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Massanutten Yee Ha! - NE
McGaheysville, Virginia, May 9, 2009
2008 Results Results
McClendon and Burch win Gravity East opener
By Dan McDonald
Riders from five states stood on the elite podiums at the Gravity East Yee-Ha! Downhill at Virginia's Massanutten Resort on Saturday. On the elite men's side, Californian pro Sean McClendon took first place ahead of Pennsylvania's Neko Mulally and Ben Huse of North Carolina. In the elite women's division, Allegra Burch drove down from New York to take the win. Pennsylvania's Stephanie Gubernat and Lauren Peterson (Drummer Racing) from Massachusetts rounded out the podium.
Gravity East Series' first race of 2009 was a huge success, with 244 riders from 23 states being represented. Racers came to Virginia from as far away as California and Canada to race on the famed Massanutten 1997 UCI World Cup Course. Even after days of rain days of rain prior to an overcast practice day on Friday, the track drained well. Saturday's race day weather turned out to be a perfect sunny and warm day. This course featured all elements of East Coast gravity terrain including rock gardens, drops, mud and roots, a challenge for all racers of every level.
Third place elite women's racer Lauren Peterson offered representative words of praise, "What a great race!"
Gravity East Director Daniel McDonald was on site for the event, "It all went very well. The only minor glitch was a g-out that got larger during practice, and became a mud bog. Mountain Manager Kenny Hess, along with two staffers and myself, repaired the section during practice by moving soil and diverting water from the course. This created a fast, safe small 12-inch drop element and gave the racers the flow required at speed.
Gravity East returns to action with the second round of downhill and the first round of the e.thirteen dual slalom series on June 5-7 at Maryland's Wisp Resort.
Results
Elite women 1 Allegra Burch 4.20.16 2 Stephanie Gubernat 0.04.42 3 Lauren Petersen (Drummer Racing) 0.11.56 4 Hillary Elgert 0.15.35 5 Ellen Adams (BMCC/cycletherapy) 0.17.04 6 Alicia Jakomait 0.43.43 Elite men 1 Sean Mcclendon 3.23.55 2 Neko Mulally 0.00.30 3 Ben Hulse 0.08.09 4 Jason Memmelaar 0.09.12 5 Ethan Quehl (2 Wheels Freaks) 0.09.34 6 Geoffrey Ulmer 0.10.43 7 Alejandro Ortiz (Trail Youth Adventur) 0.13.90 8 Jason Beckley 0.16.46 9 Michael Thomas 0.16.81 10 Bj Treglia 0.19.07 11 Tyler Wilson 0.21.98 12 Geritt Beytagh 0.22.78 13 Chuck Pitts 0.24.56 14 Justin Gregory 0.25.21 15 Tim Price 0.27.42 16 Jeff Cayley 0.27.93 17 Christopher Talotta 0.28.45 18 Brian Yannuzzi 19 David Haas 0.30.98 20 Justin Beers 0.31.65 21 Matty Komar 0.41.80 22 Marvin Scanland 0.45.68 23 Terry Hinton (Hampton Trails) 0.46.52 24 Ken Walter 0.46.84 25 Tim White 1.09.54 26 Dan Whitehead 1.19.35 DNF Josh Clark Open men 1 Greg Nelson 3.34.46 2 Zachary Cutright 0.15.04 3 Craig Folsom 0.15.41 4 Matt Griffin 0.18.39 5 Jeremy Raney 0.21.02 6 Butch Greene 0.22.32 7 Will Washam 0.26.09 8 Ed Buchan 0.31.36 9 Andrew Farris 0.31.87 10 Peter Mills 0.41.02 11 Steven Kaufman 0.45.51 12 Adam Ginsburg 0.52.00 13 Jamie Keener (Shenandoah Bicycle Coalition) 0.54.52 14 Ross Ciminelli 0.56.28 15 Andrew Mueller 1.06.87 DNF Steven Trottier DNF Derrick Conover DNS CJ Coudret DNS Tim Richardson Cat. 1 Junior women 18 & under 1 Lauren Daney 5.20.07 Cat. 1 Senior women 19-29 1 Kristine Koch 5.10.68 2 Kristin Cousin (Team Fat Kids) 1.03.25 Cat. 1 Master women 30-39 1 Rae Gandolf 4.48.04 2 Tamara Peloquin 0.27.93 DNF Susan Del Pino Cat. 1 Master women 40+ 1 Vicki Koch 5.13.36 Cat. 1 Junior men 18 & under 1 Luciano Worl 3.35.45 2 Richard Rude Jr 0.01.85 3 Michael Gross (Team Drop) 0.02.50 4 Evan Gilsdorf 0.06.26 5 Brad King 0.11.19 6 Zach Mcdonald 0.11.25 7 Alex Couture 0.12.53 8 Eric Bercume 0.14.79 9 Curey Chambers 0.24.99 10 Sam Pensler 0.26.50 11 Nathan Pensler 0.31.40 12 Logan Mulally 0.35.04 13 Vinny Edwards (Racersedge) 0.36.41 14 Vance Nonno 0.42.24 15 Andy Becker 5.13.29 DNF Parker Worthington DNS Aaron Gordon Cat. 1 Senior men 19-29 1 Tyler Gilsdorf 3.35.66 2 Dennis Yuroshek 0.11.82 3 Nicholas D'emidio 0.13.90 4 Alex Moschitti 0.14.55 5 Stephen Flood 0.16.28 6 Kyle Kimble 0.18.47 7 Stephen Solt 0.19.11 8 Phillip Noto 0.20.81 9 Holden Loder 0.21.05 10 Tyler Bedick 0.22.18 11 Mike Gruhler 0.24.75 12 Tylor Bowes 0.24.96 13 Harrison Reynolds 0.26.31 14 Burke Saunders 0.27.05 15 Thomas Wilkinson 0.27.35 16 Derek Kranzel 0.28.02 17 Mario Fernandez 0.28.24 18 Jason Nixon 19 David Layman (American Trailers) 0.28.90 20 Peter John Mihalick 0.30.18 21 Charlie Brand 0.30.79 22 Jonthan Kranzel Jr 0.32.62 23 John Normand 0.33.50 24 Andrew Farrell 0.34.41 25 Clay Patterson 0.44.71 26 Russell Macintosh 0.45.11 27 Alex Ohman 0.46.97 28 David Klaver 0.49.84 29 Jordan Richard 0.50.69 30 Eric Allocco 0.52.37 31 Colby Larocque 1.15.37 DNF Justin Jackson DNS Ryan Cathrall Cat. 1 Master men 30-39 1 Robin Klinkert 3.40.67 2 Kevin Liebig (Racers Edge) 0.04.92 3 Matthew Adams 0.06.78 4 Mark Rutan 0.09.76 5 Tom Shomper 0.11.72 6 Todd Nicholas 0.11.77 7 Christopher Heck 0.14.91 8 Stephen Gray 0.15.29 9 Andy Devault 0.17.18 10 Shawn Metcalf 0.23.00 11 Mike Hartlove 0.25.08 12 Jason Rudy 0.28.75 13 John Pentecost 0.29.86 14 Dale Delmar 0.35.46 15 Michael Sands (Bc Racing) 0.36.91 16 Eric Barger (Racer's Edge) 0.50.14 17 Mike Trimble (Racers Edge) 1.01.70 18 Neal Demaio 1.10.00 19 Corey Greeneltch 4.01.09 20 Steve Ford 4.04.56 DNF Thomas Schueler Cat. 1 Master men 40+ 1 Johnathan Kranzel Sr. 5.08.69 Cat. 1 Master men 40+ 1 Jacob Dallegro 4.04.65 2 Phil Cook 0.03.06 3 Richard Rude 0.18.68 4 Mark Overby 0.19.64 5 Reid Kiniry (Michelin) 0.21.98 6 Stefan Daney 0.27.19 7 George Ulmer 0.30.47 8 Nick Fortune 0.36.83 9 Joel Creed 0.45.74 10 Richard Thompson 0.52.62 11 Stefan Cihylik 0.53.42 DNS McDonald Daniel (Team Drop) Hard tail men 1 Zachary Price 6.05.82 2 Chris Glime 0.04.41 Cat. 2 Senior women 19-29 1 Hannah Trimble 5.21.74 2 Marielle Lueker 1.04.47 Cat 2. master women 30-39 1 Kelly Hazlegrove 6.30.18 Cat. 2 Master women 40+ 1 Anna Cain 11.17.99 Cat. 2 Junior men 14 & under 1 Jay Fesperman 4.24.62 2 Sam Groner 0.35.49 3 Pierce Taylor 10.54.14 DNS Sam Groner Cat. 2 junior men 1 Eric Smith 4.07.73 2 Isaac White 0.54.12 Cat. 2 Junior men 18 & under 1 Ryan Gregory 3.57.85 2 Austin Perkins 0.02.49 3 Ryan Mcgiboney 1.04.49 4 Sam Skidmore 1.12.97 5 Robert Lewis 1.18.43 6 Sam Degenhard 1.52.70 DNF Ben Stablow Cat. 2 Senior men 19-29 1 Christopher Pickerell 3.59.17 2 David Pachowicz 0.02.35 3 Daniel Waskiewicz 0.03.83 4 Chris Scotten 0.10.10 5 Kevin Cockercockerham 0.12.57 6 Drew Barringer 0.12.82 7 Josh Strauel 0.21.25 8 Tom Nieri 0.23.43 9 Jacob Mcglauflin 0.26.00 10 Sean Connolly 0.31.37 11 Michael Gavagan (Brandywine Cyclery) 0.31.89 12 Forrest Black 0.32.82 13 Jonathan Howlette 0.35.55 14 Ben Gidney 0.37.81 15 George Berger 0.41.69 16 Jacob Kilgore 0.42.85 17 Jeffrey Nelson 0.45.90 18 Tim Betz 0.56.97 19 Alan Tarwater 0.59.15 20 Mike Monger 0.59.30 21 Jon Webster 1.04.12 22 Jarris Goldeisen 1.15.05 23 Andrew Schmidt (Team Epic Fail) 1.30.03 24 Mickel Clark 1.41.43 25 Stuart Haight 1.41.76 26 Adam Cain 1.47.66 DNF Jonathan Zerbe (Wv University) DNS Michael Val DNS Anthony Palmieri DNS Geoffrey Fryer DNS Brandon Nutt Cat. 2 Master Men 30-39 1 James Boyer 4.05.70 2 Brandon Barber 0.13.63 3 John Irvin 0.14.04 4 Jason Washer 0.26.75 5 Todd Johnston 0.27.99 6 Taylor Sullivan 0.28.78 7 Bill Kemp 0.32.33 8 Benjamin Weaver 0.35.69 9 Davy Hazlegrove 0.46.71 10 Chip Gray 1.03.77 11 Steve Mayernick 1.41.92 DNS Adam Buccolo DNS Robert Portvliet Cat. 2 Master men 40+ 1 John Graichen 4.37.03 2 Frank Endreson 0.05.93 3 Neil Stablow 0.09.03 4 Gerald Rehm 0.20.08 5 Tim Hope 0.25.81 6 Tim Grey 1.00.42 7 Andrew Folcher 1.06.14 8 Gil Goodrich (Filz Built) 1.13.25 DNF Ricky Kranzel DNF Doug Steele DNF Ron Stimach DNS Gordon Slaton Cat. 3 Senior women 19-29 DNF Joanna Krause Cat. 3 Master women 30-39 1 Leanne Mccann (Cyclepath) 5.16.75 Cat. 3 Junior men 14 & under 1 E Vest 5.29.44 2 Ben Bodycoat 0.59.86 3 Nick Gray 5.30.19 4 Phillip Steele 7.40.17 Cat. 3 Junior men 15-18 1 Ray Syron 4.35.75 Cat. 3 Senior men 19-29 1 Mario Hernandez 4.18.58 2 Paxton Little 0.19.55 3 Jacob Siegel 0.19.64 4 Kevin D'souza 1.15.14 5 Chris Glover 1.20.68 6 Todd Colligan 1.28.21 7 Ryan Yarzebinski 1.33.74 8 Phillip Thai 1.39.18 9 Evan Strock 1.47.36 10 Shane Reilly 3.32.85 DNF Ryan Maichel DNS Sander Marques Cat. 3 Master men 30-39 1 Brian Krause 4.18.71 2 David Gray 1.08.31 3 Walter Connare 1.35.41 DNS Christian Catinis DNS Stephan Rohde Cat 3. Master men 40-49 1 Ian Starr 4.27.77 2 Doug Breslin (Team Girth/freeridesouth/aj's) 2.37.43 3 Bruce Mccann (Team Amigos) 3.52.73 DNS Ed Mcdaniel (Bike Line)
