Newspaper 2008

Posted: 19 Oct 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 15th Oct

The Riverina Championships were held on the weekend at Wantabadgery in combination with the Tour of Two rivers stage. Approximately 60 riders faced the starter for either the Time Trial, Road Race or both to be eligible for the Riverina championship shields. The winners of each grade were, A grade Ashley Humbert , B grade was Paul Flemming, C grade Josh Apolony and D grade Jeremy Scott.

Last Wednesday was the first night of track racing for the 2008-09 season. Great weather and good turnout of riders made for a very interesting night of racing.

The juniors had good numbers in all grades with the pocket rockets starting the night. Zach Burton rode a great race in the first 1 lapper to win from Noah Bruce and Sebastian Quirk and newcomer Alyssa Burton won the second from Isabella Inch and Rhys Pretious. In the 2 lap h/cap Alyssa Burton once again proved too strong for the field winning the McDonalds award with Zac Burton finishing fast for second and Rhys Pretious in third  

In the U/11B’s 1 and 2 lap h/caps Aedon Pretious road strongly to win from Victoria Makin and Jackie Inch. In the 2 lap scratch Bailey Ellis came from a long way back to finish first infront of Victoria Makin and Aedon Pretious who also took home the McDonalds award.

The U/11A’s Joe Wallace edged out Emily Bruce and Dot Funnell in the 1 lapper, Emily winning the 2 lap h/cap and the 3 lap scratch from Dot and Bede Funnell. Emily also took home the McDonalds award

The U/13’s 2 lap h/cap was won by Andrew Geurtson who also took out the 3 lapper. In the 5 lap scratch race Lachlan Scott rode well to win from Louis Funell and Andrew Geurtson.  The U/15’s 2 lapper was a close finish between Cameron Scott, Emma Apolony, and Greg Westerman with the  4 lapper going to Max Housden ,second Albury rider Bradley Rose and Lucy Regan. The 6 lap scratch race Bradley Rose held off the field from Max Housden and Katrina Rose.

The seniors started the night, after a slight delay with the lighting, with a 4 lap heartstarter for each grade to get the legs warmed up. The 5 lap all in handicap was won by Jamie Green followed by Josh Apolony and Isaac Gilmore. The final race of the night was a 15 lap scratch race for A and B grade Isaac Gilmore taking the B grade and Paul Fellows the A grade.

Racing continues at the track tonight at 6 pm for the juniors and 7 pm for the seniors

Posted: 22 Sep 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article

The Wagga Cycle Club held its AGM and Road presentations on Sunday at the Rules Cub. A change to the executive committee this year was the stepping down of long term and hard working  treasurer Dean Hart, Steve Taylor will take up the position for the next term. Sonya Marshall has also confirmed her move to Bathurst at the end of the year which will leave a vacancy for the secretary position. Thank you to all the members that have once again volunteered their time to take on a position in the club for another season.

Trophy winners for 2008

Saxon Hodges – Sub junior point score

Greg Westerman – Junior point score

Isaac Gilmore – Senior points score

Bede Funnell – Encouragement award

Aiden Pretious – Coaches Award

Jeremy Scott – Most Improved Rider

Matt Garlan – Ben Henderson Memorial trophy

Josh Apolony – U17 rider of the year

Greg Scott – Tiny Hart Shield

Max Housden - Junior rider of the year Track and Road

Paul Fellows – Senior rider of the year Track and Road, Achievement at the highest level.

Senior riders headed t o Albury on Sunday for the second leg of the tour of two rivers. Ashley Humbert took out the race with an impressive turn of speed on the hills and Isaac Gilmore taking out the D grade, well done to both riders and all the members that represented the club.

Posted: 3 Aug 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article

Three weeks of very limited sleep is starting to take its toll, but as always, well worth it to watch the Aussies take on the Tour de France.

Our own local hero Paul Fellows has returned home from the Junior Track Championships in South Africa with some more bling to hang around his neck. Paul finished third in his pet event the Keiren bringing home a junior world bronze medal, a fantastic effort. The Australian team collected a hoard of medals between them 13 gold, 7 silver and 3 bronze.

Our local juniors have been heading out to Wantabadgery the last couple of weekends getting in some home advantage for the State junior championships which will be held on the 9^th and 10^th of August. The seniors also joined them this week with a 40 km road race over a pretty testing course.

Volunteers will be needed for the running of the junior championships and the produce market, bacon and egg stall, on the same weekend. Any seniors that can help with either of these please give your name to one of the committee members (see the website). The clubs monthly meeting is to be held 7.30 pm tuesday 5^th of August at 8 Hakea place Springvale all members are welcome to attend.

Posted: 7 July 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article

The Wagga Cycle club juniors continued their busy winter programme last weekend competing in the Canberra Kowalski Women’s and Junior Tour. This tour is a snap shot of the National championships with entries from every state in Australia including a squad from NZ. The weather was perfect for racing with a road race and Criterium on the Saturday and a road race and time trial on the Sunday.

Cameron Scott in the under 11’s produced a sensational tour result coming home with a first place in the Overall General Classification (GC). Cameron finished 2^nd in both road races, 2^nd in the Criterium and 1st in the time trial. Saxon Hodges and Lachlan Scott also preformed well with consistent results over the 2 days and finishing 5^th and 6^th on the GC. Greg Westerman competed in the U/13’s against a very competitive field of riders finishing with a good 13^th on GC.

Emma Apolony was a stand out rider in the under 13 girls finishing 3^rd in both road races 4^th in the Criterium and 3^rd in the Time trial with a 3^rd in the overall GC, Lucy Regan also riding consistently in the under 15’s.  In the men’s under 15’s Matthew Garlan continued his good form with an 8^th place in the overall GC finishing with the lead bunch in each stage. Jeremy Scott also competed well in this age group with a 13^th place in the GC.

In the under 17 men Josh Apolony and Isaac Gilmore competed against a huge line up of 80 riders from across Australia and New Zealand. Josh had a great ride in the Criterium finishing 15^th and a 23^rd position finish on the Sunday in the road race; this gave Josh 25^th in the GC for the tour, 3^rd NSW rider. This is a great result for a first year under 17 rider.  Isaac put in a consistent effort over the two days with his best result in the Criterium. Congratulations to all the riders and well done.

Paul Fellows has arrived in South Africa and we look forward to hearing results from the Junior World Track Championships next week. Results can be found at www.juniorworlds.co.za

Don’t forget to get along to the Rotary Produce Markets at the Civic centre this weekend and support the egg and bacon stall.

The club would also like to express their deepest sympathy to the Marshall family at the loss of Michael’s mother last week.  Mick has accepted a transfer to Bathurst and we all wish him the best, Sonia, Jess and Zach to follow later in the year. A huge loss to Wagga but a massive win to Bathurst.

Posted: 19 Jun 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article

The club enjoyed a great weekend with riders and helpers moving in all directions. Saturday morning had the volunteers at the Rotary produce markets preparing bacon and egg rolls, this is a major fundraiser for the club and is well supported by the community as well as being a lot of fun.

Saturday afternoon the club headed out to Big Springs road for a 30 km handicapped road race. Scratch didn’t manage to quite round up the rest of the bunch with Isaac Gilmore taking the honours on the line from Tom Regan and Matt Garlan. Mick Marshall took out fastest time in 50.53mins.

Sunday saw the running of the Coolamon Classic with a large group of Wagga cyclist taking part. This was the final race of the Tour de Riverina and saw Rohan Taylor from Kidsons taking out the overall winner of the tour. For all the results go to the website www.waggacycling.com.au and follow the link.

The juniors and their parents will be on the road again this weekend heading to Sydney for the NSW country championships, we wish them all good luck.

The Canberra Kowalski junior and women’s tour closes this Sunday and the NSW State road championships to be held here in wagga closes on the 27^th so get your entries in. 

Posted: 27 May 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article

With the running of the fourth stage of the Tour de Riverina and the Goulburn junior tour on last weekend the club was a little short on numbers for its club race. In the 3km handicap Aedon O’Shea and Aedon Pretious fought it out for 1^st and 2^nd. In the 10km race the back markers put up a good chase but couldn’t quite catch the lead bunch. Alex Inch took out first, Jonathon Carroll 2^nd and Jess Marshall in third. The seniors that were there rode out and did a 15 km race.

The news from the Goulburn tour was a beautiful weekend for cycling and some good results across all grades. In the U/11’s Cameron Scott road well over the four events to finish 2^nd overall on the General classification (GC) with Saxon Hodges and Lacklan Scott finishing 4^th and 5^th GC respectively. In the U/13 Boys Morgan Street Cycles Max Housden continued his dominance finishing 1^st in 3 stages and 1^st in the GC another fantastic effort with Greg Westerman finishing with the bunch and putting in a consistent effort . Emma Apolony finished 3^rd overall in the U/13 girls with a great effort on the first day of competition picking up 2^nd in the criterium. In the U/15s Matt Garlan from the Orthodontics Wagga Southern sports academy squad,  finished 4^th in the GC with a great effort for 3^rd in the time trial his team mate  Jeremy Scott finishing out of the placings but putting in a good effort as did Baden Housden in B grade. The U/17 were represented by Josh Apolony finishing 3^rd in the GC for B grade with a great effort for 2^nd in the criterium and Brodie Pearse in A grade finishing 10^th in GC.

Brodie currently is leading the U/19 category for the Tour de Riverina with Lionel Harmer in front of the 45+ category. The final stage will be held on the 15^th June at Coolamon.

Posted: 19 May 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article

Saturdays club race was held under grey skies and drizzling rain this weekend. The 30km handicapped bunch went off towards big springs road 14 minutes before scratch left in the other direction for the start of the 45km.Max Housden and Charlie Westerman lead the race home taking 1st and 2^nd overall with Andrew Apolony not far behind in 3^rd. The first of the 45km bunch home was Matt Garlan 4^th and Steve Taylor 5^th the rest of the riders including scratch coming in together.

The Goulburn 2 day junior tour will be held this weekend and after a very successful Wagga tour 9 of our talented riders will head north to compete. The Goulburn club will hold 4 stages over the weekend, a road race and Criterium on the Saturday and a time trial and road race out of Gunning on the Sunday. Good luck to all those making the trip.

Entries for the McDonalds Classic being held in Wagga on the June long weekend will close online this Sunday. The McDonalds classic will include a 116 km handicapped road race on the Saturday and Criterium through the CBD Sunday morning. Enter both days and go into the draw to win a Cervelo Carbon Soloist bike donated by Kidsons Cycles.

Posted: 7 May 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article

The Orthodontics Wagga Gwen French Memorial 2 Day Tour was a great success for the Wagga Cycling Club on the weekend. Held in cold but perfect road riding conditions 130 riders from Under 9’s to U 19 took to the testing Wantabagery course. The good conditions made for some spectacular bunch finishes on the line, the skill and competitiveness from all grades way beyond their riding years. To win the overall tour riders must compete in every stage, a prologue time trial and 3 road races each on different courses and varying lengths

Wagga cyclist Zac Marshall won the overall tour in the Under 9 with a win in all four stages of the tour. In the under 11’s Cameron Scott took out the overall honours and the under 13 age group was Max Housden, all these riders coming off the back of a very successful track season and will be the cyclist to watch in the future. Others to ride well in these age groups were Bede Funnell and Greg Westerman with a never give in attitude.

In the under 15 men Matthew Garlan and Jeremy Scott finished 3^rd and 4^th  overall  in a very good field of riders with a couple of very close sprints to line from both of these very talented Orthodontics Southern Sports Academy riders. First year 15 women’s rider Lucy Regan put in a solid effort against a very good field completing the tour and finishing 7^th overall.

The hotly contested under 17’s was broken up into A and B grade with Brodie Pearse and 1^st year rider Josh Apolony riding the A grade for Wagga. Brodie put in a consistent effort over the two days to finish 9^th overall with Josh having a great second day of the tour coming home in the lead bunches and finishing a very respectable 17^th overall and the one to keep an eye on next year.  Isaac Gilmore was the standout rider in the B grade with a consistent effort finishing 5^th overall.

A big thank you to the Wantabagery fire brigade for all their help and bbq facilities both days. 

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article

This weekend will see the running of the Orthodontics Wagga, Gwen French Memorial 2 day junior tour. There are to date 130 entries from U/9 to U/19’s coming from VIC ACT and NSW, 36 of those entries in the hotly contested men’s U/17 age group. The tour will include a time trial and road race on the Saturday starting at 10am from the Wantabadgery Store and a road race for each age group on Sunday morning.

Club racing last Saturday was held in beautiful conditions out at the end of Big Springs road. Saxby Harrison won the 5 km race and Emma Apolony taking out the 10km race closely followed by Greg Westerman off scratch. The seniors race was again handicapped into a 30 km and 45 km race. Max Housden rode a good race in the 30 km handicap group to finish the race in first with his brother Baden close behind. The first of the 45 km group was Brodie Pearse with the fastest time of the day 1.06.34 finishing in 4^th overall with Josh Apolony in 5^th. There will not be a club race this week due to the junior tour.

There are still tables available for the trivia and auction night being held at the RSL club on the 9^th May. The fundraiser will help Paul Fellows attend the Junior Worlds in South Africa in July. Autographed football and cycling jerseys are up for grabs as well as other great prizes. Contact Sonya Marshall to book a table.

Entries close this weekend for the Cootamundra Haycarters on the 10 May so get your entry in via the NSW website as no late entries will be taken after sunday.

Posted: 25 Apr 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 23 Apr 2008

Beautiful sunshine greeted riders at the club road race on Saturday. The 30 km group headed off torward Big Springs road with the other riders doing a 45 km race starting in the other direction and then chasing the other bunch to the finish. This week the scratchies didn’t manage to quite close the gap with the 30km bunch taking the finish line, Andy Falconer first from Charlie Westerman.  The first of the 45 km bunch came past the finish not far behind with Josh Apolony winning the sprint from Isaac Gilmore. The fastest time went to Brodie Pearse.

There are still plenty of tables available for the Trivia and Auction night being held at the RSL club on the 9^th May. Auction items include autographed football and cycling jerseys along with some great prizes. Contact Sonya Marshall to book a table of 10.

Posted: 14 Apr 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 16 Apr 2008

The first week of Wagga Cycle club road races kicked off on Saturday out at the Shearing Shed on Bigs Springs road. A good number of juniors headed off for their 10 km handicap race with Greg Westerman home first across the line, second place was taken by Lachlan Scott and Louis Funnell in third. The seniors had a smaller group with riders saving themselves for the third leg of the Tour de Riverina on the Sunday.  Those that turned up  broke into 4 bunches  all of them coming together on the way home. Young legs proved too strong in the sprint with Josh Apolony taking the win from Tom Regan and Mick Marshall off scratch.

Brodie Pearse represented the club in the NSW Hillclimb in Bathurst on the weekend. The climb takes the riders up Mount Panorama a climb of  175 m over 4.9 km. Brodie finished a very good 6^th in 10.20 minutes and 9^th in the U/17 category of the 70km Blayney to Bathurst.

Racing continues on Saturday with registration at 1pm for a 1.30 start from the Shearing Shed at the end of Big Springs Road.

Posted: 8 Apr 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 9 Apr 2008

Wagga cyclist headed to Breadalbane for the Southern Division road championships on Sunday. The juniors showed their dominance again coming home with 10 medals between them. Zac Marshall and Bede Funnell took gold and silver in the U/9 division; Lachlan Scott and Saxon Hodges a gold and silver in the U/11 boys; Dot Funnell a bronze in the U/11 girls; Jessica Marshall a bronze in the U/13 girls; Max Housden and Greg Westerman a gold and bronze in the U/13 boys and Matt Garlan and Jeremy Scott a silver and bronze in the U/15s. A large number of seniors competed for medals in the masters division with Greg Scott in Masters D coming home with silver.

Presentations were held on Friday night. Medals were awarded for club championships races in each grade with two new records being set in the flying lap, Jamie Green in the U/17s and Paul Fellows in the seniors. The winner of the senior point score for the season was Isaac Gilmore with his father Trevor taking out clubman of the year. Matthew Garlan won the junior point score with Mick Marshall taking out the most aggressive rider. The coach’s award went to Kruse Harrison with Emma Apolony the most improved rider over the season.

A trivia night and auction is being organised for the 9^th May at the RSL club to raise funds for Paul Fellow’s to attend the junior world championships in South Africa. If you would like to book a table of 10 or be included on a table please contact Sonia Marshall.

Road racing for juniors and seniors will begin this Saturday from the shearing shed at the end of Big Springs road. Juniors need to register by 1.15pm for a 1.30 start and seniors will race straight after they finish.

Posted: 2 Apr 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 26 Mar 2008

Thank you to all the people who helped over the weekend to stage the Butch Menz Memorial road race at Collungullie. The Butch Menz memorial handicap always provides some excitement and the 2008 was no exception. The usual excitement of a bunch finish had the addition of a strong crosswind, which saw a clash of wheels in the bunch resulting in Phil Twigg losing most of the spokes in his back wheel and another rider lost a couple of spokes in a front wheel, thankfully no one crashed. The eventual winner was Brodie Pearse(Wagga) from Rohan Taylor(Kidsons) and Richard McCelland(Albury). Christian MacDonald(Cobram) led the tired Scratch bunch home for fastest time.

Jamie Green and Lucy Regan have returned from the National Track Carnival, both the riders represented the club well with personal best times in all their events. Lucy best result was in the 500TT taking 3 second off state time to finish 10^th in 41.518 s and Jamie took 2 seconds off his time finishing 6^th in a great time of 35.719 s.

Presentation night is this Friday at the Commercial club at 7pm with dinner available from 6pm, just ring and book a table. Southern Division Championships will be held on Sunday so if you haven’t entered yet get you name to Sonya Marshall as soon as possible.

Posted: 25 Mar 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 26 Mar 2008

The last night of track racing was held last Wednesday and with the anticipation of the junior state carnival approaching the kids gave us some fantastic racing. The pocket rockets had a full line up at the start line, all wanting to grab some last points before presentation night. Noah Bruce took out the first race of the night with the most beautiful smile crossing the line; he was closely followed by Zach Burton and newcomer Aedan O’Shea in third. Aedan proved too strong in the next two races with Noah, Isabelle Inch and Jackson Wykes taking out the minor places. The U/11B’s 1 lap and 2 lap h/caps were both won by the hugely improved Darcy Irvine with Saxby Harrison taking out second and third shared between Bailey Ellis and Bede Funnell.  In the U/11 A’s Virginia Carroll stayed infront of the chasing riders to take the 1 lap h/cap from Emily Bruce and Lachlan Scott. The U/11’s then made two teams and ran an Italian Pursuit to finish the night.

The U/13’s and U/15’s warmed up with some very hotly contested sprint derby's with Alex Inch, William Carroll, Cameron Scott and Baden Housden riding well. Tom Hindmarsh picked up wins in the 2 and 3 lap U/13 h/caps riding strongly to stay in front of the fast chasing bunch with William Carrol and Emma Apolony taking the minor places in the 2 lapper and Cameron Scott and Greg Westerman the 3 lapper. The scratch race was won by Greg Westerman closely followed by Cameron Scott and Louis Funnell who rode very well for third, Tom Hindmarsh and William Carroll  receiving McDonald’s awards for their  overall performance. In the U/15’s Max Pearse had a good night winning both the 2 and 3 lap h/caps with Jeremy Scott taking second in both and Lucy Regan and Baden Housden sharing third. In the scratch race Robert Smith was sent out in front of a fast chasing bunch and held on for a great win with Jeremy Scott and Max Pearse fighting it out for the minor places, McDonalds awards going to Robert Smith and Max Pearse.

The seniors broke into four teams for the night with a sprint derby for each team to warm the legs up, the best of each bunch being Ellen Marks, Greg Scott, David Mann and Paul Fellows. An Italian pursuit was the next event followed by a 5 lap h/cap teams race and a team scratch race with some close and exciting finishes each team managing to pick up a win in one or the other of the races.

Jamie and Lucy will be in Sydney this weekend for the National Championships and other Wagga riders will be racing the Butch Menz Memorial at Collingullie, good luck and safe riding to all. Congratulations to all our fantastically talented juniors that have returned from the NSW State Championships with a huge swag of Gold, Silver and Bronze we are all very proud of you. Last  but not least thank you to all the mums and dads that have help in any way during the track season this year and we hope we see you through the winter for road racing.

Presentation night will be Friday 4^th April, 7pm at the Commercial Club, bring the family along for tea beforehand and give mum a night off

Posted: 17 Mar 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 19 Mar 2008

State Medals to Masters Cyclists

Steve Marks and Mick Marshall have returned from the NSW State Masters Championships this weekend with three medals between them.

Mick Marshall, riding in the Masters 3 category, put himself into a break away in the Point score race and finished with a silver medal for his efforts. In the 3000m pursuits he won a bronze medal with a great time of 3.44.43, just outside the gold medal ride off time.

Steve Marks, riding in Masters 4, won a Silver medal in the Scratch race riding away from the bunch with 5 laps to go, just getting caught at the finish. Congratulations to both of them.

The Junior U/9’s to U/13’s will be heading to Dubbo for the NSW State championships this Easter weekend, we are anticipating a swag of medals from these very talented kids who have been riding 4 days a week for the couple of months in preparation for this carnival. They of course will be hoping the Easter bunny finds them.

This will be the last week of track racing with presentation night being held on the 4^th of April, please keep this date free on your calendar, for more information go to the website news www.waggacycling.com.au . Don’t forget to enter for the Butch Menz Memorial on the 29^th March at Collingullie; this will be stage 2 of the ‘Tour de Riverina’.

Posted: 03 Mar 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 5 Mar 2008

Great results from the U/15 and U/17 State Championships in Sydney on the Weekend
 Lucy Regan has returned from the state championships with four individual medals and one team medal whilst Jamie Green has won an individual silver and team silver at this weekends State Championships.
 Lucy, racing in the U/15 women’s division, won gold in the Sprints, silver in the 500m time trial, silver in the scratch and bronze in the 2000m pursuit. Lucy along with team mates Matthew Garlan and Jeremy Scott also came home with a silver in the U/15 team sprint.
 Jamie Green won his silver in the U/17 men’s Sprints. Jamie, along with Josh Apolony and Tom Regan also won silver in the U/17 team sprint.
 Matthew Garlan also competed well  in the U15 men’s, beaten in a ride off for bronze in the 2000m pursuit,  and finishing 5th in the scratch race.

Max Pearse, Brodie Pearse and Isaac Gilmore also competed well against a top field of riders.

Last Wednesdays club night

Welcome to two new families, the Pretious family with son
Aiden in the Pocket rockets and the Inch family has added two new members with Isabelle and Jackie joining their sister Alex.

Last Wednesday night’s results from the pocket rockets had newcomer Aiden winning the 1 lap h/cap from Henry Davis and Isabelle Inch. In the next race Isabelle got the better of Aiden with Jackson Wykes coming home for third. In the 2 lapper Jackson took the honors from Noah Bruce and Isabelle, a great start from both the new riders. In the U/11B grade 1 lap h/cap Bailey Ellis road well to finish infront of newcomer Jackie Inch  and Lachlan Hovious. In the 2 lapper Bailey once again finished first infront of Saxby Harrison and Joe Wallace. The scratch race went to Joe with Connor Higgins and Bailey Ellis taking the minor positions. The U/11A’s Emily Bruce flew home to win from Kruse Harrison and Lachlan Scott in the l lap h/cap, with Kruse taking out the 2 lapper from Virginia Carroll and Emily. The scratch race was a hard fought race between the boys with Saxon Hodges winning from Lachlan Scott and Zac Marshall. In the U/13’s Cameron Scott road well to take the 2 lap and 3 lap h/cap William carroll, Louis Funnell, and Alex Inch taking the minor positions. The scratch race was won by Greg Westerman from Cameron Scott and Edwina Funnell.

The seniors tried something a little different last week breaking up into groups of three for team sprints, the winners of each round advancing and the losers riding in a 2 lap and 5 lap h/cap. The eventual winners of the team sprints being Baden Housden, Alex Ross and Glen Ross, off 110m h/cap, from Dirk Roshier, Bill Robertson and Brodie Pearse off scratch.The winner of the 2 lap h/cap was Rob Housden from Liz Regan and Mick Marshall and the 5 lapper was won by Josh Apolony from Steve Marks and Tom Regan.

Posted: 25 Feb 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 27 Feb 2008

The last round of the club championships were held last Wednesday, the juniors contested the sprint derbys and the seniors had a perfect still night for their flying lap.  A new club record was set and the results of all the championship races will be posted closer to presentation night.

All grades finished with a scratch race Sebastian Quirk taking out the pocket rockets, Bailey Ellis winning U11B, Lachlan Scott U11A, William Carroll the U/13’s and Matt Garlan the U/15’s. The seniors B grade was won by Rob Housden and Bill Robertson the A grade.

The U/15 and U/17 will be heading to Sydney this weekend to compete at the State championships, races will include the pursuits, sprints, time trials, scratch race and team sprints. The club will have nine of our members representing the club in these events and we wish them all the best of luck.

The Wagga cycle clubs Butch Menz Memorial to be held on Saturday 29^th March at Collingullie is approaching fast, this is stage 2 of the Tour de Riverina, stage 1 is at Stockinbingal on the 16^th March. Also entries are being taken for the Southern Division road championships at Breadalbane on Sunday 6^th April.

The last night of track racing will be the 19^th of March with details of presentation night to be announced soon.

Posted: 18 Feb 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 21 Feb 2008

Congratulations to the club and thank you to all its members for a very safe and successful Junior and Masters carnival over weekend. Over 160 riders from all over the NSW, VIC, ACT and families from as far away as Devonport TAS and Central Districts SA enjoyed the two days of racing, most competitors taking home some of the $4000 in prize money.

Last Wednesday was a perfect night for cycling and with scratch race club championships being held everyone was keen to get the night under way. Unfortunately a touch of wheels in the junior warm up had two riders come down with under 9’s Zac Marshall hitting his head. A precautionary trip in the ambulance to make sure all was ok and Zac returned to the track with a impressive egg on his forehead and a few days off the bike.

Once the track was cleared the pocket rocket took to the track for a 1 lap h/cap Yannick Wigeilaka rode strongly to win from a fast finishing Jackson Wykes and Sebastian Quirk. In the 2 lap Jackson got the better of Yannick  with Zach Burton coming in third. In the U/11B’s Bede Funnell, nursing a sore hip and skin off his elbow from the fall earlier in the evening, raced like a seasoned professional to take out the 1 lap from Brandon Ellis, riding a fixed wheel for the first time and Connor Higgins. In the 2 lapper Alex Inch  took the win from Jessica Tracey from Albury and Darcy Irvine. In the U11A’s the coach got the h/caps just about perfect with a very close finish on the line, Kruse Harrison managing to hold on for first in front of Emily Bruce and Virginia Carroll. In the 3 lapper Dot Funnell rode a good race to win from Kruse Harrison and Cameron Scott off scratch. Between these races all of the juniors were put into age scratch races and rode for club championship medal the results will be posted closer to presentations night.

All the remaining grades warmed up with a heart starter and then contested their club championship scratch races with some very exciting finishes in all grades. To finish the night off the U/13’s and 15’s  rode an all in 4 lap graded scratch race with the back markers getting up, Jeremy Smith taking first from Matt Garlan and Max Pearse. The senior 5 lap all in was taken out by limit with Greg Scott  taking the win from Glen Ross and Steve Taylor.

Club championships will continue this week if the weather is favourable.

Posted: 11 Feb 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 13 Feb 2008

Paul Fellows has taken three gold medals at the U/19 Australian Track Championships at Dunc Grey Velodrome in Sydney. Paul recieved two individual medals, one in the Sprints and the other in the Keiren. He also won gold in the team sprint setting a new Australian championship record.
 
Paul qualified third fastest last Tuesday in his flying 200m with a time of 10.945 seconds/65.78 kmph and progressed unbeaten to the gold medal. Paul beat Victorian rider Ben Sanders in the semi finals taking him through to the final against his NSW team mate Scott Law beating him 2-0. 
The team sprint was raced on Friday, Paul with his team mates Scott Law and Peter Lewis broke the Australian championship record with a time of 46.95 seconds in the qualifying round and then went on to beat the Victorians for the Gold.
Paul won the Keiren Sunday capping off an incredible week of racing, he will now be eligible for selection to the Junior World Championships to be held at Cape Town South Africa in July.

With the news of Paul’s gold medal ride coming through last Wednesday night at racing our juniors were inspired to post some very good times in there club championship time trials.

This weekend the Wagga Junior and Masters carnival will be held starting at 5 pm on Saturday and 9 am on Sunday.  The carnival has attracted over 160 riders from all over the state and interstate and will include the Rules club Wheelrace and a Madison for the U/17’s and Masters.

Tonight the juniors and seniors will continue their club championships and the garage sale/swap night will also be held tonight so if you have anything filling up your shed or cupboards you no longer  want bring it to the track tonight , don’t forget to label all your items

Posted: 4 Feb 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 6 Feb 2008

Club championships will start tonight at the track for all members, if the weather is favourable time trials will be held with the Sprint Derbys and Scratch races to be held in the next few weeks. Any club members holding track perpetual trophies are asked to bring them back into Bob Robertson as soon as possible. The club will also be holding a garage sale/swap night tonight, so anyone that has anything they would like to get rid of out of the shed bring it along.

Last week the weather held off for racing with luckily just a few spots falling on the track. The pocket rockets started the night with Jackson Wykes taking out the 1 lapper from Noah Bruce and Brandon Ellis. Brandon took home the McDonalds award in the next race with Noah’s big smile in second and Jackson third. In the 2 lapper Jackson once again held on tor first from Brandon and Noah with Zac Burton riding well for fourth. In the U/11B grade Darcy Irvine took out the 1 lap h/cap from Jessica Tracey and Connor Higgins. Bede Funnell picked up the MacDonalds award in the 2 lap h/cap from Connor Higgins and Joe Wallace with Connor riding a great scratch race to take first from Jessica and Joe. The U/11A’s 1 lapper went to Zachary Marshall from Dot Funnell and Lachlan Scott with Lachlan getting the better of them in the 2 lapper to take the MacDonalds award from Saxon Hodges riding off scratch and Zachary Marshall. The scratch race went to Emily Bruce and Dot Funnell from a fast finishing Zac Marshall. In the U/13’s Lachlan, Saxon and Zac all rode up a grade riding well in the h/cap races with Lachlan taking first in both with Emma Apolony , Saxon and Jessica Marshall taking out the minor places. In the scratch race Cameron Scott rode a good race to take first from Greg Westerman and Emma Apolony. The U/15’s 2 lap h/cap was won by Max Pearse from Matt Garlan off scratch and Jeremy Scott. Matt also took out the 4 lapper and the scratch race from a close finishing Max and Jeremy.

After a 4 lap  heart starter for each grade the seniors got straight into a 2 lap all in h/cap, Lyn Hart won off limit from Greg Hodges and Jamie Green, in the 5 lap h/cap the back markers got up with Paul Fellows winning from Bill Robertson and Tom Regan. With A and B grade sorting themselves into teams for a Madison the C grade lined up for a 15 lap scratch race with the U15’s riding up. Jeremy Scott had the legs in the end to finish infront of Max Pearse and Lindsay Jordan. The Madison was ridden over 30 laps with Bill Robertson and Nigel Irvine taking the win with 22 points, second was Tom Regan and Jamie Green with 19 points and Dirk Roshier and Ellen Marks in third with 14 with an excellent commentary provided by Paul Fellows keeping the crowd entertained.

Paul has finished his state competition with a Bronze in the Keiren and a Gold Medal in the Sprint and has been selected in the NSW sprint team to compete at the National Championships in Sydney this week, we wish him the best of luck.

Posted: 18 Jan 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 23 Jan 2008

Last weeks junior numbers were down due to the holidays but this gave the ones there a chance to test themselves against other riders. The pocket rockets were in fine form as always and started the night into quite a strong breeze. Noah Bruce managed to stay away in the first race with Zac Burton close on his heels, Zac getting the better of the field in the second with a great effort from Jackson Wykes to finish a close third behind Brandon Ellis. In the 2 lapper Zac and Noah stayed out in front with a fast finishing Brandon Ellis off scratch in third. The U/11’s 1 lapper was won by Connor Higgins and the 2 lapper went to Lachlan Scott. The Scratch was a close race, Bailey Ellis just finishing in front of Lachlan and Connor with Darcy Irvine and Charlie Hamilton making a good race for 4^th and 5^th place, the winners of each of the races taking home a McDonalds award. The U/13’s and U/15’s combined this week, back marker Max Pearse proving too strong in the 2 and 4 lap h/caps holding out Stephanie Tracey from Albury in the 2 lapper and Emma Apolony in the 4 lapper with Greg Westerman filling third poition. The scratch race was a group h/cap start with Emma Apolony taking the win from Stephanie Tracey and Cameron Scott in third.

The senior programme started with the Wagga U/17 pursuit team consisting of  Orthodontics Wagga Academy riders Jamie Green, Tom Regan, Josh Apolony and Isaac Gilmore having  a practice run  for their State championships this weekend in Sydney, their start and changes looking very smooth, we wish them the best of luck.. The rest of the field broke into two teams for an Italian Pursuit to warm up the legs. The 2 lap all in H/cap was won by the front marker Alex Ross just holding out a fast finishing Isaac Gilmore and Ellen Marks in third while the 5 lap all in was won by Bill Robertson from Brodie Pearse and Tom Regan. The final race of the night was a 30 lap Madison, ten teams faced the starter with Paul Fellows and Jamie Green winning the overall points on 28, Brodie Pearse and Paul Burton in second with 14 and Jason Condon and Bill Robertson in third on 10 points.

Posted: 14 Jan 2008

Wagga Wagga Cycling Club Leader Article 16 Jan 2008

The first night of racing for 2008 was held in very hot conditions and some very good racing was seen. The pocket rockets kicked off the night Noah Bruce winning the first race Brandon Ellis winning the 1 lap McDonalds award and Sebastian Quirk a close second to Noah in the 2 lapper. In the U/11B grade Bede Funnell took out the 1 lapper, Lachlan Hovious the McDonalds 2 lap and Connor Higgins the scratch race from Joe Wallace and Charlie Hamilton. The U/11A’s 1 lap was won by Zac Marshall, the McDonalds 2 lapper Lachlan Scott and the scratch race was won by Edwina Funnell, all three winners riding up in the U/13’s as well. Emma Apolony won the 2 lap h/cap, Greg Westerman the 3 lapper and the 5 lap scratch race was taken out by Cameron Scott from Greg Westerman and Zac Marshall in third. Max Pearse won both the 2 and 4 lap h/caps in the U/15’s with Matthew Garlan winning the 6 lap scratch from Jeremy Scott and Baden Housden.

The seniors started the night with 3 lap sprint derbys to get the legs started, A grades heats were full of tactics and some close encounters with the fence, the sprinters of the club Paul Fellows and Jamie Green taking it to Mick Marshall in an exciting final. Next was an all in 2 lap h/cap, Matt Lees taking the win from Lyn Hart and Josh Apolony with the 5 lap h/cap won by a fast finishing Bill Robertson from Nigel Irvine and Daniel McIntyre in third. The final race of the night was a 20 lap graded scratch race with C Grades Matt Lees Nick Smith and Lindsay Jordan working well together to take first, second and third.

Wagga riders headed to Goulburn for the Track power carnival last Saturday and NSW Southern Division Championships on the Sunday with fantastic results. Unfortunately the rain halted events for the second part of the Saturday carnival but Wagga riders excelled on the Sunday picking up 14 Gold, 12 Silver and 11 Bronze medals winning the Joan Knight Shield Points Tally on 74 points, followed by Illawarra on 23, Southern Highlands on 21, and Goulburn on 14. Well done to all the riders that made the trip.