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Kings Mountain’s 9-10 year-old all-stars are competing this week in the District tournament
in Boger City with the hopes of qualifying for the upcoming state Dixie Youth Tournament in
Stanley.
KM 9-10 all-stars 3-1
in district tournament
The 9-10 year old KM
_ all-star baseball team got off
to a great start at the Dixie
Youth Baseball District tour-
nament in Boger City, NC.
Led by dominant pitching,
they won their first three
games by a margin of 39-1
while only allowing two hits.
Friday night KM pow-
ered past Tryon, winning 18-
1 while striking out 12
batters. Isaiah Lowe pitched
three innings striking out six
and allowing one hit, Caleb
Broome threw two innings
striking out four and allowed
ho hits. Peyton Fisher closed
the game by striking out two
and allowed no hits in the
last inning. The hitting was
powered by Isaiah Lowe
who went 4-5, Trey Craw-
ford went 3-3 with a grand
slam and Reese Ayscue went
3-4. Chris Ruffalo added two
hits, both doubles, while
Caleb Broome, Charlie
Melton, Steven Spaes and
Peyton Fisher all had one hit
a piece. :
The dominant pitching
continued in. their second
game on Saturday when they
faced Chapel Grove. KM’s -
Devin Pressley and Charlie
Melton combined to throw a
no-hitter to win 11-0. Devin.
struck out eight batters over
three innings of work while
Charlie struck out one batter
in the last inning to close the
game due to mercy rule. The
offense was led by Cooper
Putnam who went 2-2 with a
triple and double. Trey
Crawford, Isaiah Lowe,
Charlie Melton and Bennett
Davis all had one hit a piece.
Sunday’s matchup with
the Bessemer City American
team was no different than
the first two games. Trey
Crawford threw a complete
game, one hit shutout en
route to a 10-0 win. Trey
also struck out eight batters
over his four innings of
work. Leading hitters were
Cooper Putnam who went 2-
2, Reese Ayscue went 2-3
and Isaiah Lowe went 2-3.
Also adding to the hitting at-
tack was Caleb Broome,
Trey Crawford, Bennett
Davis, Devin Pressley and
Koby Rikard with one hit a
piece.
On Monday - after-
noon KM received their first
loss, 14-1, when they went
up against the Bessemer City
National team. BC was able
to capitalize on four KM er-
rors and the seven walks that
KM gave up over five in-
nings of play. In the loss,
KM only recorded five hits
with Trey Crawford going 2-
2, while Cooper Putnam,
Devin Pressley and Steven
Spaes all added o hit each.
The loss puts KM in the los-
ers bracket where they will
face the Bessemer City
American team on Tuesday
night.
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f Smith inducted into Lincoln
| County Sports Hall of Fame
Clyde Smith, long-time Lincolnton coach
and administrator who got his start in public
education and coaching at old Mount Holly
High School, was inducted into the Lincoln
County Sports Hall of Fame at its 13th in-
duction ceremony Saturday night at the Lin-
colnton Citizens Center.
Smith was a three-sport athlete at old
Stanley High School and was one of the star
players on the 1959-60 Blue Devils basket-
ball team that won the Little Seven Confer-
ence and finished second in the state.
Smith got his start in coaching as an as-
sistant football coach at Mount Holly under
Delmer Wiles. After two years there and one
at Taylorsville High School, he joined the
staff of Von Ray Harris at Lincolnton High
and spent over 30 years in the Lincoln
County school system as a coach, teacher
and administrator.
While at LHS he was defensive coordina-
tor for the football team and ran the school’s
track program which posted a 510-175
record.
. Always a ninth grade civics teacher,
Smith got out of coach shortly after Lincol-
nton built a new high school in 1978 and
went from four to three grades. He taught at
the junior high and coached at the high’
school for a couple of years but gradually
moved out of coaching and into administra-
tion.
After retiring from public schools with 33
years of service, Smith spent nine more years
as the principal of a private Christian school.
Smith became acquainted with Von Ray
Harris his senior year at Stanley when Harris
was head coach of the South team in the
Lions Bowl All-Star game in Forest City. The
game featured only players from the old
Southwestern and Northwestern Conferences
of the Western NC High School Actiivities
Association, but Harris chose Smith and an-
other player from Stanley, two from Mount
Holly and two from Dallas to join his team.
The two immediately hit it off, and
through Harris’s connection with Coach Don
Robinson at Western Carolina University
Smith was able to join the Catamounts as a
walk-on. He was able to earn a scholarship
and play full-time as a defensive back.
“Von Ray would visit and always speak
to me,” Smith recalled. “Don had already
been telling him that ‘Smitty would make
you a good coach.’”
Roxanne Rankin photo
Clyde Smith, right, receives Hall of Fame
Award from former Lincolnton running back
Steve Brackett.
In Smith’s first year at Mount Holly Har-
ris called to offer him a coaching position,
but he had already signed a contract. The op-
portunity to coach at Lincolnton arose again
three years later when Don Pack left his
men’s basketball coaching job at LHS to
teach and coach at Shelby High School.
Smith coached basketball and was Har-
ris’s defensive coordinator for eight years.
Schools were getting heavily involved in off-
season weight programs and Smith ran that
100.
During his early years of teaching and
coaching Smith saw sports, public schools
and society go through some dramatic
changes, not the least of which was integra-
tion in the 1960s. The hard work and com-
mitment of people like Smith and Von Ray
Harris made the transition from segregation
to integration a smooth and successful one in
Lincolnton.
“When I was at Mount Holly a few
schools had freedom of choice,” Smith re-
called. “The Black kids were sort of hand-
picked. The year I came to Lincolnton was
the year they closed Black schools totally.
Athletics had as much to do with the success
of integration as anything.”
Some schools had adjustment problems,
but Smith noted that several schools such as
Lincolnton and Gastonia Ashley immedi-
ately benefited from integration. In its first
year of integration, Ashley won the state 4A
basketball championship.
“Lincolnton went through integration so
smoothly it was unbelievable,” Smith said.
“There were a few problems but the kids usu-
ally worked them out themselves.”
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