Ballinrobe 2 day 2011 Results

David O Loughlin powers to victory

Cunga CC rider wins his first race of the season in fine style, he made his
move on the 2nd Cat climb of Ail Duil with 20 miles to go where he bridged
across to Colm Cassidy of UCD and the two rode together until Cassidy
punctured with 10k to go. At that stage Dave O Loughlin had 1min 20seconds
on a group of 11 riders but by the finish line that lead had crumbled to
just 24seconds with some hard driving by the Murphy surveyors team of Peelo
and Lynch.
In the Sprint for second place Cassidy UCD was just piped by David Peelo of
Murphy Surveyors by a hair's breath to finish 3rd.
The Ladies Development squad rode a great race with Cait Elliott and Sandra
Fitzgerald both sharing the Inch's pub sponsored Combativitive award where
they drove their group for much of the stage.
The Cong man now starts as favorite for tomorrow 8k TT and should increase
his lead but the second 85k stage could prove difficult without a team where
he first has to bring back a H/cap on the ladies and A3 groups.

Results Stage 1 of Marrey bikes Ballinrobe 2 day
1st David O Loughlin Cunga CC
2nd David Peelo Murphy Surveyors @24"
3rd Colm Cassidy UCD s/t
4th David Brennan Castlebar CC @25"
5th Peter Rimmer Mullingar Lakeside CC @ 27"
6th Anthony Walsh UCD.@29"

UCD Colm Cassidy Holds on to win Ballinrobe 2 day
Colm Cassidy riding for UCD holds on to win the Marrey Bikes Ballinrobe 2
day, for the past 7 years the yellow jersey wearer from Satge 2 a has
never held on to win the 2 day event.
A well drilled UCD team ended up winning, Cassidy the race overall and UCD
the Team prize.
David O Loughlin had a below par TT finishing 33 seconds behind Stage 2a
winner Cassidy leaving him second overall at 6 seconds.
The UCD Squad had to race smart and this they did, until the last lap where
they pilled on the pressure with 1 lap to go.
With 20 k to go the gap from front to back was 4 minutes it looked all over
for the scratch group of Cassidy and O loughlin but miraclasous by the end
the scratch group had took 3 minutes and 32 seconds of the strong A3 group
to hold on to the leader yellow jersey.
In the sprint for the line it was Western Lakes CC man Gerard Hack who lives
in Frankfurt Germany who out sprinted everyone to win by 2 bike lengths from
Frank Barrett Galway Bay and Liverpool's Duff Fawcett third.
Ross Collins UCD who was most activate in the early laps for the A3 group
took the Polkadot jersey after winning the two cat 3 climbs at Mile hill.
David O Loughlin Cunga CC held on to win the Kieran Mc Mahon green points
jersey
Colm Cassidy UCD won the Overall.

Stage 1
Results Stage 1 of Marrey bikes Ballinrobe 2 day
1st David O Loughlin Cunga CC
2nd David Peelo Murphy Surveyors @24"
3rd Colm Cassidy UCD s/t
4th David Brennan Castlebar CC @25"
5th Peter Rimmer Mullingar Lakeside CC @ 27"
6th Anthony Walsh UCD @29

Stage 2a TT
1st Colm Cassidy UCD
2nd David Walsh Slaney CC
3rd John Lynch Murphy Surveyors
4th Ian Richardson UCD
5th Anthony Walsh UCD

Unplaced TT
A2 Eoghan Considine Black Rose racing
A3 Dave Fagan Mullingar
Junior James Mahoney Connacht Dev
Lady Sandra Fitzgerald Irish Dev

Stage 2 b
1st Gerard Hack Western Lakes CC
2nd Frank Barret Galway Bay CC
3rd Duff Fawcett Liverpool Centaury
4th Steve Davies Liverpool Century
5th Joe Marrey Western Lakes CC
6th Brian Hart Limerick CC

Overall
1st Colm Cassidy UCD 4HRS 26'20"
2nd David O Loughlin Cunga CC @06"
3rd Anthony Walsh UCD @19"
4th David Brennan Castlebar CC @24"
5th David Walsh Slaney CC @42"
6th Peter Rimmer Mullingar @45"
7th John Lynch Murphy Surveyors @49"
8th Ross Collins UCD @1'05"

Unplaced Overall
A2 Eoghan Considine Black Rose racing
A3 Ian Richardson UCD
Junior James Mahoney Connacht Dev
Lady Sandra Fitzgerald Irish Dev

Mountains Jersey
Ross Collins UCD

Sprints Jersey
David O Loughlin

Team
UCD