by Gavin Wyatt-Mair
Congratulations to Troop 32 from San Jose who successfully re-defended their title. Theirs is a great record: 4 wins in a row!!! It's going to be a difficult task to unseat them. Second place was taken by Troop 89 of Pittsburg, who had a tremendous showing in their first Scout-O. Third place went to Troop 912 of Sunol, who have consistently placed high in all Scout-Os. Despite a relatively poor showing in the morning, Troop 24 from Berkeley (last year's runners-up) made a roaring comeback in the afternoon, winning the score-o and eventually settling for fourth place in their second scout-o.
The competition was organized in 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'. The totals for each troop were computed from a combination of individual morning results and score-o'. Morning results were weighted based on time, and afternoon results were weighted based on number of correct controls found, with a lateness penalty.
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 scout orienteering champion is Orville Hrabe from Troop 912 in Sunol (Gary Carpenter's ex-troop), who has won course 4 (orange) two years running. His time would put him in third place amongst the regular orienteers!
On course 3, the yellow-orange course, Bart Mackowiak and Mike Sobczyk achieved another first place for troop 32 from San Jose. This is not the first time they have won a scout-o course, and I suspect it won't be the last either!
On course 2, a rookie troop took first and second place. Troop 33 from Los Altos, who had a tremendous turn-out, fielded the team of CJ Arneson and Mark Pearson, who managed to pip their troop-mates by seconds, even though they had never been to scout-o before. I suspect we will see more good things from them next year.
Course 1 was won by Russell Hoellwarth, Jake Huff and Mike Evans of troop 89 from Pittsburg. They charged around the white, turning in a splendid time of just 58 minutes for a relatively long course.
This year, Hugh Wright of troop 566 in Saratoga moved up to first place and bragging rights on the adult course (yellow-orange level). Keep it up, Hugh!
Just for interest's sake, Danny Lazzareschi of troop 24 from Berkeley blazed around the afternoon score course, punching 25 of 27 controls correctly in well under one hour. Many of those controls were orange level controls, so here is another example of a potential top-notch orienteer amongst the scouts.
In addition to the scout orienteering championships, a regular B meet was offered.
Firstly, I apologize for not having sufficient water on the courses. I was counting on the Park Rangers to drive my 180 lbs of water up the hill for me, but they had to pull out at the last minute bcause Thursday's rain made the paths too muddy for their trucks. So I carried as much as I could on Saturday, but it obviously wasn't enough.
All the courses were designed to stay out of the star thistles, which were particularly bad this year. Consequently, the courses meandered through and around the Briones forests, which of course are pretty tough to get through because of undergrowth, poison oak and steepness. The combination of old map, rough terrain, ugly vegetation and steepness was too much for many runners, especially on Blue and Green.
Anna Holmes and Josh Rausch won the White course in 55 minutes. Yellow was won by Rob Gendreau in the very respectable time of 44 minutes. He then went on to take second place on Orange, being beaten by just 1 minute by Maria Vargasova.
The Brown course was won by Erik Ohlund in the blazing time of 53 minutes, almost 30 minutes ahead of nearest rival Yelena Krasnova. Marsha Jacobs put in a good show for third place. Michael Fleishman won a tough Green course in 106 minutes. Kent Ohlund won Red in 94 minutes, even though he made a 10 to 13 minute error on the next-to-last control, and was recovering from a cold. Bruce Bassett, Steve Jankowski and Gary Carpenter were close behind. Blue was won in 96 minutes by Lans Taylor, who managed to pip James Scarborough by 1 minute. Well run, Lans!
The answer to the puzzle question is "Mount Tamalpaias can be seen on the horizon west of the third-last control" on green, red and blue.
There were 320 scouts registered at the meet, and about 90 BAOC runners, for a total of over 400 participants. This is double last years' numbers, and a record for Scout-o; a very encouraging turn-out!
We would like to thank the East Bay Regional Park district, and the Briones Park rangers for their support. The scouts would like to thank the BAOC for sponsoring the scout-o event, and helping scouting out. Thanks also to all the parents and scouters who took the trouble to bring to bring their scouts to a day of orienteering.
To all our helpers: Thank you VERY much. With record (double) 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 sooo 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 - stuffing packets, telephone calls, mailings, recruiting, results, and putting up with me and my absence.
Nina Tyksinski Registrar, start times, results
Christian Jacobi Maps
Vicki Woolworth Vetting, start-o, registration
Julie Wells Start, finish, results
Kelly Wells Start, bag pickup
Scott Aster Start
Evan Custer Vetting, registration, finish, results, presentation
Terry Gleason Registration
Janice Gleason Results
Nancy Lindeman Registration, presentation
Liz Butterfield Finish
Sarah Lange Finish
Hugh Wright Finish
Max Wright Pack-up
Van Boughner Start, results
Bill Straka Instruction, finish
Josh Friederichs Results
Alan Houser Finish
Esther Heller Finish
Nick Corsano Finish, Results
Alan Glendinning Bag pickup
Syd Reader Results
Steve Gregg Registration
Scouts
Troop competition
Troop City am pm Total
1. Troop 32/San Jose........574 1147 1721
2. Troop 89/Pittsburg.......471 1111 1582
3. Troop 912/Sunol..........508 1055 1563
4. Troop 24/Berkeley........229 1170 1399
5. Troop 33/Los Altos.......533 558 1091
6. Troop 5/Palo Alto........478 434 922
7. Troop 139/Davis..........391 287 678
8. Troop 100/Kensington.....326 324 650
9. Troop 234/Moraga.........485 - 485
10. Troop 566/Saratoga.......350 126 476
11. Troop 200/Lafayette......453 - 453
12. Troop 757/Menlo Park.....118 274 392
13. Troop 434/Modesto........150 227 377
14. Troop 202/Walnut Creek...365 - 365
15. Troop 224/Lafayette......242 111 353
16. Troop 3887/Pleasanton....258 - 258
17. Troop 3206/Moraga........256 - 256
18. Troop 810/Walnut Creek...248 - 248
19. Troop 318/...............210 - 210
20. Troop 351/Moraga.........198 - 198
21. Troop 1073/Mountain View.117 57 174
22. Troop 3039/Lafayette.....160 - 160
23. Troop 805/Danville.......119 38 157
24. Troop 275/Penn Valley....117 12 139
25. Troop 1125/Pleasant Hill.135 - 135
26. Troop 420/Lafayette......121 - 121
27. Troop 30/Berkeley........120 - 120
28. Troop 84/................112 - 112
29. Troop 480/Martinez.......110 - 110
30. Troop 370/Concord........102 - 102
31. Troop 2641/Lafayette.....102 - 102
32. Troop 140/................96 - 96
33. Troop 10/Berkeley.........90 - 90
34. Troop 81/Mountain View....80 - 80
35. Troop 3011/San Leandro....80 - 80
36. Troop 779/San Jose........40 - 40
Individual
Course 1 White 3.5km 110m 8 controls
1 Russell Hoellwarth, Jake Huff, Mike Evans Troop 33 58:00
2 Paul & Tomek Rollinger, Marek Prnszkowski 32 59:00
3 Kerry Erspamer, Alyssa Cresci, Bryanna Blosil 3206 62:00
Course 2 Yellow 3.7km 120m 9 controls
1 CJ Arneson, Mark Pearson Troop 33 74:00
2 Thomas Daffern, Andrew Moll 33 75:00
3 Matt Farrell, Dave Biehler 5 82:00
Course 3 Yel/Orange 3.8km 120m 10 controls
1 Bart Mackowiak, Mike Sobczyk Troop 32 66:00
2 Peter Styron, Mike Scheer, Brian Imhoff 202 73:00
3 Mark Catlin, Nate Alexander 139 75:00
Course 4 Orange 4.0km 120m 9 controls
1 Orville Hrabe Troop 912 70:00
2 Tristan Hoare 566 97:00
3 Sean Winslow 5 101:00
Adult Yel/Orange 3.7km 120m 10 controls
1 Hugh Wright Troop 566 61:00
2 Phil Farrell 5 84:00
3 Walt Young, Steve Haskins, John Longacre 89 91:00
BAOC regular o-meet
White 3.5km 110m 8 controls
1 Anna Holmes, Josh Rausch 54.59
2 Emily Bassett 67.00
3 Rachel Care 79.28
4 D.Slotsky & Sallie Nelson 96.34
5 James Cassary 108.12
Yellow 3.7km 120m 9 controls
1 Rob Gendreau 44.27
2 Vasya Volkov 56.16
3 Dima Volkov 62.20
4 Lance Mleynek & Chris Lee 116.05
5 Brian, Mark & Abby Cilker 148.23
Mack Cuttitta MSP 86.10
Russ Weeks MSP 121.09
M, L, D, M & A Coustier DNF
Ken & Linda Mintz DNF
Anna Holmes, Josh Rausch (2nd course) DNF
Orange 4.0km 120m 9 controls
1 Maria Vargasova 48.10
2 Rob Gendreau (2nd course) 50.49
3 Charles Brenner 81.26
4 Beth Dameron 87.18
5 Carolyn & Chris Cobey 96.21
6 Tom & Tommy Olson 100.39
7 Don Gee 100.51
8 Joe Rivera 116.37
9 Rosemary Johnson 117.43
10 Joe Ciccarello 124.17
11 Reggie and Pauline 126.42
12 Judy Koehler 129.10
13 M. Tobias 131.59
14 Robert & Carolyn Karil 138.16
15 Ev & Jean Beuerman 154.14
16 Barbara Straka 158.14
17 T & E Presser, S A & J Patterson 159.38
18 S F & A Straus & T Plossor 166.57
19 Kurt & Laura 182.39
Rosalie Rybka 204.53
Brown 3.4km 190m 9 controls
1 Erik Ohlund 53.10
2 Yelena Krasnova 80.25
3 Marsha Jacobs 109.00
4 Rick Boyer 126.14
5 Terry Gleason 136.51
6 Louise Madrid & Dennis Wildfogel 140.27
7 Bill Straka 147.19
Leslie Minarik DNF
Green 4.0km 250m 11 controls
1 Michael Fleishman 106.58
2 Andrzej Sobczyk 118.23
3 Kelly Wells 139.29
4 Robert Lewis 144.20
Andel, Thomas Miller 199.59
Joan Roos DNF
Aileen Abernathy DNF
Vic Revenko DNF
Dennis Struble DNF
Joe Scarborough DNF
Nancy Lindeman DNF
Jeff Lanam DNF
Red 4.7km 280m 12 controls
1 Kent Ohlund 94.36
2 Bruce Bassett 96.46
3 Steve Jankowski 99.19
4 Gary Carpenter 99.49
5 Doug Stein 111.25
6 Werner Haag 111.55
7 Dan Green 119.49
8 Bill Papendick 122.49
9 Michael Poulson 127.57
10 Peter Graube 164.57
11 Steve Beuerman 212.25
12 Chris Taylor 215.13
13 Dave Ingram 227.37
Phillip Hoare DNF
Bob Cooley DNF
Alex Krasnov DNF
Josh Friederichs DNF
Blue 5.9km 350m 15 controls
1 Lans Taylor 96.17
2 James Scarborough 97.19
3 Michihiro Kamijima 139.34
4 Syd Reader 154.18
5 Steve Gregg 155.32
Bob Anglin 220.58
Fabian Meier DNF
Van Boughner DNF
Wyatt Riley DNF