53°F
weather icon Clear

The SNHPS stops in Goldfield as they start the second half of their season

The Southern Nevada Horseshoe Pitching Series resumed its 2022 season with the Goldfield Days tournament on Saturday.

This was the league’s first tournament since the Fourth of July weekend. All of the Nevada horseshoe leagues have been off since the middle of July because of the World Horseshoe Pitching Championships taking place in Monroe, Louisiana. There were eight pitchers on Saturday who participated in the doubles, round-robin style Goldfield Days tournament.

The players were split into division one and division two based on their ringer percentage, then a division-one player was paired with a division-two player.

With the tournament being round-robin, each team played each other twice during the tournament for a total of six games.

The team of division-one player Joe Kalache, of Las Vegas, and division-two player Ernie Monaque, of Goldfield, finished the tournament in first place with an undefeated record of 6-0.

For their first-place finish, each player received 20 points for the season standings, a trophy, cash, a tournament champion patch and an automatic spot in the playoff tournament at the end of the season.

In second place for the tournament was the team of division-one player Mark Kaczmarek, of Pahrump, and division-two player Johnny Kinzer of Goldfield.

Kaczmarek and Kinzer finished the tournament with a record of 4-2. Their only two losses came against the team of Kalache and Monaque.

For their second-place finish, Kaczmarek and Kinzer each received 10 points for the season standings, a trophy and a cash prize.

In the third and final prize-winning position was the team of division-one player Kasey Dilger, of Pahrump, and division-two player Rory Bradley of Tonopah.

Dilger and Bradley finished with a record of 2-4 in the tournament. Their only wins came against the team of Lathan Dilger, of Pahrump, and Lee Pinherio, of Las Vegas.

For their third-place finish, Dilger and Bradley each received 5 points for the season standings, a trophy and a cash prize.

The only team that didn’t finish in a prize-winning position was the team of L. Dilger and Pinherio.

They finished in fourth place in the tournament with an overall record of 0-6.

The next horseshoe tournament will take place this Saturday, Aug. 13, at Leavitt Park in Las Vegas. The Sin City Nights tournament will be a sanctioned Nevada State Horseshoe Pitching Association event and will begin at 6 p.m. Pitchers are asked to show up at least 30 minutes early for registration.

Contact sports editor/writer Danny Smyth at dsmyth@pvtimes.com. Follow @the_dannysmyth on Twitter.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.
THE LATEST
SOFTBALL: Trojans top Moapa, fall to Needles

The Trojans softball team suffered their first loss this season against a school from a neighboring state on Monday, but it also added a win in a weekend game against Moapa Valley (2-1) at home.

Muckers baseball off to 1-3 start this season

By the end of the weekend, the Tonopah Muckers had played four games, where they scored over 17 runs.

Muckers start softball season 1-3

Tonopah softball started their season over the weekend with four games on Friday and Saturday.

RODEO 2024: Here are the winners

The Nevada State High School Rodeo was in Pahrump last weekend where junior and senior high school students from around the state came to compete after their winter break.

Trojans girls basketball moves on to the quarterfinals

After Avery Moore stole a pass from the Sports Leadership and Management (SLAM) girls basketball team she passed the ball to Paris Coleman who ran up and scored the team’s fourth two-pointer in less than two minutes.

Pastor opens boxing gym for Pahrump youth

Pastor Ruben Bajo, of Full Armor of God Ministries in Pahrump told the Pahrump Valley Times that decades ago the sport of boxing saved his life and kept him off the streets of Los Angeles.

Trojans struggle in nail-biting 4th quarter against Chaparral

It was all up to No. 14 Daxton Palmisano from the Pahrump Valley boys basketball team with less than 10 seconds on the clock to score a three-pointer to get the Trojans into overtime in a hard-fought game on Wednesday.

Trojans boys basketball on 3-game winning streak

Three wins in one week from the Pahrump Valley boys basketball team last week after they won at home against the Pinecrest Academy Sloan Canyon in a tight match that ended 59-57.