Yukon’s Daniel Sessford competed in his second World Cup mountain bike race yesterday in Mont Sainte Anne, Quebec.
The course had two major climbs, a third smaller climb, and a very fast single-track climb near the finish.
“As with all World Cups, the pace started out super fast, with everyone trying to make it to the first climb and single track at the front, to avoid bottlenecking,” said Sessford via e-mail.
“I started in 94th position out of 134 racers and, once again, I had the speed to move up to the front pack, but I was lacking the endurance to maintain it. I eventually finished in 71st position.”
Sessford’s next race will be the Canadian National Championships, July 15-16 at Sun Peaks in Kamloops, BC.
“I’m hoping that everything will come together, as it’s the most important race of the year,” he said.
Whitehorse Minor Soccer
Under-16 (Thursday)
Kopper King 4
Quarton & Sutherland 2
Nathan Doiron led the Kings with a pair, as they doubled up on Q&S. Dylan Cole and John Borud netted singles, while Sam Kumar took MVP honours.
Michael Abbott scored two goals for Q&S, and Lelainia Harvey was named top player.
Pepsi 8
Audette Construction 3
Pepsi’s Kye Durell scored three, Heidi Loos added two and Michael Donohoe and Cody Morrison Reynolds scored one each, as they thumped Audette. Ethan Struthers-Lavoie was Pepsi’s top player.
Jeremy Nugent, Scott Longman and Cody Reaume each found the net for Audette. Andrew Walchuk took Audette’s MVP honour.
Under-13 (Thursday)
Irving Collision 5
Versatile Rentals 4
Scoring for Irving Collision were Robin Smith, with three goals, Odette Rivard and Jenna Blanchette. Irving’s MVP was Kyle Bowers.
Versatile Rentals’ scorers were Adrian Hawkings, Jake Jacobs, Ben Kinvig and Joel Brennan. Taylor Barr was named top player.
New West Technologies 2
Whitehorse Motors 1
Scoring information not
available.
Under-12 (Wednesday)
Bumper to Bumper 10
Locksmith Services 2
Bumper to Bumper gave the
Locksmith crew a real beating, with Brayden Kulych netting five goals by himself. Tyler Wiens added a hat trick while Brad Koprowsky and Brandon Langenhan added singles. Breyin Wiens took MVP honours.
Locksmith Goal scorers were Gibson Pearson and Mason Grey. Simon Geoffroy was named player of the game.
Whitehorse Co-ed Soccer
Assante 4
Sanchez Cantina 3
Josh Wiebe led Assante with two goals, as they slipped past Sanchez in this close match.
Also scoring for Assante were Luke Wadey and Andy Connors.
Sanchez goals were scored by Dan Olynyk, Chris Marion and Chris Shoniker.
Men’s Commercial Golf
Roadhouse Bar & Grill were the big winners in this week at Mountainview. With its win over Whitehorse Business Machines the team took over first place. Other big winners were Northerm and Triple J Services.
Standings as of June 22:
1st Roadhouse Bar & Grill
– 37
2nd Missing Links – 35
3rd P&M Recycling – 34
4th Matco Transportation
– 34
5th Yukon Tire Mechanical
– 33
6th Low Net – 31
7th Feature Foods – 31
8th Northerm – 31
9th Emco Foreskins – 30
10th The Chain Gang – 29
11th Mackay & Partners – 28
12th Kal Tire – 27
13th Irving Collision – 26
14th Norline Coaches – 24
15th Shoppers Drug – 22
16th Whitehorse Business
Machines – 21
17th Northwestel – 21
18th Olson Construction – 20
19th Macdonald & Co. – 20
20th Triple “J” Services – 20
21st NuWay Crushing – 18
22nd Totaltrac Yukon – 18
23rd Airline Inn – 16
24th Talmark/Sit Easy – 16
25th Casa Loma Motel – 10
26th Skookum Asphalt – 9
27th RoadHouse Offsales
Relics – 6