Henry Coote (Aggressive Edge Racing) gained his first elite males’s UCI cyclocross race Sunday whereas Maghalie Rochette (Canyon) went two-for-two within the elite girls’s races at Actually Rad Pageant of Cyclocross.
Coote, who completed fourth general in his first elite males’s UCI cyclocross race a month in the past at Rochester Cyclocross in September, held off Curtis White (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) by 11 seconds for the victory. A trio of Aggressive Edge Racing teammates – Eric Brunner, Dylan Zakrajsek and Cody Scott – trailed greater than a minute again with Brunner taking third.
Brunner, the winner of the Actually Rad C2 race in 2021 and 2022, took the early lead on Sunday, joined by Saturday’s winner Andrew Strohmeyer (CXD Trek Bikes). By the mid-point of the race, White and Coote rushed to the entrance and had been making inroads for separation from the remainder of the bunch. Then Strohmeyer crashed on the sixth of 9 laps and couldn’t proceed, leaving Brunner to chase alone and his teammates to take up one other chase.
Final season racing within the junior division, Coote took second at GP Sven Nys in Belgium within the X2O Trofee sequence and was second at Pan-American Championships. On Saturday on the Cape Cod Fairgrounds, Coote was capable of edge White for third place within the C1 race, then on Sunday he pulled away once more from the previous US cyclocross champion, this time for the win.
On the second day of racing for the elite girls on the long-standing Massachusets fixture of cyclocross, Rochette battled it out once more with Katie Clouse (Steve Tilford Basis Racing). Lizzy Gunsalus (CCB p/b Levine Regulation Group) got here out on prime within the battle for third with two-time Actually Rad winner Caroline Mani (Groove Off Street).
Clouse, second to Rochette in Saturday’s C1 contest, took the opening shot and continued to set the tempo with Rochette, Gunsalus and Lauren Zoerner (Aggressive Edge Racing) on the primary lap. Mani dangled off the again of the wheels of Clouse and Rochette on the second lap, whereas Gunsalus fell off by a handful of seconds. Making up some floor behind had been Zoerner, Raylyn Nuss (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) and Cassidy Hickey (CCB p/b Levine Regulation Group).
Rochette made separation from Clouse as soon as the duo kicked up the mud on the fifth of seven laps, and the Canadian rider maintained her tempo of the 23-year-old US rider to seal the back-to-back victories. In the meantime, Mani and Gunsalus battled for the ultimate spot within the podium, the 21-year-old attacking on the ultimate lap to carry off the veteran by 9 seconds.
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