2023 Soles In Motion-NSORRA Hare Scramble Series Championship Awards

photo of 2023 hare scramble championship winners

Winners, Sponsors and Landowners joined together for a group photo

Award Winners

This year, we had 152 unique racers making up a total of 415 competitors over the four hare scrambles for an average of 104 competitors per scramble. 48 of these racers competing in all four races.

Peewee winners

Our Peewee racers are between 6 and 9 years old. This season we had 13 Peewees.

School Kid Winners

In School Kid, ages 7-11, we had 15 competitors with 5 competing in all four races.

Super Mini Winners

In Super Mini, with riders 12-16 years old, we had 8 competitors with 5 of them competing in all four races.

Junior Winners

In the Junior class this season, we had 15 unique racers.

Intermediate B

This year’s Intermediate B and again it was our biggest class with 41 participants.

Women Winners

This year, though we started out with two Women’s classes, our participation numbers were low and we ended up merging the two classes for a total of 6 competitors. We are speaking with our Women riders and will be proposing a new class structure for next season.

Intermediate A

The Intermediate A class was our second largest class with 24 unique competitors with 5 competing in all four scrambles.

Plus 50 Winners

In Plus 50, we had 19 unique racers with 6 competing in all four races.

Expert Winners

And for our final race category of the day, we had 13 unique competitors in the Expert class with 5 of them competing in all four races.

Results by Class

Class	Place	Name	From	Bike
Peewee	3rd	Jake Young	Mount Uniacke, NS	Honda
	2nd	Justin Kaplan	Windsor Forks, NS	Honda
	1st	James Dockrill	Halifax, NS	Yamaha
School Kid	3rd	Jonah McGibbon	Sussex Corner, NB	Kawasaki
	2nd	JR Patterson	Seaforth, NS	Kawasaki
	1st	Ryker Siteman	Bedford, NS	Husqvarna
Super Mini	3rd	Jack Mallery	Cornhill, NB	Kawasaki
	2nd	Zachary Nauss	Chester, NS	Kawasaki
	1st	Emerson Brooks	East Mountain, NS	Honda
Junior	3rd	Luke Curtis	Shubenacadie, NS	Yamaha
	2nd	Ethan Lutes	Moncton, NB	Huqvarna
	1st	Keegan Maxwell	Irishtown, NB	Beta
Intermediate B	3rd	Carson Palmer	Shubenacadie, NS	Yamaha
	2nd	Chris Thompson	Hubley, NS	Beta
	1st	Mitchell Curtis	Shubenacadie, NS	Yamaha
Women A	3rd	Shannon Patterson	Seaforth, NS	GasGas
	2nd	Danielle Nowlan	Sackville, NS	Husqvarna
	1st	Kathleen Tobin	Howie Centre, CB	Beta
Intermediate A	3rd	Francois Pitre	BeaverBank, NS	KTM
	2nd	Spencer Martin	Pleasantville, NS	GasGas
	1st	Ezra King	Moncton, NB	Sherco
Plus 50	3rd	Cecil Sawler	Windsor, NS	Honda
	2nd	Nick MacDonald	Lower Sackville, NS	KTM
	1st	Blake Davison	Canaan, NS	KTM
Expert	3rd	Devin Gray	Halifax, NS	Yamaha
	2nd	Caleb Lutes	Moncton, NB	Husqvarna
	1st	Ewan Halfpenny	Mcquade, NB	TX

2023 Hard Charger Award winners

Hard Charger Award

This year we brought back an award that hasn’t been presented in a couple of years. It has been a challenging year for not just NSORRA, but also several riders. Whether it was a crash, a bike breakdown, a loss of a racing class, or a death in the family that knocked these riders out of Top 3 contention, we decided these five riders deserved to be recognized for their dedication and hard work this season.

At this year’s awards event, we presented the 2023 NSORRA Hare Scramble Championships HARD CHARGER AWARD which reads:

Every race is a question,

And you never know until the last stretch

What the answer will be.

That’s the lure of racing.

To:

Riley Guthro, School Kid
Keithan Wentzell, Junior
Susan Foote, Women
Lucas Ashford, Intermediate A
Justin Lewis, Intermediate A

Thanks to Volunteers

Of course, none of this could have happened without our volunteers. Thank you for the work you’ve done. These races wouldn’t have happened without you volunteering to clear trails, set up the scramble courses, handling registration, volunteering in timing and scoring, acting as sweepers and of course, the NS Ski Patrol and Saint John Ambulance members who came out to support the events.

Shout out!

A big shout out to Justin Lewis and his company – Protocase Inc. for creating the wonderful trophies we presented at our hare scrambles and awards event this season.

Congratulations to all! See you next season!

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