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The Kings Mountain Herald | www.Kmherald.net
June 6, 2012
Tate leads AAU team to State Championship
Isaiah Tate is pictured with his Dad Maurice Tate after lead-
ing his second grade AAU team to Division | state AAU bas-
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"SPORTS BRIEFS
Optimist Club
Football sets
~ Registration
Registration is begin-
ning for Kings Mountain
Optimist Club football and
cheerleading.
Registration is $50 be-
fore July 28, and after that
will increase to $75. The
fee includes required acci-
dent insurance that is sec-
ondary to primary health
insurance.
Practice begins August
1 and will be held from 6-
8:30 p.m. for the first
week. After the fierst week
it will be from 6-8 p.m.
Officers are . Curtis
Pressley, president (704-
466-8297 or
Apiih@nl eo) and
- Jonathan Zirbel vice pres-
ident, (704-473-7024 or
jzirbel@mshonda.com).
Pick up and turn in reg-
istration forms on Satur-
day, July 7, 14, 21 and 28
at City Stadium between
10 am.-12 p.m.
Basketball camp
slated at KMHS
There will be a boys -
basketball camp for 3rd
through 8th grades June
18-22 from 8 am.-12
noon at Kings Mountain
High School.
The cost is $60.
For more information
and to register visit
http://www.cleveland-
countyschools.org/sites/k
mbsathletics/
Isaiah Tate, a second
grader from Bethware Ele-
mentary School, led his
AAU team Metrolina Havoc
to a 2nd grade Division I
State AAU Basketball
Championship in April 2012.
In the State Division I AAU
Basketball Tournament, Isa-
iah and Metrolina Havoc
team defeated the Bench-
warmer Mooresville Tigers,
East Carolina Elite, CBC
* White (Charlotte); and even-
tually the Carolina Phenoms
in the State Championship
game.
Metrolina Havoc is an or-
ganization from Charlotte,
NC recognized as one of the
top Division I AAU youth
basketball organizations in
the State and has received
many accolades with their
teams on the national level.
Isaiah starts on this team at
the shooting guard position
and has made significant
contributions to the team’s
success and is considered
one of the top second grade
basketball players in the
State of North Carolina.
During his winter recreation
. Recreation
basketball season participa-
tion, he also led our home-
town K.M. Elite Trailblazers
to an undefeated season with
a 12-0 record and won the
City Championship in the 7-
8 year old Division in the
City of Gastonia Youth
Basketball
League. He won the K.M.
Elite Most Valuable Player
Award. Isaiah attends Beth-
ware Elementary School
where he’s A-honor roll stu-
dent.
Isaiah’s Metrolina Havoc
AAU team will be travelling
to Memphis, TN for the 2nd
Grade Division I AAU Na-
tional Basketball Tourna-
ment during the week of
June 24th — July Ist repre-
senting the State of North
Carolina competing against
other top level 2nd grade
teams across the nation. Isa-
iah’s parents are Maurice
Tate and Brandy Tate, the
founders of the K.M. Elite
Trailblazer Organization.
Grartdparents are Ronald and
Tanya Mitchell), Christopher
and Cynthia Smith, and John
and Rosalyn Adams).
GBP Honor Society inducts new members
Front row, left to right, Gary Woodard, Avis Morrow, Jessica Johnson, Steve Nicholson; second row, Monica Ellis, Kaitlyn
Thompson, Scarlett Moss, Alex Walker, Paul Hipps; third row, Andrew Thurman, Noah Bolin, Barbara Allen, Jason Pearson.
The Cleveland Commu-
nity College chapter of
Gamma Beta Phi National
Honor Society held its spring
induction ceremony recently
in the Mildred H. Keeter Au-
ditorium on the CCC cam-
pus.
Gamma Beta president,
Corissa Lyons welcomed
guests. and = CCC . GBP
Alumni, Jasmine Cooper,
ana
and much more!
Even Delta
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Sixteen students were in-
ducted into the honor society.
Closing remarks were made
by CCC English Instructor
and GBP (Advisor, Tajsha
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Martial Arts Master
shows East students
importance of training
Master Justin Etters, 6th degree black belt from Eng
School of Self Defense; gave a demonstration for third and
fourth graders at East Elementary before the start of End Of
Grade tests on Friday, May 18th.
He talked tothe students about the importance of training
3 and preparing for tasks such as the EOG. He encouraged
them to remember that they had trained (Studied): all year and
that they were ree for the EOG’s.
Photo by JULIE FORTNER
Martial Arts Master Justin Etters, 6th degree black belt from
Eng School of Self Defense, demonstrates the importance of
training for students getting ready to tackle EOGs at East El-
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