Geoghegan's Balbriggan double
Harry Reynolds Memorial, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, 55km, Saturday 4th April
Jim 'Jazzer' Wherity Memorial, 56km, Sunday 5th April
Michelle Geoghegan's rich seam of form continued in Balbriggan CC's weekend festival where the Dublin based Kerrywoman collected top prizes in Saturday's Harry Reynolds Memorial and Sunday's Jazzer Wherity Memorial.
Geoghegan hung on to the testing pace set by the Senior One riders to scoop the women's prize on Saturday afternoon and showed no ill effects from that effort to take top honours on a very testing course in the following day's Wherity Memorial event.
Turning the tables on recent Ladies National League round two winner Francine Meehan, Geoghegan showed her climbing prowess to good effect to scoop first prize while club mate Monica Marconi got up to take fifth.
Meanwhile Stephen McNally missed out on top honours in the Vets/Juniors race but showed that his form is strong ahead of next weekend's Gorey 3-day by initiating the race winning break on the first time up the race's most arduous climb before taking third in the final gallop.
Results
Jim 'Jazzer' Wherity Memorial, 56km
1. Simon Whelan (Unattached)
2. Richie Keddy (Winning Solutions)
3. Declan Byrne (Unattached)
4. Ray Brown (Curran Racing)
5. Brian Attley (Dublin Wheelers)
6. Gareth Enright (Dublin Wheelers)
7. Alan Burke (Murphy Surveys)
8. John Maguire (South East Road Club)
9. James Flynn (Cuchulainn)
10. Scott Hannon (Bray Wheelers)
Ladies
1st Michelle Geoghegan (Orwell Wheelers Dundrum Town Centre)
2nd Fran Meehan (Tullamore CTC)
3rd Gillian McDarby (Usher IRC)
4th Roisin Kennedy (Stagg Lucan)
5th Monica Marconi (Orwell Wheelers Dundrum Town Centre)
Vets/Juniors, 84km, Sunday April 5th
1st Paul Dolan (Usher IRC), 1hr 58min 55
2nd John Dorris (Sorrento)
3rd Stephen McNally (Orwell Wheelers Dundrum Town Centre)
4th Andre Engerman (St. Tiernans)
5th Thomas Wilson (Ballymena RC)
6th Sean Bracken (Usher IRC)
7th Jim McConnell (Audi East Antrim)
8th Brendan Whelan (Stagg Lucan)
9th Ger Madden (Team SportsMed Ireland)
10th Terry Ferris (Murphy & Gunn)
Unplaced Juniors
1st Conor Campbell (Drogheda Wheelers)
2nd Andrew Bracken (Team Slipstream)
Harry Reynolds Memorial
1st Philip Lavery (Winning Solutions), 1hr 26min 25sec
2nd Stephen Halpin (Bioagrico)
3rd Paul Healion (South Dublin CC)
4th Scott McDonald (Winning Solutions)
5th Urban Monks (EuroCycles)
6th Simon Coughlan (Donamon Dynamos)
7th Colm Quinn (Cuchulainn)
8th Dylan Rafter (Winning Solutions)
9th Colin Robinson (Stamullen)
10th Mark Dowling (Cycleways)
Unplaced S2: Aaron Buggle (South Dublin CC)
Unplaced S3: Gareth Enright (Dublin Wheelers)
Unplaced Vet: Brendan Whelan (Stagg Lucan)
Unplaced Junior: Conor Campbell (Drogheda Wheelers)
Unplaced Lady: Michelle Geoghegan (Orwell Wheelers Dundrum Town Centre)
