MIT wins Rutgers race in season opener

By Nathaniel Coghlan

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference overall team classification this weekend at the Rutgers University season opener. Dartmouth College found themselves sitting in second place with the University of Pennsylvania close behind in third. Men and Women competed in an individual time trial, criterium and circuit race at Rutgers over Saturday and Sunday.

Time Trial

No rider in any category had the benefit of time trial equipment on the 2.8-mile course, which featured two turnarounds. All aero helmets, bars and time trial bikes were prohibited.

Max Korus of the University of Pennsylvania edged out Nathan Kupperstock by 1:15 seconds to secure first place in the time trial. Nicholas Bennette, riding for Princeton University, took third.

Harvard University rider Anna McLoon won the Women’s A TT. Elle Anderson of Dartmouth College followed by 14.9 seconds for second and Martha Buckley from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took the third place spot, 15.9 seconds behind McLoon.

Men’s B: Tristan Baldwin of the University of Vermont clocked the fastest time of the Men’s B field. Two Dartmouth College riders, Trevor Eide and Patrick Barter, pedaled into second and third on the podium.

Women’s B: Sarah Bowman of Yale University took first place in the Women’s B TT. Anna Eisenstein of Boston University and Molly Hurford of Rutgers finished with the second and third best times.

Men’s C: The Men’s C Division 1 time trial went to Timothy Stenovec. James Bolognani, of the University of New Hampshire, followed by 11.73 seconds for a second place finish with Scott Loong of McGill University finishing just 0.75 seconds behind Bolognani for third.

Aaron Horvath took first place in the Men’s C Division 2 Time Trial. Cole Archambault of Tufts University and Robert Abramo of Vilanova completed the podium in second and third place.

Women’s C: Alexandra Berndt of the New England Conservatory took first place. Kelly Desharnais of Bucknell University and Cynthia Nijenhuis of Cornell took the second and third best times.

Men’s D: Seth Davis of McGill University secured the first place position by over ten seconds. Two riders from the University of Vermont, Karl Zahn and Scott Igo, completed the podium.

Criterium

Pavel Gonda of New York University took first place in the Men’s A criterium. Gregory Battista and Max Korus, representing Rutgers and University of Pennsylvania respectively, rounded out the podium.

In the Women’s A Race, Martha Buckley of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology crossed the line first for the win followed by Anna McLoon (Harvard) and Anna Olivier (Yale)

Men’s B: Tristan Baldwin of the University of Vermont added another first place win to his collegiate palmares by sprinting to win the Men’s B criterium. Trevor Eide and Patrick Barter of Dartmouth College finished second and third in the crit, making the Men’s B time trial and criterium podiums identical.

Women’s B: Molly Hurford of Rutgers University took first place. Aimee Layton of Columbia University and Audrey Sarrazin of the University of Montreal completed the podium in second and third place.

The .6 mile course featured four corners with a slight uphill after corner one, and a slight downhill following corner three.

Circuit Race:

Men A: Nathan Kupperstock of Boston University bested his second place finish in the time trial by taking the win in the Men’s A circuit race. Lee Peters of the University of Vermont and Pavel Gonda of New York University came in for second and third place finishes.

Men B: Arnaud Borner of Pennsylvania State University sprinted to victory in the Men’s B circuit race. Trevor Eide and Brandon Tulloch were close behind to take second and third place.

Women A: Anna McLoon and Martha Buckley, no strangers to the podium, took first and second place in the Women’s A circuit race. Elle Anderson of Dartmouth College came in for third.

The circuit race course had no shortage of headwinds, with winds picking up on the straightaway into the finish for all races.

Nathaniel Coghlan is a student at the University of New Hampshire

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