For the week of August 21 - 27, 2002

A wheel good time

Wood River Cup Mountain Bike 
series wraps up

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The 2002 Wood River Cup Mountain Bike series wrapped up its inaugural season with its seventh and final race of the season last Wednesday.

Held near Rotarun in Croy Creek, west of Hailey, the races, run in laps over a one-mile course, featured thrills, chills and hills galore.

Max Durtschi wheels over a rise.

Overall champions for the series were Mal Prior, Teagan Palmer, Jessie White, Jeremy Lato, Robert Slough, Georgia Gould, Sean Stephens, Moses Mexia and Randy Berner.

Jessie White was the only rider to compete in all seven races.

Last Wednesday’s race winners were Mal Prior, Teagan Palmer, Sam Farnham, Andrew Juliano, Robert Slough, Sean McLaughlin, Sean Stephens and Moses Mexia.

The races were held in conjunction with the Sun Valley Road and Dirt Camp, a camp for kids ages 8 and up to learn the ins and outs of mountain and road biking.

SVRD director Billy Olson remarked, "This has been an incredible experience. The reaction from the parents is the best. They are so fired up about what we are doing."

Mal Prior grinds up a hill during the Wood River Cup mountain bike series.

Camp riders learned everything about biking, from road and trail etiquette to how to put a bike together from the bottom up.

"I love cycling and it was my chance to give something back," Olson said. "I raced in Holland for a year and the difference between European cycling and American is the heritage. In Europe you have a 40-year old, a 20-year old and a 10-year old all racing for the same club. They pass it down from generation to generation. We are trying to emulate that here."

 

Wood River Cup

Overall results

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Trailblazers 10-under

Boys: 1—Mal Prior. 2—Taylor Riviello. 3—Chris Preucil. 4—Gavin Admire. 5—Bergen Palmer. 6—Miles Sweek. 7—Harlan Collins. 8—Everett Ford. 9T—Timo Gould/ Nathan Moses. 11—Calder Zarkos.

Girls: 1—Teagan Palmer.

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Trailblazers 11-12

Boys: 1—Jessie White. 2—Max Durtschi. 3—Sam Farnham. 4—Greg Roos. 5—Austen Moses. 6T—Chris Lee/Jake Berman.

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Junior 13-15

Boys: 1—Jeremy Lato. 2—Corey Bellinger. 3—Matthew Preucil. 4—Thor Dickey. 5—Ryan Jago. 6—Andrew Juliano. 7—Aaron Schultz. 8—Jaron Sheffield.

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Junior 16-18

Boys: 1—Robert Slough. 2—Whit Harbaugh. 3—Luke Rozanski. 4T—Tyson Botello/Jackson Harris/Devin Sheffield/Will Roth. 8—Eric Leyse. 9—Frank Fiaschetti.

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Single Speed

Men: 1—Randy Berner. 2—Sean McLaughlin. 3—Dusty LaBarr.

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Sport Novice

Men: 1—Sean Stephens. 2—Greg Adams. 3—Ryan Lash. 4—Matt Brown. 5T—Brad Toothman/Marvin Burrell/Jimmy Lewis. 8—Jimmy Lewis. 9—Eric Rector. 10—Robert Schwing.

Women: 1—Georgia Gould.

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Pro-Expert

Men: 1—Moses Mexia. 2—Danny Albright. 3—Troy Quesnal. 4—Whit Albright. 5—Marc Driver. 6—Jason Eder. 7—Lee Roquet. 8—Jason Connors. 9—Michael McClure. 10—Erik Ruggeri. 11-Chad Howard. 12—Erik Rolf. 13—Todd Byle. 14—Lars Erik Johnson. 15—Mark Carnes. 16T—Billy Olson/Don Shepler. 18T—Whit Henry/Pat Casey. 20—Ross Sullivan. 21—Dustin Slack.

 

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