Archive for March, 2009

Controversial Opening Day

Saturday, March 28th, 2009
New rider Sue Heagney won the Vincent Shield in controversial circumstances at Cuddon Cycling Marlborough’s opening day at Forrest Estate Winery last Saturday afternoon.
The open grade 32km handicap event covered 4 laps of the Coners Bend/Renwick circuit. On the relatively calm day all bunches rode well which headed for a tight finish in the final lap. The controversy appeared when it was noticed that a non-starter was riding in the 8 minute group assisting their progress. Part of this group just caught the leading 20 minute bunch in the latter stages to take the first three placings. Five riders were disqualified from the results.
Heagney who finished a close up fourth took the trophy over her co-markers Gill Painter and Sharon de Castro after some good solid teamwork through the race. Marty Bruce (3min) and Martin Fletcher led a big bunch sprint in 30 seconds later for 4th and 5th place respectively. A well deserved fastest time went to Gerard van Antwerpen who sneaked away from the scratch group in the last 2 kilometres to hold off Robin Reid and Richard Anderson by a couple of seconds at the line.
The junior under 17 grade raced over 2 laps of the circuit (16km) for the Opening Day Cup. Callum Saunders (off 3m) rode an excellent race to haul in Quinn Karwowski (4m) and new rider Nathan McIntyre (6m) in the final lap to take a close win in the sprint from Karwowski. Saunders also took fastest time after scratch rider Ethan Roach took a wrong turn.
Results:
Open grade- Vincent Shield 32km hcp, S Heagney (off 20m) 1, G Painter (off 20m) 2, S de Castro (off 20m) 3, M Bruce (off 3m) 4, M Fletcher (off 5m) 5, M Mulder (off 3m) 6, A Milne (off 5m) 7, G Herkt (off 3m) 8, S Rooney (off 3m) 9, R Murphy (off 5m) 10. Fastest time, G van Antwerpen (scr) 46m 32s 1, R Reid (scr) 46m 34s 2, R Anderson (scr) s.t. 3, J Hawke (scr) s.t. 4, D Craig (scr) s.t. 5.
Junior under 17 grade- Opening Day Cup 16km hcp, C Saunders (off 3m) 1, Q Karwowski (off 4m) 2, N McIntyre (off 6m) 3, T Cresswell (off 10m) 4, D Cresswell (off 6m) 5. Fastest Time, C Saunders (3m) 29m 34s 1, Q Karwowski (4m) 30m 34s 2, E Roach (scr) 31m 27s 3.

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Road Season Muster Day

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Cuddon Cycling Marlborough opened its road season with a muster day at Fairhall on Saturday afternoon.
The riders were split into 4 grades with racing on the Benmorven circuit from Fairhall hall. The top grade was a combined ‘A’ and ‘B’ grade event ove 4 laps of the circuit (36km). A torrid pace on the first lap followed by a strong attack saw the field split up  on the rise up Paynters Road on lap two. Five riders rode clear being Gerard van Antwerpen, David Craig, Paul Johnson, Marcel Mulder and Ethan Roach. The group increased their lead by almost 2 minutes to the chasers over the final lap. Craig took ‘A’ grade line honours with a devastating sprint from van Antwerpen and Johnson. Roach took the ‘B’ grade win by 1m 47s to Marty Bruce who headed off Glen Herkt in the next bunch sprint. The ‘C’ grade 3 lap event (27km) saw Chris Ireland produce a strong finish to beat Richard Holdaway by 8 seconds with another 33 seconds back to Joe Blakiston. The junior under 17 grade rode over 2 laps (18km) with Callum Saunders being the strongest finisher to win by 30 seconds over Sonia Ginders and Nick Blakiston.
Results:
‘A’ grade 36km- D Craig 55m 13s 1, G van Antwerpen 55m 14s 2, P Johnson 55m 15s 3, M Mulder 55m 40s 4. ‘B’ grade 36km- E Roach 55m 23s 1, M Bruce 57m 00s 2, G Herkt s.t. 3, D MacKenzie s.t. 4, A Clark s.t. 5. ‘C’ grade 27km- C Ireland 46m 00s 1, R Holdaway 46m 08s 2, J Blakistan 46m 41s 3, S Scott 53m 08s 4, I Buunk 54m 25s 5. Junior under 17 grade 18km- C Saunders 33m 29s 1, S Ginders 33m 59s 2, N Blakiston s.t. 3, D Cresswell 36m 55s 4, C Morris 40m 02s 5.

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Scott Takes Final Road Race

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
A good first stage win saw Josh Scott take victory in the final road race of Cuddon Cycling Marlborough’s Bike HQ Summernite series at fairhall last wednesday evening.
Stage one covered 9km from Wither Hills Winery around the Benmorven circuit to finish at the top of the Ridge resort hill. Virtually the whole field stayed intact to the hill finish with Scott taking the win by 1 second to Gerard van Antwerpen and another 2 seconds to Ethan Roach. The final stage covered 11km on New Renwick Road out to Godfreys Road and return. A bunch sprint to finish saw Van Antwerpen head off Brent Ackroyd and Scott for the win. The overall classification went to Scott by 1 second to Van Antwerpen with Roach 4 seconds back in third place. The sealed handicap section was won convincingly by Rhonda Murphyby 26 seconds to Glen Herkt and another 9 seconds to Roach.
Results:
Bike HQ summernite series road race No6- Stage one, 9km, J Scott 14m 45s 1, G van Antwerpen 14m 46s 2, E Roach 14m 48s 3, B Ackroyd 14m 57s 4, R Murphy 15m 11s 5. Stage two, 11km, G van Antwerpen 15m 18s 1, B Ackroyd s.t. 2, J Scott s.t. 3, G Herkt 15m 19s 4, R Murphy 15m 20s 5. Overall classification, J Scott 30m 03s 1, G van Antwerpen 30m 04s 2, E Roach 30m 08s 3, B Ackroyd 30m 15s 4, R Murphy 30m 33s 5. Overall handicap, R Murphy (1m 20s) 29m 13s 1, G Herkt (1m 20s) 29m 39s 2, E Roach (20s) 29m 48s 3, G van Antwerpen (10s) 29m 54s 4, J Scott (scr) 30m 03s 5.

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Double Win For Hawke

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Junior under 19 rider Jamie Hawke was in good form to win both stages for overall victory in Cuddon Cycling Marlborough’s Bike HQ Summernite series road race no5 at Fairhall last Wednesday evening.
Stage one covered a 12km course from Wither Hills Winery into the Ridge Resort and then up Brancott Road to finish up the Bookers Road climb. The Ridge Resort climb split the field with Josh Scott and Hawke going clear with six riders in the main chasing group. Hawke took the final climb by 12 seconds from Scott with Gerard van Antwerpen taking third at 58 seconds. The second stage over 12km covered a return journey over Brancott Road, Godfreys Road and New Renwick Road. Eight riders rode clear in Godfreys Road with the final sprint home again being taken by Hawke from Scott and van Antwerpen.
The overall time result went to Hawke with no change in the results after stage one. The sealed handicap section was taken out by Kevin Hawkins by 16 seconds to Ali Windleburn and another 1 minute 4 seconds back to Scott in third place.
Results:
Bike HQ series, Road race No5- Stage One 12km, J Hawke 19m 07s 1, J Scott 19m 19s 2, G van Antwerpen 20m 05s 3, B Ackroyd 20m 11s 4, J Roach 20m 42s 5, M Mulder 20m 50s 6, G Henderson 21m 44s 7, C Murphy 21m 54s 8, R Murphy 22m 35s 9, G Herkt 23m 30s 10. Stage Two 12km, J Hawke 17m 26s 1, J Scott s.t. 2, G van Antwerpen s.t. 3, B Ackroyd 17m 33s 4, R Murphy 17m 34s 5, G Henderson 17m 36s 6, G Herkt 17m 45s 7, M Mulder 17m 49s 8, C McCarthy 18m 18s 9, C Murphy 18m 25s 10. Overall classification: J Hawke 36m 33s 1, J Scott 36m 45s 2, G van Antwerpen 37m 31s 3, B Ackroyd 37m 44s 4, M Mulder 38m 39s 5, J Roach 39m 07s 6, G Henderson 39m 20s 7, R Murphy 40m 09s 8, C Murphy 40m 19s 9, G Herkt 41m 15s 10. Sealed handicap, K Hawkins (16m) 35m 10s 1, A Windleburn (14m) 35m 26s 2, J Scott (15s) 36m 30s 3, J Hawke (scr) 36m 33s 4, L le Seuer (16m) 36m 48s 5, G van Antwerpen (30s) 37m 01s 6, G Henderson (2m 10s) 37m 10s 7, C Mc Carthy (5m) 37m 11s 8, B Ackroyd (30s) 37m 14s 9, M Mulder (1m 10s) 37m 29s 10.   

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