Scottish Score Championships 2024Vogrie Country Park, 9 November

The 2024 Scottish Score was organised by Interløpers Orienteering Club, and saw a huge entry from ESOC, with lots of trophies and medals for ESOC competitors.

Vogrie Country Park is SE of Edinburgh, near Gorebridge, and has a wide variety of terrain. The parkland around Vogrie House contrasts with the steep-sided wooded valleys of the Tyne Water and its tributaries, and the map also covers a disused golf course, now quite rough and tussocky. There’s a good network of paths and tracks. The start and finish were near the car park, and controls were spread throughout the map. ESOC’s Roger Scrutton was the Controller.

The weather was dull but remained dry.

The time limits were 70 minutes for M20-35 and W21, 40 minutes for M/W14 and below, and 60 minutes for everyone else.

The ESOC trophy winners were:

William Atkinson (M14)
Tate Woodhouse (M16)
Hamish Meikle (M18)
James Brodie (M40)
Luigi Lerose (M45)
Ian Pyrah (M80)
Rachel Rose (W18)
Alison O’Neil (W21)
Sarah Crawford (W35)
Helena Nolan (W55)
Mary Williams (W70)
Eleanor Pyrah (W80)

There were medals for plenty of other ESOC competitors too:

M10 – Sebastian Bleakley 2nd
M16 – Jamie Crawford 2nd
M35 – Alastair Black 3rd
M45 – Walter Clark 3rd
M60 – Keith Brown 2nd
M65 – Kevin Harding 2nd, Alistair Armitage 3rd
M70 – Martin Caldwell 3rd
W12 – Emma Daley 3rd
W14 – Ursula MacColl 2nd, Amy Brodie 3rd
W16 – Alexis Gow 2nd
W35 – Rachael Imrie 3rd
W45 – Fran Daley 2nd
W50 – Emma Anderson 3rd
W60 – Alison Harding 3rd
W65 – Sally Lindsay 2nd

Full results, Routegadget and officials’ comments are available on the Scottish Score 2024 page of the INT website. See also this report on the Scottish Orienteering website.

The Scottish Score was the eleventh event in the 2024 Scottish Inter-Club Championships. With the scores for this event included, ESOC was still lying 2nd in the Large Clubs division, and 7th in Junior Large Clubs. For more details, and a link to the latest league tables, see this report on the Scottish Orienteering website.

This event was also the ESOC Club Championships – for the list of club champions, see this news item.

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