[LASS Soaring] Mid-Am Day Two and Overall Scores!

[Ben Wilson]

Well, in many ways today was nothing like yesterday... today it was 
relatively cool and breezy with the sky filled with puffy clouds.  Some 
real spec-outs today interspersed with some real crushing rounds.  Bruce 
was 2500' up and put his flaps full down for a minute to get out of a 
real hat-sucker.  Meanwhile, that same round, I, Rob Glover and AJ all 
had our butts handed to us by.... Super Phil Gieseking?!  12 minute 
task, and I was second in the 4-man round with 4:54!!!  Hats off to Phil 
on that one... and to add insult to injury he landed at 97. 

The leaderboard shifted around quite a bit all day and the Overall award 
was constantly in question.  Bubba Glover took it in style yesterday, 
and Bruce Davidson, Steve Siebenaler and Barry Andersen were flying well 
- but didn't fly yesterday.  Would it be 3rd-place Saturday guy me crawl 
back from adversity?  Would Bubba regain ground?   Would solid Paul 
Perret, Scott Shaw or Jon Stone evade the undertaker?  Nope, none of the 
above!  Glauco Lago managed to stay above 900 points per round all day 
and fended off a hard-charging Bruce Davidson (flying an RNR Millenium, 
no less!) and Steve Siebenaler for the Sunday wood... and in the end 
with Rob, Jon, me and Paul Siegel out of the running he grabbed the 
overall award as well!  Way to go, Glauco!!

First place sportsman on the day was our man lil' Lee Atchison! 

Big thanks to everyone who attended - it'll be bigger and better next 
year and yes, it will certainly be seeded MAN-on-MAN again.  There isn't 
anything more fun...

Full scores:  http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=paIcz8lKzh9LIzXWe2wKsUg

Photos and such later on!

Ben Wilson
Louisville Area Soaring Society