Coyote Hills Regional Park
Date: (Sat.) Sep. 15, 2007
Location: Fremont, CA
Event Director: - 408.313.3753
Course Setter: Jim Fish
Type: C; National Orienteering Day "Come and Try It" event for beginners
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Event Write-Up
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Cool weather and a variety of courses greeted about 140 orienteers on National Orienteering Day at Coyote Hills. Jim Fish, along with Dean French and Nancy Lindeman, had labored long hours to refine the courses. Unfortunately, the course file sent to Bob Cooley for printing turned out not to be the final version. Since the controls were hung and the computer programmed with what was supposed to be the final version, there was considerable confusion until things got sorted out. Special thanks to Penny DeMoss for replacing a wayward control!
Since this was National Orienteering Day, we had prizes donated by USOF and Orienteering North America. First-timers placed their names in a box to win one of two Brunton compasses. I was happy to award both to young juniors, Kendra Barker and Copeland Green.
The White and Yellow courses were not affected by the mishaps. White was won by first-timer Paul Tompkins, who then went on to win the Medium Orange course; Paul had warmed up by helping to set up the Epunch tent and equipment. Artem Skorokhodov won the Yellow course, and the team of Craig Pierce and Erin Magers won the Short Orange course.
The Long Orange course was won by Steve Gregg. Russell Neilson won both the North and South Sprints.
Thanks go to all the helpers. This was the first time epunch was used at Coyote Hills. Peter Graube and Ruth Kadel handled the chaos with aplomb. Chuck Spalding and Werner Haag gave beginners clinics to many first-timers. Starts were handled by Donna French and Toby Ferguson. Finishes were handled by Alan Glendenning, Meg Gerstner, and Nancy Lindeman. Controls were speedily picked up by Steve Haas, Mark Blair, Jay Hann, Mitsumi Sugizaki, and one person whose name I didn’t get. Jim, Dean, and Nancy hung the controls, helped set up, and filled in as needed.
Results
Coyote Hills Regional Park Fremont, CA Saturday, September 15, 2007 Pl Name(s) Time White Course (2.1 km, 35 m climb, 12 controls) 1 Paul Tompkins 15:46 2 Omkar Mahajan, Brandon Nevels 22:00 3 Kurt Slensker 27:10 4 Matt Slensker 30:08 5 Danya & Fedor Karpelevitch 30:39 6 Bronwyn Caplinger 31:05 7 Peter McCorquodale 31:11 8 Karina Masalkovaite 32:22 9 Jagger Van Sickle 33:28 10 Johanna Karras 33:41 11 Brent Browning group 33:46 12 Robin Joy group 34:10 13 Battlesnakes 37:38 14 Emily Fragola, Jessica Cruz 39:37 15 Chris Finch 39:39 16 Amanda Hayton 39:49 17 Ashley Hayton 39:53 18 Jenny Nishimura group 40:50 19 Scout Troop 176 41:13 20 Debbie Fragola 41:34 21 Amanda Price 41:36 22 Eric Johnson group 44:07 23 Matt Lipadan 58:17 24 Sue, Amelia, & David Byrne 1:19:15 25 Scott & Sarah Singer 1:22:10 Jim Chapman group MSP Rory Maclean DNF Yellow Course (2.1 km, 95 m climb, 11 controls) 1 Artem Skorokhodov 44:02 2 Patrick Yeoh, Wendy Cheah 45:01 3 Beth Dameron 51:17 4 Daniel, Linda, & Kelly Martinez 52:16 5 Peter McCorquodale 52:59 6 Gary & Penny Martinez 53:57 7 Matt Lapadan 1:03:52 8 Kennith Schjoth II 1:10:36 9 Kris Rogers 1:10:57 10 Kurt Slensker 1:11:06 11 Jim Masters 1:12:07 12 Peter Skorokhodov 1:12:53 13 Lee & Kendra Barker 1:13:42 14 Alicia Hardy-Lange 1:14:18 15 Chris Guerrero, Brad Rowland 1:22:12 16 Jose Escoto 1:25:18 17 Patrick Vick group 1:26:29 18 Diane R. Hall 1:52:18 19 Scout Troop 176 2:03:46 20 Chowhounds 2:15:57 Jamie Caplinger DNF Jagger Van Sickle DNF Matt Slensker DNF Short Orange Course (4.3 km, 195 m climb, 18 controls) 1 Craig Pierce, Erin Magers 1:15:09 2 David Pope 1:23:47 3 Mark Harnett 1:23:57 4 Matthew Mattson 1:35:13 5 Copeland & Michael Green 1:35:56 6 Rick Boyer 1:38:45 7 Kendra Barker 2:35:48 Dos Eagles MSP You Owe Me Money MSP Battlesnakes DNF Brent Browning DNF Green Lizards DNF Eric Johnson DNF Orange Course (4.7 km, 220 m climb, 21 controls) 1 Paul Tompkins 1:24:58 2 Harold DeMoss 1:32:34 3 Laszlo Varga 1:43:40 4 Rosemary Johnson 1:49:51 5 Jim Fallun group 1:52:55 6 John Marold 2:13:40 7 Shura Kretchetov 2:20:04 8 Heidi Stenner 2:36:26 Brian Kirshner DNF Abi Freeman group DNF Long Orange Course (6.0 km, 250 m climb, 24 controls) 1 Steve Gregg 59:59 2 Steve Haas 1:03:47 3 Derek MacLean 1:04:25 4 Penny DeMoss 1:08:14 5 Manfred Kopisch 1:08:41 6 Cameron Ferguson 1:12:42 7 Chuck Spalding 1:13:32 8 Stephanie Maclean 1:16:43 9 Theo Verhoeven 1:23:08 10 Luc Poppe 1:27:15 11 Mark Blair 1:35:05 12 Alan Glendinning, Meg Gerstner 1:35:30 13 Alan Houser 2:00:04 14 Jennifer Kerr 2:02:53 15 Janet Stein, Phillip Hoare 2:11:32 16 Steve Beuerman 2:30:11 17 David Dippon 2:51:19 Alex Finch DNF North Sprint Course (3.1 km, 175 m climb, 18 controls) 1 Russell Neilson 31:40 2 Peter Graham 32:43 3 Brad Wetmore 39:15 4 Steve Haas 40:30 5 Misha Lipatov 41:58 6 Margaret Longstreth 46:01 7 Joe Maffei 51:47 8 Kevin McCarty 1:11:30 Francois Leonard DNF Jason Hogan DNF South Sprint Course (2.6 km, 120 m climb, 17 controls) 1 Russell Neilson 25:47 2 Peter Graham 28:45 3 Dennis Wildfogel 29:34 4 Brad Wetmore 32:21 5 Joe Maffei 35:12 6 Werner Haag 35:31 7 Mutsumi Sugizaki 37:12 8 Misha Lipatov 39:05 9 Johanna Merriss 40:29 10 Marie-Josee Parayre 49:05 11 Jay Hann 49:52 12 Kevin McCarty 50:58 13 Dwight Freund 51:45 14 Marsha Jacobs 1:14:50 Francois Leonard DNF Gary Kraght DNF Margeret Longstreth DNF _______________
DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)