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NOC Juniors were presented with the new trophy for the Junior Inter Club Championship after an impressive win in the mud and brambles of a steeply sloping Buck Wood.

Fielding a full team with no absentees, NOC scored 394 points from the maximum of 397.

More details when official results posted on the web.

(PS The Juniors will be proudly displaying their two National trophies at their Xmas event at Berry Hill on Sunday 19th Dec.)

Confirmed results for the 1999 Club Championship
%Gold Gold Time 69.8 Hilary Palmer W50L 74.35 52.05 Club Champion 1999 78.9 Stuart Hatfield M18A 79.43 62.55 Runner Up 80.0 Rosemary Hodkinson W12A 36.23 29.06 3rd place 80.0 Sarah O'Neil W16A 59.43 47.46 3rd place 80.0 Norah Jones W70L 86.44 69.23 3rd place 80.0 Peter Hodkinson M10A 26.56 21.33 3rd place 81.1 Stephen Wright M18A 79.43 64.38 81.7 Mick Lucking M40L 93.46 76.34 81.9 Thomas Billam M14A 64.13 52.35 83.1 Michael Napier M45L 72.05 59.53 83.8 Alison O'Neil W16A 59.43 50.03 84.4 Garry Drew M45L 72.05 60.48 84.7 Hilary Hodkinson W45L 68.25 57.56 84.9 David Hodkinson M16A 69.08 58.40 84.9 Paul Morris M40L 93.46 79.36 86.5 Alan Beardsley M50L 76.46 66.22 87.0 Helen O'Neil W40L 80.50 70.20 87.2 Andrew Preston M21L 100.28 87.39 89.5 Tim Bagguley M14A 64.13 57.29 89.5 David Olivant M50L 76.46 68.41 89.9 Tim Filby M18A 79.43 71.40 89.9 Peter Bourne M55L 74.06 66.35 90.9 John Palmer M50S 51.11 46.33 91.4 Derek Mill M50L 76.46 70.08 92.3 Nick Evans M35L 90.24 83.24 92.3 Peter Hubberstey M55L 74.06 68.24 94.9 Stephen Wright M50L 76.46 72.50 95.9 Robert Hatfield M50L 76.46 73.59 96.0 Francesca Watson W14B 47.21* 45.27 96.0 Gemma Tongue W12B 59.54* 57.30 96.0 Laura Hubber W16B 59.23* 57.01 96.0 James Addison M12B 22.59* 22.04 97.1 Janet Evans W35L 80.09 77.47 97.6 Tony Buckland M60L 72.01 70.17 97.8 Laura Evans W10B 15.33* 15.12 97.9 David Booker M45L 72.05 70.34 98.3 Jane Booker W45L 68.25 67.13 99.6 Jonathan Brown M12A 42.58 42.48 Best Newcomer 100.6 Eddie Nicholson M40S 63.10 63.34 102.5 Paul Beverley M45L 72.05 73.51 104.3 Mike O'Neil M40L 93.46 97.46 105.0 Sian Roberts W16A 59.43 62.42 105.7 Nicholas James M16A 69.08 73.03 105.7 Ray Barnes M45L 72.05 76.12 111.7 Catherine Hughes W21S 52.29 58.38 111.8 Anthony Donaldson M21L 100.28 112.16 112.5 Rhys Roberts M12A 42.48 48.10 113.1 Katy Town W12B 59.54* 67.43 115.0 Pauline Olivant W45S 43.33 50.05 115.1 Matthew Winser M16A 69.08 79.33 115.8 Adam Jones M16B 67.45* 78.28 118.5 John Dalton M50L 76.46 91.00 118.6 Pauline Jones W35S 55.19 65.37 120.1 Andrew Tongue M14A 64.13 77.07 125.3 Tom Wilson M14A 64.13 80.29 125.9 Keith Picksley M60L 72.01 90.40 128.0 Alice Kirwan W50L 74.35 95.27 130.1 Andrew Bull M16A 69.08 89.57 130.5 James Best M14A 64.13 83.47 130.5 Stephen Hodkinson M45S 47.46 62.20 130.6 Brian James M50S 51.11 66.52 131.5 James Seddon M14A 64.13 84.25 134.9 Keith Roberts M35L 90.24 121.58 136.1 Thomas Brydges M14A 64.13 87.24 138.9 Gillian Hatfield W50S 50.13 69.46 141.1 Jennifer Beverley W16A 59.43 84.15 143.0 Gilbert Bradshaw M70L 66.25 94.57 144.4 David Simner M14A 64.13 92.44 145.6 Jenny Evans W10B 15.33* 22.38 146.7 Mike Whittaker M21L 100.28 147.23 152.4 David Cooke M50S 50.16 76.35 152.8 Lucy Blackwell W14B 47.21* 72.22 155.2 David Winser M45S 47.46 74.07 161.9 Robert Sims M12A 42.48 69.18 162.6 Alan Jones M70L 66.25 107.59 166.2 Peter Preston M55L 74.06 123.10 176.2 Alan Harris M50S 50.16 88.34 180.0 Margaret Buckland W55S 55.08 99.13 181.2 James Clarke M45S 47.46 86.32 190.9 Paul Teesdale-Spittle M21S 65.18 124.38 198.3 Maria Roberts W35S 55.19 109.41 209.3 Oscar Tapp-Scotting M12A 42.48 89.34 294.5 Maria Whittaker W21S 52.29 154.33 Rtd Melanie Smollett W12A Rtd Andrew Jones M40S Rtd Carol Picksley W55L Dsq Ros Bourne W55L
* B courses have a pro-rata Gold time calculated. There is no actual Gold standard for B courses.

The club has booked a coach to take juniors to the event. Likely fare is £4. More details will follow. Contact Link no longer available

(provisional posting replaced by corrected results)

The results still haven't gone up on the Walton Chasers web site.
Not a lot I can do until they do appear! Ray

Provisional calculations show that NOC go through to the final on Dec 12th at Buck Wood, Shipley, Yorkshire.

NOC 397
DVO 371
LEI 301
LOG 38

Juniors must make sure they are free to compete at the National Final. Put the date in your diary now!

The draw for round one ties NOC with DVO, LEI, NOR, OD, WCH and WAOC.

A tough draw, because Chasers were victors in 1999, and we can always expect tough competition from DVO and LEI. Make sure the date, March 19th is in your diary!

The agenda for the club AGM is published here. As announced there will be no copies sent by post unless specifically requested from the secretary.

(Press Release)

NOC Juniors won the "Peter Palmer Trophy" and our B team came fourth, winning the <120 handicap class.

A terrific weekend for the NOC Juniors, with our two teams coming first and fourth of the 34 club teams competing.

The teams were:

A	B
David Hodkinson	Thomas Billam
Stephen Wright	Nicholas James
Chris Hodkinson	Andy Bull
Tim Blaney	James Seddon
Colin Olivant	Tim Bagguley
Alison O'Neil	Sian Roberts
Sarah O'Neil	Rose Hodkinson
Richard Robinson	Tim Filby

In the last three years, NOC have had two wins in the Harvester, and two wins in the Peter Palmer. Well done everybody, with a special thank you to the coaches.

Three years ago the Club bought a number of sets of 'Planning Guides'.

If you still have one, please return to Richard Torr. Thanks.

The Annual Club Championships will take place at the WCH Badge event at Brocton & Milford, Cannock Chase on 14th November.

Closing date is 24th October.

The championship is decided by best percentage against Gold Time, and there is a special award for the best newcomer to the sport, open to those with less than two years orienteering.

(We would have chosen Eyam the following week, but this clashes with the British Schools Champs, and many of our Juniors would have been away).

(Press Release)

click for large image	A physical challenge: running over ankle-deep wet sand and gravel in rain and wind. A mental challenge: a photocopied map with strange colours. But we had three winners: Rosemary Hodkinson, Colin Olivant and Hilary Palmer. Well done!
Colin and Rosemary

I know we had some second places too, but the organisers had to remove the results from the display to do the prize giving, and I didn't manage to see them in time (and there are no results on the Web as at 10:30 Monday).

(Press Release)

One of those events when things did not go well for the Club.

The Open team (much depleted by causes beyond our control), took part in 5 mini-mass starts, so are bound to be well down in the results.

The Juniors team had two failures - one a 'housekeeping error', where map 78 was collected rather than map 87, and one a lighting failure, meaning 2km in a technical area finding controls by a penlight!
Next year the Juniors will be trying to make it 3 wins in four years - and will hopefully have essentially the same team.

But the Women's team did well, finishing 6th, giving the club lots of points in the UK Relay League.

More details when results appear.

The Robby Knudd relays were won by Tim Blaney, Stuart Hatfield and Sian Roberts. Thanks to excellent handicapping by Paul Morris, the first three teams were in the finish funnel at the same time.

First in the Forest was Tim Blaney.

The Cricket was easily won by the adults, although rain and darkness did stop play before the juniors had a chance to bowl out enough adults with negative scores!

click for large image The winning team Tim / Stuart / Sian. Sorry Stuart, you only get a cup - no champagne!

The club are trying to encourage new members at an Introductory Event at Colwick Park on 12th September. We aim to have helpers at the event to show newcomers what to do as well as the usual helpers running the start, finish etc.
Full event details are Link no longer available
If you can assist in the running of the event or guiding newcomers please contact Link no longer available.

We have entered three teams.
The Junior team will be going for their hat trick, and the five places are already filled.
However, the Women's and Men's teams are still short of a couple of runners.
Contact Tony Donaldson or Ray Barnes or Helen Palmer.
If you can't make the Harvester, the only valid excuse is that you are helping at the Colwick Park event on the Sunday morning.

64 NOC members attended the Scottish 6 Days based at Inverness

Best placings were:
M10A 2 Peter Hodkinson W12A 3 Rosemary Hodkinson W10B 4 Sarah Claxton W20S 4 Nicola Olivant M14A 5 Colin Olivant M18A 6 Richard Robinson M12B 6 Alistair Claxton W10B 8 Laura Evans W14A 9 Sarah O'Neil W50L 9 Hilary Palmer M16A 10 David Hodkinson W45S 11 Hazel Rice M18A 11 Brendan Mackrill W16A 12 Alison O'Neil

Tony and Catherine's house in Ilkeston was struck by lightning on Saturday morning.

Many thousands of pounds of damage was done to their roof, electrical wiring, telephone system and computer.

Only Catherine was in at the time. She awoke with the noise, then went back to sleep, only discovering the damage next morning when she saw bricks lying in the garden!

It make take several days before normal communication by phone is re-established, and even longer before eMail is available again.

We only entered one team this year, and came first!
Well first of the orienteering clubs, fifth if you include the running clubs.

Thanks to Janet for organising the team, and especially for starting the first leg so early!

The first 'O' Zone event took place at Carr Bank Park, in Mansfield on a beautiful sunny day. With kind assistance from Mansfield District Council and their staff, we were able to use Pauline Olivant's new map to introduce over 60 primary school children to running with a map, complete with proper beeping clocks and electronic timing.

After being 'map walked' to assembly, the juniors were helped to mark up their maps, fill in and attach their control cards before running the 840m course with 12 controls. The winning time was only 5:06. Pretty good for 10 year olds!

We had issued press releases, and were rewarded with front page coverage in the Mansfield Recorder. Results and Photos

Now the website has a new home, a chance to catch up on the stories during the last two months ..... Helen Palmer has been selected for the GB Junior World Champs, being held in Bulgaria in the first week of July. Final Placings in the Future Champions Cup are:

W18 3rd Helen Palmer
W18 15th Fiona Munton
M20 14th Robert Palmer
M18 5th Richard Robinson
M18 12th Stephen Wright
M18 14th Brendan Mackrill

Richard Robinson has been invited to join the GB Junior Squad.

It was our third year in the CSC Finals, but no second place this time.

The final scores were:
205 Walton Chasers 183 South Yorkshire 183 South London 158 NOC 158 Thames Valley 124 Manchester & District


U20 Tour to Sweden: Helen Palmer, Richard Robinson
U20 Tour to Scotland (Grantown): Brendan Mackrill, Stephen Wright
U18 Tour to Norway: David Hodkinson
U18 Tour to Scotland (Glenmore): Tim Blaney
U15 Tour to Scotland (Lagganlia): Alison O'Neil, Colin Olivant, Nicholas James

NOC has more Juniors selected for tour than any other club!

M12B 3rd Peter Pittson
M18A 3rd Brendan Mackrill
M20L 2nd Robert Palmer
M40S 1st Eddie Nicholson
M50S 2nd John Palmer
M60S 1st Tony Buckland
W10B 2nd Sarah Claxton
W14A 1st Alison O'Neil
W18A 1st Helen Palmer
W50L 2nd Hilary Palmer
W60S 3rd Valerie Gebbett

W45 Relay 3rd Jane Booker / Judy Pittson / Hilary Palmer
M14- Relay 1st Thomas Billam / Nicholas James / Colin Olivant
M18- Relay 1st Richard Robinson / Chris Hodkinson / Brendan Mackrill


M10B 1st Peter Hodkinson
M16A 2nd David Hodkinson
M18A 3rd Richard Robinson
M20L 1st Robert Palmer
M60S 3rd John Woodall
W14A 2nd Alison O'Neil
W50L 1st Hilary Palmer
W60S 1st Val Gebbett

M48+ Relay 1st Stephen Wright / Colin Olivant / David Hodkinson
M/W12- Relay 2nd Rosemary Hodkinson / Peter Pittson / Peter Hodkinson
(1st Mixed team)

Congratulations to Chris Hodkinson on retaining his M18 title.

Fragments of news to complete stories from earlier ...

(1) Selections for England 14-3-99 Congrats to Alison O'Neil and Hilary Palmer who have been selected to represent England at the five nation Interland Cup 99, at Mereworth, Kent.

(2) Junior Inter Club Match at Fairoak and Brindley, 6-12-98
------- Scored For ------ ---A Team--- ---B Team--- ---- Others ------------------------- WCH Yellow 49* 47* 46* 44* 42* 28* 24* 22* 21* 19* 16* 15* 11* 9* 8* WCH Orange 50* 45 43 38* 36 35 34* 31* 27 25* 22* WCH LGreen 50 47 46 36 WCH Green 42 41 WCH Blue 50 49 43 --1st---388 --5th=--333 NOC Yellow 50* 48* 45* 44* 41* 40* 39* 37* 35* 34* 27* 26* 20* NOC Orange 49 47 42 26* NOC LGreen 49 45 41 39 32* NOC Green 48 47 45 NOC Blue 48 47 46 --2nd---384 --3rd---355 EBOR Yellow 31* 29* 18* 17* 10* EBOR Orange 46 39* 44 EBOR LGreen 48 43 EBOR Green 50 49 EBOR Blue 45 44 --4th---337 SOS Yellow 36* 33* 25* SOS Orange 48* 40* 32* SOS LGreen 44 42 SOS Green 46 44 SOS Blue --5th=--333 WAOC Yellow 42* 30* WAOC Orange 41* 29* WAOC LGreen 40* 37* WAOC Green 43 WAOC Blue 41 39 --7th---313 NGOC Yellow 38* 23* 14* 13* 12* NGOC Orange 37* 33* 30* 28* 24* 23* 21* 20 NGOC LGreen 38* 35* 33* NGOC Green NGOC Blue 42 40 38 37 --8th---301 --9th---202
(50pts 1st, 49 2nd etc, best 8 scorers to count, but need 3x MW14-, marked with *) Thanks to Hilary Palmer for compiling these results.

Based on the PROVISIONAL results, and my limited understanding of the scoring system, it appears we may have reached the finals for a third year running. Ray
HH LEI LOK NOC NOR WAOC A 33 33 10 15 39 41 B 28 26 30 37 33 17 C1 25 41.5 6 47.5 27 24 D 32 27 25 35 30 22 E 34 41 3 47 18 25 F 10 13 0 23 13 13 G 9 17 0 21 11 17 ============================== 171 198.5 74 225.5 171 159 ------------------------------
Full details are on WAOC Web Site.