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VOL. 48 ISSUE 23 JULY 19 2011
Briefly...
DNA Shred Stix Yamaha's Jessica Patterson overcame a crash
and popping her shoulder out in
the first moto to come back and
win the second moto over series
leader Ashley Fiolek to earn the
overall victory in the Women's
Motocross. Patterson said one of
the flag men asked her what she
was doing when she was messing
with her arm and couldn't believe
it when she said she was trying to
put her shoulder back in place.
"The bars yanked my left shoulder
out in the first moto," Patterson explained. "The Asterisk crew taped
me up for the second moto and
that helped me get through it. I'm
really sore. I've got to cut out these
crashes." Tarah Gieger went 3-3
to score third overall. Fiolek, who
went 1-2, and leaves Millville with
an eight point lead in the standings over Patterson. The Women's
series now has a big break before
returning to action for round six of
eight at Southwick on August 27.
Chad Reed (22) leads Ryan Dungey (1), Trey Canard (41) and
the rest of the 450 field en route to the first-moto win.
BY LARRY LAWRENCE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY HOPPENWORLD.COM
ville 2011. For the fourth year in a
row, Ryan Dungey made Minnesota pride swell with a victory in
magine a race where the home- the premier 450 Motocross Nastate hero charges back in the tional. And the defending champ
second moto, battles with one won the race in dramatic fashion,
of his biggest rivals, rival crashes, sticking his Rockstar Makita Suhometown hero goes on to score zuki inside on leader Ryan Villovictory and that's only the second poto's Monster Energy Kawasaki
biggest story of the day. That's late in the second moto and makexactly what happened at Mill- ing a close, but clean pass. The
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Christian Craig was eighth in the
450 points coming into Millville,
but dropped to 10th in the standings after suffering a DNF/DNS
combo and scoring no points.
The Troy Lee Designs Honda rider
crashed in practice after hitting a
piece of wood that bordered the
track and hurt his wrist. He raced
only a few laps in the first moto
before saying he could no longer
hold on to the bike. "I didn't want
to get hurt any more than I was,"
Craig said. "I'm going to try to
heal up my wrist and get ready for
Washougal." Jake Canada hit that
same piece of wood in practice
and injured his hand.
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