Club News by Karin Kirk news@octavian-droobers.org
JUNIORS PLACED SECOND AT YVETTE BAKER TROPHY
The annual English and Welsh orienteering interclub junior championship took place in Wiltshire this weekend. The event is named after Yvette Baker the first British World Champion. Congratulations to the 27 juniors who competed and produced an excellent second place with 875 points behind Bristol’s 885.
Julie Emmerson, Octavian Droobers Orienteering Club junior representative, writes:
On Sunday a coach of OD juniors had an early start to travel to Collingbourne Woods for the Yvette Baker Trophy final, hosted by Sarum. We finished 2nd last year and had won the previous 4 years so expectations were high. The forest had good visibility and was mostly very runnable except for large areas of brambles so there were some very fast times.
OD won 3 out of the 8 classes with Ella-Rose McCartney winning the Orange women, Harrison McCartney winning the Light green men and Julie Emmerson winning the Green women. Aimee Morse and Stephen Elkington also achieved podium positions, finishing 3rd on the Green women and Light green men respectively while Matt Elkington finished 5th on the Green men and Fran Slade was 5th on the Orange women. Other high scorers were Rachel Johnson, Patrick Roddy, Hamish Rogers and Alfie Bullus.
These brilliant results projected OD into 2nd place behind a very strong Bristol team. This was our 7th consecutive top 2 finish! We had enough runners to form another team and they finished a solid 11th place, just ahead of Bristol’s 2nd team. Well done to all the juniors that competed. We must also thanks all the adults that came along to help, especially Debbie for providing us all with crisps, biscuits and drinks on the journey home!
11th December 2012
COMPASSPOINT UK MASTERS CUP 2012 RESULTS
After 18 events throughout the year the winners of the UK Masters Cup have been announced. Top ten places were achieved by several club members from their best 8 results of the 18 competitions.
Congratulations to the overall winner of the W65 category Sheila Carey who scored 475 points, in the same category Sue Bicknell came 8th with 320 points and Karin Kirk 10th with 285 points. Hilary Simpson was joint 2nd in the W70 category earning 424 points as was Anne Straube in the W35 category earning 460 points and Liz Phillips was 6th 346 points and Lesley Ross 9th 327 points in the W45 age category.
In the men’s competition Mike Hampton was the club’s top man coming 2nd in the M65 category with 454 points with Pete Carey 9th on 334 points. Trevor Simpson came 5th with 366 points in the M70 category and Chris McCartney 8th in the M40 category with 319.5 points.
At the Southern Night Championships on Saturday Anne Straube was the top W35 on the Blue 6.3k course running round in 64.37mins. Matt Elkington was second placed M18 to completing the 7.6k Short Brown course in 58.40mins. On the Orange 2.28k course Aimee Morse W16 came in 2nd in 21.51mins.
On Sunday at the Interland selection race held at Esher and Oxshott Commons, Surrey, and looking for England representation were Harrison McCartney M14 who came 3rd on the Blue 7.2k course in 46.00mins,his sister Ella-Rose McCartney W12 3rd on the Orange course in 30.34mins, Aimee Morse W16 6th on the Green 4.8k course in 41.42mins and Anne Straube top W35 on the Short Brown 8.4k course taking 66.04mins.
Sunday’s Club Championships at Itchington Holt were well attended by club members. Club Trophies and handicap prizes will be announced and presented at the Christmas party on Wednesday 19 December. Club member course winners were: Yellow with 12 controls – 1st Alfie Bullus M12 19.01mins, 2nd Marco Lewis M8 28.06mins, 3rd Matthew Kermode M12 29.38mins. Light Green with 16 controls – 1st Stephen Elkington M16 30.50mins, 2nd Sheila Carey W65 32.06mins, 3rd Rachel Emmerson W16 35.28mins. Green with 18 controls – 1st Mike Hampton M65 34.24mins, 2nd Bob Brandon M60 34.42mins, 3rd Dave Marr M60 35.32mins. Blue with 20 controls – 1st Tom Jeffries M40 33.31mins, 2nd Thomas Honniball M21 40.02mins, 3rd Aleksandrs Ivanovs M21 41.31mins.
4th December 2012