It was a dreary day, looking like it could rain at any moment. In fact, it did rain starting about 2 pm. The temperature held steady at 50. Nevertheless, we had an extraordinary turnout with 74 starts and about 175 people going out on courses. Both of these are new record highs for the club. There were a lot of newcomers; at one time, I think there were three simultaneous instruction sessions going on. We ran out of maps for two of the courses - yellow right at the end of registration and orange much earlier. All the comments that I heard were very positive, even from those competitors on orange or the scramble who came back with hundreds of burrs attached.
Dave Battista was meet director. Based on the winning times, his courses were right on target. However, many competitors found the courses quite long, especially the orange course. This was because some were trying to move up to the orange course (always a big leap from yellow) and others, who were trying orienteering for the first time, insisted on beginning with orange. As the results show, quite a few in the latter category did not fare well. This was the second time we have offered a scramble course; there was a lot of good feedback about it; we will be offering it again in the future. A half-scramble was also offered - just do the first half of the scramble. It turned out to be a very successful meet.
Several new members were acquired at the meet. Welcome to Dan Marincel, Patrick Hickey, and Dana Dolfi. We also had a couple of previous members rejoin the ranks. Welcome back to Lori Yost and K Villowock.
Thanks to Barbara Johnstone, Alexis Rzewski, Laurie Opila, and Dave Torick for handling registration. Thanks to Sherry Shank for handling start/finish. Thanks to Joe Logan, Laurie Opila for conducting instruction. Thanks to Mike Adametz for drawing more Orange Course maps after we ran out. And thanks to Dave Torick, Alexis Rzewski and Mike Adametz for helping to pick up the controls.
The next meet will be our last one of the year: the combined orienteering
meet, social get-together, and business meeting on November 14 at Pine
Ridge Park.
White Course 2.2 km
60 m climb 8 controls
| Mina & Magne Birkeland | FANA | 34:01 |
| Luca Rzewski | WPOC | 41:41 |
| Spartans (5) | JROTC | 52:17 |
| Team Bravo (6) | JROTC | 52:22 |
| Mel Hainey (3) | 54:37 | |
| Land Nav 1 (6) | JROTC | 54:42 |
| Zachary Buell (2) | 55:54 | |
| Renee Dolnay (3) | 59:00 | |
| Jacob Majors & Matt Sedlak (4) | 66:26 | |
| Matthew Price (2) | 66:42 | |
| Ethan West (2) | 72:55 | |
| Troop 184 (5) | BSA | 76:01 |
| Franks (4) | 84:15 | |
| Opferman (5) | Pack 40 | 84:36 |
| Troop 5 (7) | BSA | 94:10 |
| Darlene Clark (3) | 97:45 | |
| Girl Scout Troop 50134 (13) | GSA | 100:00 |
| Jones' (2) | 104:52 | |
| Cody Tworek & Mark Stanchik (4) | Pack 40 | 117:50 |
| Tom Kaveney (3) Found first 4 controls; no official start | DNS |
Yellow Course 3.4 km
105 m climb 9 controls
| Patrick Hickey | WPOC | 46:47 |
| Lori & Julia | 66:45 | |
| Roger Stoffregen | 71:20 | |
| Frances Irvin, Keith, Ian | 72:45 | |
| AG 2 (3) | JROTC | 74:08 |
| Mike Adametz | WPOC | 77:38 |
| K. Villwock (3) | WPOC | 77:40 |
| Team AG (6) | JROTC | 99:50 |
| Cole & Alexis | 113:55 | |
| Spartans (7) | JROTC | 115:00 |
| Smell the Roses (2) | WPOC | 116:05 |
| Cole Frederick | BSA | 117:50 |
| Huber, Ashcom & Davidoff | SciTech | 129:00 |
| Klimek (4) | 140:58 | |
| Band of Brothers (3) | JROTC | 147:57 |
| Ryan & Tyler Gaydos, Hiromi Stone (9) | 163:10 | |
| Team Slowpokes (2) No official Start; completed the course | DNS |
Orange Course 4.9 km
180 m climb 9 controls
| Kari Fladmark | FANA | 63:06 |
| Eric & Karl | CMU | 86:14 |
| Johan Holm | EIF | 95:35 |
| Lori & Julia | 119:36 | |
| Martha Gray & Matt Janick | 128:16 | |
| Ken Lappin | NEOOC | 133:40 |
| Tommy Liu | CMU | 133:45 |
| Sherry Shank | WPOC | 136:55 |
| Aaditya Ramdas | CMU | 145:50 |
| Troop 78 Leaders (3) | BSA | 154:30 |
| Trekin' Teachers (3) | 166:40 | |
| David Ross | 167:45 | |
| Troop 78 Scouts (3) | BSA | 182:00 |
| Ken Janowitz Family (4) | 228:30 | |
| Tiffany Ng missed controls 6 & 7; 182:00 | CMU | DSQ |
| Lane Kurkjian missed last three controls; 163:25 | CMU | DNF |
| Nathan Brooks missed last three controls; 180:00 | CMU | DNF |
| Zang Qi & Amanda Michael missed last three controls; 217:00 | CMU | DNF |
| Cong Lu & Shuang Yan Xiong missed last three controls; 219:00 | CMU | DNF |
| Joan Ferraro missed last three controls: 241:48 | WPOC | DNF |
| Disorienteers I (6) found only first four controls; 127:38 | DNF | |
| Prashant Sridhar found only first three controls; 158:45 | CMU | DNF |
| Li Li & Xuan Liu did not return to finish | CMU | DSQ |
Half Scramble 4.8
km about 185 m climb 9 controls
| Joe Logan | WPOC | 89:50 |
Scramble Course 7.0 km
about 355 m climb 17 controls
| Alexis Rzewski | WPOC | 76:24 |
| Andy Strat | QOC | 79:50 |
| Randy Mitchell | NEOOC | 103:00 |
| Dan Marincel | WPOC | 105:35 |
| Dave Torick | WPOC | 106:00 |
| John Rasinski | NEOOC | 116:30 |
| Eli Fatsi | CMU | 124:40 |
| Frank Ferraro | WPOC | 151:00 |
| Jason Koenig | CMU | 151:55 |
| Jason Gray | WPOC | 156:50 |
| Mike & Diane Lorenz | WPOC | 165:00 |
| Bonnie Hartmann missed three controls; 164:15 | NEOOC | DSQ |
| Fedya Kleshchev stopped after control #10; 76:12 | CMU | DNF |