Orange Seniors Pile Up Medals

Orange County had 80+ athletes at N.C. Senior Games State Finals in the Triangle and many earned gold, silver, bronze medals in a variety of sports. Here’s a summary of Orange medal winners with times and distances.

Members of doubles teams are listed only once and age groups N/A. The basketball 3-on-3 tournaments in Greenville will be highlighted in the December issue.

Jacqueline Allen, first, croquet.

Kimberly Allen, first, archery conv-recurve barebow, 670.

Lew Ballard, third, golf, 181.

Brian Barnett, first, archery conv-recurve with sight, 641.

Carolyn Barnett, first, table tennis singles, second doubles with Sandy Hammersley.

Randy Bieber, first, archery comp with sight & release aid, 838.

Yi Chen, first badminton singles; first doubles with Daryl Jones.

Hairpriya Chinnaswamy, first table  tennis singles, first mixed doubles with Gary Pente­cost, first doubles with Arlene Green.

George Cliette, first, football throw, 150; third softball throw, 80/3; third 200 dash, 49.55.

Audrey Embry, third, pickleball doubles with Auriel Selezlaneu, D2.

Darren De Reu, first, archery comp with sight & release aid, 872.

Gregory Ernandes, first, archery conv-re­curve barebow, 684.

Selena Frost, third, 5K road race, 48:06.45

Sergey Furer, first, table tennis doubles with Amar Shrestha.

Gregg Gerdau, second, table tennis doubles with Richard Lesperance.

Arlene Green, third, table tennis singles, first mixed doubles with Amat Shrestha.

Sandy Hammersley, second, table tennis singles; third, mixed doubles with Richard Lesperance.

Thomas Hoeger, second, football throw, 70; second 1500m run, 6:09.51.

Jim Holloway, third 1500 walk, 12:01.51; second cornhole singles, second, cornhole doubles  with Mike Royster..

John Intintolo, second 100m dash, 13.40; third 200 dash 29.77.

Daryl Jones, first, badminton singles.

Kevin Kirk, first, tennis singles.

Marcia Kirtley, silver, with Wannabees 65+ 3-on-3 basketball team.

Susan Kubacki, first, archery conv-recurve barebow, 258.

Wendy Kuzminsky, first, archery conv-recurve barebow, 394.

Winkie LaForce, second, pickleball mixed doubles with Vance Remick, D1.

Kenneth Lassiter, second archery comp with sight and release aid, 844.

Albert Lauritano, third cycling 5K, 9:01.05, third cycling 10K, 18:50.54.

Joan Levitt, third 50 free swim, 40.96, third 500 free, 9:29.98.

Steve Levitt, second, discus throw, 91/3.

Huazhong Li, first, badminton doubles with Xin Shen.

Catherine Matthews, second, table tennis doubles with Helen Tompkins; third mixed doubles with Lee Schimmelfing.

Sheila McDonald, third, softball throw, 73/7.

David McNamara, third,  badminton singles, second doubles with Bill Wigger, first mixed doubles with Claire Spackman.

Louis Olivieri-Robert, third, discus throw, 74/5; third shot put, 26/6.

Sarandha Pandit, first, badminton doubles with Lee-Ching Zhu; first, mixed doubles with Lee Schimmelfing.

Joelle Permutt, second, tennis mixed doubles with Bruce Wieland.

Amy Piersma, first, badminton singles; first, badminton doubles with Virginia Wal­lace; first mixed doubles with Milt Sherman.

Rolfs Pinkerton, first, 200 back, 3:56.49; first, 50 back, 47.20; first,100 back, 1:48.54.

Bob Raymond, second, pickleball doubles with David Post, D1.

Wfrain Rodriguez, second, badminton singles; second, doubles with Jon Jordan.

Sharon Roggenbuck, first, cycling 1 mile, 3:38.26; first, 5K cycling, 12:17.06; first, 10K cycling, 25:41.89.

Lee Schimmelfing, first, bocce; first, bad­minton doubles with Milt Sherman.

Xin Shen, first, badminton mixed doubles with Lee-Ching Zhu.

Milt Sherman, first, badminton singles.

Amar Shrestha, third, table tennis singles.

Steven Smith, first, billiards.

Cheryl Sobnosky, second, pickleball doubles with Cecillia Caspo, D3.

Claire Spackman, first, badminton singles.

Kristen Stacey-Bothwell, second, pickleball singles, D2.

Barbara Teagarden, third, pickleball singles, D1; first, doubles with Martha Wolf, D1.

Eric Teagarden, third, discus throw, 91/6; second, running long jump, 11/1; second, shot put 31/11; first, softball throw, 157/5; first standing long jump, 7/4; second 500m dash, 1:23.25

Quanda Turner, third, running long jump, 8/2.

Jack Unruh, second, archery con-recurve barebow, 603

Mike Valle, third, standing long jump, 4/5.

Chris Wallace, first, archery conv-recurve barebow, 153.

Virginia Wallace, first, badminton singles, first, badminton mixed doubles with David Hoesttler.

Bruce Wieland, first, table tennis singles.

Bill Wigger, second, badminton singles.

Lee-Ching Zhu, first, badminton mixed doubles with Xin Chen.

Silver Arts

Joan Ceal, first oil, third watercolor.

Beverly Currence, third stained glass.

Beatrice Goodmon, second quilting (hand stitched).

Mark Herboth, third photography.