INTER CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
Inter club championships held on the 28th February 2010
A big thankyou from the Armidale guys who made the effort to come
down and give us a run.
Results
Juniors
1st: Sam Jenner (Armidale)
2nd: Emily Nicholls
3rd: Lewis Chapman
The juniors was a great race over 15 minutes plus 1 lap. The speed was fast the whole race and came down to a bunch sprint with Sam Jenner from Armidale proving too fast for Emily and new recruit Lewis.
C Grade
1st: David Jenner (Armidale)
2nd: Alex Nicholls
3rd: D Bourke, sorry mate dont know his first name (Armidale)
This race had everything from attacks to crashes. There seemed to always be someone off the front making the group chase. Al Nicholls took the bottom corner a bit hot and had a nasty crash and we hope he has a speedy recovery. Dave Jenner won in a bunch sprint from the late falshing Alex Nicholls and D Bourke( Armidale)
B Grade
1st: Micheal Swain
2nd: Graeme Lewis
3rd: Rick Maher
This race was also very fast with a lot of early attacks from Micheal Swain. They were all quickly countered by the bunch. The race settled down through the middle stages until woth 5 minutes to go the club Strongman Graeme Lewis put in a strong attack to lead on his own. The group were madly chasing until with 1 corner to go Micheal Swain burst out from the group, across the 20m gap that was left and went past Graeme with around 50 metres to go. It was great to see an attack from Lewy and it so nearly payed off but Micheal just timed his run to perfection. Rick Maher led the rest of the chase bunch home closely behind for third place.
A Grade
1st: Toby Maher
2nd: Sam Spokes
3rd: Wayne Toomey
Our race was the hardest crit of this sesaon by a long way. we averaged the fastest all season of 41 km/h. Sam threw everything at us attacking multiple times nearly every lap. He proved how strong he is ahead of his upcoming national selection race. However on the day it wasn't enough to shake the rest of the group with everyone rallying together and chasing Sam back every attack. Wayne Toomey and Kierin Lewis in particular did some really strong turns to keep the race together. The last few laps the attacks kept coming but it wasn't enough to keep the newly back on the bike Toby Maher from winning the race in spectacular style with a big head to head sprint with Sam down the finishing straight. Sam lead around the last corner which is usually the best tactic but Toby proved just how good a sprinter he is by edging Sam out in the final metres. Glad to have him back on the bike.
