Pine Ridge Park
Orienteering Meet
8 November 2015

It was a bright sunny day, temperature about 50, not much wind - a good day for orienteering.  The weather undoubtedly led to an above average turnout for an event at Pine Ridge.  We had 50 starts with 70 participants.

Dave Battista, meet director, devised four courses for the participants.  The White and Yellow courses seemed to fit the participants very well.  There were no DNFs and the finishing times were generally very reasonable.  The two Scrambles were a bit tougher.  There were no DNFs on the Short Scramble; the times were a bit long; but most of the participants were trying a longer course than normal.  On the Long Scramble, Andy Strat burned up the course.  But we had a few DNFs and some long times (due to trying a longer course than usual).  Regardless of which course they tried, everyone seemed to have a good time, with positive comments from everyone.

After the orienteering, the club had it annual membership meeting combined with our potluck/pasta meal.  Minutes of the meeting will be sent to the membership.

Thanks to Christy Freeman, Al Sheaffer , Laurie Opila, Alexis Rzewski and Giuseppina Mecchia for handling registration.  Thanks to Sherry Shank and Dave Battista for running start/finish.  Thanks to Joe Logan for providing instruction.  And thanks to Al Sheaffer, Yaki Barak, Andy Strat and Ryan Knecht for doing control pickup.

For some pictures of the Pine Ridge event, you can check out Alexis Rzewski's photos

This was WPOC's last event for 2015.  Our next event will be our first attempt at Ski Orienteering; it will be on January 10 at Laurel Ridge Ski Area.


White Course   2.0 km   85 m climb   7 controls
Place Name Notes Club Time
1 Hazelton (2)     33:50
2 Salt Marsh (3)     50:30
3 Lisa Snow   WPOC 51:50
4 Skander (4)     52:10
5 Carrie Lucci     52:55
5 Ana Lucci     52:55
7 Troop 251(8)   BSA 73:25



Yellow Course   3.3 km    95 m climb    10 controls

Place Name Notes Club Time
1 Alexis Rzewski   WPOC 45:04
2 Hazelton (2)     63:30
3 Kiselyov     67:15
4 Jen & Emma Livingston   WPOC 72:30
5 Michael Brown     75:30
6 Andy(3)     78:32
7 Giuseppina (3)   WPOC 80:50
8 Ana Lucci     83:15
8 Carrie Lucci     83:15
10 Eric Steinbring   WPOC 83:27
11 Christy Freeman   WPOC 95:05
11 Al Sheaffer   WPOC 95:05
13 Jack & Mindy Molchany     97:35
14 Loretta Opila   WPOC 99:31
15 Jack Geissler (2)   WPOC 108:12
16 Tali Shalom-Barak   WPOC 119:13
17 Mike Edinger (3)     128:45


Short Scramble    Approx:  4.7 km   185 m climb     15 controls
Place Name Notes Club Time
1 Fred Holm     76:10
2 Jeremy Mollison     79:04
3 Joe Logan   WPOC 82:42
4 John Huffman   WPOC 115:52
5 Johan Holm   WPOC 126:20
6 Michael Brown     136:45
7 Ellen Yerger   WPOC 137:45
8 Christina Darrow (3)   NEOOC 228:27


Long Scramble       Approx 6.4 km   245 m climb    21 controls
Place Name Notes Club Time
1 Andy Strat   WPOC 61:19
2 Alexis Rzewski   WPOC 73:09
3 Arryn Tennat   WVU ROTC 126:56
3 Nicholas Koritko   WVU ROTC 126:56
5 Sherry Shank   WPOC 130:42
6 Yaki Barak   WPOC 131:55
7 John Dowling   WPOC 135:28
8 Matthew Chapman     139:28
9 Jared White   WVU ROTC 152:20
9 Brian Warner   WVU ROTC 152:20
11 Naomi Jarvis   WPOC 153:53
12 Gordon Huang   WPOC 157:28
13 Jett Downey   WPOC 209:45
Karnavas Missed 2 controls; finished in 155:40   DSQ
Julian Yerger (2) 2 mispunches; missed 7 controls; finished in 113:50 WPOC DNF
Todd Crouse Missed 6 controls; finished in 155:52 WVU ROTC DNF
Noah Klemm Missed 6 controls; finished in 155:52 WVU ROTC DNF