Loon PondHorseshoe Club
	at the Formerly Ted Williams Baseball Camp
	Lakeville Massachusetts
	Contact Ralph Demoranville - President
	Debby Michaud v-p (club founder) 508 822-9610
	Dean Schmidlin, Secretary
	Jo Demoranville, Treasurer

	Our facility has 12 locked courts for members only and 4 courts open to the public, with horseshoes always available to anyone using them. Many groups who rent the recreation complex use those courts. Loon Pond is in the background.
hHistory of the Loon Pond Horseshoe Club
OOur horseshoe club began in 1984 with 8 pitchers. We called ourselves the Raynham Horseshoe Club and pitched on 4 courts built by that town's Park Dept. We held a tournament that first year with 9 entries. In 1985 our membership doubled and we voted to pitch organized doubles competition and to become an NHPA sanctioned league. Each year we grew and in 1992 added another court and a singles league. That year we acquired 2 new statisticians, Dean Schmidlin and Roy Robertson, who put everything on computer While Eric Medeiros has taken over assingles statistician. As our membership grew, we needed more courts and began to save money towards that purpose. Leo Michaud was president at that time and vowed to stay on until we did have those new courts.
IIn 1995, when we thought we might never get a better court facility, the town of Lakeville approached us. With our money, our knowledge of the game, and some of our elbow grease, the Park Dept. of Lakeville, (mainly Hoppy and Bob Hopkins who have since become members of our club) built a fine 16 court facility in their recreation complex, formerly the Ted Williams baseball camp. When we began pitching there in 1996 we had doubled our membership again. As we are located next to Loon Pond, we voted on a new name, the Loon Pond Horseshoe Club.
Our facility is now decorated with an 8 ft. wood sculpture of a loon on the pond and an arm holding a horseshoe, donated by a new 1998 member, Wayne DeMoranville.
We now have 70 pitchers in our singles and doubles leagues, and 3 juniors pitchers. We pitch singles on Mondays, doubles and juniors on Wednesdays. Singles competition on Monday's is 3 - 50 shoe games with 90% handicap. Doubles competition on Wednesday's is 3 - 30 shoe per partner games with 90% handicap. The Tuesday league is recreational/instructional and is now in the afternoon for seniors or third shift pitchers. Total fee for the year is $45.00 which includes the NHPA sanction fee. We hold 2 - 4 NHPA sanctioned tournaments every summer in which our court maintenance chairman Steve Sisson and our food chairmen are put to the test. We also have a T-shirt, recycling chairman, Ralph Demoranville.
ComCome join us - we have a lot of fun! Hope to see you someday!
	Plenty of parking at Loon Pond Horseshoe Club and some shaddy area's to cool down.
At the computer are Roy Robertson and Leo Michaud busy, at work during one of the sanctioned tournaments held at the Loon Pond courts.
Map to Loon Pond Horseshoe club