Tight cycling finishes at Denton Park

Press, 21 November 1987, Page 17

Tight cycling finishes at Denton Park

The appearance of William Rastrick made for tight racing in the senior A track cycling races of Denton Park on Wednesday evening. With Jon Andrews and Nigel Donnelly also competing finishes were extremely close.

The evening’s feature race, the 8000 m scratch race was keenly contested with Rastrick eventually getting the better of the field. The race started with a field of 22 riders and there were many unsuccessful attempts at breaking by riders. Stuart Lowe made a good break at 5600 m and was joined by Murray Steele a further 200 m round the track.

With only 800 m to go the couple had put 170 m on the field, however an explosive charge by the bunch over the last 600 m resulted in Lowe and Stuart being caught 50m short of the line.

Rastrick led this charge for the last 250 m for a convincing win ahead of Richard Scott and Donnelly. Because of his good riding, Scott maintains his lead in the season’s distance feature scratch race series. Results were:— Senior A grade:—

1000 m scratch: Nigel Donnelly 1, Jon Andrews 2, William Rastricx 3; time Imin 16.55. 3200 m devil take the hindmost: Jon Andrews 1, William Rastrick 2, Jon Wilson 3; time

4min 14.95. 400 m handicap: Tim Carswell (30m) 1, Russell Ownsworth (sm) 2, Darrell Kircher (sm) 3; time 27.85. 8000 m scratch: William Rastrick 1, Richard Scott 2, Nigel Donnelly 3; time lOmin 9.15. Senior B grade:— 2000 m handicap: Greg Kyle (170 m 1, Grant Kiesanowski (80m) 2, Shane Keown (170 m 3; time 2min 32.35. 400 m handicap: Greg Kyle (35m) 1, Grant Kiesanowski (15m) 2, Nathan Mills (15m) 3. 4000 m devil take the hindmost: Hamish Ferguson 1, Nathan Mills, Chris Gosser 3; time 3min 44.25. 2800 m scratch: Chris Gosser 1, Brent Marryatt 2, Lisa Gooding 3; time 3min 59.85. Novice A grade:— 400 m handicap: Dean Wildermoth (25m) 1, Blair Iles (10m) 2, Jason Walker (35m) 3; time 28.85. 2400 m points: Chris Barnsley 1, Todd Skilling 2, Hamish Upston 3; time 3min 14.45. 3000 m scratch: Blair Iles 1, Ryan Spencer 2, Shane Faulkner 3; time 3min 59.55.

Novice B grade:— 1600 m handicap: Tim Pearson (140 m 1, Robert Marra (140 m 2, Wayne Cassidy (70m) 3; time 2min B.ls. 2000 m scratch: Sam Park 1, Brett Grimwood 2, Craig Tretheway 3; time 2min 44.75.

800 m handicap: Brett Grimwood (80m) 1, Craig Denny (80m) 2, Jason Tyack (75m) 3; time 57.75. Novice C grade:—

400 m handicap: Mick Young (45min) 1, Blair Northcliffe (30m) 2, Damon Cater (55m) 3; time 30.35.

1200 m handicap: Christian Wengler (140 m 1, Rodney Pearson (140 m 2, Damon Cater (140 m 3; time Imin 39.15. 1600 m scratch: Mohinder Lumb 1, Scott Brian 2, Luke Stockwell 3; time 2min 23.55. Youth development programme, A grade:— 400 m: Scott Graham 1, Gareth Davison 2, Warren Sparks 3. IOOOni scratch: Warren Sparks 1, Paul Newton 2, Martin Jackson 3; time Imin 31.85.

Youth development, B grade:— 400 m: Russell Hazel 1, Kirk Harcourt 2, Rebecca McCoy 3.

1000 m: Scott Graham 1, Andrew Simpson 2, Andrew Griffin 3.

Youth development, C grade:—

1000 m: Scott Brown 1, Hayden Crocker 2, Rebecca McCoy 3; time Imin 41.65. Boys, 800 m: Martin Jackson 1, Russell Hazel 2, Andrew Simpson 3; time Imin 8.95. Girls, 800 m: Melissa Hill I, Rebecca McCoy 2, Niki Thome 3; time Imin 17.65.