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VOLLEYBALL: soccer teams
open season Monday
Kings Mountain’s Taquisha Smith (4) sets up Logan Smith (1) for a kill in Saturday scrim-
mage at KM’s Donald L. Parker Gymnasium. The Lady Mountaineers open their first season
in the SMAC 2A/3A Conference Monday at home against East Rutherford.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Kings Mountain High soccer players work out last week in preparation for their season opener
Monday night at the new Stuart Cramer High School in Cramerton. The Mountaineers play
their first home game on Wednesday, Aug. 21 against the North Gaston Wildcats.
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Conference championship.
KM finished second in the
Big South 3A last year after
winning the conference
championship the previous
year.
Kings Mountain is led by
three returning all-confer-
ence standouts, seniors
Logan Smith and Adrienne
Green and junior Kayla Bolt.
Pridgeon’s ladies recently
performed well against some
strong 3A and 4A competi-
tion in scrimmages at Char-
lotte Latin and Kings
Mountain High. All ten of
her players competed on var-
sity last season.
“Every person on the
team has played together and
played year round,” she said.
“That really makes a differ
ence.”
Coach Potter, in his third
season after coming out of
retirement, is rebuilding the
KM men’s soccer program
and feels the team will make
some big strides this year.
They didn’t win a game two
years ago but won six
matches last year. He hopes
to have a winning season this
fall.
“The kids have commit-
ted themselves to having a
strong team,” he said. “They
are working very hard.”
Some of his returners in-
clude co-captains Jonmark
Smith and Cameron Hord,
along with Isaiah Cole, Rob-
bie Lysek, Weston Harmon,
Arrick Rithiphong and Max
Sappia.
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Masons began laying interior concrete walls at the new KMHS football field house Monday. Brick walls should be going up
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