[CentOS] Mysterious change in directory ownership and removal of the execute bit on directory

In the following sequence of commands, you can see directory /7.2.1511/
will change of ownership to another user and the execute bit is removed.
This user, lbfay, is actually my own user but I am not logged on the server
while running rsync with root.

[root at ctsrepocos ~]# who
root     tty1         2016-07-22 10:40


[root at ctsrepocos ~]# ls -l /share/CentOS/
total 476
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 apache apache      9 Dec 15  2015 7 -> 7.2.1511/
*drwxr-xr-x*. 13 *apache apache   *4096 May 18 12:48 7.2.1511


[root at ctsrepocos ~]# /usr/bin/rsync -a -vvv --delete --delete-excluded
--exclude "local" --exclude "isos" --exclude "*.iso" --exclude "xen4"
--exclude "*.i686.*" --exclude "i386" --exclude "atomic" rsync://
centos.mirror.iweb.ca/centos/7.2.1511 /share/CentOS


[root at ctsrepocos ~]# ls -l /share/CentOS/
total 476
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 apache apache      9 Dec 15  2015 7 -> 7.2.1511/
*drw-r--r--. *13 *lbfay  lbfay    *4096 May 18 12:48 7.2.1511



Someone has an idea of what is going on?

Thanks,