Horseshoes
Pitching Horseshoes in the Delaware Senior Olympics 10 AM to noon, Sunday, 7 Oct., 2007
On an unseasonally hot day at Milford, 24 folks in the “over forty nine” age group met to compete in the sport of pitching horseshoes for the Delaware Senior Olympic’s gold, silver and bronze medals.
Age Class 55-59 Left to right: G) Rich Menton, Newark S) Joe Wessels, Dover B) Rich Collins, Milford
This yearly event is entered by pre-registration through the Dover office of DSO, supervised by Executive Director Conny Wertz, and administrated by volunteer tournament directors. (This year, they were Marshall “Mike” Baker of Newark, and Wayne Saulsbury of Dover, both members of the First State Horseshoe Club.)
The host for the third straight year was Judy and Walt Swain at their sports complex known as “The Putt-A-Rosa” on business Rte. No. 1 just 2 miles south of the Milford Diner. Their courts were sanctioned by the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association in 2004, which meets the requirement to hold Senior Olympics (horseshoes) at their site.
With 15 courts available and 11 classes competing, no one had to wait for available room. And this year, nearly 92% of the entrants won a medal! The format was round-robin, 21 point games. Eleven gold, seven silver and four bronze medals were won. AND, only two people went home as “also ran”.
Get the final horseshoe results
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