McKAY WINS OTTAWA’S FIRST MEDAL AT CANADA SUMMER GAMES IN WINNIPEG

By the narrowest of margins, Ottawa’s Henry McKay escaped with the gold medal in the men’s one-metre diving competition Tuesday at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg. McKay, who represents the Ottawa Nepean Diving Club but has trained the last two years at the Toronto Diving Academy, showed consistency and calm through all six rounds — especially during his final dive — for a total of 362.60 points and a victory by three-quarters of a point.

Late-charging Bryden Hattie used his final two dives to cast a large shadow over McKay, but the Victoria diver settled for silver at 361.85. Montreal’s Peter Thach Mai, who won the morning preliminary meet, entered his final dive trailing McKay by three-tenths of a point, but his second-worst dive of the competition left him at 357.60.

“I was watching the (scoreboard) the whole event. I like to know what I need to do,” said McKay, 17, who won Ottawa’s first medal at the Games.

McKay is familiar with pressure endings. Two weeks ago, he won the Canadian junior one-metre title with a great finishing dive.

“In my head, I was a little nervous, but I knew I had to do it,” he added.

In athletics, Ottawa’s Lindsay Brandys and Nyoka Maxwell qualified for the women’s 200-metre final with respective preliminary runs of 24.06 (fifth) and 24.38 (seventh) seconds.

Quebec moved into the boys’ U17 basketball semifinals, after a commanding 102-75 quarter-final win over Nova Scotia. Khalifa Koulamallah of Gatineau had 13 points for Quebec.

Ontario outscored British Columbia 73-45 to win the girls’ U17 basketball quarter-final. Julia Chadwick of Ottawa had nine points and Ottawa’s Taylor Featherstone added five.

In a battle of 4-0 baseball teams, Manitoba needed an extra inning to edge Ontario 3-2. Ontario’s lineup includes Ottawa’s Angus Adams.

Hunter Amesbury of Carleton University helped the Ontario men’s eight with coxswain easily win its heat in a time of five minutes, 54.61 seconds.