2020 NSORRA Hare Scramble Awards

Women line up at Craigmore for the first hare scramble of the season

First up? Craigmore Ride Park

The 2020 Canadian Kawasaki Motors-NSORRA Hare Scramble season was late in starting with the first event cancelled and the second postponed thanks to COVID, but when things started up in August, KAPOW!

We started and ended the 2020 hare scramble season in Cape Breton. The weather was great for our first three events and appropriately challenging at Thistle Hurt.

Scramble 1 - Craigmore, sponsored by Honda Canada, kicked off the season in mid-August and proved to be an ever-popular event. It attracted members from all over Cape Breton as well as the mainland and even a few from New Brunswick and PEI.

MMMXP hosts Scramble 2 and Drive To Ride

Our second event, sponsored by Pro Cycle, was at Miller Meadow in mid-September and shared the weekend with the NSORRA Drive To Ride. The Saturday hare scramble included a few enduro features built into the course to allow riders to challenge themselves in a new way.

At Sunday’s Drive To Ride, members had the opportunity to chat with our fantastic sponsors and experience motocross track riding. A Trials competition opened the door to another dirt biking activity as well. This event also reinforced the family nature of NSORRA with participation from all age groups and skill levels.

Family relaxing surrounded by dirt bikes and equipment

Four vintage bikes competed at South Alton

South Alton for Scramble 3

Scramble 3, sponsored by Shore Cycle, was originally planned for Hiltz Road, but due to COVID and the space required to host an event during the pandemic, it was switched to South Alton which was originally scheduled to host Scramble 1 in June. Luckily, landowners Richard and Steve Parkinson jumped on board and ran an excellent event. Hats of to Hiltz Road landowner David Lacey for graciously understanding the reason for the switch.

Closing the season at Thistle Dew Farm

dirt biker climbing a hill with two people encouraging him

Thanksgiving weekend 2020 closed out the hare scramble season. Herb and Sharon Harnish put on a fantastic event at Thistle Dew Farm in cold and wet conditions. It was a challenging course that lead to a sense of achievement for the riders. It was followed by an equally popular hard enduro event that brought out the best riders from across the Maritimes.

Race Director David Tobin and NSORRA President Josh Kelly exchange a "high five" at Craigmore. These are two of the many NSORRA volunteers who have contributed to NSORRA's success.

Season highlights

We have fantastic volunteers! These races wouldn’t have happened without them volunteering to clear trails, setting up the scramble courses, handling registration, volunteering in timing and scoring, acting as sweepers and of course the NS Ski Patrol members who came out to support the events.
This season we had 16 PeeWees, five of them girls! Here are some future East Coast Women Offroad junior members!
We had 45 unique competitors in Plus 25 for a total of 93 racers over the four events. This was our biggest competitive group in 2020.
We added an Intermediate Women’s class and we registered 16 competitors at Miller Meadow between the two women’s classes!
We had four different competitors in the Vintage class with two of them competing in three of the four events.

2020 Canadian Kawasaki Motors-NSORRA Hare Scramble Points Championship Winners

2020 Hare Scramble Awards

The season was capped off by the Canadian Kawasaki Motors-NSORRA Hare Scramble Points Championship awards. Though COVID restrictions meant that only winners and their families could attend, we had a great turnout at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 90 in Waverley, NS.

Many thanks to sponsors Bill Brown from Canadian Kawasaki Motors and Jennifer Estabrooks from Soles In Motion for presenting the awards and to Keith Ramsey from Pro Cycle for stopping by to support the event!

Winners by category

* For complete results, click here. Table may not appear correctly on a cell phone

2020 Canadian Kawasaki Motors-NSORRA Hare Scramble
Championship Series Point Totals
	Peewee	Brand	Craigmore	Miller Meadow	South Alton	Thistle Hurt	Totals
1	Ryker Siteman	Husqvarna	25	22	25	25	97
2	JR Patterson	KTM	22	25	20	20	87
3	Carter Ayres	KTM	18	18	16	18	70

	School Kid	Brand	Craigmore	Miller Meadow	South Alton	Thistle Hurt	Totals
1	Julian Dill	Kawasaki	20	25	25	20	90
2	Keegan Maxwell	Kawasaki	16	20	22	25	83
3	Jordan Madden	KTM	22	18	20	22	82

	Super Mini	Brand	Craigmore	Miller Meadow	South Alton	Thistle Hurt	Totals
1	Keagan Fraser	Yamaha	25	22	22	22	91
2	Lucas Ashford	Kawasaki	18	20	16	18	72
3	Mitchell Curtis	Kawasaki	20	16	18	16	70

	OPEN Women	Brand	Craigmore	Miller Meadow	South Alton	Thistle Hurt	Totals
1	Kathleen Tobin	Yamaha	25	25	25	25	100
2	Danielle Nowlan	Honda	16	18	18	22	74
3	Shannon Patterson	KTM	18	16	15	18	67

	Junior	Brand	Craigmore	Miller Meadow	South Alton	Thistle Hurt	Totals
1	Noah Purvis	Yamaha	20	25	25	18	88
2	Brennan Foote	Husqvarna	25	18	20	22	85
3	Ewan Halfpenny	Husqvarna	18	12	22	25	77

	Plus 25	Brand	Craigmore	Miller Meadow	South Alton	Thistle Hurt	Totals
1	Samuel Hines	Beta	22	18	25	25	90
2	Colin Brimicombe	Honda	20	25	20	20	85
3	Mark Baker	Kawasaki	18	13	22	12	65

	Int. Women	Brand	Craigmore	Miller Meadow	South Alton	Thistle Hurt	Totals
1	Kathleen Tobin	KTM	N/A	22	25	25	72
2	Marijke Nel	Beta	N/A	20	18	18	56
3	Jill Cross	Beta	N/A	0	20	20	40

	Intermediate	Brand	Craigmore	Miller Meadow	South Alton	Thistle Hurt	Totals
1	Herb Harnish	KTM	22	22	25	25	94
2	Darryl Cull	KTM	20	15	16	18	69
3	Daniel Cross	Husqvarna	15	11	18	16	60

	Plus 40	Brand	Craigmore	Miller Meadow	South Alton	Thistle Hurt	Totals
1	Stephen Howland	Beta	22	20	22	16	80
2	Nick MacDonald	KTM	20	18	20	22	80
3	JD Patterson	Husqvarna	0	22	25	15	62

	Expert	Brand	Craigmore	Miller Meadow	South Alton	Thistle Hurt	Totals
1	Nathan Ayles	Husqvarna	25	22	25	22	94
2	Devin Gray	Beta	20	16	22	20	78
3	Kyle Ledwidge	KTM	22	20	16	18	76

This blog was written by Claudine Laforce, NSORRA’s general manager.

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