Ger­man Timo Scholz of CCN took first place in stage nine of the Tour of T&T Uni­ty race. Scholz fin­ished the Ahamad Charles 96 kilo­me­tre road race in two hours and 53.45 sec­onds. In sec­ond place was Ben Sim­mons of Pri­mal Eu­rope fin­ish­ing with the same time as Scholz in 2:53.45 fol­lowed by T&T's Emile Abra­ham (Roset­ti De­vo) in third. Abra­ham is now set to re­tain the "yel­low jer­sey" which he lost to Ed­win Avil­la at the Nathan Ha­jal Stage 5 af­ter fin­ish­ing 10th in the stage. He now lies fifth over­all and 14 sec­onds be­hind the over­all leader Co­lum­bia's Ed­win Vane­gas. On Fri­day the Comp­ton Gon­salves stage was can­celled due to se­vere flood­ing and heavy rain­fall in var­i­ous parts of south Trinidad.

Yes­ter­day's race be­gan at Frisco Junc­tion in Point Fortin and end­ed at the BP Re­source Ma­yaro. The cy­clists ex­pe­ri­enced a num­ber of in­clines while pass­ing through Table­land, Poole Vil­lage en­ter­ing Ma­yaro, caus­ing a few of the cy­clists to be cut from the pack as they were un­able to keep up. The ma­jor­i­ty of the race was led by the top five which con­sist­ed of Scholz, Sim­mons, Abra­ham, Un­der-23 cy­clist Jamol East­man and Ja­maican Mar­loe Rod­man of Raf­mon Mecal­fab. East­man and Rod­man end­ed in fourth and fifth, re­spec­tive­ly. To­mor­row's fi­nal stage will ped­al off at the Ma­yaro In­door fa­cil­i­ty. Cy­clists will in a norther­ly di­rec­tion to Man­zanil­la and North West to Va­len­cia then west in­to Port of Spain to fin­ish at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel. Fol­low­ing to­day's fi­nal stage, an award cer­e­mo­ny will be held at Er­ic Williams Fi­nan­cial Build­ing in Port-of-Spain.