Club News by Karin Kirk news@octavian-droobers.org
OCTAVIAN DROOBERS TOP THE WEST MIDLANDS LEAGUE
The final league event for 2017 was held at Hay Wood, near Baddesley Clinton, and club members turned out to compete with some great running around the woods, across all age classes to clinch the title. OD have accumulated a total of 7403 points well ahead of the other West Midlands clubs: Wrekin Orienteers 6895, Harlequins 6574, Walton Chasers 6349, Potteries 6038 and City of Birmingham 2160.
Scorers for the club, earned from best 5 races, from the 12 events, with a maximum of 100 points per race were: Finley Flippance M12, Jacob Oxtoby M14, Tom Jeffries M45, Juliette Soulard W45, Lesley Ross W50, Barry Elkington M60, Peter Carey M70, Sam Leadley M18, Josie Smart W12, Florence Lunn W14, Sheila Carey W70 who all scored 500 points and Chris McCartney M45 498, David Leadley M50 491, Kevin Ross M50 415 and Felix Lunn M16 499.
The Hay Wood event was organised by John Middler and all the courses were planned by juniors Oliver and Felix Lunn. The club welcomed over 130 competitors from across the midlands and several new orienteers, including a group of Sea Scouts from Warwick, who enjoyed the experienced of navigating around the woods. Individual winners of the courses were: Imogen George W12 Warwick Sea Scouts took 8.07mins on the 1.3km White course, Oscar Barnby M10 Walton Chasers 17.54mins on the 2.5km Yellow course, Martin Mitchell M50 Harlequins 36.40mins on the 2.9km Orange Course, Jacob Oxtoby M14 31.27mins on the 3.5km Light Green Course, Peter Carey M70 33.51mins on the 3.2km Short Green course, Lesley Ross W50 34.07mins on the 4km Green course and Alistair Landels M45 44.22mins on the 6.8km Blue Course.
NATIONAL SELECTION
Will Gardner M21 is to take his place in 2018 into the British Orienteering Senior GB Squad. The squad has 24 athletes, 14 men and 10 women. The club congratulates him on this great achievement, following some good results at international and national events and wishes him success next year as he competes for GB.
5th December 2017
SOUTH SHERBROOK, CANNOCK CHASE RESULTS
Club members competed at South Sherbrook, in the West Midlands League event organised by Walton Chasers on Sunday. Top 10 positions were earned by several club members: Alistair Powell M35 was 6th in 70.58mins and David Leadley M50 8th 72.04mins on the 9.05km Brown course with 195 metres of climb. On the Blue 6.25km course with 190 metres of climb Tom Jeffries M45 was 4th in 53.58mins, Barry Elkington M60 was 6th in 54.57mins, Alistair Landels M45 8th in 56.03mins and on the same course Lesley Ross W50 was top woman taking 61.40mins.
Jacob Oxtoby M14 was top junior on the Green 4.3km course taking 46.56mins and overall 3rd position and Bruce Bryant M60 was 5th in 49.13mins on the same course. Florence Lunn W14 was 1st on the Light Green 3.07km course taking 37.33mins, just ahead of sister Tabitha Lunn W14 39.08mins, and Pippa Smart W14 was 4th in 43.46mins. On the Orange 2.51km course Lewis Oxtoby M12 was 5th in 41.48mins, Josie Smart W12 6th in 42.35mins, Kimberley Lunn W45 9th in 45.46mins and Matt Bambrook M14 10th in 48.51mins. Henry Jeffries M10 was 2nd in 24.04mins and Rupert Powell M10 3rd in 33.15mins on the Yellow 2.16km course and Darcy Dunn W12 was 9th in 45.55mins. Adam Landels M8 was 4th on the White 1km course in 14.13mins.
28th November 2017