Tickets on sale for May 6 KM Sports Hall of Fame

The 36th annual Kings Mountain Sports Hall of Fame banquet and induction ceremony will be held Saturday, May 6 at 6 p.m. at Central United Methodist Church Christian Activity Center.

Tickets are on sale at Paul Ingram’s Barber Shop downtown and will also be available at the door on the night of the ceremony.

Inductees include Miles Boyd, Chris Henson, Alex Goff, Cedric Thompson, Tim Hines and Suzette Feemster.

Boyd was one of the best athletes to come out of the Kings Mountain area, excel- ling in football and basketball at Compact High School in the early sixties. His coach in both sports was the late John Blalock who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1998.

Boyd scored 1,289 points during his Compact career and was the first quarterback in Compact High football history. He was MVP in basketball and football his senior year of 1964.

Chris Henson is probably the only athlete in KMHS history to make All-Conference in four sports during the same season. In the late 1980s he starred in cross country, soc- cer, wrestling and baseball and was the Southwestern Conference MVP in both cross country and wrestling. He held the wrestling record for most wins in a season for several years. He went on to play baseball at Wingate University where he was a threeyear starter and later coached at UNC Pembroke and East Tennessee State universities.

Alex Goff was a golf star in high school and college and continues to compete in tournaments in several states. He was Conference Player of the Year all four years at Kings Mountain High School.

He was the 3A Western champion in 2015 and NCHSAA tournament runner-up in 2018 with a season average of 68.5 strokes per match. He played four years at the University of Kentucky where he had 12 top 20 finishes in conference play and a career stroke average of 72.4. He was All-Southeastern Conference Academic all four years at UK.

Cedric Thompson was an outstanding and very versatile football player in high school and college. At KMHS, he established records for most receiving yards (963) in 2010.