Santa Cruz’s Devon Gorry wins at Wente Vineyards Classic Road Race

Santa Cruz resident and NOW and Novartis for MS pro cyclist Devon Gorry won the women’s Cat 1/2 division of the Wente Vineyards Classic Road Race in Livermore on Saturday.

Gorry and teammate Elizabeth Newell of Oakland went 1-2, earning 173.80 and 187.49 points, respectively.

Other Santa Cruz County cyclists who finished in the top 10 included Watsonville’s Chris Cerruti, who placed seventh, and Santa Cruz’s Joe Platin, who placed eighth, in the masters men’s Cat 1/2/3 55-99 age division. Also, Scotts Valley’s Scott Martin placed fourth and Aptos’ Bob Montague placed ninth in the men’s masters 55-99 age division.

Results included in this report were from USACycling.com.

– Christina Gullickson, on Twitter @CGullTweets

Aptos’ Tommy Zaferes takes 7th in Mazatlan triathlon

Aptos native Tommy Zaferes placed seventh in the International Triathlon Union’s Pan American Cup competition in Mazatlan on April 22, according to official results.

Zaferes, a former Cabrillo Thresher swimmer and pro triathlete, had the fastest swim in the Olympic-distance event, finishing that leg in 18:43. His swim was two seconds faster than fellow American Joe Maloy, who finished the race in fourth [1:55:26].

Zaferes finished the bike in 1:02:54 and the run in 33:34 en route to an overall time of 1:56:24.

“…Finished 6th today! Solid swim, fell victim to hectic team tactics by about 20 Mexicans vs 2 americans and 1 canadian on the bike, ran ok.” Zaferes posted to Twitter. He also did a longer recap that included all the details of what he deemed a frustrating race on his blog.

Mexico’s Francisco Serrano won the race in 1:54:48.

Zaferes also did a recent interview with SlowTwitch.com about how to make Chuck Norris cry like a baby among other things. Like his career.

Next up, Zaferes heads to France to compete for the summer. More on that later.

– Christina Gullickson, on Twitter @CGullTweets