Leesport, PA FrisbeeDog Competition - 7/7/2001

On Saturday (7/7/2001)  we traveled to Leesport, Pennsylvania for their annual Skyhoundz Canine Frisbee Competition at the Berks County 4H facilities.  It's a very pretty ride and the weather could not have been better.   The competition was fierce with entries from 4 states.  There were even  two teams who were Northeast Regional 2nd place finishers (Chris & Bear and Lena & Peter)!

We got there early so before the event started we tried a practice round.  Unlike our most recent events, Bob's throws were right on the mark and although we didn't time the round we felt we may have gotten in six throws.   All was looking good!  

As happens all too often for me, we wound up being the first team to compete!  Since we had a practice round earlier Bob decided to forgo any practice throws and we got right into it.  Well his throw went long,  left and drifted out of bounds.  Naturally I caught it .....but after I did I noticed that Tess standing right there!  Tess is a petite and very pretty black Lab.  Well, I had wanted to go see her since I had spotted her earlier....and here I was with no leash and now she was only five yards away.  How could I resist? ........ I didn't!   I didn't hear anything or think anything other than of Tess.  That is, until Bob came running and grabbed me by my collar.  I picked up my frisbee and we ran back to the throwing line.  Bob threw the next one in bounds and then 2 long ones to try to make up for the lost time.  Luckily we got out of Round 1 with 14.5 points.  Not great, but enough to be respectable.    The second Round we did somewhat better.  See the complete results, below:
    

Place	Team	Breed	State	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	T6	Rnd 1	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	T6	Rnd2	Total
1st	Tess and Dave	Lab	PA	5.5	5.5	5.0	0.0	5.5	5.5	27.0	3.5	5.5	5.5	5.0	3.5		23.0	50.0
2nd	Lena and Peter	Aussie	MD	5.5	3.5	5.5	5.5	0.0		20.0	5.5	3.5	5.5	5.5	2.5		22.5	42.5
3rd	Rudy and Bob	Lab	NJ	0.0	3.5	5.5	5.5			14.5	3.5	5.5	5.0	0.0	3.5		17.5	32.0
4th	Bear and Chris	Aussie	NJ	5.5	0.0	0.0	5.5	5.0		16.0	5.5	0.0	5.5	0.0	3.0		14.0	30.0
5th Tie	Tali and Jim	Aussie	PA	3.5	0.0	0.0	3.5	3.5	5.0	15.5	0.0	5.5	3.0	5.5	0.0		14.0	29.5
5th Tie	AJ and Ilene	Mix	PA	3.0	2.0	2.0	2.5	3.5	3.0	16.0	2.5	3.0	3.0	2.0	0.0	3.0	13.5	29.5
7th	Keen and Robert	BC	NY	2.0	3.5	2.0	3.5	2.5	3.5	17.0	0.0	2.5	2.5	2.0	3.5	0.0	10.5	27.5
8th	Rosie and Tom	Lab	PA	3.5	3.0	3.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	10.0	2.0	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5	0.0	16.0	26.0
9th	Darby and Drici	BC	PA	0.0	0.0	2.5	0.0	1.0	5.5	9.0	2.5	2.5	0.0	0.0	2.5	5.5	13.0	22.0
10th	Max and Raymond	BC	NY	3.5	2.0	5.0	2.5			13.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	3.5			5.5	18.5
11th	Cheyenne and Charlotte	Aussie	PA	2.0	2.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	2.0	8.0	2.0	2.5	0.0	2.0	2.5	0.0	9.0	17.0
12th	Jessie and Monique	Collie	PA	0.0	2.5	0.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	8.5	0.0	2.5	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	4.5	13.0
13th	Actute and Robert	BC	PA	0.0	0.0	2.5	0.0	0.0	1.5	4.0	0.0	2.5	0.0	0.0	0.0		2.5	6.5
14th	Capt Kirk and Tom	Lab	PA	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0

*The above scores, you may notice, are very high!  The primary reason is that the course layout was not the official length.  One of the contestants paced it off before the event and noted that it was about 10 yards too short from end to end. When it was mentioned to the folks running the event they acknowledged that was the case but they purposely shortened the course because of a small gully on one end (there was a driveway on the other).  It was an excellent decision in the interest of safety and they clearly had no other recourse.  It it was certainly fair to all competitors.