Ebbett and Bourqe win dual slalom

Highland MTB Park served as stop number five of the Gravity East Series. Sunny, blue-sky weather helped make a great weekend of racing, and in spite of two competing gravity events in the region, 139 downhill racers and 43 dual slalom competitors turned out - by far the largest turnout of any of the weekend's races.

The courses, prepared for the event by the Highland Trail Crew, also were a higlight of the weekend. Saturday's dual slalom was an old school dual slalom cousre. It was designed and constructed by Kyle Ebbett with assistance of a trail crew of 10 people that worked almost non-stop for two weeks to prepare for this weekend. The work showed,

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Elite men
#Rider Name (Country) Team
1Kyle Ebbett
2James Patterson
3Avery Buch
4Steve Avery (HMBP)
5Zach Faulkner
6Brian Piper
7David Flynn
8Erik Gosselin (Team Drop)
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Elite women
#Rider Name (Country) Team
1Dawn Bourque
2Karen Eagan
3Kate Parhiala (Wachusett Brewery)
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Cat. 1 Junior men
#Rider Name (Country) Team
1Richard Rude Jr (Santa Cruz/Allride Academy)
2Max Syron
3Mike Gross (Team Drop)
4Hunter Budd
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Cat. 1 Men
#Rider Name (Country) Team
1Kyle Karpuska
2Trevor Peckham
3Donnie Roberts
4Clay Pattersen
5PJ Noto
6Beau Cormier
7Will Marks
8Chris Flynn
9Michael Brown
Row 9 - Cell 0 Andrew Farrell
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Cat. 2 Junior men
#Rider Name (Country) Team
1Andrew Davies
2Dylan Conte
3Peter McNulty
4James Bannister
5Ray Syron
6Shane Alexander
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Cat. 2-3 Men
#Rider Name (Country) Team
2Colby Nugent
5Justin Well
6Chris Buckley
3Damon Morin (Team Drop)
7Tom Lamont
1Lane Boertmann (Beachwood Bikes)
4Adam Quinn
8Scott Laplante
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Junior women
#Rider Name (Country) Team
1Taylor Allison (MMR/Marin)
2Olivia Allison (MMR/Marin)
3Maddie Crowley

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