Club Championship
Hotly Contested
The 2001 CAOC Club Championship after six events is very close
for the Club's five top orienteers. Charlie Shahbazian, Mikhail
Pekour, and Evgen Myronov are within a single point of each other,
and Carl Larsson and Joe Sehnal are just 4 points behind them. Elena
Backiev is way out in front of the other women on Green with 36
points.
Emma Larsson (15 years old) and Gedas Zalkauskiene (14) topped
the juniors on the Orange course. Unfortunately Gedas has returned
to Lithuania and will not be competing this Fall, leaving the male
junior field wide open!
The CAOC Club Championship was created in 1999 by VP Charlie Shahbazian
to stimulate competition and encourage members to run harder courses
more frequently. Men must run the Red course to be ranked and women
must run the Green course. And since the six best scores earned
by each competitor count out of the twelve events offered by the
Club this year, members must come to at least half of the meets
in order to stand a fair competitive chance.
The scoring is quite simple: at each local meet, the top ten male
finishers on the Red course are awarded points in descending order
(10 points for first place, 9 for second, etc.). Similarly on the
Green course, the top female finishers are awarded championship
points in descending order. Thus at the end of the season, a perfect
score would be 60 points for anyone winning at least six of the
events they entered during the year.
Please note that this is a Club Championship event for CAOC members
only. Those non-members that place in the top ten at a local meet
are not eligible for the Championship, unless they join the Club
before year end. Non-members who would have won Championship points
so far this year include: Nancy Young, Wendy Todd, Dogalic Dragovan,
Alvars Mazzarins, Gabor Csonka, Totoris, Kristijonas Sabataitis,
Rob Keefe, Mike Runyon, and Anders Widen. You may wish to consider
joining the Club in order to have your 2001 runs counted by the
time awards are handed out at the November 4 meet at Willow Springs
Woods.
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