Here is the updated running order for BBT #5.

State Tournament Weekend Notes:​

• The weekend gets underway with BBT 5 - the Dottie T Pick your Poison (Slalom only) on Friday July 21th at 8 am.  Note: this is separate sanction from the State tournament, so if you intend to ski in this tournament you will have to sign up separately.   Skiers Note: This tournament is different than the rest of the BBT’s as the highest seeds are the first off of the dock.​
• The State OWSA annual meeting will be held at Dammeyer’s Boat house at 8 pm or at the conclusion of the Dottie T finals.   The Van Treese family will be providing dinner for skiers and their families in honor and memory of Dottie Troeger.   The selection of the site for the 2018 State Tournament and election of officers for 2017-18 will be determined during this meeting (agenda here).
• The State Tournament will start at 8 am on Saturday, July 22nd.  Parking will be along the lane that runs on the west side of the lake.  Please try to stay as close to the driveway as possible because it has been wet and we want to limit how much of our yards get torn up.  There should be plenty of room for RV’s and campers as well.
• For the slalom and jump events we have elected to have each competitor ski behind the same boat that they drew for Regionals and Nationals.    Random draw of the boats resulted in skiers behind the Malibu going 1st, Mastercraft 2nd, and Nautique/Centurion 3rd.  The running order will be from lowest to highest seed order.   So the rough running order for Slalom will be:

                   Malibu: G3, W3, MW, W7-11, OW, B2, M2, M9-11
                   Mastercraft: W2, W6, B1, B3, M5, M7-11
                   Nautique/Centurion: G1, G2, W5, M4, MM, W1, W4, M1, M3, M6, OM

• The Slalom event for all age groups will be first, followed by the Junior Trick and Junior Jump events.  
• The Adult trick event will start at 8 am on Sunday, beginning with the W1 thru W11, then M1 thru M11
• The Adult jump event will be start at the conclusion of Adult Trick with the following order:

                  Malibu: W1, W2, M2, MM
                  Mastercraft: W4, W6-11, M3, M5
                  Nautique/Cent: W3, MW, M4, OM, W5, OW, M1, M6-11

• The State Banquet will be held at the Varsity Lanes Bowling alley lounge located at 91 Herzing Street in St. Marys (just off of St. Rte 66).  You can start arriving at 6 pm, but the meal is scheduled to be served at 7 pm.   Presentation of the awards will follow the meal.  Adult beverages will be available for purchase in the lounge.  Lemonade and tea will be included with the meal.  The Banquet is free of charge for all competitors and will cost $10 for any guest.

Up at Glassy Waters in Newton Falls Ohio, Buckeye Buoy Tour stop number four, Pick Your Partner, went down with a cash prize on the line.  The Gassy Waters site lived up to its name, with skiing conditions being very sublime.  Several skiers skied personal bests.  Skiers were seeded by handicap and head to head winners from the first round picked their partner for the second round from the pool of losers, then tried to advance as a team by skiing head to head against another team, all the way towards the $300 cash prize awarded to the winning pair.  Dave Miller and Sam Ingram finished first, with Michael Beinhauer (a skier from Illinois who traveled here with his son Holden) and Casey Warren finishing in second.  They earned $50 each.  Skylar Rogers and Joan Miller got $25 each for third place, and the team of Larry Zanko and Holden Beinhauer finished in fourth place.

Here is the official scorebook.

Check out more photos on the OWSA Facebook page.

Buckeye Buoy Tour stop #1, “Bark at This” at Barking Shores and Pleasant Shores, was completed this past weekend (6/24/17 and 6/25/17).  The slalom format included two rounds of slalom with an optional round 3 turn and burn ... your cash...pass, and a 6 skier finals.  Skiers that "turned and burned" who failed to beat their second round score paid $10 to a cash pot, which the slalom winner took home.  It was a very pleasant day, lots of sun and only about 15 minutes of rain.  Andrew French had an overall lackluster performance, which was expected.  Kevin Houser was able to edge out the other five finalists to win his first slalom title: Jon French, site host John Gorski, Mary Nelson, Jack Kuenning, and Keri McClure were the other slalom finalist.  Chris Caldwell won jump, and Kayla McClure won trick Sunday at Pleasant Shores.

It was great to see so many 1st time competitors this past weekend at Shortline Shores for the Buckeye Buoy Tour Stop #4!   Each new competitor received a Ski Nautique T-Shirt or a medal.