Engle Captures Pennsylvania Winter Invitational
Oscar Engle, with essentially no practice since last September, won first place honors in an extremely close class where every pitcher was either a present or past state champion, or county champion. The round robin ended in a tie between Zadroga and Engle with Engle winning the play-off 51-22.
Some of the tournament highlights in Class A
were Solomon’s early season high average of 79.2%, even though he finished
rourth; Engle pitching 602 shoes in 5 games, winning every one except with
Ohler, 48-51; Peluso nearly beating Ohler, 44-52, even though he was visibly
suffering from a sore leg.
In Class B some of these were Kilinsky
compiling his highest average of his horseshoe tournament career to date; Martz
throwing an 80% single game against Metzler; and Kilinsky’s 84% game against
Sebring.
Class C focused attention on a new horseshoe
pitcher, Richard Maroni, who in his first tournament threw a very respectable 64.0%
Class D ended in an exact percentage tie for
second place between Bruce and Sowa.
Bruce won the pitch-off, 52-42.
In Class E a new pitcher, Charles Sowa, won
his first tournament class, with the veteran pitcher, Dean Mayes, capturing
second place.
The Mt. Pleasant Horseshoe Club under the
direction of Robert Myers did a very fine job in hosting and promoting this
event. The club hopes that this
tournament will become an annual event and from the response this year it will
probably be even more popular next year.
Oscar Engle
|
5 |
1 |
77.8 |
|
Al Zadroga |
4 |
2 |
75.1 |
|
James Ohler |
3 |
2 |
73.9 |
|
James Solomon |
2 |
3 |
79.2 |
|
Sam Sutton |
2 |
3 |
73.9 |
|
Frank Peluso |
0 |
5 |
62.7 |
Class B
Clyde Martz
|
5 |
0 |
69.8 |
|
Frank Kilinsky |
3 |
2 |
70.6 |
|
Glen Sebring |
2 |
3 |
61.5 |
|
Frank Oliverio |
2 |
3 |
61.0 |
|
Carl Metzler |
2 |
3 |
54.1 |
|
Andrew Ponick |
1 |
4 |
56.0 |
Class C
Richard Maroni
|
5 |
0 |
64.0 |
|
Lester Boyer |
3 |
2 |
59.9 |
|
Vince Sedlacek |
3 |
2 |
58.7 |
|
Robert Myers |
3 |
2 |
54.8 |
|
Carl Nagode |
1 |
4 |
45.0 |
|
Marland Comstock |
0 |
5 |
40.0 |
Class D
Charles Eppley
|
5 |
0 |
49.7 |
|
Clair Bruce |
4 |
2 |
53.5 |
|
Peter Sowa |
3 |
3 |
53.0 |
|
Gilbert Fridinger |
2 |
3 |
53.5 |
|
Reg Gaugler |
2 |
3 |
43.0 |
|
Jake Fiore |
0 |
5 |
31.5 |
Class E
Charles Sowa
|
4 |
1 |
41.2 |
|
Dean Mayes |
3 |
2 |
47.7 |
|
Robert Johnson |
3 |
2 |
43.5 |
|
Ray Henry |
3 |
2 |
39.9 |
|
George Keffer |
2 |
3 |
39.0 |
|
Gilbert Bailey |
0 |
5 |
35.3 |
©1999 by Steve Morris