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Beacon Cross - Vergegear.com MACC Series #5
Bridgeton, NJ, November 2, 2003
Fort/GPOA team scores a double as Schauer and Leech win at Beacon Cross
By Tammy Ebersole
Beautiful, sunny weather with temperatures in the 70s made it difficult to believe it was early November and Beacon's notorious sand sections had many riders wishing they were sunning in beach chairs instead of running across the beach. The promoter's addition of a long sandy beach run this year made sure riders' legs and lungs were already on fire as they turned towards the infamous terraced run-up. When the dust cleared, or more appropriately, when the sand cleared, the Pittsburgh-based Fort/GPOA team walked away with wins in both Elite categories.
Betsy Schauer (Fort/GPOA) took early command of the Elite Women's race and never looked back. Although Schauer opened up to a comfortable gap, Megan Render (Snow Valley) never gave up and kept charging all the way to the line. Her efforts earned her a well fought second place and valuable points in the battle for the series lead. Caitlyn Tuel (Sobe/Cannondale) rode solidly to claim third and Sami Fournier (Velo Bella) took fourth. Bonnie Stoeckl (Evolution Racing) finished fifth.
In the Elite Men's race Ryan Leech (Fort/GPOA), Joe Reynolds (Wissahickon ) and Greg Ferguson (Fort/GPOA) came into the final stages of the last lap together but Ferguson fell off the pace and Leech put in one final jump to get clear of Reynolds before the finishing stretch. The teamwork of Fort/GPOA team made things tough for Reynolds all day including a lap or two earlier when Ferguson attacked and got clear. He had a thirteen second gap heading into the sand pit but Reynolds was able to reel him back in. Reynolds' work took its toll and eventually enabled Leech to get enough breathing room to take the win. Reynolds, who continues to get stronger week after week, took second and Ferguson finished third. Bill Elliston (Ideal Tile) out sprinted Les Leach (Wissahickon) to take fourth and fifth, respectively.
The Masters 35+ race was won by Ransome Weaver (Guys Bicycles) by a mere two seconds over second place finisher Eric Schlauch (Somerset Wheelmen). Other winners of the day included Chris Ruhl (East Coast Velo) in the Juniors' race, Carolyn Popovic (Penn State) in Women's B and Sean Gallagher (Tri Speed) in the Men's B race. Dave Chambien (Tim Cycle) won the Men's C category.
Next week the series moves to Camp Hill, PA on Saturday for the Saturn Classic (UCI) and Marysville, PA on Sunday for the Harrisburg City Islanders' Rockville Bridge 'Cross Classic.
For race details or additional series details, please go to www.monkeyhillcs.com/mac/2003/
Results
Elite Men 1 Ryan Leech 57.46 2 Joseph Reynolds 0.10 3 Greg Ferguson 0.26 4 Bill Elliston 0.35 5 Les Leach 6 Sean Groom 7 Kyle Walmsley 1.05 8 Gunnar Shogren 1.19 9 Glen Turner 10 Andrew Wulfkuhle 1.34 11 Greg Wittwer 3.37 12 Jon Alachoyan 3.57 13 Joe Thompson 4.28 14 Joe Piccillo 4.37 15 Nathan Diebert 5.48 16 Szymon Niemotko 7.12 17 Johan Anestad 9.17 One lap behind 18 Tom Mains 19 Tom Dolan Elite Women 1 Betsey Schauer 50.17 2 Megan Render 0.36 3 Caitylyn Tuel 1.17 4 Sami Fournier 2.00 5 Bonnie Stoeckl 2.38 6 Michelle Suplick 2.45 7 Jill Morgan 3.05 8 Lisa Most 9 Erica Allar 3.45 10 Lisa Vible 4.15 11 Donna Anderson 4.29 12 Pam Shue 5.47 13 Tammy Ebersole 7.41 14 Lauri Jenkins 11.58 Junior Men 1 Chris Ruhl 46.00 2 Gonzalo Escobar 0.43 One lap behind 3 Syd Lea 4 Kyle Gregg Masters Men 35+ 1 Ransom Weaver 42.09 2 Eric Schlauch 0.02 3 Mike Hebe 0.22 4 Robert Hacker 1.21 5 Blair Saunders 1.30 6 Randall Root 1.38 7 Martin Jones 8 John Lux 2.37 9 Stephen Caffrey 2.46 10 Douglas Gray 2.52 11 Kirk Reisinger 2.54 12 Rob Frederick 3.02 13 Fred Wittwer 3.23 14 Kevin St Clare 3.26 15 Robert Lyon 4.07 16 Kelly Cline 5.13 17 Bob Piacine 18 Leon Pizzini 5.28 19 Mark Elsasser 5.34 20 Kevin Breckenmaker 5.54 21 Chris Stultz 6.11 22 Jeffrey Appleton 6.38 23 Scott Reynolds 6.57 24 Scott Seifert 7.12 25 Steve Heede 26 Mike Connair 8.24 27 Michael Gibbons 8.31 28 Ronnie Irvine 9.00 29 Dusan Strika 9.16 30 Charles Wahl 10.06 31 Patrick Leonard 10.09 One lap behind 32 Rob Lea 33 Christopher Vegh 34 John Hartmann 35 David Mitchell 36 Karl Dittebrandt B Men 1 Sean Gallagher 44.08 2 Daniel Wilson 3 Erik DaSilva 0.28 4 Weston Schempf 0.59 5 Bruce Freehoff 1.14 6 Nick Rinker 7 Adam Szczepanski 1.42 8 Chris Mayhew 1.54 9 Trevor Williams 1.59 10 Drew Guldalian 2.22 11 Eric Morgan 12 Theo Procopos 2.24 13 Chris Samuel 2.30 14 Wade Hess 2.34 15 Wayne Scott 2.38 16 Ethan Townsend 3.06 17 Todd Moyer 18 Douglas Dicks 3.21 19 Mark Miklosovich 3.28 20 Christian Skinner 3.44 21 Brian Burgess 3.47 22 Pete Smith 3.52 23 Justin Polinski 4.14 24 Ian Sandberg 4.53 25 Kevin Zutell 5.03 26 Christopher Johnson 5.05 27 Ray Ignosh 5.29 28 Chris Evans 5.49 29 Garvin Louie 7.38 30 Tom Coccia 8.51 B Women 1 Carolyn Popovic 31.09 2 Tracy Lea 1.34 3 Krista Schultz 2.10 4 Karen Tourian 3.03 5 Christina Lindsey 3.17 6 Hollie Kenney 3.21 7 Nina Santiago 4.53 8 Linda Lennon 4.56 C Men 1 Dave Chambien 28.31 2 Werner Freymann 0.29 3 Dennis Smith 0.46 4 Brian Gilmore 1.06 5 Andrew J ?? 1.16 6 Eric Lowenstein 7 Roland Peterson 1.28 8 Christopher Stine 1.58 9 Robert Sands 2.15 10 Tom Ekberg 11 Peter ? 2.29 12 Jameson Platte 2.41 13 Robert May 14 Gustavo Sanchez 3.22 15 Mark Fitzwater 3.49 16 Joseph Manning 3.56 17 Matthew Peterson 4.09 18 Rolf Windh 4.17
