Sports

From Gazette reports:

Varsity golf
*Ashbrook 118, Crest 146, Forestview 159, North Gaston 161, South Point 162, East Gaston 166, Hunter Huss 170 — In a seven-team Big South Conference meet at Green Meadows Golf Course, Megan Burnham (36) and Courtney Taylor (38) led the Green Wave on Monday. Crest’s Katie Thackerson shot a 35 to win medallist honors. East Gaston’s Samantha Godfrey (46), Forestview’s Kate Fitzmaurice (51), Hunter Huss’ Taylor Wolfe (51), North Gaston’s Courtney Tignor (49) and South Point’s Alexa Mooney (42) led the schools in scoring respectively. The next Big South Conference meet is Sept. 10 at Gastonia Municipal Golf Course.

Varsity girls tennis
*Ashbrook 9, South Point 0 (non-conference) — Ashbrook (4-3) plays host to Providence on Thursday. South Point falls to 0-1.Singles: Brittany Hovis d. Allison Harris 6-1, 6-0; Ashley Hovis d. Megan Debelius 6-1, -2; Ariel Burgoon d. Becca Samuelson 6-1, 6-0; Maddy Steffey d. Sara Elliott 6-1, 6-2; Emily Stephey d. Carly Miesler 6-0, 6-1; Becca Lane d. Katie McLean 6-2, 6-1. Doubles: Hovis-Hovis d. Harris-Debelius 8-2; Burgoon-M. Stephey d. Elliott-Miesler 8-0; E. Stephey-Mary Floyd d. Samuelson-Maness 8-2

Varsity Volleyball  

*Ashbrook 3, South Point 2 (12-25, 25-22, 15-25, 25-21, 15-9) — Heather Carnes served 14 straight points in the third game to build the Green Wave’s momentum. Andreya O’Brien had nine straight service points in the final game. Ashbrook (1-2, 1-3) plays at home Thursday 

JV volleyball
*South Point 2, Ashbrook 0 (25-11, 25-9) — Taylor Houser recorded 14 service points and eight aces and Caitlyn Wilson added four kills for South Point (4-1), which plays at Lincolnton today.

(Matt Teague) 

 Some of the good stuff to come out of Belmont in recent years have been the development of baseball players who choose to try their hand in the professional ranks.

The local papers do a pretty good job keeping up with the baseball players.

We hope that they would keep up with some of the other outstanding students as well.

The Belmont Front Porch would like to hear about how some of the community’s children have progressed since their high school days. Send us your stories — it is ok to brag a bit here on the front porch, especially on a holiday weekend.

Are the Red Raider’s football team as good as the starting gate is predicting?

The Gaston Gazette seems to want to take a wait and see attitude after the first two games of the season.

Chris Lane-SPHS

(Benjamin Patton-Gaston Gazette Photo)

Two early season wins give the South Point boys a bucket full of confidence as they enter into conference play. Let’s just keep the momentum goin’ boys – GIT-R-DUN !

Line Count:

South Point 53, Kings Mountain 3
Red Raiders 19 13 14 7 — 53
Mountaineers 0 3 0 0 — 3
First quarter
SP—Desmond Lowery 17 run (James Justice kick), 7:35.
SP—Lowery 14 run (kick failed), 7:20.
SP—Jesse McGaha 37 interception return (kick failed), 5:39.
Second quarter
KM—FG Alex Randall 27, 11:06.
SP—Lowery 35 run (Justice kick), 9:24.
SP—Aaron Crumbley 16 run (run failed), 1:29.
Third quarter
SP—McGaha 5 run (Justice kick), 8:08.
SP—McGaha 5 run (Justice kick), 2:01.
Fourth quarter
SP—Josh Justice (James Justice kick), 3:44.
SP KM
First downs 20 15
Rushes-yards 41-459 49-207
Passing yards 0 22
Comp-Att-Int 0-1-0 5-15-2
Fumbles-lost 2-2 3-1
Penalties-yards 6-65 5-21
Individual statistics
RUSHING—South Point, Lowery 12-145, Crumbley 10-97, Josh Justice 1-69, Chris Lane 5-66, McGaha 6-46, Brandon Spencer 4-31, Dilion Gantt 2-7, Curtis English 1-minus 2. Kings Mountain, C.J. Belcher 7-53, Jerry Lowery 8-46, Michael Roberts 11-42, Lance Surratt 12-44, Trevarris Crosby 2-18, Leon Stanton 6-11, Devon Thompson 3-minus 7.
PASSING—South Point, Lowery 0-1-0, 0. Kings Mountain, Roberts 4-9-2, 15; Thompson 1-6-0, 7.
RECEIVING—South Point, none. Kings Mountain, Stanton 1-minus 1, Ricky Greene 1-0, Chaz King 2-8, Whitesides 1-15.