Big fourth
lifts KM
over East
Kings Mountain’s Moun-
taineers recovered from
fumbles and untimely penal-
ties over the first three quar-
ters to put 14 points on the
board in the fourth period
and defeat East Rutherford
21-14 in their SMAC opener
Friday night in Forest City.
While the Mountaineers’
offense was unstoppable in
the fourth quarter, the de-
fense played its best football
of the season by limiting the
Cavaliers to just 11 plays
and minus six yards rushing
in the final quarter. :
East stunned the Moun-
taineers with a touchdown
on their second offensive
play, and again on a 72-yard
touchdown run by Calvin
Camp on the first play from
scrimmage in the second
half to take the 14-7 lead.
Over 100 of the Cavaliers’
273 yards total offense came
on their first two plays of the
first half and first play of the
second half.
Kings Mountain moved
the ball all night but the four
fumbles and 83 yards in
penalties hampered them,
including one holding
penalty that negated a first Kings Mountain quarterback Brandon Bell rolls out to throw a pass in Friday’s win over East
Rutherford in Forest City.
half touchdown.
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Mountaineers beat Cavaliers 21-14,
seek first win over Burns in four years
KM 4-0, Burns 1-2
in first county game
Kings Mountain’s Moun-
taineers will be seeking their
fifth straight win — and their
first over Burns in four years
— when the Bulldogs come
to John Gamble Stadium for
a 7:30 p.m. game Friday.
The Bulldogs posted
their first win of the season
Friday night in a SMAC
game with Chase after los-
ing two non-conference
games to perennial 3A pow-
ers Ashbrook and Freedom.
Mountaineer coach Greg
Lloyd has seen the young
Bulldogs on film, and for a
quarter in person as the
Burns-Chase game was sus-
pended by storms Friday
and completed Monday
night at Burns.
“They’ve got a really
good defense,” Lloyd noted.
“They have good size and
will be the best defense
we’ve seen this year.”
One of the leaders of the
Burns defense is senior line-
backer Kyle Carroll, who is
a former Mountaineer.
The Bulldogs’ offense
also looked good in Mon-
day’s 20-3 win over Chase.
AJ Camp gained over 100
yards rushing and senior
Michael Tate is also a tal-
ented runner as well as a
starter at linebacker.
“The last few games
they’ve been moving the
ball better,” said Coach
Lloyd. “They’re improving
every game. They will be
very physical and this will
be the hardest-hitting game
we’ve had.”
Lloyd hopes to see a lot
of improvement in the
Mountaineers this week.
“Taking care of the foot-
ball has to be our number
one goal,” he said. “We
can’t put the ball on the
ground. We can’t give them
a short field.
“We have to finish our
drives. We need to play a lot
better than we did last week.
We can’t give up anything
big. We have to play hard
the whole game.”
The Mountaineers will
probably be without the
services of offensive line-
man Keenan Baker. He took
a helmet to the knee last
week at East Rutherford,
and though there’s nothing
pulled or broken his leg is
Very sore.
Lloyd said starting offen-
sive lineman Max Peterson
and defensive lineman Colin
Watkins, who were injured
in the Forestview game, will
be back; and Kenny
Williams, who started in the
place of Peterson last week
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Photos by Gary Smart
Kings Mountains Angel Peterson (8) gets a kill in last week’s game at Chase.
Lady Mountaineers go
five sets to beat Polk
Kings Mountain had to go five sets to de-
feat Polk County 3-2 in non-conference vol-
leyball action Wednesday night at Donald L.
Parker Gymnasium.
The Lady Mountaineers won 22-25, 25-
19, 25-22, 19-25, 15-9 after the JVs fell 14-
25, 14-25.
Several players had a good night for
Coach Ashley Pridgeon’s team.
Kayla Bolt had 15 kills, 10 digs and six
aces. Gracie Hunter contributed eight aces
and 20 digs, and Angel Peterson had 10 aces.
Sara Pasour had 22 assists, eight aces and
six digs. Ashton Withers added seven aces
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and Shaniya Portee had four kills.
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Kings Mountain High’s volleyball team
defeated a good Foresetview team 3-2 in a
non-conference game Wednesday in Gasto-
nia.
The varsity won 22-25, 25-19, 25-22, 19-
25, 15-9 after the JVs lost 0-2.
Kayla Bolt had 22 digs, nine kills and
three aces for the Lady Mountaineers.
Shaniyah Portee had seven kills.
Gracie Hunter had 27 digs and 12 assists
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Spikers beat East Burke,
open 2-game SMAC lead
The 2012 SMAC volleyball champi-
onship is Kings Mountain’s to lose after the
Lady Mountaineers opened up a two-game
lead Monday at home with a 3-1 victory
over East Burke.
East Burke came into the match with a
6-1 conference record and needing a win to
tie the KM ladies for first place.
Heading into the second round, the Lady
Mountaineers lead both East Burke and
Draughn by a full two games. KM will play
both of those teams later in the season.
Monday’s match at Donald Parker
Gymnasium was hotly-contested. Kings
Mountain posted a 25-4 win in game one,
but the last three sets were extremely close
throughout. East Burke won 25-23 and KM
captured the third set 30-28 before closing
out the match 25-19.
Last year’s SMAC Player of the Year
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Kayla Bolt with another kill
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