Called to the hall
Latest additions to enter hall at annual Cape Breton Sport Heritage Awards
The Cape Breton Sport Hall of Fame has named its latest inductees.
Athletes Amy Cotton, Greg Floyd and Carroll Morgan, teams the 1986 Ashby Pepsi Selects bowling team and the 1971 New Waterford Kinsmen Rovers baseball team, and builder Murray (Mackie) MacIntosh will join the hall at the annual Cape Breton Sport Heritage Awards on June 1 at Centre 200 in Sydney.
“These athletes, teams, builders and volunteers showcase the talent, dedication and love of sport that is so prevalent here in Cape Breton. They take their talents across the province, the country, and in some cases the world, putting the spotlight on their talents and our treasured island,” Carol Miller, chair of the Cape Breton Sport Heritage Awards committee, said in a press release. “We need people to continue to nominate worthy individuals each year so the process can continue, allowing the documented history of sport in Cape Breton to continue to grow.”
Cotton competed in judo in two Olympic Games — Athens in 2004 and London in 2012. The Judique native, who is the most successful judoka from Nova Scotia, won a bronze medal at the Pan Am Games in 2003, finished seventh at the world championships twice, and competed internationally until her retirement in 2013.
Floyd was one of the top local goaltenders to compete over the last 70 years, with a career highlighted by his time tending nets for the Sydney Millionaires of
the old Maritime Major Hockey League. In 1952, the Millionaires were Allen Cup finalists, competing at the Montreal Forum.
Morgan, who was raised in Whiteside, Richmond County, was introduced to boxing by roommate, Rocky MacDougall, at St. Francis Xavier University. He trained in Sydney under Johnny Cechetto and was ranked fourth in 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, and was on the Canadian team for the 1974 Commonwealth Games. As a heavyweight, he held seven provincial championships, was a four-time Atlantic champion, three-time Canadian champion and a North American champion. He is also in the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame as a member of the 1966 St. FX football team.
The Selects candlepin bowling team won the Nova Scotia Championship in 1986 for the eighth time in nine years. In a weeklong tournament featuring the top 20 provincial teams, the Selects finished with a 13418 record, 14 points ahead of their nearest competitors. Don Gauthier finished with the tournament high average, with teammate Timmie Carrigan coming in a close second.
The Rovers was a Cinderella team that achieved unexpected success in 1971, when they captured the Eastern Canadian Bantam Baseball Championship. The team of 13- to 15-yearold players faced Montreal in the championship game and blanked them 8-0. The team was the first Cape Breton bantam squad to achieve that level of success and was inducted into the New Waterford Sports Hall of Fame last year.
MacIntosh was a career City of Sydney policeman and one of the most successful minor hockey coaches in Nova Scotia. His teams won multiple provincial midget championships and he was also behind the bench when a select Cape Breton allstar midget team played a touring Soviet team.
Tickets to the induction ceremony are $35 and available by calling Miller at 902-562-0849 or Mackie MacIntyre at 902-8712543.