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Redline Cup of Cross #2 - C3
Salt Lake City, USA, November 23, 2002
Teamwork pays off for Wells and Gullickson
Hall and D'Aluisio 1-2 for Clif
By Thomas Cooke, X-Men cycling team
Mongoose Hyundai team mates Todd Wells and Marc Gullickson proved once again working together can pay off in cyclocross racing. After Travis Brown (Trek) took the holeshot from the start, a select group of 8 forged ahead of the field by the midway point of the first lap. The real action began when the lead group was setting up for a sizeable first lap crowd prime. Andy Jacques-Maynes (Clif Bar) fired the first shot when he sprinted around Brown to take the prime right on the line. Gullickson countered with a fierce attack leading into the "Wall", a steep grass hill with a double barrier, but a crash at the bottom nullified his advantage. Undeterred, Gullickson recovered and immediately attacked again, gaining a 20 second lead by the end of lap 2.
The chase group dwindled, leaving Brown, Jacques-Maynes and Dale Knapp (Kona-Kenwood), with Wells patiently waiting for an expected counter attack. Finally, Wells could wait no more and quickly bridged across the gap. Gullickson and Wells traded pulls and crashes, each one waiting for the other when there was a mishap. On the bell lap, Brown made a huge effort to pull back the Mongoose train, but Gullickson and Wells continued to ride hard enough to keep the gap all the way to the line. Wells took the win and tightened his grip on the Redline Cup overall. In a photo-finish, Jacques-Maynes claimed 3rd over Knapp, with Brown trailing for the 5th spot.
Earlier in the day, Gina Hall (Clif Bar) shot off the front of the women's field and never looked back. At the top of the "Wall", she had a modest gap of 15 seconds over her chasers. Katie Compton (CTS) came close to making contact midway through the first lap, but paid for her early efforts and later faded, setting up a battle for 2nd between Hall's Clif Bar team mate Carmen D'Aluisio and Kona-Kenwood's Anne Grande. As Hall extended her lead on every lap, D'Aluisio and Grande slugged it out all the way to the finish. In a tight sprint, it was D'Aluisio making it 1,2 for Clif Bar, with Grande in 3rd. Compton hung on for a fine 4th place finish.
Results
Elite Men 1 Todd Wells (Mongoose/Huyundai) 54.15 2 Marc Gullickson (Mongoose/Huyundai) 0.01 3 Andy Jacques-Maynes (Clif Bar) 0.13 4 Dale Knapp (Kona/Kenwood) 5 Travis Brown 0.15 6 Ben Jacques 1.14 7 Richard Feldman 1.22 8 Barry Wicks 1.47 9 Erik Tonkin 1.49 10 Joe DePaemelaere 1.55 11 Justin Robinson 2.07 12 Bart Bowen 2.40 13 David Wyandt 2.48 14 Brandon Dwight 3.18 15 Frank Mapel 3.40 16 Doug Ryden 4.12 17 Johnny Sundt 4.29 18 Jason Tullous 4.51 19 Brent Prenzlow 4.57 20 Ryan Guay 4.58 21 Brad Van Orden 6.10 22 Tyson Apostol 6.34 23 Ryan Iddings 7.08 24 Jared Gibson 7.59 25 Shawn Mitchell 8.26 26 Douglas Ott 8.44 27 Bryson Perry 11.28 28 Dan Depaemelaere 1 lap 29 Tad Hamilton 2 laps DNF Alan Obye DNF Bart Gillespie DNF Robert Cambell DNF Joel Kath DNF Jesse Riel DNF Mark Legg DNF Jackson Stewart DNF Aaron Menenberg DNF Todd Smith DNF Chris McGoven Elite Women 1 Gina Hall (Clif Bar) 35.13 2 Carmen D'Aluisio (Clif Bar) 0.43 3 Ann Grande (Kona/Kenwood) 1.04 4 Katie Compton 1.24 5 Melissa Thomas 2.01 6 Gretchen Reeves 2.13 7 Kerry Branholt 2.50 8 Josie Beggs 3.15 9 Cynthia Lodding 4.45 10 Heather Szabo 5.46 11 Dorothy Wong 6.16 12 Hollie McGrovern 6.40 13 Lora Heckman 7.22 14 Nichole Wangsgard 8.25 15 Lisa Peck 9.34 16 Leslie Gilmore 18.34 DNF Christine Vardaros UCI Junior 1 Zak Grabowski 33.25 2 David Fleischhauer 1.22 3 Morgan Schmitt 1.31 4 Tucker Thomas 2.23 5 Chris Stockburger 2.56 6 Perry Paolini 3.24 7 Mike Wentz 5.40 8 Mitchell Peterson 6.26 Master 35+ 1 Jon Cariveay 43.03 2 James Coates 1.35 3 Chris Daluisio 3.01 4 Darrell Davis 3.40 5 Jim Brown 4.22 6 Dirk Cowley 5.06 7 Dan Norton 5.06 8 Brent Peacock 5.24 9 Gary Fuller 5.25 10 Jell Hane 6.00 11 Dave Reed 10.22 12 Chris Magerl 1 lap 13 Brian Olson 2 laps DNF Steven Lewis DNF Jeff Street DNF Rich Maile DNF Jeff Steinhart B Flite 1 JJ Clark 44.09 2 Kelly Ryan 0.46 3 Arron Phillips 1.05 4 Eric Flynn 2.02 5 Kris Arnott 2.49 6 Jesse Hoffman 3.15 7 Jon Gallager 3.20 8 Adam McGrath 3.51 9 Jim Fearick 3.58 10 Brandon Firth 4.07 11 Steven Elmes 4.09 12 Bret Johnson 4.11 13 David Harward 4.12 14 David Newell 4.42 15 John Shippey 5.17 16 Stuart Beling 5.18 17 Linde Smith 8.08 18 Robert Wray 9.54 19 Matt Ohran 1 lap 20 Dr.Johnan Kolon 2 laps 21 Kevin Smith 3 laps DNF Ken Chord DNF Scott Toly DNF Marc Drier C Flite 1 Thomas Spanning 28.46 2 Jeff Clawson 0.36 3 Denny Kalar 0.38 4 Brett Stevens 0.39 5 John Smith 0.42 6 Ryan Harward 2.22 7 Alex Whitney 3.06 8 Gary Wheeler 5.18 9 Walt Chudleigh 6.07 10 Pat Putts 6.42 11 Chris Brown 7.30 12 Dexter Mahaffey 11.47 DNF Daniel Stites
