Point Pinole
Richmond
Feb. 25, 2001
by Steve Gregg, meet director
The weather leading up to the Point Pinole event followed what is getting to be a familiar pattern: Lots of rain the week before the event, which created lots of unmapped swamps and the unmapped "Pinole River" on the northeast part of the map. A brief shower the morning of the event, which convinced a lot of people to stay home. But the rain stopped at about 9 AM and those folks who braved the early precipitation were rewarded with a very pleasant day for orienteering. Below are the complete results.
Four BAOC men made the USOF Standing Team for 2001 and to no one's surprise, those four people took the top four spots in the sprint championships this year. James Scarborough, in particular, showed the kind of speed that will hopefully gain him a spot on the US World Championship team this year. James' times on both the 3.6 km Prologue course and the 5.5 km Chase course were about a minute and a half faster than anyone else, and he finished the Chase three and a half minutes ahead of his closest competitors.
Meanwhile, Dan Stoll-Hadayia and Wyatt Riley were battling for second place behind James. Wyatt ran a relatively slow Prologue and started the Chase in fourth place, behind both Dan and Syd Reader. Wyatt passed Syd midway through the Chase and almost caught Dan, but in a sprint to the finish Dan held on to take second place by two seconds. Syd finished fourth 45 seconds later. These four were clearly the class of the field, as a pack consisting of Doug Stein, Thorsten Graeve, and Van Boughner were over four minutes behind Syd in 5th, 6th, and 7th place, respectively. Heini Ilmarinen was the top female competitor in 15th place. The regular White and Yellow courses were won by Chris List and George Minarik.
Thanks to all the people who helped out at the event. The DeMosses and the Beuermans, in particular, came early, stayed late, and are primarily responsible for how smoothly everything ran. The Scarboroughs also arrived early: Joe preran the Prologue course before setting up his sales area, and James helped with setup. Vivian Lee ran registration, and Meg Gerstner helped with starts and finishes. And the best thing about having Harold DeMoss help at your meet is that he is so good at hounding people to pick up bags! Doug, Thorsten, Van, and perhaps some other people I have forgotten about performed that task.
My one disappointment about the event was the fact that we had to use manual punching. Count on dry weather and electronic punching next year!
Results
SPRINT CHAMPS
Prologue Chase Total
1 James Scarborough 18:10 (1) 30:21 (1) 48:31
2 Dan Stoll-Hadayia 19:24 (2) 32:37 (3) 52:01
3 Wyatt Riley 20:08 (4) 31:55 (2) 52:03
4 Syd Reader 19:28 (3) 33:20 (4) 52:48
5 Doug Stein 20:45 (5) 36:18 (7) 57:03
6 Thorsten Graeve 21:18 (6) 36:06 (6) 57:24
7 Van Boughner 21:47 (7) 35:43 (5) 57:30
8 Derek Maclean 26:47 (11) 37:44 (8) 64:31
9 Tapio Karras 23:57 (9) 40:49 (9) 64:46
10 Dennis Wildfogel 23:30 (8) 41:30 (10) 65:00
11 Dan Greene 25:10 (10) 47:21 (11) 72:31
12 Vadimus Masalkovas 29:02 (14) 48:08 (12) 77:10
13 John Marshall 30:23 (16) 50:16 (13) 80:39
14 Eric Rosenzweig 29:15 (15) 51:45 (16) 81:00
15 Heini Ilmarinen 34:01 (20) 50:57 (14) 84:58
16 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 33:49 (19) 51:52 (17) 85:41
17 Alan Glendinning 28:45 (13) 58:03 (19) 86:48
18 Joe Scarborough 31:35 (18) 56:32 (18) 88:07
19 Andrejus Masalkovas 40:32 (25) 51:08 (15) 91:40
20 Stew Hintz 31:19 (17) 61:02 (20) 92:21
21 Jill Saman 38:35 (22) 66:16 (22) 104:51
22 Vivian Lee 28:33 (12) 76:59 (23) 105:32
23 Rod Jaehn 40:06 (23) 65:39 (21) 105:45
24 Craig Mar 40:14 (24) 81:18 (24) 121:32
Angelica Riley 37:13 (21) DNS
Jeff Lanam 41:32 (26) DNF
Nancy Lindeman 57:31 (27) DNS
Jeff Gurrola 64:59 (28) DNS
WHITE COURSE
1 Chris List 51:04
2 Jeanette Miller 69:21
3 Carl Close 79:21
YELLOW COURSE
1 George Minarik 30:42
2 Leena Ilmarinen 45:43
3 Trevor Pering 47:29
4 Melissa Criqui 52:47
5 Linda Spranz 56:20
6 K. Jenkins and J. Girn 56:57
7 Nancy Lindeman 58:18
8 D. Hoffman and E. Johnson 65:39
9 Larry Pagendarm 71:55
10 John Pagendarm 87:04
11 Alan Jones 89:56
12 Berkowitz and Freund 94:30
Johanna Merriss DNF (wrong map)
Jeff Gurolla DNF (MSP #7)
