History

History of the Loon Pond Horseshoe Club

Our 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. Eric Medeiros has taken over as singles statistician and Scott Bedard is now our doubles statistician as both Roy and Dean have moved away. 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.

In 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 later 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.