Sunny Saturday September 14 attracted scores of young soccer players, as well as some die-hard orienteerers to Ann Morrison park. Newcomers and experienced ones tried to find as many of 20 controls as they could in 1 hour limit. Some managed to find all of them, however, not everyone escaped penalty for overtime. Only very experienced Masha fresh from her winning at the Western States Champs showed real courage and pulled me over whole park in pursuit of all controls inspite of the pressure from time and heat. Newcomer Peters family found almost all controls and were ahead of Doly and Kunzman pairs who found all controls but were penalized for overtime. I hope they will gain more experience and skills at our future meets. Elijah and Sophia pulled Andy on the course - I saw it with my own eyes :) And finaly Karin braved the heat and missed only controls that she forgot to copy onto her map.

Nobody came to try advanced variant with 6.5 K, 20 controls so I saved it for the next time :) Here are the meet results.

Meet Results:

Score-O, 20 controls, 60 minutes limit, maximum 20 points,
1 point penalty for each full minute above the limit

                            Controls   Points   Time    Penalty   Total Score
Masha Velichko                 20        20     58:45      0       20
Karin Didisse                  18        18     33:30      0       18
Peters Big Family              17        17     56:00      0       17
Jim & Christopher Daly         20        20     65:30     -5       15
Elijah & Andy Hill, Sophia
Fullmer                         6         6     44:30      0        6
Valerie & Bill Kunzman         20        20     74:15    -14        6


The next meet will be 11 AM - 1 PM on Saturday, October 19 at Stewart Gulch (East), Boise. Hope to see you all there!

Sergey Velichko