36th KM Hall of Fame Saturday at Central Methodist Church

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, excelling 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, soccer, 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 three-year 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 receiv- ing yards (963) in 2010. In 2011, he was the Conference Player of the Year and played in the East-West All-Star game. He was also All-Conference in basketball. He played football at East Carolina University.

Tim Hines, one of Thompson’s teammates at KMHS, was also a star in numerous sports. In 2010 he was the first Mountaineer receiver to record over 1,000 yards in a single season. In track, he was a member of the KMHS 2010 state champion 800 meter relay team and was All-Conference and team MVP. He went on to play football at Davidson College where he was the Wildcats’ #1 receiver for two seasons. Suzette Feemster-Williams was KM High’s 1991 Athlete of the Year. She was also a three-sport star. She was a two-time All-Conference and team MVP in basketball. Her 21-point, nine rebound average earned her a spot on the All-Piedmont team. She was a three-year volleyball star and was All-Conference and team MVP. She earned a volleyball scholarship to NC Central University where she was a four-year AllCIAA selection.

Cramer’s Brittain no-hits KM nine

Rain was the big winner in Big South 3A Conference baseball last week but Kings Mountain’s Mountaineers did manage to get in one game on Tuesday before all the wet stuff began falling.

The Mountaineers, who entered the last two weeks undefeated in the conference, finished in third place after dropping their third straight loss to the Stuart Cramer Storm on Tuesday.

And, it was a Storm as their pitcher Nate Brittain shutout the Mountaineers 1-0 with a no-hitter. He faced only 23 batters and struck out 15 of them.

Zane Brockman took the loss for the Mountain- eers despite giving up just four hits and striking out eight. Brockman was the only KM batter that Brittain didn’t strike out.

The Cramer defense committed only one error as the Storm went over the .500 mark for the BSC season with a 6-5 record. Kings Mountain dropped to 8-3 in the BSC and in third place behind Crest (10-1) and South Point (9-2).

Cramer was scheduled to visit Kings Mountain Monday night and the Mountaineers were slated to go to Crest last night. Crest will come to KM’s Lancaster Field Friday for the final game of the regular season.