Noon Lions Ringer Alley

ABOUT THE PITS

Noon Lions Ringer Alley is located in Love Street Park and has 12 pits available to the public for practice, league nights, tournaments and qualifies to host the State Doubles Horseshoe Championship. Begun as an idea, nourished through 2 years planning and implementation, completed and opened on June 30, 2016. The "Noon Lions Ringer Alley" is a sanctioned set of pits through the Texas Horseshoe Pitchers Association

2018 - HORSESHOE LEAGUE NIGHTS

It's Horseshoe Pitching Time!
The Weatherford Horseshoe Club will begin pitching every Monday night at 6:30 pm starting March 12th at the Love Street Park “Noon Lions Ringer Alley” pits. We will pitch until Daylight Savings Time changes in the fall.

No Shoes, we have extras. Join us and show us your game. The pits are open 7 days a week. Men, women, children can all pitch as each has different pitching distances.

3RD ANNUAL PARKER COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT
NEW DATE - Saturday, September 29th at 9:00 am
All Parker County high schools are invited to participate. Contact your principal to play. Teams of 2 for the partners teams, single males and females are other categories. Up to 8 students from a school may enter; 2 single males, 2 single females and 2 teams of partners (4 students). Horseshoes are available.

2ND WEATHERFORD CHURCH PARTNERS TOURNAMENT
NEW DATE - Saturday, September 29th at 1:00 pm
The Weatherford Horseshoe Club is sponsoring the Fall tournament. Grab a partner and have some fun. We have extra horseshoes if needed. All churches in the Weatherford area are invited to form teams and enter. $20 per team entry fee. Contact John Allison for more information or Weatherford Parks, Recreation and Special Events Department.

NOON LIONS HORSESHOE PITCHING TOURNAMENT

Postponed due to rain: Make-up date to be determined
One partner must be a Noon Lion member then anybody can be the other partner. Call John Allison at: 817 598-9531 if you need more info.

WEATHERFORD OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT
Sunday, September 30th at 2:00 pm - $15 (pay day of the event)
Weatherford Horseshoe Club is hosting the 3rd Annual City Championship Horseshoe Tournament and all are invited. Extra shoes provided if needed

CITY VS COUNTY PARTNERS TOURNAMENT
Tuesday, October 9th at 12:00 pm
The City and County Horseshoe Pitchers will square off and see “Who Has Game”. High Noon shoot out will feature the 4 County Precincts and the City Mayors office, Police, Fire and Parks, Recreation and Special Events Department. Each Precinct/Deptartment can field 3 teams. All games will be conducted during lunch and Champions crowned in both the City, County game and individual partners 1^st and 2^nd place.

WEATHERFORD CIVIC CLUB CHALLENGE HORSESHOE PARTNERS TOURNAMENT

Tuesday, October 18th at 12:00 pm - Cost: $30 ($15 each), deadline Monday, Oct. 16th
The first 24 teams will be accepted. Registrations is through the President of the Weatherford Horseshoe Club (John Allison) Phone: 817-598-9531 or Email: jallison@nxlink.com

THPA WEATHERFORD KANGAROO SCORCHER

The Weatherford Horseshoe Club conducted its second Texas Horseshoe Pitching Association tournament in Weatherford; Sat. Aug 25. Twenty Five contestants pitched in 4 classes.

A Class 30 ft winners: 1^stDanny Patterson, 2^nd Jerry Hickenbottom
A Class 40 ft winners; 1st Nico Para, 2^nd Jerry Steadham
B Class Mixed: 1^st Gaylin Grant, 2^nd John Allison
C Class Mixed: 1^st Patricia Moon, 2^nd Earl Royal

TEXAS HORSESHOE PITCHING ASSOCIATION TOURNAMENT
The Texas Horseshoe Pitching Association conducted a tournament in Weatherford Saturday, May 19, 2018. Twenty Six contestants pitched in 4 classes.
A Class 30 ft winners: 1st Wendell Simpson, 2nd Dee Mings, 3rd Ronnie Howard;
A Class 40 ft winners; 1st Ronnie Wolf, 2nd Robert Valley, 3rd Dan Wood;
B Class Mixed: 1st Chuck Hunter, 2nd Steve Fuhrmann, 3rd Randy Johnson:
C Class Mixed: 1st Marie Logan, 2nd Tony Ritchey, 3rd Eric Mancilla.

THE BROWNSTONE CHURCH CLAIMS CHAMPIONSHIP

Horseshoe Pitching has a Church Champion. Brownstone won the inaugural Weatherford Church Tournament Sat May 5. New Life was a close second. Both teams made the tournament interesting as each won close games and the score ended with Brownstone 70 points, New Life 50 points.

The Tournament was one of partners. Brownstone team Kenny and Dr. Ken won the Partner Championship over New Life team Suedmeyer and Nichols on the last pitch. A ringer sealed the game for them. Kenny and Dr. Ken had to win a pitch off to gain the tournament final spot.

The Weatherford Horseshoe Club, the Noon Lions Club along with the Parks Dept want to thank all participants. Everybody had a good time and the fellowship was great.

Results of Weatherford Horseshoe Pitching Classic

The first sanctioned horseshoe tournament in Weatherford took place this past weekend. With Weatherford’s new pits, the Texas Horseshoe Pitching Association placed Weatherford on their schedule of tournaments.

Coming from around the state, 3 class champions were crowned. Winners: 30ft Danny Patterson, Clifton, in one game he made 70% ringers. Second: Jerry Hickenbottom, Georgetown; 40ft winner Ronnie Wolf, Windthorst, tied at the end of play and won a pitch off game. Second: Daniel Wood. B-Mixed: Marie Logan, Glen Rose. Weatherford’s own, Mike Rhoten, second. Marie and Mike split their two games but she had more overall wins.

Pictured are: Mike Rhoten and Marie Logan

Weatherford claims Championship in Second Annual Parker County High School Horseshoe Tournament

Weatherford won the County Championship for a second year in a row. The lone holdover from the Weatherford’s team last year, Kaden Bell, teamed up with Hagen Kemp and they won second place in the tournament. The other teams from Weatherford were Jacob Hale and Alex Hernandez and the third team was Presley Walker and Jaycee Brannon. The Weatherford Noon Lions hosted the tournament again this year. A traveling County Championship trophy will remain in Weatherford until next year. The winning partner team was from Springtown. Raynee Henderson won the partners event this year and also last year making it two years in a row. Her partner this year was Mason Schmalken. Thanks to all the students who came out. “Keep on pitchin”.