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A Game of Battleship In The Logandale Pool

By MYRNA FOSTER

Moapa Valley Progress

Two teams fling buckets of water in an attempt to swamp their opponents, while another team tries remove its canoe from the Logandale pool during the annual Clark County Parks and Rec Battleship game. PHOTO BY MYRNA FOSTER/Moapa Valley Progress.

Clark County Parks and Recreation (CCPR) held its annual Battleship game at the Logandale Pool on Friday night, August 8. Recreation Specialist Elmer Lopez said that, last year, Spencer Winzenried, an intern who has since become a recreation specialist in Idaho, came up with the game.

According to Lopez, the County had a bunch of canoes at Sunset Park that weren’t being used, just sitting outside. Our Logandale office got permission to fix the canoes up and store them here in Logandale. They have 12 canoes stored in the small animal building at the fairgrounds.

They only used five canoes on Friday night, but Lopez would like to see more participation in the late summer event. He posted flyers locally and handed them out at an open field for soccer at the middle school, so they did have more teams sign up this year than last year. However, he found that the Battleship game conflicted with various Boy Scout activities.

CCPR charged $15 per team and asked that participants provide their own buckets.

To play the game, teams of three or four people used buckets of water to swamp the other teams’ canoes. Each player was armed with a bucket. They weren’t allowed to bail water out of canoes, hold on to the edge of the pool, or ram another canoe. Each team was allowed one oar, which they could use to paddle or to push the canoe away from pool walls.

When a canoe sank, that team had to take it out of the pool. They weren’t allowed to interfere with teams still playing.

All five teams started out in canoes for each round. They were awarded points according to the order in which they sunk. For instance, the first team sunk received zero points, while the team that didn’t sink received five points.

CCPR had two lifeguards on duty: Ethan Seely and Dallin Leavitt. However, CCPR Supervisor John Stastny pointed out that Elmer Lopez and Daesha Stastny also had current Red Cross lifeguard certification, so there were four CCPR lifeguards present.

In two hours, they managed five rounds of Battleship. Mark Harding, John Stastny, Daesha Stastny, and Shandra Stastny won the first round. Edwin Lopez, Gary Esper, and Diego Vega won the second round. Steve Reed, Evelyn Lopez, Elmer Lopez, and Jessica Lopez won the third, fourth and fifth rounds, securing the overall victory.

The overall winners were presented with a towel and a big squirt toy.

Logandale resident Mark Harding said, “That was a lot of fun. I thought it was something unique—out of the ordinary—for people in the community to do. Parks and Rec does a great job with that.” Harding mentioned that he wished it had been advertised better. He would have liked more time to put together a family team.

People stopped by during the game to watch the teams play Battleship, asking when it might happen again. Lopez said CCPR would play the game again next summer and that he’d find a way to advertise it better.

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