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Wednesday, April 17, 2019
KM boys, girls win in track Kings Mountain High’s track teams pulled off victories over a very competitive field last week. The Lady Mountaineers won with 123 points over Stuart Cramer 98, Hunter Huss 68, Shelby 29 and East Rutherford 26. The KM men edged Stuart Cramer 92-90, followed by Shelby with 85 points, Huss 56 and East Rutherford 35. The KM women were led by Marlee Arnold with first place victories in the 1600, 800, 3200 and a leg on the winning 4x800 team. Zahra Roberts won the 100 meter dash and Jasmine Clark won the 400 meter run. KM’s Kaleb Estridge had the top performance of the day in the men’s meet, taking the pole vault with a vault of 13 feet even. Kings Mountain’s men were also impressive in winning the 4x100 and 4x200 relays. Team members were Jaden Fields, Quintin Davidson, Chris Brittain and Shyrone Reid. Other first places for the Mountaineers were David Parsons in the shot and Parker Key in the 1600 meter run.
Golfers fourth in BSC Kings Mountain High finished fourth in last week’s Big South Conference golf match at Riverbend/YMCA golf course. Host Crest edged Forestview 295-297 for first place. The Chargers’ Logan Costner and Stuart Cramer’s Austin Holland shared medalist honors with even par 72s. Cramer came in third at 314, followed by KM 327, North Gaston 358, Burns 397 and Ashbrook 415. Hunter Huss competed by did not have enough golfers to qualify for a team score. Brady Waters led the Mountaineers with a 76. Cooper Putnam shot 77, Tucker Leatherman 83, Seth Wyte 91 and Seabron Echols 104. The Mountaineers will compete in the Cleveland County tournament Tuesday, April 23 at Cleveland Country Club. Burns is the host team.
Shuffler wins two matches Doug Shuffler was the winner in both Cleveland County Senior Golf Association matches last week at Deer Brook and Kings Mountain Country Club. Shuffler shot a two-over 74 at Deer Brook Thursday and an even par 72 at Kings Mountain on Tuesday. Clayton Bailey took low net at Deer Brook with a 58 (82-24). Jimmy Blanton was closest to the pin on #12 and Charles Wall sank the longest putt on #18. Dale Shelton won low net at Kings Mountain with a 62 (82-20). Shuffler was closest to the pin on #5 and Mike Barbus sank the longest putt on #18.
Kings Mountain’s Summer Campbell (20) and Emma Goff (12) battle Forestview in last week’s game at Gamble Stadium. Photos by Gary Smart
Wild 7th lifts Jags over KM
Nicola Bridges (3) gets the ball downfield for the Lady Mountaineers in last week’s game against Forestview at John Gamble Stadium.
Kings Mountain soccer still undefeated in BSC Kings Mountain High’s women’s soccer team continued their dominance of Big South 3A Conference teams last week with impressive victories over Forestview and Gastonia Ashbrook. On Wednesday, the Lady Mountaineers took a 4-1 win over Forsetview at John Gamble Stadium. Lindsey Deaver led the scoring with two goals, and she assisted another goal. Sarah Drennan had a goal and an assist. Reagan Buchanan had a goal and Hannah Clark had an assist. Baylee Marr was in goal. Thursday, the KM ladies travel to Gastonia to take on the Green Waave and came away with a 6-0 shutout. Deaver again led the offense with two goals. Reagan Buchanan, Hannah Clark, Sarah Drennan and Emma Herndon scored a goal each. Nicola Bridges, Drennan, Carly Johnson, Clark and Deaver each had an assist. Marr and Kennedy Barnes were in goal.
Reagan Buchanan takes a shot in last week’s KMHS soccer win over Forestview at John Gamble Stadium.
“It ain’t over til it’s over,” was one of New York Yankee great Yogi Berra’s famous Yogi-isms back in his heyday. It was certainly true Wednesday night at KM’s Lancaster Field when what appeared like a 4-3 victory for the Mountaineers turned into a last inning disaster when Forestview scored nine runs to take a 12-4 lead but then had to hold off a Mountaineer rally in the bottom of the seventh for a 12-11 Big South victory. Both teams paraded 13 batters to the plate in the final frame. The Mountaineers had the bases loaded with two outs when Forestview relief pitcher Jake Lee got John Harmon Melton on a fly ball to left to end the game. Kings Mountain’s 4-3 lead appeared safe when Joe Ruffalo came on to begin the inning after Bryce Fisher had handcuffed the Jaguar batters since relieving starter Justin Cooke and shutting down a Forestview rally. The Jags had grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first inning on Jackson Harbin’s sacrifice fly, and increased it to 3-0 with two unearned runs in the top of the third. Kings Mountain battled back to trim the margin to 2-1 in the bottom of the third on an RBI single by David Bell and a bases-loaded walk to Fisher. Fisher came on to put out a bases-loaded jam in the fourth, and Bell smashed a two-run homer in the fifth to put the Mountaineers on top 4-3. That seemed comfortable until the top of the seventh, when Jake England’s single to left was followed by two errors and two walks to bring the tying run across.
The Jaguars went ahead 5-4 on a bases-loaded squeeze bunt by Jesse Osborne and that would eventually turn out to be the winning run. The Jaguars tacked on seven more runs off Ruffalo and Zach Crawford to go up 12-4 before Melton came in from centerfield to get the final out. The Mountaineers weren’t going down without a fight, though, as Boone Cartee ripped a double to left-center to open the bottom of the seventh. With runners on second and third with one out, Forestview appeared solidly in command but Melton’s fly ball to right was dropped and Cartee scored to cut the margin to 12-5. A Crawford single brought in two more runs, and a later single by Stevens cut the score to 12-8. After a walk to Silas Price loaded the bases, Forestview called Lee to the mound and he got Blake Broome hit a sacrifice fly to center for the second out, cutting the score to 12-9. Cartee’s second hit of the inning brought the score to 12-10, and Bell’s single to center accounted for the final score. For the game, the Jaguars collected only six hits with four of them coming in the seventh inning. Kings Mountain had only two hits over the first six innings, both by Bell. Cartee added two in the seventh and Crawford, Ruffalo Stevens and Bell had one apiece.
Mountaineers edge Ashbrook
Kings Mountain’s Katherine Martin battles a Forestview defender in last week’s Lady Mountaineer win at John Gamble Stadium.
Kings Mountain jumped on Ashbrook starter Khalil DeLozier for two runs in the first inning and went on to defeat the Green Wave 5-1 in a Big South 3A Conference game Tuesday night in Gastonia. The Green Wave cut the margin to 2-1 in the fourth inning but Kings Mountain tacked on three insurance runs in the top of the seventh. Southpaw Seth Kennedy went the distance for the
Mountaineers, finishing with a three-hitter with DeLozier getting two of them. Kings Mountain collected seven hits. John Harmon Melton went 2-for-4 with two runs batted in, and Blake Broome added two hits and one RBI. Boone Cartee had a double in three trips; Bryce Fisher had a double and three RBIs in four trips, and Jaxson Bolin went 1-for-3.