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Duncan Currie (Garingal) and Alastair George (Big Foot) will be representing Australia at the junior world championships in Denmark starting this weekend.
After Model events on Saturday, the medal races get underway with the Sprints from 10am on Sunday (6pm NSW time).
This is Alastair's second JWOC and Duncan's first. You can follow them via the event website here or the team blog here.
In a curious piece of scheduling, the annual World Masters champs are on at the same time in Latvia, starting on Saturday.
The seven NSW orienteers we found in the start list are Bennelongers Eric Morris and Gordon Wilson, Central Coast's Colin Price and Robyn Pallas, Garingal's James Lithgow, and Jean and Basil Baldwin from Goldseekers.
You can follow their progress via the event website here.
Mawarra are creating a winning streak to rival Queensland in State of Origin after taking out yet another Sydney South West primary schools championships.
Their maroon colour matches that of the "Cane Toads" and they again featured in many of the age-class top-3 placings at Camden Equestrian Centre on Wednesday.
We had more than 300 eager students in Years 4-6 go for a map walk with a coach, then do an age race, and finally a mass start relay that is always the highlight of the afternoon.
We loved overhearing one teacher - who is retiring on Friday - say: "I wish I had known about this day years ago. It's fantastic."
A huge thank you to organisers Sandy Stewart and Lyn Malmgron and their team of helpers. You can see photos of the day on our Facebook page here. Feel free to download them for personal use.
Last week the SHOO club hosted the Southern Highlands high schools gala day at Mittagong, where Macarthur Anglican College prevailed at their first attempt.
Newcastle added some novelty to the halfway point of the bush season with four quality sprint events at the weekend.
Two races each on Saturday and Sunday in a mixture of urban, campus, parkland and benign bush with no street crossings made for a nice break from the forest.
Around 80 competitors on Saturday were on hand at Cardiff High School and Hunter Sports High, while Sunday saw 55 people at Avondale College in Cooranbong (Sydneysiders were by then back home at the MetrO League).
You counted your best three runs, and the winners in the long class were Jenny Enderby and Alvin Craig, and in the short class were Erika Enderby and Andrew Power.
A big thank you to the Rigbys for co-ordinating this terrific weekend. You can see Tony Hill's great photos here.
Another 200+ attendees lapped up the new and improved Boronia Park map for MetrO League round 1 on Sunday.
This was rescheduled from May and gave Garingal's Jim Merchant more time to turn what was a summer series map with random rock and some tracks into a highly accurate depiction of the terrain.
It allowed setter Ian Jessup to contain Divisions 3-5 within the park, while stretching Divisions 1-2 out to Sugarloaf Point on some long legs. The unusual map scales meant legibility was enhanced.
The track network in Boronia Park undid some competitors, but not the KNOX boys who continued their strong unbeaten runs in Divisions 3 and 5.
Garingal Goannas broke their drought in Division 1 against previously unbeaten Bennelong, while the GO Frill Necks are unbeaten in Divison 2. In Division 4, Garingal, SHOO-IKO and Big Foot have a four-point gap over the rest of the field.
The next round is July 28 at Galston, also hosted by Garingal.
You can find all the result on the ML web page here.
