Massey Baker dominated the open men’s category at Sunday’s downhill mountain bike races at Mount Sima.

Baker won the long course event on the Drop the Clutch trail during the SlamFest 2017 and the shorter short course race on the Lefty Loosey trail but both wins were only by seconds.

On the long course running down Sima’s northern boundary, Baker crossed the finish line in seven minutes, 26 second and 56 one-hundredths, just 3.8 seconds ahead of the second-place time of 7:30.41 recorded by Tyler Tukendorf.

Sam Reimer finished third in 7:31.95 and Curtis Vandale was in fourth, trailing the winning time by 8.9 seconds.

Jaylene Goorts won the open women’s long course race in a time of 8:27.81, edging second-place Meagan Wilson by 1.8 seconds. Ziggy Reimer finished third with a time of 9:02.81 and Egle Barnes finished fourth in 9:05.57.

Sapphira Oettli was the only participant in the youth category, and she finished the long course in 17:18.11.

The shorter course down Lefty Loosey running along the southern boundary of Mount Sima is much more technical, race organizer Josh de la Salle explained this morning.

Lefty Loosy starts out at the top with a double black diamond extreme rating but finishes at the bottom with a single black diamond difficult rating.

It is a trail for the more experienced riders, de la Salle said.

Baker posted a winning time in the men’s open category of 3:54.10, or 9.36 seconds ahead of second-place Phil Beausejour. Ben Kinvig was third with a time of 4:05.96 while de la Salle finished in fourth with a time a time of 4:07.20, or 13.1 seconds behind Baker’s winning time.

Ziggy Reimer won the women’s short course event in a time of 5:58.83, or 5.82 second ahead of second-place Barnes. Goorts finished third in a time of 6:04.98 and Rebecca Mann finished fourth in 8:51.73.

De la Salle said this year’s race attracted about half the riders who normally sign up and he suspects it had something to do with moving the date to mid-August instead of mid-September. There was just too many scheduling conflicts to keep the mid-September date this year, he said

There were 11 men, five women and the one youth signed up for Sunday’s SlamFest.

The next mountain bike night for Mount Sima is Wednesday, Aug. 23.

The Lefty Loosey and Drop the Clutch trails start at an elevation of 1,180 metres and drop 318 metres or 1,043 feet to the base.