Next, HSU’s Dylan Wright won the Men’s D short track race. And HSU’s Joe Mulleary won the Men’s B short track event to complete the one-two-three victories to start off the day. Alyssum Cohen came in second place in the Women’s A short track race. Thirteen cyclists with the HSU Cycling Club participated in the four different events of cross country, Super D, short track and dual slalom. More than 100 riders from Cal Poly, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, University of Nevada/Reno and Chico State competed in the weekend mountain bike races.
On Sunday afternoon, HSU swept first place in dual slalom races at the Bailey Bike Park near Pittsburg. Jake Hinlicky won the Men’s B dual slalom and Nick Lohse won the Men’s D dual slalom.
Other notable finishes for HSU:
Ashley Hanson won the Women’s C cross country race on Saturday at Lake Sonoma. Hinklicky won the Men’s C cross-country race. Justin Graves got third place in the Men’s A Super D race, which had a running start where riders rush to pick up their bikes off the ground and race downhill for about five miles.
In addition to winning the dual slalom, Lohse also won the Super D Men’s D race on Saturday, while teammate Shaun Summa came in second place in the same event.
Mulleary got second place in the Men’s B dual slalom. Hansen finished second in the Women’s C Super D and Erika Mittermaier got fourth in that same event.
Hinlicky and Lohse won two races this weekend and will be able to move up to another category for next weekend’s mountain bike races at the University of Nevada/Reno.
HSU Cycling Team Results from Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 2-3:
Joe Mulleary (Men B): 1st place short track; 2nd place Super D; 4th place XC.
Jake Hinlicky (Men C): 1rst place cross country; 1rst place dual slalom; 3rd place Super D.
Nick Lohse (Men D): 1rst place Super D; 1rst place dual slalom.
Justin Graves (Men A): 3rd place Super D.
Alyssum Cohen (Women A) 2nd place short track, 7th place cross country.
Andrew Spickerman (Men C): 1rst place short track; 4th place Super D; 8th place cross country.
Ashley Hansen (Women C): 1rst place cross country; 2nd place Super D.
Shaun Summa (Men D) 3rd place cross country
Kevin Pabinquit (Men A): 7th place Super D.
Dylan Wright (Men D): 1rst place short track; 10th place cross country.
Elena Dolitsky (Women C): 5th place short track; 7th place cross country.
Erika Mittermaier (Women C): 7th place short track; 8th place cross country.
Gus Wick (Men C): 4th place cross country.