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KMHS Girls Upset
Kings Mountain High School
will host the District 7 3-A boys
and girls basketball tournaments
February 24-27 and March 2.
The top five teams from the
Southwestern Conference and
the top three teams from the
Western Piedmont Conference
will compete for the first place
trophy and the right to go to
Hickory March 11-13 for the
Western Regionals. The winners
at Hickory will advance to the
State finals.
Games will be played on
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday nights at 5 p.m.,
6:30 and 8 p.m. The champion
ship games on Tues., Mar. 2 will
be at 6:30 and 8 p.m.
Kings Mountain’s boys and
girls are assured of berths in the
district events due to their
regular season finishes in the
SWC. The boys won the con
ference and the girls finished in
fourth place.
The top five regular season
finishers will advance to the
district unless a team which
finished lower than fifth wins
the conference tourney. If that
happens, the tournament win
ners will advance and the fifth
place regular season finishers
will not advance.
If that doesn’t happen. Kings
Mountain’s boys will play their
first district game on Wed., Feb.
24 at 8 p.m. against the number
five team from the Southwestern
Conference. The KM girls will
play their first district game on
Thurs., Feb. 25 at 5 p.m. against
the number one team from the
Western Piedmont Conference.
The opening night pairings on
Wednes^y include:
5 p.m. - No. 2 WPC vs. No. 3
SWC (girls).
6:30 - No. 1 SWC vs. No. 5
SWC (girls).
8 p.m. - No. 1 SWC vs. No. 5
SWe: (boys).
Thursday’s schedule:
5 p.m. - No. 1 WPC vs. No. 4
SWC (girls).
WO - No. 2 WPC vs. No. 3
SVi^bfboys).
8 pjn. - No. 1 WPC vs. No”
Jayvees
Win SWC
Kings Mountain High’s
jayvee basketball team wrapped
up its third straight
Southwestern 3-A Conference ti
tle Friday at home, defeating
Chse 96-56.
The victory gave Coach Dan
ny McDowell’s Little Mounties a
final 13-5 record.
Arnold Jordan led the scoring
with 23 points and shared top re
bounding honors with Larry
Crocker with 10. He also stole
the ball six times and dished out
six assists. Mark Champion also
had six assists and Crocker
blocked five shots.
The Mounties got off to a
good start, using their man to
man defense to force Chase into
a number of turnovers. The
Moutnies built up a 27-7 lead.
Coach McDowell played all II
of his players in the firet period.
Kings Mountain’s transition
game and its shooting against
Chase’s zone defense enabled the
team to build the lead to 49-21 at
the close of the second period,
and the Little Mounties ran the
difference to 64-37 going into
the fourth quarter.
For the night, KM hit 72 per
cent from the floor and 75 per
cent from the foul line and com
mitted only four turnovers.
“We played with a lot of inten
sity,” McDowell said. This was
a nice way to end our season.
This group really wanted that ti
tle, and I am so proud of them
for their effort this year.”
Jordan led the team in scoring
with a 20 point per game
average. Grier scored 10 per
game, David Pettis 8.3 and Mark
Champion 8.1.
Crocker topped the reboun
ding department with 11 per
game, and he also averaged five
blocked shots per game.
Other players on the team wre
Chris Champion, Ronnie Byers,
Dwayne Williams, Bo Thomp
son, Skip Birskovich, Brian Byrd,
Dorick Spann, Walt Cooper and
Curt Pressley. 3^
“I’d like to thank the pprehts,
fans, cheerleaders, managers and
everyone for their support of the
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SWC (boys).
Friday night:
5 p.m. - No. 2 SWC vs. No. 3
WPC (girls).
6:30 - Semi-finals girls game.
8 p.m. - No. 2 SWC vs. No. 3
WPC (boys).
The second semi-finals girls
game and both semi-finals boys
games will be played on Satur
day night, with the winners ad
vancing to Tuesday’s finals.
The girls regional tourney will
be played March II and 13 at
Hickory and the state finals will
be held on March 19 at Elon
College.
The boys regional tourney will
be played on March 12 and 13 at
Hickory and the state finals will
be March 20 at the Greensboro
Coliseum.
Admission to all five nights of
action at the KMHS gym is two
dollars. Regular season passes
from the Southwestern Con
ference and other passes
honored for persons such as
teachers and bus drivers will not
be honored. Passes from the
State Association will be
honored.
KMHS Athletic Director Dan
Brooks said ticket sales at all
games will be cut off at 1,200.
The teams who will be playing
here are. not definite tecause
both the Southwestern Con
ference and Western Piedmont
Conference tournaments are
underway this week. The field
will be determined following
conference tourney finales
Saturday.
Barring an upset winner in the
SWC tourney, the SWC
representatives will be Kings
Mountain, R-S Central, East
Rutherford, Shelby and North
Gaston in the boys division and
Shelby, R-S Central, Crest,
Kings Mountain and North
Gaston in the girls.
Kings Mountain’s girls basket
ball team was the first upset vic
tim in the Southwestern 3-A
Conference tournament which
got underway Tuesday at East
Rutherford High School.
The Mountainettes, fifth place
finishers in the regular season,
fell to Coach Nancy Scoggins’
alma mater. North Gaston,
60-56, in the tournament opener
Tuesday afternoon.
The Kings Mountain boys,
defending tournament cham
pions, got off to a good start in
the nightcap, defeating eighth
place finisher Crest 84-62.
North Gaston’s girls, a tho^
in Kings Mountain’s side all year
long, came back in the second
half after trailing 34-31 at inter
mission. The Lady Wildcats
outscored the KM ladies 16-11
in the third pteriod to take a
47-45 lead, and held on over the
final eight minutes.
Dixie Friend led North
Gaston with 18 points. Sonya
McClain scored 18, Trina
Hamrick 16 and Tammy Bolton
12 for the Mountainettes.
The Kings Mountain team
now owns a 14-10 overall record
heading into the District 7 tour
nament next week at the KMHS
gym.
Kings Mountain’s boys took
the lead early and never let up in
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Junior High Grapplers
Win In Open Tournament
Two Kings Mountain Junior
High wrestlers won champion
ships in the South Carolina Open
Tournament Saturday at
Sullivan Junior High in Rock
HiU.
Derek Jordan, a 11 S-pounder,
won his weight class and was
voted the tournament’s outstan
ding wrestler. He defeated Jeff
Hall of Castle Heights on a pin
in the finals.
Kings Mountain’s other cham
pion was 101-pound Ferris
Turner, who decisioned Jeff
Hallman of Sullivan in the finals.
It was only Hallman’s second
loss in three years. Turner, who
pinned three of his four op
ponents, won the award for turn
ing in the fastest pin (I I
seconds).
Roderick Boyce of Kings
Mountain finished second in the
141 pound class, losing his cham
pionship match to Sullivan’s
Steve Jones.
Kings Mountain picked up
two third places. Charles Mc
Clain won third with a pin over
Paul Donaldson of RoUison
Road and heavyweight Jarvis
Young won third place with a
decision over Paul Howard of
Grier.
Over 150 wrestlers from
several North and South
Carolina schools competed.
“I’m real proud of all of our
wrestlers,” said KM Coach Phil
Weathers. “Since we’ve been go
ing to the tournament, this was
the best turnout' we’ve had.
There were some of the finest
junior high wrestlers in the
Carolinas there.”
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