Liberty Quest 2 hour Score-O
September 1, 2019
Event Directors
– Mike Minium, Peyton Torres-Cruz, Ethan Powers
Thanks
to all volunteers who helped with this event, especially Laura Powers, Lisa Goecke, Peyton-Torres-Cruz, Ethan Powers, Mahlon Page, Braydon Reiboldt, Maliki
Clarkston.
Thanks
to Union County Development Corp for historical information and Liberty Town
Council for approving the event! Special
thanks to Lebowski Screen Printing and Tees
(513-523-TEES) of Oxford Ohio, for providing a Miami University Sherpa fleece jacket as a prize!
The first Liberty Quest orienteering
race had 25 participants, ranging in age from 4 to 77. Questers received a
detailed map of Liberty with 25 marked locations, and a list of 25 questions to
be answered. At each location, if you
looked carefully, you could find the answer to the question for that
location. Many of the questions
concerned trivia from Liberty’s storied past, of course including a
question about General Burnside (answered from a historical marker on the town
square). Others took participants to the
Union County Foundation, the American Legion, the VFW, the Waterworks, the
Depot Museum and the Post Office, as well as to various churches, restaurants,
and other public buildings. Several
temporary “historic markers’ were also strategically placed around
town, giving participants an opportunity to learn local lore about other famous
folks with Liberty connections including broadcast legend Bob Jenkins, artist
and soldier Jay Hall Connaway, poet Joaquin Miller,
and of course Mary Alice Smith (the original inspiration for Little Orphan
Annie).
At 10:00 sharp, runners and walkers
spread out across the town in search of their answers. They had a two hour time limit in which to
return to the starting point by the UCHS tennis courts, with a penalty of
losing one answer per minute if they were late.
While not all of them managed to get to every point, 8 runners managed
to visit all 25. The course was won by
local High School freshman Peyton Torres-Cruz, who completed the course in an
astounding 58 minutes. He was followed 5
minutes later by Tom Svobodny of MVOC, then several
other local high school runners, with Priscilla Kelley posting the first female
finish in 1:08. Several UCMS students
also had fantastic finishes, with middle school girls Julie Goecke,
MacKenzie Carter, and Autumn Cantrell finding 23 of
25 points, closely followed by OCIN’s 77 year
old Claire Dell with 21.
place score time age group name club
1 25 0:58:20 M 13-16 Peyton Torres-Cruz UCHS
2 25 1:03:20 M 60-69 Tom Svobodny Miami Valley Orienteering
Club
3 25 1:08:38 M 13-16 Ethan Powers UCHS
4 25 1:08:52 F 13-16 Priscilla Kelly UCHS
5 25 1:09:18 M 17-20 Mahlon Page UCHS
6 25 1:10:23 M 13-16 Braydon Reiboldt UCHS
7 25 1:25:05 M 13-16 Wyatt Isaac UCHS
8 25 1:39:25 F 40-49 Mary Jo Reiboldt
9 23 1:50:02 F 13-16 Julianna Goecke UCMS
9 23 1:50:02 F -12 MacKenzie Carter UCMS
9 23 1:50:02 F -12 Autumn
Cantrell UCMS
12 21 1:55:00 F 70+ Claire
Dell Orienteering
Cincinnati
13 17 1:52:30 F 13-16 Renee Bauer
13 17 1:52:30 F 13-16 Megan Bauer
13 17 1:52:30 M -12 Aaron
Bauer
13 17 1:52:30 F 50-59 Stephanie Bauer
13 17 1:52:30 M 50-59 Steve Bauer
18 14 1:46:07 F -12 Chloe
Hoog UCMS
18 14 1:46:07 F 60-69 Shari Hoog
20 10 1:31:30 F -12 Melanie
Goecke Liberty
ES
21 9 1:29:00 M -12 Teratin Goecke UCMS
21 9 1:29:00 F -12 Lilly
Goecke Liberty
ES
23 5 0:54:00 M -12 Aiden Dannaker Liberty ES
23 5 0:54:00 M -12 Lochlan Dannaker
23 5 0:54:00 M 40-49 Brian Dannaker
results of previous OCIN QCARS
event (Eden Park, August 24, 2019)
results of previous school event
(UCMS, August 28, 2019)
results of previous OCIN event
(St Patrick’s Park, August 31, 2019)
results of next OCIN event
(Miami Univ Natural Areas, Sept 28, 2019)
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