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Asheville Training Series #5
French Broad River Park, June 11
Great racing continues at Asheville
By Chris Camm
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Session number five of this twelve race series was run under perfect conditions at the French Broad River Park and generated a robust list of entries in all the categories. As we near the midpoint of the series, the principal players are putting their mark on Asheville's developmental track racing event.
Brian Pierce has been graduated from the B Race ranks, and the road is clear for new contenders to clog the top of the table. Thomas Burns took advantage to claim his first win of the meet, while Eric White and Allen Smith took their share of the sprint points to account for the second and third places. The Masters event played out another act in the seesaw battle between Darby Harris of Cullowhee and Joey Coddington of Asheville. This week Harris perfectly timed a counterattack after the third sprint lap. He rode away with Bryan Elliot of Hickory to lap the field and secure the win. Elliot inherited second in the process and Coddington minimized the damage by finishing third on the night. Harris and Coddington remain locked in a battle for the season prize, well above the rest of the field.
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In the A race the field stayed on laps and it came down to the final, double points sprint to settle it. Coddington made a clean dive underneath exiting turn four and won the closing sprint to depose two time winner Randy Parker of Raleigh. The sprint points were spread throughout the field and Mike Lantz gathered enough to claim the third step of the podium on this night. As a warm-up for his promotion to the A race, Brian Pierce toyed with his competitors in the Fixed Gear Omnium and swept the three events for a clear win. Herb Young continues to take to this discipline like a fish to water and moved up to second in the night's overall result. As part of that effort Young made a great attack in the opening Scratch Race for a clear gap on the final lap. As is his custom, Pierce flew from the field to win on the line by a tire's width. In the Win and Out, the sprint for second place was even closer when Mike Koerschner and Todd Tamplin put in a dead heat photo. After minutes of post race deliberation, the camera could not separate the two.
All in all it was a great night of racing and we thank our generous sponsors: Hearn's Cycling and Fitness, Asheville Parks and Recreation Department, Asheville Bicycle Racing Club, Liberty Bicycles, Cane Creek Cycling Components, Asheville Family Health Center, Dr. Steve Miller, DDS
Results
Scratch Race - 8 laps 1 Brian Pierce 2 Herb Young 3 Todd Tamplin 4 Michael Koerschner 5 Jim McMillan Win-n-Out 1 Brian Pierce 2 Michael Koerschner 2 Todd Tamplin 3 Herb Young 4 Jim McMillan 5 Youngblood Haske Points Race - 15 laps 1 Brian Pierce 2 Chris Kamm 3 Youngblood Haske 4 Todd Tamplin 5 Herb Young Year Total Omnium Points 1 Todd Tamplin 25 2 Brian Pierce 23 3 Herb Young 12 4 Mike Koerschner 11 5 Bruce Berry 10 6 Marc Mullinax 7 7 George Riedesel 5 8 Chris Kamm 3 9 Joey Coddington 1 Category "A" Points Race 1 Joey Coddington 32 2 Randy Parker 24 3 Michael Lantz 19 4 JC Rummel 14 5 Darby Harris 8 6 Eric White 8 7 Jeremiah Angel 7 8 Dylan Taylor 6 9 Thomas Zuzig 5 10 Scott Langford 5 11 Andy Pooser 3 12 Russell Kelley 3 13 Chris Ernst 2 14 Clark Hollins 2 15 Ray Von Dohlen 2 16 Adam Penney 1 17 Brian Pierce 1 18 Michael Scholtz 1 Cat A Year Total Omnium Points 1 Joey Coddington 23 2 Darby Harris 18 3 Randy Parker 17 4 Andrew Crarter 7 5 Kent Williams 5 6 Chris Sheppard 5 7 Jacob McGaahey 3 8 Michael Lantz 3 9 Julian Hine 2 10 Patrick McLoughlin 2 11 JC Rummel 2 12 Greg Brown 1 13 Colin Izzard 1 14 Dean Lyous 1 Category "B" Points Race 1 Thomas Burns 26 2 Eric White 12 3 Allan Smith 12 4 Thomas Cason 10 5 Blair Hobgood 5 6 Patricia Pinner 4 7 Matt Martin 4 8 Bill McBee 2 9 Allison Hardy 1 10 Thad Walker 1 Cat B Year Total Omnium Points 1 Brian Pierce 19 2 Blair Hobgood 11 3 Robert Schoen 10 4 Eric White 10 5 Greg Brown 8 6 Patrick Brittain 7 7 Thomas Burns 7 8 Blake Sagar 3 9 David Forkner 3 10 Thomas Cason 3 11 Allan Smith 3 12 James Shelfer 2 13 Michael Boone 2 14 Bill McBee 1 15 Matthew Sescilla 1 16 Scott Rousseau 1 Master's Points Race 1 Darby Harris 20 2 Brian Elliot 9 One lap behind 3 Joey Coddington 11 4 Michael Koerschner 11 5 Ray Von Dohlen 6 6 Michael Scholtz 5 7 T-Bone Taylor 5 8 Scott Langford 4 9 Brandon Lane 3 10 Michael Davidson 3 11 Todd Tamplin 3 12 Andrew Hanger 2 13 Victor Moore 2 14 Tim Johnson 1 15 Jay Hilow 1 Masters Year Total Omnium Points 1 Joey Coddington 26 2 Darby Harris 23 3 T-Bone Taylor 12 4 Kent Williams 5 5 Randy Parker 5 6 Brian Elliot 5 7 Michael Koerschner 4 8 Jeffery Haase 3 9 Todd Tamplin 3 10 Paul Mittelstadt 3 11 Scott Lunsford 1 12 Ray Von Dohlen 1
