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OFF-ROAD AMSOIL GRAND NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY SERIES ROUND 11 / SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 MATHEWS FARM / MT. MORRIS, PENNSYLVANIA P70 Bollinger, however, still holds on to third in the championship. He's locked in a battle with Stew- ard Baylor for the final step on the podium in the overall points race. Bollinger, a former XC2 Champi- onship, leads Baylor by just three points. Kelley and Strang are fighting their own battle for fifth in the championship. Kelley is clinging to a one-point advantage over sixth-placed Strang, 155-154. And there is a four-way battle to get into the top 10 of the champi- onship. Just three points separate Grant Baylor (ninth), Craig Delong (10th), Layne Michael (11th) and Pascal Rauchenecker (12th). In the XC2 250 Pro class, Snowshoe winner Kelley is at the top of the charts with a semi-com- fortable 18-point lead over Toth, second on the day, in the cham- pionship. Delong is third in points but 90 points behind Toth. Just one point separates fourth place Rauchenecker from fifth place Austin Lee, who finished eighth in class at Mt. Morris. Jesse Ansley (KTM) won the FMF XC3 125 Pro-Am class over Alex Teagarden (Husqvarna) and Zach Nolan (KTM). Ansley has a comfortable 36-point lead over Teagarden in the race for the class championship. Jason Raines (Yamaha) is third, 10 points behind Teagarden. Raines did not suit up at Mt. Morris, as he is still recovering from an injury. It was a battle to the checkered flag in the Women's class. Becca Sheets (KTM) crossed the finish leads Duvall by 40 points with just two rounds remaining in the series. Sixth overall went to FMF/ KTM's Josh Toth, who also fin- ished second in the XC2 class. Meanwhile, Austria's Pascal Rauchenecker moved up to the XC1 class for the Mount Morris race in order to prepare for next weekend's Motocross of Na- tions and finished with a solid seventh. JCR Honda's Trevor Bollinger was eighth overall after running as high as third during the early stages of the race, while Tely Energy Racing's Grant Baylor and Suzuki-mounted Jonathan Girroir rounded out the top 10 overall. der. Bruised and visibly banged up, Russell decided to nurse his shoulder in and salvage what he could. "Today was a rough one but we were able to keep the big- ger picture in mind and pick up some valuable points," Rus- sell said. "I had trouble staying off the ground all day but the big one was on lap two when I clipped a tree with my right shoulder and ended up slam- ming it into the ground. It's pretty banged up so I just did my best to keep pushing without doing anything dumb. I got up to third about halfway through but then I went down again and lost my chances at a podium." Despite the finish, Russell still Josh Strang made the podium in the XC1 class with a fourth overall finish.