Sports
In 2009, the middle school had an outstanding year on the athletic field. Starting in the spring of 2009, the baseball team recorded a perfect 12-0 season capped off by winning the Gaston County Championship.
The girls fast-itch softball team followed in the fall and also had a perfect 12-0 season. The Lady Wildcats defeated arch-rival Chavis Middle School 5 to 4 in the county championship game. This is the first time the Lady Wildcats finished the season with a perfect record.
One week later Belmont Middle School defeated Southwest Middle School to win the county championship and finish the season with another 12-0 perfect record.
This may be the first time in history that a Gaston County middle school had three sports teams complete back to back to back perfect seasons.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)