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Kings Mountain’s Jhaqui Adams is forced at second base during Sunday’ s American Legion baseball yams with Gastonia at
KM’s Lancaster Field. Post 155 won the rain- -shortened seven inning contest, 7-2.
Quick start lifts Post 155 to win
on rainy night at Lancaster Field
Kings Mountain scored
four runs in the second in-
ning and went on to defeat
Gastonia Post 23 7-2 in an
Area IV American Legion
baseball game Sunday night
at Lancaster Field.
The game began in a
steady drizzle and the rain
came down heavy from the
fifth inning until the bottom
of the seventh, when the um-
pires called the players off
the field.
Kings Mountain man-
aged only three hits against
three Post 23 pitchers but
took advantage of numerous
walks, errors and their own
alert base-running and play
calling to post their second
division win in three outings.
They are 2-2 overall. They
host Hickory in a non-divi-
sion game Saturday at 7 p.m.
and travel to Maiden at 5
p.m. on June 11 for a dou-
bleheader with the Carolina
Heat, a new team based in
Taylorsville.
Righthander Dallas Con-
ner went the route for Post
155 Sunday. He scattered
four hits and struck out 10.
He was lifted for a pinch-hit-
ter in the bottom of the sev-
enth and Hunter Stinnett
went out to take the mound
for the top of the eighth. But
before he could throw his
. warm-up pitches the umpires
wisely called the game as
puddles were forming on the
base paths and it was be-
coming hard for fielders to
see the ball.
Kings Mountain scored
all the runs it needed in the
bottom of the second. With
one out, Addison” Stinnett,
Jacob Withers and Cameron
Bullock drew consecutive
walks to load the bases.
Colby Crisp put down a per-
fect squeeze bunt to bring in
Stinnett from third. When
the pitcher’s throw sailed
over the first baseman’s head
for an error, Withers scored.
Jhaqui Adams followed with
a two-run single.
Post 155 increased its
lead to 5-0 in the third when
Conner walked, took second
on an errant pickoff attempt
and scored on Withers’ long
single off the right-center-
field fence.
Both Gastonia runs - one
in the fourth and the other in
the sixth - were unearned as
KM errors aided their run-
ners along the base paths.
Post 155 scored its final
two runs in the bottom of the
Kings Mountain’s Dallas Conner works on a complete game
victory in Sunday’s 7-2 win over Gaston Post 23.
seventh. Alex Reynolds was
hit by a pitched ball to open
the inning and Brandon Bell,
pinch-hitting for Conner,
was walked on a 3-2 pitch.
Both were moved up a base
on Daniel Barrett’s sacrifice
bunt. They later scored on
wild pitches.
Kings Mountain’s only
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other game during the week
was a non-division game at
Hickory on May 28. Hickory
won 13-1 in six and a half in-
nings. KM managed only six
hits and committed four er-
rors. Hunter Stinnett worked
4.2 innings and Zack Hegler
pitched 1.1 innings in in re-
lief.
Track
Trophies
The KMHS men’s track team
handed out trophies at its
banquet last week. Left to
right are Justice Taylor, field
events MVP, All-Conference
triple jump, and Big South
MVP for field events; Jason
Dawkins, track events MVP;
and Logan McGill, Moun-
taineer Award. Not pictured,
Vincent James, All-Confer-
ence in 300m intermediate
hurdles, and Graham Keeter,
third place Western Regional
meet and state qualifier in
shot put. The Mountaineers
finished their season with a
42-10 overall record and
third place in the Big South
Conference meet. They were
also inaugural Crest Charger
Relays Champion.
June 5, 2013
Shriners golf
tournament
set for June 22
The 11th annual White Plains Shrine Club Captain’s
Choice golf tournament for benefit of burned and crippled
children at Shriners Hospitals will be held June 22 at Kings
Mountain Country Club and shotgun start is 1 p.m.
Cash prizes totaling $15,000 will be awarded based on a
minimum of 20 teams on the course. Prize will be less if less
than 20 teams are entered. First place is $500 and first place
in second and third flights is $150. Additionally, the hole in
one contest will bring top cash prizes plus prizes on all Par 3
holes including a Sharp LCD HDTV, Calloway Diablo Irons,
and two round trip domestic airline tickets.
The cost is $65 per player or $260 per team and includes
WPSC BBQ andthe hole in one contest. The captain of a
team can sign up now, listing the names of players 2, 3, and
4 with Kevin Champion (704) 730-9948 or Ricky Carroll
(704) 300-7913 or at the Kings Mountain Country Club Pro
Shop, (704) 739-3221.
Prizes will also be presented for closest to the pin and
longest drive, and there will be door prizes.
Businesses in town are invited to advertise at the tourna-
ment and special packages will be offered to sponsors. A
platinum sponsor donates $1,000 and can enter one team in
the tournament with one mulligan per player, one string and
one skirt per team. This sponsor also receives White Plains
Shrine Club BBQ, a place at the tournament to showcase the
business, and a display banner and a sign at each of the White
Plains Shrine club’s BBQ events for a year. The Gold spon-
sor, who contributes $500, will receive a display banner and
a sign with company name at the tournament and at each of
the club’s BBQ events for a year. The silver sponsor who
contributes $100 will receive a sign with the company name
at the tournament and at each of the White Plains Shrine club
BBQ events for one year.
Sponsorships are being sold by club members
Steele holds off Howard
to win Fairgrounds race
In the rumble of the renegades, Chris Steele made the trip
to the Fairgrounds Speedway last Friday night to steal the
show and he did just that! Chris and Ryan Howard ran nose
to tail the entire race putting on one of the best shows of the
year. Ryan was all over Steele until the last lap when a
lapped car and a hard charging Howard cost him second
place by spinning out on the infield. Steele rolled on to vic-
tory and was followed by A.J. Cable, Nathan Grigg, Steve
O. Newsome and Ryan Howard.
In the Young Guns division it was again Dylon Lacey tak-
ing the checkered flag for his third win of the season putting
on a great lesson of driving for a 10 year old. Lacey was fol-
lowed by Haden Vandervort, Jared Helms and Kayla Holli-
field. :
Thunder and Lightning saw Everette Dunlap taking his
fifth win of the season three wheeling it to victory. Follow-
ing Dulap was A.J. Cable for another second place finish for
the night followed by Johnny Bowen, Donnie Rhodes and
Kris Dunlap.
Front wheel drive saw Jonathan Sarratt take his second
victory of the season in a wild three and four wide racing
See Race, 2B
Kings Mountain
Mountaineers
Athlete of the Week
Cameron
Bullock
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