Metro League #2- St Ives.

 

The last time we orienteered at the St Ives Showground was the 2021 Big Foot Sprints. The weather was far from suitable for orienteering – hot hot hot!

Well, the weather for Metro League 2 was just right. Cool but sunny. The courses were well set with the longer courses getting into the trickier areas mind you the green made navigation a chore.

It was not the best of weekends for the Uringa- central Coast teams as we scored 0 from 3 matches. Division 1 went down 29/20 to Western and Hills. The team didn’t do down without a fight with Ant and Shane scoring 8 and 7 points respectively. Michael and Ant in their postmortems centred their discussions on controls 17,18,19. Ant initially missed 18 heading for 19 before returning to collect 18. Michael did the same however unlike Ant did not realise he had missed 18 until later. Zoe, had a long run missing the last controls as the courses were closing.

Division 3 also had a loss in their match with Garingal. The team was some what undermanned having only 3 runners. It was made worse when Curtis sustained a nasty ankle injury within 100 metres of the start. Curtis damaged a ligament or two and has started rehab. Ori was in fine form with a 9 pointer and Jim was right behind scoring 8.

Division 5 were valiant in defeat in their match against Western and Hills. The final score was 32/23. Gayle, 8 points and Paul 6 were the best of the team.

Looking at individual results:

Division 1- Ant 10^th, Shane 12th, Serena 15^th, Ian 20^th 

Division 3- Ori 6^th, Jim 11^th

Division 5- Gayle 9^th, Ron 10^th, Paul 15^th, Peter 17^th, Jane 21^st, Dave 29^th

 

Port Macquarie here we come!

A neat dozen Uringans are heading to Port Macquarie over the weekend of 9/10 July. This will be the very first State League events run by the local club HOGS ( Hastings Orienteering) Supported by Newcastle Orienteers the double header will see a sprint around a local college on Saturday and then Sunday the venue moves the Broken Bago State Forest, near Wauchope.

This should be an enjoyable weekend.

 

Metro League #3 - 31^st July

One for the diary Metro 3 heads to Lake Parramatta.  

 

QBIII 2022

QBIII is NSW’s annual winter three-day event held over the Queen’s Birthday Weekend in June. It includes two bush events and a sprint. This year the WaggaRoos (Wagga & Riverina Occasional Orienteers) coordinated the event with the Stingers oreganising Day1, OACT Day 2, and the WaggaRoos Day 3. There were also helpers from other clubs, notably our technical guru Ron Pallas.

QBIII importantly offers time to relax, explore and socialise. Uringans met at the Riverina Hotel for a shared meal (as usual) with one another and other orienteering friends, a great opportunity to debrief course experiences and to catch up. Thanks to Uringa Social Secretary Gayle Shepherd for organising this.

QBIII always offers challenges. This year the two events in the Murraguldrie State Forest offered technical rock as well as some steel hillsides. The Charles Sturt University campus is a maze of buildings and features perfect for a sprint course. Then there was the winter cold (single digits).

Completing all three events is necessary to be in competition for the QBIII podium – badges to those finishing 1, 2 and 3. Those listed below managed to finish, to find and punch all the correct controls, and to do it for all three days. (The long drive home to Sydney did lead to some choosing not to compete on Day 3, and others not staying for the presentations.)

W16A 3 Maggie Mackay	M16A 6 Jonathan Nolan
W55A 1 Linda Sesta	M20A 5 Kelvin Meng
W55AS 2 Gayle Shepherd	M50A 2 Ant Nolan
W75A 4 Mary Jane Mahony	M55A 2 Michael Warlters
W Open B 3 Jane Boland	M60A 6 Jim Mackay
	M85A 1 Brian Cleland

 There are QBIII reports on this blog for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2021.