Ten NSW Oceania Sprint champions crowned
- Last Updated: Saturday, 28 September 2019 21:59
NSW orienteers took out ten age classes at the Oceania Sprint champs to kick off the carnival in Wagga on Saturday.
Courses 1-7 at Charles Sturt Uni included a section on the steep rocky hill just west of the main campus, adding some serious climb and a taste of bush to the Sprint.
Congratulations to our winners:
Nea Shingler (Big Foot, W14); Nicola Blatchford (Newcastle W21); Martina Craig (NC, W45); Barbara Hill (Garingal, W50); Greg Barbour (BF, M55); Paula Shingler (BF, W55); Carol Jacobson (GO, W70); Jean Baldwin (Goldseekers, W75); Maureen Ogilvie (Uringa, W85); Wendy McConaghy (GO, WOpenB).
In the elite divisions, Alastair George (BF) was second in the junior men's (M20E). NSW runners also placed 5-6-7 for a good showing all round. Tshinta Hopper (Bennelong) was the best placed in the junior women in 15th, Rob Bennett (NC) and Toby Wilson (GO) finished 6-7 in senior men, and local Briohny Seaman (Waggaroos) was 7th in the senior women.
Nea won by one second over Kiwi Ruby Nathan, and Greg by three seconds, while Jean deadheated with Ann Ingwersen from the ACT.
The arena had a giant TV screen showing all the action to get the carnival off to a very entertaining start.
In addition to the winners, NSW had 5 runners up and seven third placings.
Results are here and Winsplits here.
Sydney Summer Series schedules published
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:08
Schedules for the three Sydney Summer Series have been published.
The traditional Sydney Summer Series starts at Vaucluse on Wednesday October 9 and finishes at West Pymble on April 1 - no joke!
The Southern SSS is now being called the River and Bay Orienteering Series - it features 5 Sunday afternoons in a row in the Botany Bay area, followed by 5 Sundays along the Cooks River. The series runs from October 13 to December 15.
The Western SSS runs on Sunday mornings across the summer holiday period, from December 1-15, then from January 5-19.
All summer events have now been uploaded to Eventor. Clubs will be updating them shortly to include all relevant event information.
Big Foot, KNOX make it a MetrO double
- Last Updated: Monday, 23 September 2019 14:03
Big Foot and KNOX have dominated the Sydney MetrO League finals for 2019, taking out four divisions and three individual medals between them.
WHO's Matt Hackett set the toughest test for a MetrO final for many years on a steep map at Mulgoa by the Nepean River, and there were some long times among the 180+ participants.
The difficulty only seemed to inspire the lads from KNOX (pictured left with coaches Dylan Sherman and Thomas Gordon) who have improved phenomenally this year.
They were unbeaten in Division 5, thrashing an under-strength WHO 39-15 in the final and having the four fastest runners on course. Alex Smith took out the individual medal with 61 points from seven matches.
In Division 3 they reversed their earlier round loss to Bennelong Northside 31-24 and Heath Wallace won the individual medal with 59 points.
The Feet had already wrapped up Division 1 in the first-past-the-post system and crowned their third straight triumph with Ewan Shingler winning the individual medal (58 points).
Big Foot were unbeaten in Division 4, comfortably accounting for SHOO-IKO who were without their individual medal winner Shiona Will (56 points).
The Garingal Frill Necks won Division 2 by 30-25 over a SHOO-IKO team that was a runner short on the day. Melissa Thomas (Bennelong) won the individual medal on 68 points.
Match scores and the individual tables have been updated on the ML web page.
A big thank you to all our course setters, controllers, organisers, results gurus, participants and most of all the club captains who co-ordinate their teams and ensure a successful comp. This year we had a record 32 teams.
Serena gets late NSW schools call-up
- Last Updated: Thursday, 19 September 2019 11:12
Uringa's Serena Doyle has received a late call-up to the NSW schools team for the Australian champs in Wagga next week.
Serena has previously represented the Carbines and is in her HSC year. She comes into the seniors girls team.
Oliver Freeman (Big Foot) is a late withdrawal from the team. Oliver has been selected in an under-15 NSW western area cricket rep team and they are playing on the same days as the school individual and relays in Dubbo.
Oliver chose cricket over orienteering this time but he loves both sports. He will be at Oceania for the other events.
We wish these young athletes all the best.
