Leading the Peleton

Here is a brief overview of the recent race weekend that took place in Philadelphia. Results of the race can be found at www.appstatecycling.com.

"In Philly ASU dominated in the usual fashion. Jerid Gooding led the way in Saturday's Circuit race with a gnarly 19th place finish in a field of 88. In the C's Dan Wendover (the dark horse of the weekend) grabbed a 14th place finish and Mike Koballa began his reign of terror with a 16th place finish out of 71 starters. Sunday morning was the team time trial with the A team taking 7th out of 17th, the B's 11th out of 20, and the C teams taking 5th (Booyah), 11th, and 19th out of 21 teams. Mike Koballa in the C's made a killer move and took a 2nd place finish in a field of 66 starters. Zach Parker sprinted to an (oh so) impressive 10th place B finish out of a massive field of 92. David Forkner, Ross Bowden, Michael Wilson, and J. Gooding played the A field like a fine instrument rocketing Ross to a whama-jamma 5th place finish. Not only educating the northeast to the whereabouts of our fine university the team also took 17th out of 57 teams and by my calculations a 1st place ACCC Division 2 finish."

So it looks like Appalachian is picking up this season where they left off after last season. The John Hopkins/Maryland weekend was a bust with the bad weather this past weekend but the Mountaineers look to pick up again this weekend when they travel to UVA for an uphill time trial. The Apps will then prepare next week for a huge weekend at Wake Forest that features an Individual Time Trial, a circuit race, a criterium, and more! It looks like it will be time for the Mountaineers to show the Demon Deacons who deserves to wear the black and gold and I have a feeling it will be the guys with the big Block A on the back of the jerseys. Give em' Hell Apps!!!

-App State Cycling