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THe 2 28th shiva Kings Mountain ‘Sports Hall of Fame dinner and induction ceremony will be held Sat- urday, May 9 at 6 p.m. at Central United Methodist Church on South Piedmont Avenue. Linwood Restaurant, 8 will begin flat 6 p.m. i and the in- duction cer- emony at 7. Tickets are $15 and are available from Hall of Fame | committee member, at the main of- fice at Kings Moun - tain High School, or at the door. T his # year’s Childers Morgan Caddell, Priscilla Ricken - | | backer, Dale ~ Hollifield ‘and the late ; Tony Leigh. Distiiguishied Service Awards, in appreciation Holiild any in-’ ductees are Childers. Kings athletics, will be presented to Bob Smith, Catherine Hicks, Paul Ingram and the late Dale Putnam. Putnam’s award will be accepted by his brother, Philip Putnam. In addition, numerous Kings Mountain High se- niors will receive college scholarships. Scholarships are sponsored by the Hall of Fame, KMHS Booster Club, the City of Kings Mountain and Punch Parker in mem- ory of his dad and former - Mountaineer basketball coach Don Parker. All four inductees en- joyed stellar careers at Kings Mountain High and beyond. Morgan Childers Cad- dell set numerous pitching records in softball, both at KMHS and USC Upstate. She also played a year of professional softball with the Akron Racers. Childers pitched the Lady Mountaineers to back- to-back state 3A champi- ‘onships in 2005 and 2006 ‘and ‘was thé State’ MVP both years. Among others, _she holds career records at KMHS and Upstate in ca- reer wins and strikeouts. Childers will be inducted by her high school coach, Su- zanne Grayson. Rickenbacker was a standout basketball, softball, tennis and volleyball player at KMHS in the late 1970s. oe "Soe HALL OF FAME, Page 4B Mountain EY GR Wednesday, May 6, 2015 The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.com Kings Mountain High honors its senior softball players prior to Friday’s home game with Shelby. Left to right are Kayla Skidmore, Mikeala Bell, Leah Herndon, Emily Hester and Sarah Scism. (Photos by KM Herald) KM softball routs Shelby to wrap up SMAC title i ay A LA Kings Mountain’ s Ashton. Withers rounds third and heads for home following one of her two home runs in Friday’s win oversShelby. Kings Mountain High’s girls softball team ran its South Mountain Athletic Conference winning streak to 14 games Friday.at home with an 11-1 six-inning victory over Shelby’s Lady Lions. The victory gave the Lady Mountaineers their first conference champion- ship since 2007. They were scheduled to play Chase in a makeup game Monday and will travel to East Burke for their final conference game Friday. Kings Mountain holds a full two-game lead over its nearest competitor, East Rutherford. The Lady Cav- aliers would. have to win their final two games and KM lose their last two to force a tie; however, KM would own the tie-breaker for having beaten the Lady Cavaliers twice. After Friday, the Lady Mountaineers will await their seeding for the upcom- ing state 3A playoffs. They should be a high seed and hopefully host a lot of play- off games. The NCHSAA is scheduled to seed teams on May 9 and first round games are scheduled for May 13. Other game dates are May 16, 18 and 22. The Regional rounds are May 26-30. and the state championship June 5-6. The KM gals ran up an early 8-0 lead, then put the game away onthe ‘mercy See SOFTBALL, Page 2B Touchdown Club golf tourney slated Friday {The annual Kings Moun- tain Touchdown Club golf tournament will be held Friday at Kings Mountain ‘Country Club. | The 32-team, captain’s choice event raises funds for the new Brinkley Field House at Kings Mountain High School. The field house was ded- icated a year ago this week and has served not only as a field house for athletes but also as a quiet place for end of grade testing. Golfers will gather around 11:30 a.m. for a meal and teams will tee off around 1 p.m. The tournament this year has drawn more excitement than ever as the 32 playing spots were sold in a matter of days. In addition to prizes of- fered to the top teams, there will be raffles and drawings for numerous prizes. Many former Moun- taineers will be returning home to play in the golf tournament, including 1979 football star Kevin Mack. Mack played fullback on Clemson’s 1982 national championship team and was AFC Rookie of the Year and a two-time All-Pro with See GOLF TOURNEY, Page 2B TTI Rd., on TR. 704.734.4782 ™ NEES "Athlete of “the Week Now Serving Breakfast! All Day... All The Time... $3% Combo! 6” sand. &drink ) Kings Mountain's graduating seniors were honored prior to Thursday’s baseball game with Chase at Lancaster Field. Front row, left to right, Shawn Adams, Logan Stevens, Colby Crisp and Robbie Lysek. Back row, left to right, Jacob Lainhart, Brandon Bell and Cameron Ramsey. (Photo by KM Herald) Mountaineers win three, eye possible at-large bid = of their SMAC" baseball Mountaineers won all three games last week to keep A Kings Mountain’s 5733 LN bi I Gastonia, NC Trojan Battery Authorized 10am-6pm DTI] From Mild To Wild! WE CAN CUSTOM BUILD | Sales + Service = Repairs EZ-Financing Available } On Hwy. 3215 at State Line 704.864.6526 oma alive their hope of making the upcoming state 3A play- offs. The wins over R-S Cen- tral (3-1), Shelby (20-0) and Chase (2-1) improved the Mountaineers’ record to 8-7 in the SMAC and 9-10 over- all heading into the final week of the regular season. Kings Mountain is scheduled to host Hunter Huss in a non-conference game tonight before travel- ing to East Burke for their final conference game on Thursday. The Mountain- eers will close out the reg- ular season Friday with a non-conference game at South Point. Aided by three route-go- ing pitching performances aiid. good defenses the Mountaineers used big in- nings to win all three of their games last week. Tuesday at R-S Central, they scored all three of their runs in the second inning and then held off a Hilligp~ per rally in the seventh. Colby Crisp followed" walk to John Bell and ‘Sin- gle by Robbie Lysek: with a two-run single in the second inning to account for the winning run.. Thomas Lavin followed with a RBI single to make the score 30:41 The Hilltoppers pushed across an unearned run in See BASEBALL, Page 2B
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