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Susquehanna Stumble at French Creek State Park May 13, 2000 course results: Long Stumble  Short Stumble  White  Yellow  Orange  Course Setters: Brad Whitmore (stumbles), Jeff Whitehead (rec) Meet Director: Jim Browne Helpers: Marilee and Mike Ball, Eddie Bergeron, Dave Levine, Natalie Borozny, Richard and Erik Eddy, Mary Frank, Jeff Whitehead The first Susquehanna Stumble of the new millennium was held at French Creek on the East map on 5/13/00. The weather was more than warm and the courses were long (18k for the long and 9k for the short). Despite the heat, 23 went off in a mass start for each of the courses. About an hour later, the first runners came back through the Start/Finish area to either finish (short course), or exchange maps (long course). Eddie Bergeron, running the short course, appeared first (63:58) followed by Greg Balter (long course runner) in 64:30. First part of the long course was the same as the short course. Greg held on to his lead to be the eventual winner on long. However Joe Brautigam had a better second half, cutting Greg's lead from 190 seconds to 52. Among the women, Pam James (who else?) was first on the long, followed by Peggy Dickison (who else?) as second woman. On the short stumble, Anne Fitch was first woman. Recreational courses (W,Y,O) were also offered, and were won by Jerry Zimmer, Richard Eddy, and Charley Parker, respectively. There has to be some recognition for Steve Tarry and Bruce Wong. Steve made a last minute decision to run and drove most of the night from NH to get here. Bruce, an Adventure Racer with no prior orienteering exposure, felt he needed some map skills for his sport, so bicycled out from Philadelphia, did a White course (too easy), did an Orange course (challenging) and then bicycled back to Philadelphia. Maybe just a typical training day for him. The courses were designed by Brad Whitmore (the Stumbles) and Jeff Whitehead (WYO). The former had several occasions where four controls were grouped in a cluster so that there was option for which order to visit them. This maybe helped to avoid following. I heard only good comments about all the courses, so congratulations to the course setters. Helping out at the Start/Finish and picking up controls were: Richard and Erik Eddy, Marilee and Mike Ball, Eddie Bergeron, Dave Levine, Nathalie Borozny, and Jeff Whitehead. Our gratitude goes out to them as well as to Ian Whitmore who designed the honorific towels. MEET RESULTS LONG Stumble: ~18 km ~520 m 1. Greg Balter HVO 64:30 (1) 139:38 2. Joe Brautigam WCOC 67:40 (5) 140:30 3. Clem McGrath DVOA 67:02 (3) 145:43 4. Chris Gross DVOA 67:16 (4) 155:09 5. Vladimir Gusiatnikov OCIN 66:53 (2) 155:58 6. Jon Torrance QOC 70:14 (6) 158:41 7. Pam James HH 78:10 (8) 167:44 1st Women 8. Mihai Veres SVO 71:41 (7) 195:29 9. Peggy Dickison OK 86:13 (13) 197:40 2nd Women CABD EHGIF MKJL BACD 10. Tom Overbaugh DVOA 84:52 (10) 200:42 11. Randy Hall DVOA 82:43 (9) 214:45 CABD EHGIF MKJL BACD 12. Ron Bortz DVOA 97:15 (15) 217:20 13. Ken Walker Sr. QOC 101:19 (16) 217:34 CABD FIGHE MKJL ABDC 14. Victoria Brautigam WCOC 86:20 (14) 223:52 3rd Women 15. Sandy Fillebrown DVOA 112:33 (18) 245:09 4th Women 16. Hugh MacMullan III DVOA 112:40 (19) 245:09 17. David Onkst QOC 85:43 (12) 248:57 18. Mark Frank DVOA 104:09 (17) 257:18 19. Tim Good QOC 85:28 (11) 277:13 DCAB EHIGF KJML ABDC 20. Dave Levine SVO 116:40 (20) 278:11 21. Mike Ball SVO 130:43 (23) 288:30 22. Francis Hogle QOC 125:28 (21) 289:56 DCAB FIGHE KJLM BACD 23. Patricia Zerfas QOC 130:15 (22) DNF Back to top SHORT Stumble: ~9 km ~240 m 1. Eddie Bergeron SVO 63:58 DCAB EHGIF 2. Andres Revesz DVOA 67:26 3. Jim Pugh DVOA 79:03 4. Istvan Nagy DVOA 85:52 5. Csaba Tisztartto HVO 85:58 6. Steve Tarry UNO 94:34 7. Jim Eagleton DVOA 104:20 8. Bob Meyers DVOA 116:20 9. Rob Wilkison DVOA 117:03 10. Brian Suplee DVOA 129:25 11. Steve Reeps DVOA 129:31 12. John Edwards DVOA 129:32 13. Bob Gross DVOA 130:12 14. Fred Kuesi DVOA 133:49 15. Anne Fitch DVOA 134:03 1st women 16. Benjamin Summers 137:46 17. Jeff Whitehead SVO 142:00 18. Karl Ahlsede 151:54 19. Ken Wolff+Mike O'Shea 155:58 20. Ralph Tolbert DVOA 167:20 21. Mike Brooks QOC 173:43 22. Heidi Onkst QOC 225:01 (OVT) 23. Steve Sturheit DNF Back to top WHITE Course: 2.1 km 55 m Jerry Zimmer DVOA 44:54 Michelle Wenz SVO 45:37 Bruze Wong 46:26 Stephanie + Donna Zimmer 52:29 Robert Nagy DVOA 82:54 Craig Smith Family DVOA 103:20 Back to top YELLOW Course: 3.3 km 115 m Richard Eddy DVOA 56:11 Perna DVOA 69:10 Fred + Sharon Liteofsky 85:09 David Chaple-Loebell 86:58 Mike + Carol Koonan 89:03 Natalie Borozny SVO 98:51 Becky Shugan, Alex Smith 99:25 Burton Family 100:16 Keith Clevenger 123:36 Michelle Wenz 143:25 Veres Group 169:48 Clarence Robinson 172:33 Collen A. Schulze 173:02 Erik Eddy DNF Janet Yanushefski DNF Yanushefski DNF Back to top ORANGE Course: 4.4 km 140 m Charley Parker DVOA 69:29 Jim Kernicky 75:47 Mitch Zimmer DVOA 83:48 Jay Wilshire DVOA 89:12 Peg Edwards DVOA 90:22 Donna Zimmer DVOA 101:21 Joe Hamer DVOA 101:55 Bill Channell SVO 102:20 Bruce Wong 111:50 Glenn Boyer 118:10 Bill Griffith 122:38 David Gorski SVO 143:56 Mike Cannon DVOA 201:00 Ken + Geri Kohler DVOA 226:25 Jan Nocera DVOA DNF Ryan Bagwell DNF Back to top