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KM falls late
to Chase,
idle this week
Kings Mountain’s Mountaineers jumped out to a quick
14-0 lead but a fresher and healthier Chase team stormed
from behind in the second half to hand the home team its
eighth straight loss, 40-28, on Senior Night Friday at John
Gamble Stadium,
The Mountaineers welcomed the return of last year’s
leading rusher Xavier Johnson. Although operating at about
75 percent, Johnson played a good game with five catches
for 46 yards, including
a 7-yard reception on
the first play of the
game that started a 74-
lead.
But, as the Moun-
§ taineers’
d have it, they lost their
Of freshman wide re-
the second quarter but
kh] hope to have him back
for their season-ending
ber 8 at East Burke
|High in Connelly
Springs.
Head coach Greg
players for their effort.
“We played hard,”
Kings Mountain qarterhacks Bran-
don Bell keeps for some of his 142 | | 4 “We had a lot
yards rushing in Friday’s game with
Chase.
of players playing both
ways and ran out of
steam late in the game.
But we played harder than we have since the Burns game.”
Quarterback Brandon Bell was back to a hundred percent
after having his first full week of hitting practice for a
month. He played in the prior week’s loss to R-S Central but
was rusty.
“I felt sure going in that he would play alot better,” Lloyd
said.
i Bell accounted for 352 yards total offense (144 rushing
and 208 passing) and scored on runs of 18 and 33 yards in
the first quarter to give the Mountaineers a 14-0 lead.
After Merchant went down to. injury while making a
tackle, the Mountaineers lost some of their momentum and
the Trojans came back to cut the margin to 14-7 at halftime
and gained a tie with an early TD in the third period.
The game see-sawed back and forth, with one team scor-
ing and then the other, but the fresher and quicker Trojans
used the inside running of fullback Josh Wright and the out-
side keepers of quarterback Tyrell Boykins to take control
in the fourth quarter.
“I thought we played solid defense in the first half,”
Coach Lloyd noted. “But we wore down and gave them a
short field in the second half. We had some dropped balls
that could have made the difference.
“But we didn’t roll over and I was glad to see that. I felt
= much better after losing Friday than I had the pass several
weeks. We played a lot better and I was happy with that.”
. Kings Mountain’s passing game got a lift, not only from
the return of Johnson but also the effort of senior Keeneh
Dimetros who had been held without a catch for several
weeks. He caught four passes for 39 yards. Tico Crocker
caught five passes for 80 yards and gained 35 yards rushing
' on six carries to give the Mountaineers two players with over
100 yards total offense.
See KM, 3B
yard drive for a 7-0,
luck would '
: | Lloyd was proud of his"
?
The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.net
|
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Kings Mountain's Kayla Bolt (5) returns a hard kill attempt against AC Reynolds in State 3A volleyal game Thursday might
at Donald L. Parker Gymnasium.
KMHS spikers defeat Reynolds,
fall to St. Stephens in third round
Kings Mountain High’s women’s
volleyball team made great strides this
season, going three rounds in the state
3A playoffs before losing to an unde-
feated St. Stephens team which last
night was playing for the right to go to
Raleigh for the state championship
game.
The Lady Mountaineers, who de-
feated Patton last week to break a two-
year string of losing out in the opening
round, soundly defeated a good AC
Reynolds team 3-0 Tuesday night at
Parker Gym to earn the right to meet
St. Stephens for the third time this year.
Kings Mountain’s Sarah Blalock sets up a teammate in Thursday’s secontl round volleyball
match with A.C. Reynolds at the KMHS gym. The KM ladies won 3-0 to advance to the third
round against St. Stephens.
The KM ladies were hoping the
third time would be the charm against
the Lady Indians, but fell 3-0 Thursday
night at St. Stephens. St. Stephens (27-
0) went on to defeat West Henderson
3-1 Saturday night to earn the right to
meet undefeated Carson (33-0) last
night for the Western Regional cham-
pionship. The winner of that match will
go to Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh
Saturday to face the winner of the
Chapel Hill (22-8)-Cardinal Gibbons
(26-0) game for the state title.
The visiting Rockets got the jump
on the KM team Tuesday and held the
lead until a point by Mary Asgari gave
the home team a 15-14 lead. The went
on to win 25-19, 25-18, 25-20.
An adjustment by the Mountaineers
after the first match was the key to the
victory.
“Their number nine was their go-to
girl and she was really killing us early,”
noted KM coach Ashley Pridgeon.
“For the second set we adjusted by lin-
‘ing up Kayla Bolt so she would go
head-to-head with her. Kayla did a
great job of shutting her down and our
entire team basically served them out
See KMHS, 3B
Kickers in
3A playoffs
Wednesday
Kings Mountain High’s
men’s soccer team will play
the 25th ranked team in the
nation in the opening round
of the state 3A playoffs
* tonight at 6 p.m.
The Mountaineers, a wild
card from the SMAC, will
travel to Marvin Ridge,
which boasts an 18-1-1
overall record. Kings Moun-
tain is 9-13-1.
“This is pretty exciting,”
said Mountaineer coach Dan
Potter. “Our kids have
‘worked so hard and it’s re-
ally rewarding to get this op-
portunity.”
. While they're the under
dog, « the: Mountaineers
should get a boost from sen-
ior Jonmark Smith who has
missed the last several
games with a concussion.
Kings Mountain
Mountaineers
Athlete of the Week
Maddie Lutz
Women's Tennis
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