5 classes were set up. During the meeting in the morning Pat Snelgrove, President of the Stuarts Draft Horseshoe Club announce that next year all of the clubs tournament will run with 8 and 6 man classes, Handicapped if necessary when the spread in the class is 18% or greater. Our club is doing this to prevent 3 and 4 man classes.

3 classes started the day pitching, B, C and D class all 8 man classes with A and E taking second flight.

In B Class, after 7 rounds Betty Weakley and David Cowan Sr. were tied. 6-1 forcing a playoff. David got off to a slow start missing the first 3 innings before he found the peg. It would prove to be his defeat as Steady Betty jump out in front with a commanding 10 point lead. 18 shoes into the game David tied the score 13 all and then taking the lead for the next 5 frames. At 26 shoes David had the lead 21 -19, but Steady Betty had had enough, she produced 3 frames of doubles giving her a big lead 34-21. David tried his best matching her ringers but could not cover them all. 40 shoes Betty defeated David 41 to 30. Taking the 1st place trophy home. Despite David's loss, he pitch very well for the day 1.3% above his average and also held the highest single game of the class at 57.89%. Betty finished the day pitching 3.8% above her average for a final of 43.35% on the day.

Dwayne Davis and Ken Henson squared off in the C Class playoff.  24 shoes into the game Ken held the lead 18-13, Dwayne them show a burst of ringers taking charge 29 to 18 at 32 shoes. Looking like he had more ringers in the bag. But Ken hadn't given up. The peg found Ken's shoes and held on. The last 16 shoes Ken threw 10 out of 16 shoes taking the game 40-32 in 50 shoes. Dwayne finished the day with 35.85% Ken had been pitching extremely well all day. Pitching 7.9% above his average he also pitched the high game in the class at 57.14%
 

D Class, John Cummings was 6 and 1 for the day, taking 1st place, Ken Robinson finished 2nd with 5-2 and holding the above average in the class at 1.6% Tonya Hix took 3rd. Miles Noel had an outstanding game against xxxxxx pitching a blazing 55.26% 

A and E classes both had clean sweeps. Renee Cowan had 5-0 and 63.22%, with Denny Davis taking second and Paul Arnold third.

E Class pitcher Terry Sparks managed 3rd place, but out of all the pitchers in the day holds the honor of Above Average. He pitched 8.18% above his average. Quinlyn Dofflemeyer swept the class 7-0 he also had high honor above average throw 6.78% above and overall 28%. Bobby Johnson (Grottoes) held 2nd place. Trey McDowell our only PeeWee had a tough day with the losses but pitched his best event of the year, throwing 6.12% for the day even throwing a double. He was so proud of himself.

Trey while he was waitng for his flight to pitch was very helpful at the desk. Running errands and asking me all sorts of questions about my camera. I finally said to him , "Would you like to take some pictures?" Yea! he said, so off we went. He took quite a few photos and did very well with them.

When it was my time to pitch in the second flight, it was hard to concentrate. As many of the pitchers who were leaving for the day came over to say farewell until next year. It seems so far away today, next spring, but there was a lot of talk about some late fall non sanctioned events, and maybe some indoor sanctioned events So maybe well see you late fall or in the winter. That sounds a little better.

Thanks to all of you for coming over, If I don’t see you soon have a safe and Happy Holiday! And Yes we'll see you in the Spring!
Kevin