Buck Wilson Regains Beaver County Championship
The Beaver County tournament held at the Van Buren horseshoe courts in Vanport, Pennsylvania, revealed a few surprises for spectators and pitchers alike.
Featured
in this year’s tournament was a Beaver County Women’s Horseshoe Pitching
champion. For the first time and for
the year 1968 the champion is Marsha Rainbow of Center Township. Gaining the runner-up spot was Debbie Genevie
of East Rochester.
Various
surprises also were evidenced in the various men’s divisions. In class A, which decided the Beaver County
men’s champ, Buck Wilson of New Brighton, the 1964 champ, ended a four year
drought by regaining the 1968 men’s championship. Very close behind and all with only one less win in the twelve
men class were second place finisher Jack Rainbow, father of the county women’s
champ and also from Center Township, third place Frank Peluso of New Brighton
and fourth place Larry Hineman of Aliquippa.
Al four received trophies, with the second through fourth place tie
being broken by a percentage computation.
Pete
Vlachos of Bridgewater virtually ran away with Class B as he scored a personal
high average ringer percentage. Clyde
Nesselroad of Ambridge finished second in the class.
Class
C was taken by Leroy Weigel of Vanport.
He edged William Carter of Monaca who won the runnerup spot.
Buck Wilson |
9 |
2 |
59.6 |
|
Jack Rainbow |
8 |
3 |
63.0 |
|
Frank Peluso |
8 |
3 |
60.3 |
|
Larry Hineman |
7 |
3 |
54.9 |
|
Burrell Brobeck |
7 |
4 |
54.5 |
|
Tom Board |
7 |
4 |
53.9 |
|
Ed Blum |
6 |
5 |
53.1 |
|
Cyril Enders |
5 |
5 |
45.5 |
|
T. Ellis |
4 |
7 |
41.8 |
|
A. Stahlback |
2 |
9 |
37.2 |
|
F. Giska |
2 |
9 |
37.0 |
|
Herman Boyer |
FO |
RF |
EIT |
Class B
Pete Vlachos |
5 |
0 |
56.3 |
|
c. Nesselroad |
4 |
1 |
44.4 |
|
A. Kolades |
3 |
2 |
46.2 |
|
N. Skorich |
2 |
3 |
33.6 |
|
W. Carter |
1 |
4 |
34.5 |
|
S. Stahlbck |
0 |
5 |
39.8 |
Class C
L. Weigel |
5 |
0 |
30.3 |
|
William Carter |
4 |
1 |
30.0 |
|
N. Skorich |
3 |
2 |
26.2 |
|
S. Spear |
2 |
3 |
22.6 |
|
R. Palakovich |
1 |
4 |
14.5 |
|
D. Charron |
0 |
5 |
5.1 |
Women’s division
M. Rainbow |
5 |
0 |
17.0 |
|
D. Genevie |
3 |
2 |
12.6 |
|
N. Draganza |
3 |
2 |
8.3 |
|
N. Rainbow |
2 |
3 |
10.7 |
|
C. Scalera |
2 |
3 |
10.7 |
|
G. Scalera |
0 |
5 |
2.7 |
©1999 by Steve Morris