Mitchell Hardee, Walter Harmon, Devin Heath, Caleb Hines, Edward Hopper, Devin Hullender, Nicholas Lease, Matthew Lovelace, Robert ~~ Lysek, = Donnie Ford: fo play Down Under FROM Page 1B Although Ford is used to playing against good competi- tion, she feels this unique expe- rience will be the ultimate opportunity to play against the best. “During club seasons I have played in different states,” she said, “but I have never played in a foreign country. 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Deaton serves as head coach of the Patriots’ foot- ball, girls basketball and baseball team; and, espe- ~ cidlly this time of year it seems one season begins be- fore the other one ends. Deaton has been busy of late coaching his Lady Patri- ots to the Tri-County Con- ference basketball championship. That season ended Thursday with a 30-28 “victory over R-S Central in the Patriots’ gym. So, for the first two weeks of baseball practice he saw very little of his team. Assistant coach Kevin Ash worked with the pitchers and catchers each afternoon and Deaton sometimes made it toward the end of practice to see how things were going. Deaton and the infielders and outfielders joined the team for the first time Mon- day, so they have little time to get ready for Friday’s sea- son opener with Shelby at the Patriots’ field. Since this is a non-divi- sion game, Deaton said he will look at it as a scrimmage and get as many players into the game as possible. One thing he knows up front is that this year’s team is extremely small and young. Most of the starters on last year’s team have moved on to Kings Moun- tain High and will be part of that school’s JV team. “We only. have two starters back,” he noted. ~ “The seventh graders last year were alright defen- sively. We need to find some pitching.” On paper, one would not expect the Patriots to be among the favorites in the Tri-County. But Deaton has ‘Madison been around baseball all of his life and he knows any- thing is possible. “We’re young and we're little,” he said. “But if you get good pitching and put the ball in play that doesn’t mat- ter. You can make things happen.” Deaton knows Shelby will present a big challenge. “Tommy Wease, (who served as head coach of the Shelby High team the past several years) is back as their head coach and you know he will have them ready,” Deaton said. KMMS is traditionally one of the strongest teams in the Tri-County. Despite the youth, Deaton feels that can continue. “We’ve been pretty good in baseball,” he said. “If we find the pitching 1 think we’ll be alright.” Members of the team this year are Matt Absher, Bryson Bailey, John Bell, Bolin, Hunter Champion, Palmer Davis, Austin Fleming, David Gamble, Colby Hughes, Jar- ret Ledford, Brian Lysek, Omar Petty, Steven Russell, Hunter Ward and Will Wison. THE SCHEDULE MARCH 2 - Shelby; 5, at Lincol- nton; 8 - at North Lincoln; 12 - East Lincoln; 14 - at West Lincoln; 19 - at East Lincoln; 22 - Lincolnton; 27 - at Shelby; 29 - North Lin- coln: APRIL 2 - at Burns; 5 - West Lin- coln; 16 - Burns; 19 - First round of playoffs (TBA); 23 - Conference championship game (TBA). *All regular season games begin at 4 p.m. ~~ GET PEACE OF MIND WITH EVERY MICHELIN’ TIRE AND PREPAID CARD AFTER MAIL-IN REBATE Buy any set 6F four new MICHELIN brand passenger &f light truck tires and get a S76 MasterCard Prepaid Card after mail-in rebate. 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