Laurel Hill State Park
Orienteering Meet
29 October 2023


It was a very rainy day - off and on showers with breaks of only a few minutes; the temperature was reasonable (mid 50s) and there was almost no wind. We had a total of 36 starts from 50 participants. Considering the weather, this was a very good turnout.

Ryan Knecht was the event director; he set five cross-country courses ranging from Beginner to Advanced Long. The only issue known ahead of time was the addition of a lot of down trees near control #12 on the Advanced Long course; however, participants on that course seemed able to deal with that. Several people comment on the difficulty of finding #10 on the Advanced Long; it was in a pit (often a point of controversy). Winning times for the courses as a whole were reasonable considering the weather. In keeping with the proximity of Halloween, Ryan decorated most of the controls with some sort of "scare object".

Many of you who look at the splits will see something strange as a split time from the last control to the Finish. The last control box was synchronized improperly a few weeks before the event; whereas the Finish control box was correctly synchronized just before the event. As a consequence, for some of you the measured time difference from the last control to the finish was actually negative (something our results software cannot deal with properly). None of this made any real difference in the final results; but it certainly looks strange.

Thanks to Jim Wolfe for vetting. Thanks to Barbara Johnstone, Naomi Jarvis and Laurie Opila for handling registration/check-in. Thanks to Jim Wolfe for helping with start/finish. Thanks to Sherry Shank for conducting instruction. And thanks to Christee and John Homan, Alexis Rzewski, Dave Battista, Ryan Repp and Frances and Keith Irvin for doing control pickup.

You can view the splits at Splits

The next WPOC event will be at Pine Ridge Park on 12 November.   Return to the Welcome Page

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Beginner Novice Intermediate Adv Short Adv Long

Beginner   2.0k     35m

NameNotesClubTime
1Aleks Popovs 36:16
2Jake Abels 37:52
3Barbara Johnstone WPOC39:27
4Loretta Opila WPOC39:57
5Don James 41:30
6Brian Nicolella 75:33



Novice   2.9k     80m

NameNotesClubTime
1Andreea Foarce 53:02
2Aleks Popovs 55:31
3Giuseppina Mecchia WPOC67:56
4Christee Homan WPOC70:29
5Andrew Shissler 71:15
6Jake Abels 88:09
7Chris Wheat 89:18
8Eric Steinbring WPOC102:54
9Spaulding Dwigjt 104:40
Bill Shine Found 4 controls; finished at 107:20 DNF



Intermediate   4.2k     100m

NameNotesClubTime
1Matthew Hasselfield 69:08
2Abigail Fong 100:15
3Robert Condie WPOC122:07
Bunny Petrillo Found 6 controls; finished at 259:10 DNF
Jim Cebula Missed #4; finished at 223:50WPOCDNF
Zachary Donehue Found 6 controls; finished at 166:23 DNF



Adv Short   4.1k     125m

NameNotesClubTime
1Ryan Repp WPOC67:20
2Luca Rzewski WPOC71:30
3Francis Hogle QOC82:16
4Sherry Shank WPOC104:43
5Naomi Jarvis WPOC117:45
Keith Irvin Missed #7 & #8; finished at 84:13WPOCDNF



Adv Long   7.3k     205m

NameNotesClubTime
1Jonathan Boyer NEOOC101:42
2Zach Serafini 127:15
3Alexis Rzewski WPOC132:25
4John Pane WPOC145:30
5Liz Serafini 150:09
6Jim Trautmann WPOC151:08
Dave Battista Found 8 controls; no finish timeWPOCDNF
Gavin Hutchinson Found 13 controls; finished at 204:27 DNF