Yellow Creek S.P. North Shore
9 August 2020
Orienteering Meet

It was a hot, sunny day with temperatures reaching the mid-80's; kind of typical for August.  This being our first event of 2020 and the first of the Covid-19 era, we were not sure how things would go; but they turned out pretty well.  We had a fairly large number of preregistrations; however, about 25% of those did not show up.  We did have 38 starts from a total of 79 people.  For an event fairly far out of Pittsburgh, that was quite good.

Sherry Shank had designed a 32-control multi-level score course; so, everyone (beginners through experts) was on the same course.  Controls were set at all skill levels, although the hardest controls were really not that hard, partly due to the nature of the map.  With the most distant controls set more than 3 km apart and the August heat, were were not expecting anyone to clear the course in the 2 hours that were allowed; and no one did.  We did have one problem in that some people  did not read the course notes which we placed out and then did something that was not allowed - they ran or walked across a farmer's soybean field.  Alexis admitted to doing this and is listed as disqualified; based on the control sequences in the splits for some other participants, they should be disqualified too.  Frankly, I was surprised by this problem; I would have thought common sense would be sufficient to know that you don't trample a growing crop.  From the comments I heard from finishers, everyone enjoyed the course.

Thanks Al Sheaffer, Ryan Knecht, Laurie Opila, and Sherry Shank for handling registration.  Thanks to Sherry and Ryan for running start/finish.  Thanks to Joe Logan for to instruction, including the instruction he did before the official start of the instruction period.  All of these volunteers were working under a new set of procedures that were set up to deal with the pandemic.  Thanks to Alexis Rzewski, Jerry Agin and John Huffman for doing control pickup.

The next WPOC sponsored event is a night-o event on October 3 at Forbes State Forest Ski Area.  This will be a new area for most people.

Here is a link to the split times

If you want to do some analysis of your route, including using RouteGadget, go here


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Score



Score        


NameClassClubTimeScoreGross ScorePenalty


1Jonathan Boyer  121:1864266018



2Alexis RzewskiM40WPOC119:57620620DSQ



3Jay Smink  NEOOC111:264904900



3Joe LoganM55WPOC113:194904900



5Cale Klaff  111:524854850



6Ryan Roppel  112:014554550



7Tamir Klaff  120:244514609



8John Huffman WPOC123:1137941536



9Rayden Sorock  108:502552550



9Giuseppina MecchiaW40WPOC109:342552550



11Brian Gaston Troop 1029  110:182352350



11Tim Beatty Troop 29  110:212352350



11Tracy Pepple  115:422352350



14Hasselfield and Schreier  126:0123229563



15Jerry AginM70WPOC109:342152150



16Omri Barak  140:26201390189



16Yaki BarakM55WPOC140:27201390189



18Ryan Repp  106:112002000



19Paul Upson  121:2819221018



20Cristina Nowak  112:241901900



21Glenn Corliss  115:371751750



22Scott Valazak  93:471601600



23Marjorie Cronin  120:371511609



24Al SheafferM65WPOC78:141301300



25Loretta OpilaW65WPOC98:581051050



26Mary Sleppy  70:5095950



27Lorina Kiselyov  88:1790900



28Jeff Wuenchell  114:5285850



29Emma York  131:0472180108



30Barbara Johnstone  67:3570700



31Eric Smith  78:2465650



31Melanie Galembiewski  114:5465650



33Adelynn York  132:4763180117



34Andria Zutich  130:574614599



34Barbara Jones  130:374614599



36Troop 622 B  88:0145450



36Troop 622 A  87:5545450



38Andy Karnavas WPOC144:2510235225