Paul Fancher, with the help of Casey Coffman, won the Masters 50+ division at the Kansas road race championship.

“Kudos to Casey Coffman who rode a great race on Saturday, placing third in his first State Championship Road Race!  Casey was the powerhouse rider in the 5 man break formed after the KOM sprint.  Without his help we never would stayed away or reeled in the guy who escaped on the 2nd climb of the KOM hill before the finish.” said Fancher of his teammate.

Fancher also won the King of the Mountain prize. “Def nice to have Mr. Fancher in the big D kit… by far the strongest guy on wheels in our group and probably all groups” said Coffman   “In our 50+ we had a pretty fun ride, at the roughly 20 miles in, KOM (which paul won also) hill that was a Paul, me, and 3 other guys ended up at the top, pretty close and it turned into a breakaway of 5. We worked together really well to stay away the rest of the race, but let a guy get a gap at about 4 miles left, and Paul and I had to do all the work (mainly Paul) to catch him cause the other 2 guys were 55+ so didn’t care. We caught him, but it cooked me and i fell off at 1 mile left, and Paul took it to the line and beat him in a sprint. I couldn’t talk or walk post race for 30 min. Paul broke a small sweat.”

Donavon Hottman took third in the 60+ event, continuing the great success he has had on the road this year.

Also doing well for Big D were Shawn Knight, placing seventh in the 40-44; Owen Gurwell, who got 8th in th 35-39’s; and Ron Marney who finished strong in 15th in the 45-49’s.