C. JEMAL HORTON
MOUNT PLEASANT â His promising football career almost ended right there on the Mount Pleasant Lions Club field several years ago.
No orange slices, juice boxes or other postgame treats team parents hand out were going to be enough to convince Ryan Tyson otherwise.
He was ready to be done, hang up his cleats and his Lions Club Cowboys jersey, and maybe pursue the other sport he grew up loving: baseball.
But football?
Deuces. Peace out. Buh-bye.
The sport just wasnât fun for Tyson, not at the positions he had to play being one of the biggest kids in the league â 5 foot 8 and 135 pounds in the 10- to 12-year-old division.
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Mount Pleasant scores 20 unanswered to beat East Rowan
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By Nick Stevens, HighSchoolOT managing editor
Concord, N.C. Mount Pleasant fell behind East Rowan by two scores on Saturday afternoon, but the Tigers mounted a comeback, scoring 20-unanswered points en route to a 20-14 win at Central Cabarrus High School.
Sammy Pinckney was hard to stop in the first half. The East Rowan senior put the Mustangs in scoring position with a 14-yard run down to the 1-yard line late in the first quarter. Two plays later, Pinckney ran into the end zone to put East Rowan up 7-0 with 2:57 left.