October 24, 2012
The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.net
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MOUNTAINEERS: /os¢ to Crest,
Clark breaks passing record
Cody Griffith (50) and Chaz Gamble cause Crest running back to fumble the ball in Friday’ $ ig
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From page 3B
game from junior running
back DaShon Guest, who
scored 26 of their 27 points;
sophomore receiver Xavier
Johnson, who: caught five
passes for 105 yards includ-
ing one that went for 77
yards; and senior quarter-
back Jonathan Clark who
broke the school’s all-time
career passing record by hit-
ting 13-0f-21 passes for 195
yards. He now has 3,961
yards, breaking the previous
‘mark of 3,921 set by
‘Michael Roberts in 2008. !
5 “Jon Clark threw the ball
‘well,” Lloyd noted. “Phillip
Quinn did a great job block-
ing against a Shrine Bowl
defensive end, and DaShon
Guest (21 carries for 91
yards and four touchdowns)
and Michael Douglas (5 car-
ries for 53 yards) ran the ball
hard. Our special teams did
a good job.”
Moore scored on runs of
one and 42 yards in the first
quarter to give the Chargers
an early 14-0 lead. Kings
* Mountain rebounded briefly,
capping a 53-yard drive with
a six-yard touchdown pass
from Clark to Guest, but
things snowballed after that.
Crest scored on all four of
its second quarter posses-
sions to go into intermission
with a 38-7 lead. Kings
Mountain got a two-yard TD
run from Guest. early in the
second half but Crest coun-
tered with touchdewns from
Moore and Dominique
Roseboro to go up 52-14
going into the fourth quarter.
The Mountaineers close
out their regular season Fri-
day at Forestview, which is
2-3 in the conference but
with a few breaks at the right
time could be undefeated
and leading the BSC. The
Jaguars lost one-touchdown
games to South Point, Ash-
brook and Crest. Like Crest,
they have a well-balanced
running and passing attack
that will severely test the
KM defense.
The Mountaineers must
win to avoid sitting out the
playoffs for just the second
time during Coach Lloyd’s
six-year tenure.
-“They’re very good,”
Lloyd said of the Jaguars.
“They’ve improved a lot this
year. They’ve got the mak-
ing of a team that could win
a lot of games in the play-
offs. They have a very good
line, and a balanced offense.
They had Ashbrook beat
until late in the game a cou-
ple weeks ago and they
shutout Hunter Huss last
week. They are well-
‘coached. We’ve got our
hands full for sure.”
LUTZ: Penner compete in 3A
tennis regionals
From page 4B.
to both sports are far and
above any coach’s expecta-
tion. There are times during
the season that she will have
a golf match and then turn
around and travel to a tennis
match in the same afternoon.
It’s truly a coach’s dream to
have a player of her caliber
and dedication. On top of
that she is a great kid with a
great attitude.”
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Big South 3A
Teams Conf. . W-
South Point 5-
Crest 5-
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Ashbrook
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Hunter Huss
Kings Mtn.
N. Gaston 0-6
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Crest 59, Kings Mountain 27
South Point 49, North Gaston
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Forestview 23, Hunter Huss 0
~ West Mecklenburg 46, Ash-
brook 24 0s
Friday’s Games
Kings Mountain at Forestview
South Point at Crest
Huss at Ashbrook
(North Gaston season over)
Southern Piedmont 1A/2A -
Teams Conf W-L All W-L
East Lincoln 6-0 10-0
LN Charter 5-1 -
Cherryville ~~ 3-3 -
Lincolnton 3-3 -
West Lincoln 3-3
North Lincoln 2-4
Bessemer City 1-5
Highland Tech 0-5
Last Week's Results
West Lincoln 54, Bessemer
City 34
Lake Norman Charter 56,
Cherryville 48 ”
: East Lincoln 61, Highland 0
Lincolnton 17, North Lincoln
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North Lincoln at Bessemer
City
Highland at Lake Norman
Charter
West Lincoln at Lincolnton
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Kickers shut
out Crest 2-0:
At right: #15 Chase
Hullender, a senior,
carries the ball down
the field. Hullender scored
the first of 2 goals against
Crest with a penalty
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kick Monday night.
Bolow: #19 Jordan Sweezy,
#21 Jonmark Smith
(who scored the 2nd goal
of the night) , and #10
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90 YEARS: of Mountaineer football
From page 1B
game against | Lincolnton.
With the game scoreless,
Harris faked a handoff to
Baity up the middle but boot-
legged around end for what
appeared to be a 60-yard
touchdown run. Everyone
thought Baity had the ball
and the officials blew the
play dead as Harris was
going down the field. As it
‘turned out, the call didn’t
matter because KM went on
to win the game 26-6.
-Baity, who was a sopho-
more at the time, recalled an-
other exciting moment. He
said his favorite memory was
taking his first-ever handoff
from George Harris and
going 60 yards for a touch-
down. Baity went on to score
a lot more over his three-year
career. He was the first-ever
* KMHS player to gain over
1,000 yards in a single season
and the school’s second
Shrine Bowler (Harris was
the first).
Several other players from
“that era were also on hand,
including all-star lineman
Ken Cloninger from the 1954
team; Mearl Valentine, a full-
back and defensive lineman,
and Leonard Wright, an of-
fensive lineman who blocked
for Baity and Harris.
Sharing in the pre-game
is to carve.
and use a marker to trace the carving lines.
the thick flesh.
lighting your jack-o'-lantern.
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meal and halftime festivities
was one of the grandest
ladies of KMHS football his-
tory, Louise Carlton of Gas-
‘ tonia. Her husband, the late
Shu Carlton, put the Moun-
taineers on the football map
during the middle fifties,
leading the team to the SWC
championship in' 1955 and
the WNCHSAA crown in
1956 before moving on to
Gastonia Ashley.
In fact, most of the play-
ers from the 1940s and 1950s
said their best memory of
KMHS football was playing
for coaches Shu Carlton and
Art Wiener. Wiener, an All-
American end at UNC and a
member of the College Foot-
ball Hall of Fame, coached
the Mountaineers in 1951
while Carlton was called
back into service with the
Marines. Carlton was a war
hero during the Korean War.
The oldest former player
in attendance was Major
Loftin, who has been a fix-
ture at KMHS athletic events
since the 1940s. He was a
¥ “wingback on Carlton’s 1948
~ team and said his best mem-
ory was tearing his ACL
which “slowed” him down.
The next year Loftin moved
to Mount Holly and received
the Player of the Game
Award for his play on defense
against the Mountaineers. He
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said coaches Carlton and Don
Parker congratulated him
after the game, noting that
they taught himewell.
John Gamble’s 1960 team
was well represented by play-
ers like Charlie Burns, Dale
Hollifield and Jerry Adams.
All were linemen and helped
lead the team to a 9-1 record.
The 1963 and 1964 cham-
pionship teams were well-
represented by Pat Murphy,
Steve Baker, Mike Huffstick-
ler, Richard Gold, Phillip
Putnam and others.
Murphy still ranks as
KM’s most accurate passer
ever. He went on to rewrite
the record book at Ap-
palachian State, where he
was an All-American.
Huffstickler was a 1,000-
yard rusher on the 1963 team
that finished undefeated with
a 9-0-1 mark, and his running
mate Baker took over as the
#1 running back in 1964.
Baker's kickoff return in the
“sudden death” game with
Shelby in 1963 still ranks as
one of the most exciting mo-
ments in KMHS football his-
tory.
Gold, who played quarter-
back, running back, end and
defensive back, was one of
the most versatile football
players KM has had and
probably the best all-around
athlete to come through the
school. He went on to be-
come a first team All-Ameri-
can second baseman at
Florida State.
Mack was joined by sev-
eral teammates from the 1978
and 1979 teams, including
linemen Kelly Land and
Glenn Carroll, running back
Kenny Bell and quarterback
Jeff Cloninger. Jeff and his
father, Ken, were the only fa-
ther-son duo attending.
Among others in atten-
dance were Chris, Stan and
Steve Laughter, Rocky
Brown, Charles Green, Bob
Hullender and Gene Patter-
son. :
And one set of twins -
‘well, not really but they had
a lot of fun saying so - Chris
and Chris Johnson. They both
played in the 1970s, giving
the Mountaineers .a Chris
Johnson for six years in a
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