The Belmont Front Porch

“Attention Red Raider Fans!

Body Paint is NOT allowed at any High School athletic event in the state of NC!  This is a New NCHSAA rule.”

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Wow ! - Does this mean the cheerleaders, moms with player numbers, and those little “tattoos” on kids watching games?

This will be a fun one to try to enforce. Sort of like saying that there is no drinking or smoking at any athletic events - yeah, right.

We can’t wait to see one of our prominent citizens to be escorted out for her facepaint at a football game – yeah, the ones in the “red section”

A travel reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has posted a very nice story about the US National Whitewater Center.

What is great about the story are the picture links embedded. When you open up the story, look down on the left for those links.

As we have been saying all along — Take It Outside !

As reported by the Gaston Gazette:

High School Varsity soccer
Gaston Christian 3, Spartanburg Day 2 — Brandon Hammond scored two goals and Jimmy Kelly scored one goal while Chandler Patterson and Andrew Spenser had assists in the win. Gaston Christian (3-3) hosts Covenant Classical Thursday.

Ashbrook 4, Kings Mountain 1 (Monday) — Jerad Kiser posted his fifth goal of the year against the Mountaineers Monday night. Ray Lupse, Steven Valencia, and Matthew Conner scored for the Green Wave while Paul Philavong scored the Mountaineers’ lone goal.

College Soccer

Belmont Abbey women 3, Mars Hill 1 — At Belmont, Belmont Abbey sophomore forward Celene Molera scored two goals and assisted on another as the Crusaders scored three unanswered goals to improve to 2-0 on the year with a 3-1 win over Mars Hill Tuesday.

Mars Hill (1-2) scored the first goal of the match early when Caity Murnahan fired the first of two Mars Hill corner kicks directly to Riley Dorsey, who headed home the winner into the left corner of the net for an early 1-0 lead.

The advantage was short lived, as sophomore midfielder Laurie Jordan knotted the match at one two minutes later. The score remained tied through the end of the first half, but Molera struck the winning goal just 9:46 into the second half. Two minutes later, Molera put the game away for good with a score from 12 yards out.

Belmont Abbey travels to Columbus, Ga. to participate in a tournament hosted by Columbus State. The Abbey will face the University of Tampa Friday at 5 p.m.