Conor’s third win in Cordal
THE Currow Cycling Club’s round of the Clubs of Kerry Road Race League saw the biggest turn-out of the season. The race was held around the short circuit in Cordal and it led to an exciting night’s racing.
The A4’s put in a massive effort stayed two minutes clear for most of the race. The big move was by initiated by George Doyle saw three riders, Doyle, Denis Lynch and Conor Kissane get clear from the scratch group before they caught the front of the race.
Once they did this they decimated the field in the last five laps of the hour and five laps race. Then it was a tactical shootout with each of the three having a go with Kissane timing his move to perfection 500 metres from the finish to nail his second win on the circuit from the fast finishing Doyle who pulled it back to two bike lengths at the line.
Former international rider and Sliabh Luachra member Lynch came home almost a minute clear of the tight bunch sprint won by Leigh Hewderdine from Killarney CC. Tralee Manor West iBike team mates Jake Deering and Ross Culloty who are also two of Kerry’s young prospects for the future rounded off the point winners on the night.
Moriarty wins again in U-16
WEST Kerry’s Tom Moriarty who rides with O’Leary Stone, Kanturk was again uncatchable in the U-16 race with Eoin Moloney, Tralee Manor West iBike, in second. Two more Kerry riders who are with the Kanturk outfit – Tom O’Connor and Sean Barrett – were 3rd and 4th while Killarney’s Tadgh O’Shea was 5th and Dan Murphy from Sliabh Luachra taking the last League point on offer.
O’Shea gets revenge in U-14
DAVID Shine of O’Leary Stone Kanturk won the U-14 race getting the better of regular winner Patrick Galvin from Killarney CC. His clubmate Stefan Caulfield Drier was third ahead of Sliabh Luachra’s Ben Murphy. Killarney CC’s Ethan Slattery took 5th with Kingdom’s Ciaran Commane coming home in 6th place.
Galvin wins at U-12
KILLARNEY’S Shane Galvin continued his domination of the U-12s winning from Sean Tarrant, O’Leary Stone Kanturk. Killarney’s Louis and Callum Steadman Murphy took the next two places on the night with their club mate Bryan Hanafin in 5th and Shauna Finn from Newcastlewest CC in 6th place.
Time Trial this Thursday
THIS Thursday sees the Third Round of the Tralee Manor West iBike Time Trial League with the action as always on the Ballycarty / Castleisland / Ballycarty route from 7pm.