Junior orienteers were treated to a weekend of competition as Western Plains completed their highly successful Space Racing Series on Saturday followed by the Central West Schools Orienteering Championship on Sunday.
On Saturday at Macquarie Anglican Grammar School (MAGS), twelve space racing crews competed to take the final mission honours. Team Mimosa – Joe Thompson and James Hughes (10mins 14secs) overtook the previously unbeaten Team Pleione – Samantha Wallace and Shannon Finch (10mins 20secs) to become the new Space Racing Champions with Team Betelgeuse – Emma Hughes and Katie Wallace (12mins 12secs) in third. The Star Trek open sprint event, for adults, attracted some twenty two sprinters and was won by Dale Wallace (Men) and Karen Hagan (Women).
The Central West Schools Championship was held on the combined campuses of St Johns Primary School and St Johns College. There were winners from all the schools represented in the Championship but it was the strength of the Macquarie Anglican Grammar School who swept the board in the 10 years and under, took 1st and 3rd in the 12 years and under division, and 1st and 2nd in the 16 years and under, which brought home the points to become the 2012 Central West Schools Champions. They were only seriously challenged in the 14 yrs and under division where Dubbo South Campus took both male and female first places.
A new series of five Space Races will begin on Sunday 20th May 2012. For further information email:
Thanks to Karen Hagan for her help with this report
