Briones
Orinda
Oct. 14, 2001
by Gavin Wyatt-Mair, meet director
We had great weather, another huge turnout, and plenty of fun at this year's Briones event and 10th annual Bay Area Scout Orienteering Championships. There were about 450 scouts, 70 adult leaders, and 100 BAOC participants, for a total of 620 participants. Not quite a record, but close. Below are results for both the BAOC event and the Scout-O.
We again used e-punching on all courses. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the database that caused our finish crew a lot of headaches, as well as long lines at the finish. Lesson for next year: Create the database earlier so we can test it properly, and use two download stations. Anyway, despite the lines, we were able to get all the e-punch results downloaded and did not lose any data. Whew! Couldn¹t print many results other than splits, though.
A collateral effect of the computer trouble was that we had to
calculate part of the scouts' results manually. Unfortunately,
these calculations turned out to be incorrect in their details, and
after we sorted out the computer troubles, we have a corrected set of
official Scout-O results take a look!
Thanks for the Help!
We would like to thank the East Bay Regional Park District and the Briones Park rangers for their support. The park rangers were particularly helpful with parking, access, and advice, and we are very grateful to them. The scouts would like to thank BAOC for sponsoring the Scout-O event and helping scouting out. Thanks also to all the parents and scout leaders who took the time to bring their scouts to a day of orienteering.To all our helpers: Thank you VERY much. With such a large attendance, help was the most essential element of the meet, and you all did a wonderful job! To those I have left out (and I'm sure I have, since there were so many ad-hoc volunteers), please accept my thanks, too. And of course, thanks to my family (Nina, Arwen, Malcolm, Kelsey, Wendy) for all their help and patience - typing, stuffing packets, telephone calls, mailings, recruiting, results, and putting up with the disruption.
A special thank-you to Jeff Lanam, who manned the e-punch download nonstop from 10 am until 3 pm a Herculean effort in the face of constant computer trouble and masses of finishers.
Once again this year, our wonderful club has shown its colors. The help we received again was spectacular, and the cheerful and unstinting way in which it was given amazes me. Thank you so much, everyone not just from me, but from all those scouts, scouters, parents, and orienteers who benefited from your time and energy.
Here is a list of helpers, and I apologize profusely to those who pitched in but whom I've inadvertently left out.
- Alan Houser - Parking
- Jay Hann - Water placement, public address, construction, finish, photography
- Scott Hann - Water placement, e-punch hanging
- Christine Shirley - Registration, finish
- Jeff Lanam - E-punch programming, e-punch downloads
- Dean French - Control pickup
- Dan Stoll-Hadayia - Results, computation
- Nick Corsano - Finish, awards, e-punch programming and hanging, ad hoc, co-director, all-around great guy
- Esther Heller - Scout registration, finish, awards
- Kelly Wells - E-punch hanging, starts
- Julie Wells - Starts
- Terry Gleason - Starts
- Penny and Harold DeMoss - Construction, starts, control pickup
- Rosemary Johnson - Instruction, permit
- Evan Custer - Equipment
- Mark Blair - Equipment
- Bill Straka - Instruction, results
- Barbara Straka - Scout registration
- Bob Cooley - Maps
- Gary Kraght - Registration
- Gary Carpenter - Pre-run
- Nina Wyatt-Mair - Pre-registration, awards
- Kelsey Wyatt-Mair - Data entry
- Arwen Wyatt-Mair - Data entry
- Dennis Wildfogel - E-punch sorting
- Thorsten Graeve - E-punch sorting
- Judy Koehler - Finish, results, photography
- Nick Weber - Control pickup
Scout-O Troop Competition
Here is the amazing part: After careful review of the results, and after correcting various double punches, mispunches, and so forth in the e-punch system, there was a TIE for first place! Congratulations to Troop 804 from Danville and Troop 32 from San Jose - our joint 2001 Scout Orienteering Champions. Troop 804 won last year also, and Troop 32 have now won 6 times! Troop 237 from Orinda came in third.This first-place tie may seem extremely unlikely, but when you consider the top-notch orienteering track record of the troops involved, it becomes more plausible. In any event, it is a worthy result. Just for the record, we went through four independent checks of the results before our computations agreed completely and we were able to make this announcement with certainty. A special thank you to those who helped with the results computation, and a very special, heartfelt apology to Troop 32, who were incorrectly placed in second place on meet day and in the November-December BAOC Bulletin.
Congratulations also to our Girl Scout Champions: Troop 321. Troop 434 was the second Girl Scout troop to finish.
And last, but not least, congratulations to our Junior Champions: Girl Scout Troop 2485.
The competition was organized into two parts:
- In the morning, there was individual competition according to skill level. Four courses were offered: Course 1 (White), Course 2 (Yellow), Course 3 (Yellow-Orange), and Course 4 (Orange). Scouts were required to compete in groups. The top three groups on each course were individual champions, receiving medals and certificates for their efforts.
- In the afternoon, there was a one-hour Score-O. Each control's value was its number. The goal was to plan a good route and get as many as you could.
Once again, we had an impressive improvement in orienteering skills amongst the scouts. More and more scouts are doing the harder courses, and doing them well. The undisputed Bay Area Scout Orienteering Champion is Byron Hann from Troop 804 in Danville, who won Course 4, the Orange course, in 55:04. His time also puts him in first place amongst the regular BAOC orienteers! Second place went to Jack Acton of Troop 804 in Danville, and Michael Sobczyk of Troop 32 from San Jose in 62:41 was third.
On Course 1 (White), first place was won by Jakub Fiederowicz of Troop 32 from San Jose in 44:38. Second place went to Henderson and Heath of Troop 237 from Orinda. Troop 941 team 1 took third.
Michael Pisanski of Troop 32 in San Jose was the winner on Course 2 (Yellow) in just 39:36. Second place went to Tomas Rollinger and P. Mazur. Greg Hannum of Troop 804 was third.
Course 3 (Yellow-Orange) was won by Andrew Robinson and Malcolm Wyatt-Mair of Troop 241 in Lafayette in a very fast 45:34. Danville Troop 804¹s team of Chris Hann and Ryan Rivers were second in 67:33, while Colin Burgess and T.J. Rakitan of Troop 139 came in third.
Eric Benjamin of Troop 24 from Berkeley collared top honors on the Adult course in 55:57. Jay Hann of Troop 804 in Danville was just 10 seconds behind, and Greg Butera of Troop 24 was third. Since this was for bragging rights only, Eric gets to be the biggest bragger - well done!
Scout patches were distributed at the meet. If anyone did not
receive a patch, as well as a course patch, please contact me:
925-934-6567 or e-mail GavinWM
attbi.com. If you haven't received a patch
for last year's meet, also contact me.
BAOC Results
Also be sure to check out the e-punch splits.
White 3.6 km, 90 m climb, 10 controls
1 Greg Ehrensing 43:37
2 Sonza VanHerick 1:03:05
3 Pack 464 den 5 (1) 1:09:19
4 Pendelton 1:11:22
5 Tony Prado 1:13:11
6 Judy Koehler 1:20:59
7 Rakitan 1:28:02
Andrew Martisinte MSP (missed #2)
Yellow 4.15 km, 135 m climb, 10 controls
1 Eric Tam 1:02:41
2 Daniel Le 1:18:05
3 David Bond 1:18:43
4 Molina 1:27:48
5 Yelena Shakhnovsky 1:31:58
6 Thomas & Zak Fester 1:33:59
7 George Orloff 1:46:10
8 Jolly 1:49:30
9 Tony Prada 1:56:37
10 Tim & Lori Sammons 2:09:49
11 Radfield 2:14:48
Matthew Chen MSP (missed #9)
Orange 4.275 km, 205 m climb, 11 controls
1 Elliott Delaye 1:10:40
2 Behrens 1:12:13
3 Douglas Chan 1:14:00
4 Perttu Illmarine 1:15:00
5 Ken Shaeaffer 1:18:19
6 Dowd 1:19:35
7 Eglute Martisiute 1:23:56
8 Chatzi 1:27:57
9 Julian Leong 1:45:12
10 Dunphy 1:47:15
11 Larry Pagendarm 1:48:14
12 Barbara Straka 2:01:13
13 Kevin Walker 2:05:57
14 Sean Campbell 2:13:55
15 Jeff Levin 2:17:03
16 Sharon Evans 2:22:46
17 Launchbury 2:23:17
18 Howe 2:51:56
19 Majhi 3:07:30
20 Fishkin 3:16:23
David Knepshield DNF
Brown 4.35 km, 195 m climb, 12 controls
1 Dennis Wildfogel 57:47
2 Penny DeMoss 1:06:13
3 Heinl Illmarinen 1:25:09
4 Mark Perkins 1:42:23
5 Oleg Shakhnovsky 1:43:27
6 Jones 2:00:55
7 Douhovnikoff 2:26:22
8 Dean French 2:43:33
9 Dailey & Rose 2:55:46
Rosemary Johnson MSP (missed #3)
Doug Masiel MSP (missed #1)
Joan Roos DNF
Chittoor Shanker DNF
Susan White DNF
Serrano DNF
Green 5.075 km, 250 m climb, 15 controls
1 Hannu Haarma 1:00:29
2 Werner Haag 1:12:47
3 Rich Parker 1:17:12
4 Joe Scarborough 1:17:38
5 Rental-47046 1:25:17
6 Mike Fleishman 1:46:19
7 Debbie Wojtowicz 1:47:34
8 Mike Condrin 1:48:00
9 Gerry Goss 1:57:52
10 Chuck Spalding 1:58:54
11 Stacy Goss 2:21:04
12 Rob Gendreau 2:21:37
13 William Straka 2:23:47
14 Abby Wolfe 2:26:14
15 Richard Jerrard 2:29:14
16 Grace Mellow 2:49:17
17 Vic Revenko 2:54:39
Francois Leonard MSP (missed #15)
Stempler MSP (missed #6)
Flak MSP (missed 11)
Angelica Riley DNF
Leif Kirschbaum DNF
Red 5.8 km, 330 m climb, 17 controls
1 Kent Ohlund 1:18:07
2 Tapio Karras 1:25:45
3 Dan Greene 1:27:49
4 Andreus Masalkovas 1:29:27
5 Bruce Bassett 1:40:35
6 Russell Green 1:43:36
7 Kevin Schoenfeld 1:56:01
8 Chad Hendrix 1:56:25
9 James Wilson 2:14:03
10 Stew Hintz (GCO) 2:14:41
11 Mark Blair 2:16:40
Blue 6.7 km, 365 m climb, 21 controls
1 James Scarborough 58:01
2 Wyatt Riley 1:04:23
3 Syd Reader 1:09:10
4 Steve Gregg 1:15:12
5 Thorsten Graeve 1:15:32
6 Doug Stein 1:30:14
7 Vadimas Masalkovas 1:31:40
8 Peter Graube 1:49:49
9 Nick Weber 1:51:04
10 Alan Mathews 3:30:08
