Attendance: 117 in 68 groups

The courses were the same that were run the previous day at the MVOC Jr. O Champs Practice Event.  Competitors can compare their results with others who ran the same course the previous day.  Fairborn, Wayne, Springboro, and Badin High School teams in particular may want to do this.

The top 1/3 of finishers on a course (not counting OT's) should consider moving to the next higher course.  Finishers with an OT or DNF should move to an easier course and master it (top 1/3) before moving higher.

The white course ROKS again as Badin High School sweeps the top four spots!

The yellow course is ROKing too as the top thre individuals are also from the Badin ROKS team. Fairborn's group with Nick Morales at the head is chipping away at the ROKS with a second placing just 20 seconds from first.

On orange OCIN's Bob Frey and Dick Arnett burned up the course with a tie win over Fairborn's group led by Chris Lamb to take third. There is no second place due to a tie for first. Saturday's orange course (identical to Friday's) didn't have the same problem with DNF's that Friday's did. At least half the people finished the course Saturday.

The green course ROKS too as Richard Boehm posts an impressive time. If there's one person to give Kenny Fugate of Hamilton competition at the spring Jr. O Champs, it's Richard. The Spring MVOC Jr. O Champs are on a Saturday in 2006 so these jugernauts will be running in head-to-head competition. It's going to be a good matchup. For second, Pat Meehan of OCIN (and the ROKS coach) edged out Rory Heard of "MVOC" (see note on Rory below).

On red MVOC's Larry Berna was the only one with legs to withstand the endurance required to complete the 7.0 Km course without going overtime, but almost making the cutoff was MVOC's Gabe Svobodny, just about three minutes over. He and Rober Rice of OCIN round out the top three.

I never thought it would happen, but Rory Heard, a member of MVOC, but not from our club, came to our meet. He wasn't even from the Miami Valley Outdoor Club. Rory is from the orienteering club that uses the www.mvoc.org web address. Namely, the Mole Valley Orienteering Club in England! Welcome Rory when you see him at our next O event, the night, score-o at Cricket Holler.

A couple items were found after the event. If you lost something, contact me at 848-3106 and describe it. If it matches what we found, we'll work out a way to get it to you.

Matt Bond
Meet Director