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Joseph D. Grant County Park (South)

Date: (Sun.) Apr. 17, 2005
Location: San Jose, CA
Event Directors: - 408.878.5073, - 510.886.7360
Course Setters: Derek Maclean, Dean French
Type: B; All seven standard courses, plus Long Orange

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Event Write-Up

By Peter Graube

The meet at Joe Grant featured a few firsts.  Ev and Jean Beuerman implemented a self-registration procedure that saved participants time from having to stand in the registration line.  Trinka Gillis implemented an e-punch check-in procedure that gave greater visibility as to who is out on which course.  Both innovations appear to have worked well, and will be used in the future.

A small army of volunteers enabled the meet to occur.  Derek Maclean set the advanced courses, and Dean French set the beginner courses.  Jim Fish was the assistant director.  Bob Cooley printed the maps.  Nancy Lindeman and Bud Laird helped set up.  Penny DeMoss did beginner clinics, ran her course, and then still had energy to pick up controls.  Mike Fleishman and Steve Smith streamered the route to the advanced start. Chuck Spalding, Joan Roos, Jerry Mandel, Bud Laird, and Stephanie Maclean did the starts.  Trinka Gillis, Mattias Vangbo, Jeff Lanam, and Terry Farrah ran e-punch.  A crew of students from Stanford--including Peter Wickelgren Graham, Alex Saltman, Chad Davis and Russell Neilson--helped with results compilations and starts.  Harold DeMoss, Penny DeMoss, Gary Carpenter, Brian Kirshner, Ev & Jean Beuerman, and Mark Blair picked up controls.  The next time you see any of these people, express some appreciation to them for giving you the opportunity to orienteer.

About 220 participants showed up for the meet.  Antoni and Stanislav Banach burned the White course, finishing in a little over 37 minutes.  Daniel Kopisch won Yellow in a little over 50 minutes.  The MHS NJROTC group barely won Orange in 1:03:53, with Brian Kirshner coming in second in 1:03:55.  Zigmantas Donatas won Long Orange in a little under 57 minutes.  Joe Scarborough won Brown in 1:13:56.  Dennis Wildfogel won Green in 1:08:42.  Bruce Wolfe won Red in 1:18:16.  Gabriel Lombriser won Blue in 1:10:57.

Our esteemed equipment director Mark Blair had a close call on his course.  While contouring along a barren slope, he began to slide on the gravel.  With nothing to grab onto, his speed accelerated.  He slid about 40 meters, heading towards jagged boulders.  He saw a lone tree towards the bottom just above the boulders and managed to steer his slide towards the tree.  Going about 10-15 mph, he grabbed the tree trunk. He avoided major injuries, but he had plenty of minor injuries.  He went on to finish his course, and then, ever the dedicated orienteer, he insisted upon going out afterwards to pick up controls as he had earlier volunteered to do.


Results

Joseph D. Grant County Park (South)

San Jose, CA
Sunday, April 17, 2005


  Pl  Name(s)                                Time


White Course     (2.8 km, 80 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Antoni & Stanislav Banach              37:23
   2  Rajesh & Stella Kulkarni               48:41
   3  Walters                                51:30
   4  Delforge Gabrielle                     51:56
   5  Eglute Martisiete, Gabija & Karina
        Masalkovaite                         56:25
   6  Susana Meza, Linda Sanchez,
        Micaela Washington, Marissa Ryan     58:20
   7  Girl Scout Troop 259                   59:14
   8  Joe Walters                          1:00:17
   9  Surendra & Sukoon Saxena             1:00:33
  10  Jingwei Lin                          1:05:58
  11  Beth Nelson                          1:07:15
  12  Troop 383 Group 2                    1:07:29
  13  Troop 383 Group 1                    1:09:18
  14  Kathryn & Keith Veditz               1:11:45
  15  Angel Ng, Gary Chiu                  1:25:53



Yellow Course   (3.8 km, 130 m climb, 12 controls)

   1  Daniel Kopisch                         50:44
   2  Jukka Karras                           54:20
   3  Antoni & Stanislaw Banach              57:00
   4  Joanne Thiel                         1:00:55
   5  Beth Nelson                          1:01:40
   6  Tristan & Melia Delforge             1:02:35
   7  Janet, Kan, & Kelvin Ng              1:09:00
   8  Rhonda Clark, Jim & Simone Buteau    1:12:20
   9  Cesar Perez, Jhovani Contreras       1:15:02
  10  Julianne, Sally, & Paul Freeman      1:18:16
  11  Jonathan Blon, Lea Widdice           1:19:22
  12  Michelle Jian, Megan Xenos,
        Sarah Prior                        1:19:40
  13  David Gonzuley, Tyler Stritzier      1:21:15
  14  Luis Rodriguez, Joseph Sepuhoda      1:27:18
  15  Dinesh Moorjani                      1:27:20
  16  Dan & Jennifer Veditz                1:28:35
  17  Lei Xiau                             1:29:27
  18  Mark & Darby Oldham                  1:41:33
  19  Vladimir Gusiatnikov, Allison
        Carlson                            1:44:34
  20  Mark, Juan, Alex, John, Matthew      1:46:03
  21  Kathy Ornellas, Lucy Keener,
        Austin Ogden                       1:46:25
  22  Eve Kedan                            1:49:03
  23  Jean Shea                            1:54:59
  24  Mony Um, Sara Martinez, Sary Nhouv,
        Tameillya Grant, Nayeli Del Real   2:08:12
  25  Jannat Saxena, Mini Bansal           2:08:20
  25  Juliette & Melia Delforge            2:08:20
  25  Taylor-Leigh Walters                 2:08:20
  28  Mark & Kent Baumgardner              2:23:03

      Marina Shoffez                         DNF
      Mark Haw, Alex Ramirez                 DNF
      Ulma, Ngoc, Luis, Yazmin, Marwin       DNF
      T. J. Sullivan, Jeremy Wong            DNF


Orange Course   (3.7 km  150 m climb, 11 controls)

   1  MHS NJROTC                           1:03:53
   2  Brian Kirshner                       1:03:55
   3  Jackie Wong                          1:05:35
   4  Harold DeMoss                        1:08:11
   5  Charles Arde, Svetlana Kopeikina     1:10:16
   6  Julia Pushkar                        1:13:49
   7  Hongche Liu                          1:21:03
   8  Daniel Ellsworth                     1:27:46
   9  Andrea Reichert (3)                  1:34:08
  10  John Wallace                         1:34:44
  11  Sujatha Kattimani, Suresh Yanamadala 1:44:26
  12  Elise Willett, Susan Lindeman        1:44:46
  13  Want family                          1:48:49
  14  Greg Heironimus                      1:52:55
  15  Kevin Walker                         2:24:40

      Ann Trautwein                          DNF


Long Orange Course  (5.6 km  180 m climb, 14 controls)

   1  Zigmantas Donatas                      56:59
   2  Gary Kraght                          1:09:24
   3  Thomas Bastis                        1:13:26
   4  Kent Hetherwick                      1:18:09
   5  Mark & Cynthia Royer                 1:28:43
   6  Terry Farrah                         1:35:22
   7  Ron Davidson                         1:41:58
   8  Genevieve Brebner                    1:43:29
   9  Clea Sarnquist                       1:53:42
  10  Jennifer Stilwell                    1:54:29
  11  Olga Krupina                         1:57:51
  12  Richard Hellyer                      2:00:22
  13  Brian Hart                           2:03:28
  14  Rosemary Johnson                     2:09:05
  15  Fred Ciaramaglia                     2:12:39
  16  Rebecca Ruff, Cathy Bolger           2:57:41

      Les Winchester                         DNF


Brown Course    (4.6 km  250 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Joe Scarborough                      1:13:56
   2  Vlad Skvortsov                       1:17:40
   3  Todd Paulsen                         1:24:02
   4  Chad Davis                           1:28:10
   5  Hillary Wolfe                        1:30:16
   6  Mike Fleishman                       1:34:23
   7  Leslie Minarik                       1:49:01
   8  Alak Ghosh                           1:50:17
   9  Jeff Lanam                           2:06:27
  10  Jennifer Kerr                        2:06:54
  11  TJ Nicholson, Laura Wiggs            2:10:27
  12  Sarah Rubinfeld                      2:10:38
  13  Tom & Judy Cronin                    2:13:55
  14  Nancy Lindeman                       3:23:25

      Terry Gleason                          DNF
      Alan & Debra LaVergne                  DNF
      Joan Roos                              DNF
      Yulia Yukina                           DNF
      Trinka Gillis                          DNF

  Second Course

      Mikkel Conradi                       1:00:31


Green Course    (5.2 km, 280 m climb, 13 controls)

   1  Dennis Wildfogel                     1:08:42
   2  Dan Greene                           1:11:19
   3  Misha Lipatov                        1:15:55
   4  Chris Roper                          1:19:46
   5  George Minarik                       1:19:56
   6  Evan Custer                          1:21:55
   7  Gregory Khanlarov                    1:23:46
   8  Bob Cooley                           1:24:13
   9  Gary Carpenter                       1:24:37
  10  Manfred Kopisch                      1:34:07
  11  Tommer Wizansky                      1:39:46
  12  Hugh Magen                           1:44:05
  13  Nick Corsano                         1:50:06
  14  Alan Glendinning                     1:53:27
  15  Phillip Hoare                        2:02:34
  16  Johanna Merriss                      2:02:39
  17  Alex Warshavsky                      2:03:12
  18  Theo Verhoeven                       2:08:44
  19  Doug Masiel                          2:15:35
  20  Artem Stemkovski                     2:18:19
  21  Parag Gupta                          2:22:37
  22  Mark Rice                            2:27:07
  23  Andreq Barrows                       2:28:16
  24  Laura McKeegan, Rob Clima            3:08:15

      Lee Frederick                          DNF
      Alex Saltman                           DNF
      Mark Irwin                             DNF


Red Course      (6.1 km, 340 m climb, 12 controls)

   1  Bruce Wolfe                          1:18:16
   2  Matthias Kohler                      1:18:18
   3  Thorsten Graeve                      1:22:25
   4  Tapio Karras                         1:23:22
   5  Dan Dwyer                            1:28:57
   6  Chuck Spalding                       1:36:03
   7  Brad Wetmore                         1:41:11
   8  Gavin Wyatt-Mair                     1:45:52
   9  Eric Rosenzweig                      1:47:24
  10  Kent Ohlund                          1:47:38
  11  Trevor Pering                        1:52:42
  12  Steve Smith                          1:52:50
  13  Zbrigniew Pisanski                   1:59:52
  14  Russell Neilson                      2:00:30
  15  Peter Graham                         2:01:07
  16  Bob Strauss                          2:02:26
  17  Mark Blair                           2:09:23
  18  Bud Laird                            2:19:26
  19  Dennis Nicholson                     3:05:57

      Dan Holman                             DNF


Blue Course     (7.4 km, 420 m climb, 15 controls)

   1  Gabriel Lombriser                    1:10:57
   2  Mattias Vangbo                       1:17:15
   3  Mattias Eriksson                     1:18:20
   4  Mikkel Conradi                       1:18:48
   5  Michael Prindiville                  1:24:22
   6  Andrejus Masalkovas                  1:24:47
   7  Steve Gregg                          1:24:49
   8  Pierre Delforge                      1:26:53
   9  Mark Prior                           1:30:12
  10  William Gilmore                      1:50:23
  11  Brian Ridgway                        2:53:31

      Bret Sarnquist                         DNF

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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)