Page 6A-KIN08 MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thuraday, October 4, 1»79
Mounties Seek Fourth
In A Row Friday At Crest
Kings Mountain’s
Mountaineers go after
their fourth straight vic
tory Friday night against a
much-improved Crest
High team. Kickoff Is 8
p.m. In the Crest Stadium.
The Mountaineers won
their third straight shutout
last Saturday night at
home against prevlously-
unbeaten East Rutherford,
13-0. The victory moved
KM Into a tie for second
place In the Southwestern
3-A Conference with a 2-1
mark.
Crest Is 1-2 In the SWC
and 2-2 overall. The
Chargers have defeated
West Caldwell and Chase
while losing to Shelby and
Elast Rutherford.
"They’re going to be sky
high Friday night.” says
KMHS Coach Dan Brooks.
'"Ihey’re coming off a real
big win against Chase. And
they’ll be remembering
last year when we beat
them 8-6 In the last minute
of play.”
’The Chargers are run
ning a wishbone on offense
and have one of the best
defensive teams In the
SWC. They held both East
and Chase to one touch
down.
"We’ll have to play
consistent on offense,”
says Brooks. "They play
sound defense and aren’t
going to let you score too
much. They have a lot of
young players who are
THE KKARI-KSS IWlNS
Fearless Twins
Pick Raiders,
Mountaineers
By KEARLKSK
As you can tell by the above
darlin’ picture, ol’ Fearless
ain’t ol’ after all.
We’re doin’ pretty well this
year in this prep pigskin
predicting, but we win't doin'
no braggin’ yet neither.
I’m the Fearless Twins this
week. As you can also tell,
they have entirely different
mo^, although they're iden
tical.
The one on the left is actual
ly being happy about all the
local and area prep teams who
will win the big games Friday
night. 'The one on the right is
weeping wildly because some
of his favorites will be rudely
beaten.
But they're cute little tykes,
aren’t they? Or are they?
Actually, when 1 was a
baby, they kidnapped me. I
was such an ugly little fellow
when I was abwt six years
old, that when the kidnappers
sent my mother a ransom
note, it read: "Send $5,000 or
you WILL see your son
again.”
*****
I WAS TOLD never to ac
cept candy from strangers
when I was small, but 1 was
also told if they invited me to
get into the car to go ahead
and get in. So I was loser from
the outset as far as looks went.
One of my sisters, Blanche,
has twin daughters. One of my
first cousins in Kings Moun
tain, Johnny Conner, has twin
sons. If I ever get married, it
would be my luck to have
triplets, all as ugly as me.
Johnny’s sister, Betty, hits a
daughter, I^ Ann Payne,
who attends Lincoln Junior
High in Bessemer City. She’s
snnarter than I am. I’m going
to let Lee Ann, who is a brainy
beauty, pick the prep winners
one of these weeks. Her older
brother, Robbie, played for
the Bessemer City grid team
last year.
I always wanted to pla^fodP-
ball, but was too "light," as all
sportswriters and
newspapermen tell people.
But my first cousin. Ken Bai
ty, made All-State while play
ing football for Shu Carlton at
Kings Mountain High School
and played in the Shrine Bowl
game.
At least I’ve got relatives
who are talented, even if I am
in dire straits.
9PORT9
HELL, I guess we'd better
get down to picking this
week’s prep winners, or at
least the teams we think will
win.
South Point plays a big
game at home against Bums
Friday
Burns has a good football
team this year. However,
South Point has a better one,
and barring a letdown after
the Shelby game, we're going
to pick the Red Raiders. 20-6.
East Gaston’s Warriors take
on an R-S Central team which
was picked before the season
to be in the title running.
The Hilltoppers have a little
too much experience for the
Warriors. We’ll call it 20-8, R-
Central.
Kings Mountain travels to
Crest Friday to take on the
chargers. The Mountaineers
will come on strong in the se
cond half and defeat the home
team, 20-12.
*****
CHERRVVILLE'Slronmen
have another tough Southern
District 7 2-A Conference bat
tle at home Friday against
East Lincoln.
Cherryville could spring a
win in this one, but we'll pick
the Mustangs in a close one,
U-I3.
Bessemer City’s Yellow
Jackets host West Lincoln Fri
day. I’m picking the Yellow
Jackets. They'll play one of
■ their better games and eke out
a 13-12 win.
In the 4-A ranks, Ashbrook
goes to Asheville and Hunter
Huss is at McDowell County.
Asheville will lake a 20-19 win.
while Hunter Huss will
prevail. 20-8
In the other games, I see
Clover edging Andrew
Jackson, 20-13, and Asheville
Christ School squeezing past
Gaston Day, 14-13, and Shelby
downing North Gaston, 27-6.
"We" (us twins) will see you
next week. Have a nice
weekend.
getting better every
week.”
The same could be said
of Kings Mountain on
defense. After losing to
Burns 16-6 In their opener,
the Mounties have blanked
Ashbrook 23-0, East
Gaston 7-0 and East
Rutherford 13-0. But
Brooks Is still concerned
about the lack of con
sistency on offense.
"We’ve got to Improve
our passing game and get
more consistent,” he said.
"We’ve got to be able to
put together some drives
and keep the football when
we’re ahead.”
The Mountaineers
gained only 140 yards total
offense against Bast, 76 of
them coming on a first
period touchdown run by
Kevin Mack. TVo of KM’s
three touchdowns in the
last two games were
scored by the defense on
pass Interception returns.
"I don’t think we’ve
played as well as we can,”
said Brooks. ‘"There’s still
a lot of room for im
provement.”
Brooks praised the
defense for playing Its best
game last week, and also
said he was pleased with
the blocking.
"We played the best
we’ve played on defense,”
said Brooks. “That’s one
thing we knew we’d have to
do to beat East Ruther
ford. ’Their offensive line
was the best we’ve played
against. But our defensive
line did a real good Job,
and so did the secondary.”
Brooks cited Mark Hager,
Keith Blanton and Glenn
Carroll for playing their
best games.
"We carried out our
game plan,” said Brooks.
"We knew we had to stop
their fullback (Dennis
Wesley) and we did a good
Job of that. He had been
getting over 1(X) yards a
game. We did a good Job of
stopping him and so they
had to throw the ball and
our secondary played well
and helped out a lot.
"Offensively, our big key
was that we had three real
good blocks at the point of
attack on Kevin’s 76-ysu'd
touchdown run. When you
get that kind of blocking
and you've got a back with
good speed, you’re sup
posed to get something out
of It.” Brooks cited Lynn
Thompson, Danny
Williams and Avery Smith
for their blocking on that
play.
Brooks also ssild the KM
kicking game was the best
It’s been and singled out
punter Jeff Clonlnger and
Wally Davis, who snaps for
punts.
"Jeff did an excellent Job
punting and that helped us
keep good field position,”
Brooks said. "He punted
six times for a 37-ysu'd
average, which was his
best average of the year.”
The next two games,
both on the road, will be
big ones for the Mounties,
who need victories to stay
within a game of unbeaten
South Point.
"I feel like we’ll be
allright If we play football
and don’t have a letdown,”
Brooks said. "That was a
big win for us last week but
we can’t afford to have a
letdown now. We need to
play well on the road for
the next two weeks.”
The Mounties play at
North Gaston next week
before coming back home
on October 19 to host South
Point In KM’s annual
Homecoming game.
KM Girls Netters
Lose To Shelby
Kings Mountain High’s
girls netters dropped their
first Southwestern 3-A
(Conference match of the
year Tuesday to unbeaten
Shelby 6-3.
The Mountainettes are
now 3-1 In the SWC and 8-2
overall. They play at
Burns Thursday and Chase
Tuesday.
The victory ran Shelby’s
SWC mark to 4-0. The Lady
Uons have gone several
years without losing a
conference match.
Kim Moss won the only
singles match for KM
Tuesday, and teamed with
Wanda Witherspoon for a
Lynn Maimey
Wins Ladies- ^
Golf Crown
Lynn Mauney shot an 86-
87-173 to win the Kings
Mountain County Club
Women’s Club Cham
pionship Saturday.
She v.'on by 20 shots over
Margaret Williams, who
shot 91-102-193.
Peggy Jackson took first
flight honors with a 113-109-
-222. Jennie Amette was
runner-up with a 113-116-
229.
Second flight honors
went to Marian
Thomasson, who shot a
121-114-238. Runner-up
was Connie Ledford with a
139-133-272.
Twelve women com
peted.
Biff tpike for Diane Williams.
doubles victory. Kim
Gladden and Jamie
Humphries also won In
doubles.
"Moss had a real good
singles match,” noted
Coach Ed Guy. "Kirn
Gladden played well, also,
against Bonnie Wllklson.
About every game went to
deuce but Wllklson got the
' two points when she
needed them.
"Some of our girls may
have hadlhat fright you
have when you’re playing
Shelby,” he added. "We
weren’t mentally ready. If
we had had a real g<x>d
outlook we would have had
a good chance of winning."
THE RESULTS
“fi -(Singles) '
Bonnie Wllklson (S) def.
Kim Gladden 6-0, 6-1.
Jackie Powell (S) def.
Bridget Glass 6-2, 6-2.
Adeline Lutz (S) def.
Jamie Humphries 6-1, 6-0.
Kelly Harrlll (S) def.
Ronda Guy 6-3, 6-3.
Michelle Smith (S) def.
Wanda Witherspoon 6-4, 6-
4.
Kim Moss (KM) def.
Tammy Taylor 6-4, 6-3.
(Doubles)
Powell-Lutz (S) def.
Glass-Guy 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Gladden-Humphrles
(KM) def. Smlth-Kelger 6-
2, 4-6, 6-1.
Wltherspoon-Moss (KM)
def. Edwards-McCraw 6-3,
6-4.
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Leslie Sherrer aids KM victory. .
KM Volleyball Team
Divides Pair On Monday
9 o
Kings Mountain High’s
volleyball team split a pair
of Southwestern Con
ference matches Monday
aftem(X)n, defeating South
Point 18-13 and 16-6 and
losing to Bast Gaston 16-2
and 16-9.
The Mountainettes had a Wednesday.
4-4 record going Into
matches yesterday against
North Gaston and East
Rutherford. (3oach Kathy
Brooks’ ladies host Bums
and R-S Central In their
final home match next
Coach Brooks cited
Mary Ann White for her
serving and Debbie Ap
pling for her all-round
play In Monday’s victory
over South Point.
Photos by Bob Myers
. .FIRST PLACE—First place winners Patterson, Brian Jones, David Olbson,
in Saturday’s punt, pass and kick were, Rusty Bumgardner and Oirt Pressley,
left to right, Todd McDaniel, Mike
"’7* jl'
THIRD PLACE-Thlrd place winners In
Saturday’s punt, pass and kick were, left
to right, Oene Mills, Mark Deese, Bo
Ballard, Tim Sanders, Eric Peeler and
Kale Bagwell.
PP&K Winners Named
SECOND PLACE —Second place
winners In Saturday’s punt, pass and
kick were, leR to right, Billy King, Dock
Boheler, Stuart Spires, Brad Jones,
Brent Bagwell and Rodney Ballew.
Six winners In last
week’s local punt, pass and
kick competition will go to
Statesville Saturday for
sone competition.
Fifty youngsters par
ticipated In the KM event
at John Gamble Stadium.
Saturday’s 9:30 com
petition at Statesville will
be at McClure Field, which
Is one mile west of 1-40 on
exit 21.
Representing KM will be
Todd McDaniel, Bryan
Jones, Rusty Bumgardner,
Mike Patterson, David
Gibson and Curt Pressley.
McDaniel won last
week’s eight-year-old
competition with 148H
points. Billy King was
second with 77H and
Marty Mills third with 77.
Jones won the nine-year-
old division with a score of
143H. Stuart Spires was
second with 116 and Bo
Ballard third with 112H.
Bumgardner scored 231
points to win the ll-year-
old competition. Brent
Bagwell was second with
163 and Eric Peeler third
with 160.
Patterson took ll-year-
old honors with 183 points,
followed by Dock Boheler
178^ and Tim Sanders
150^.
Gibson won the 12-year-
old division with 184 points.
Brad Jones was second
with 176 and Mark Deese
third with 170Vi.
Pressley scored 266^ to
win the 13-year-oId
division. Rodney Ballew
was second with 209 and
Kale Bagwell third
184. '
Youngsters from KWK*
Mountain, Grover, Shelby
and Bolll Spring*
competed.
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