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FLCC Woodsmen Tentative Schedule for 2007-2008
Date
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Event |
Location |
| 10/8/07 |
NYS Meet |
Cumming Nature Center |
| 11/3/07 |
Competition |
Sir Sanford Fleming College, Lindsay Ontario |
| April 2008 |
ESF Lumberjack Roundup |
TBA |
| April 2008 |
62nd Annual Spring Meet |
Host To Be Determined |
Recent Highlights
Hanover, New Hampshire 61st Annual Spring Competition Dartmouth Woodsmen’s Weekend.
Finger Lakes Women dominate canoe races . . .
Twenty nine teams from 13 Colleges from Northeastern North America participated in the 61st Annual Spring Woodsmen’s Championship at Dartmouth College this past weekend. Deborah Lyon (Captain), Canandaigua, and Beth Waterstraat, Phelps, placed first in the doubles canoe race, Molly Swartwood, Locke, and Emily Bonk, Canandaigua, won the canoe portage event, Nicole Rivet, Canandaigua, and Rebecca Skeldon, Geneseo, fell one second away from first place in the singles canoe race. In the singles events, Rivet placed a solid first in the pole climb, Swartwood placed third in the single buck contest and Skeldon placed third in the surveyor’s chain throw. The doubles events, Swartwood and Bonk placed second in the scoot loading event; Skeldon and Waterstraat place third in the water boil contest. The Finger Lakes women won the team log roll contest and placed third in the team packboard relay race. Their overall score of 1399 points put them in fourth place behind the first place score of 1683 earned by the women from Colby College. The women from Nova Scotia Agricultural College and from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse) placed second and third respectively.
The Finger Lakes men’s first team earned 1329 points for a 6th place out of 22 men’s teams. The team, Kolby Leibenguth (Captain), Macedon, Ryan Waterstraat, Prattsburg, Rob Spry, Walworth, Kyle Heitman, Penn Yan, Gerald Towne, Nunda, Steve Popp, East Rochester repeated their first place finish in the buck saw relay event. The team placed second in the log roll event. Liebengith and Spry placed second in the doubles canoe race. Spry, Heitman and Towne placed third in the quarter split contest.
The FLCC M2 team, Brian Harrison (Captain), Canisteo, Josh Harvey, Cattaraugus, John Little, Andes, Alex Stevens, Red Creek, Mike LeCesse, Farmington and Kevin Verschnieder, Canandaigua finished 10th overall with 1217 points. In the singles events, LeCesse placed third in the pole climb and Harrison placed third in the obstacle course. Harrison and Stevens placed third in the water boil event; LeCesse, Harvey and Verschnieder placed third in the quarter split. The team took a third place in the log roll event.
Kolby Liebenguth represented FLCC in the Stihl Collegiate Challenge. He placed second in the underhand chop and tied for fourth place overall in his bid to compete at the ESPN sponsored Stihl Timbersports Series in Minnesota this summer.
More than half of the current Woodsmen graduate in May which for the two year FLCC programs is a particular challenge as all other schools in the circuit have four year programs. FLCC will host the 9th Annual Cumming Nature Center competition next fall on Sunday, October 7. The University of New Hampshire will serve as host to the 62nd Annual Meet in April of 2008.
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