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.,.; I: ~ t .... Local hotline cont'd. Ron Hall was ab le to get h is helmet on in ti me to go two loops. Chris Weber an d his ve ry fast Hodak a ha d no proble m winning the tr ail bike divisi on , fin ish ing qu it e a ways in fro n t of Marc Cartwright. J ody Belknap and Ke n Miller wer e the to p t wo riders in the 100 Am ateurs . th is weekend. Newly-turned Amateurs Wesley Arita an d J aime Haas did it to the I i 5 Amateur class. D.C. Williams was running first overa ll Amateur again th is week, bu t h is reac ti o ns see med to be a bit off afte r the Bora- Bag contest. Ramon Lowe outrode fo rmer first old-ti mer Gary Griffin for firs t old-timer Expert. AI Drake or J erry Herren usually w in the Ama t eur division of the old-ti mers, with t his wee ke nd bei ng no excep tio n - Drake firs t , Herre n seco nd. An d as always, sinc e the very first race of th e year, Trudy Beck and her 175 Penton were first Powder Puff. Dennis McLaughlin tried out the 250 class this weekend, which must ha ve been to his liking, as he was first Amateur aboard his Elsin o re. Mike Merrick rode his new mono-shock for the first time and might be quite hard to catch when he gets back in shape, taking second 250 Amateur. Rocky Dellegatte rode one of those new Desert Phantom Ossas and chased Merrick's dust for third. Gre g Tucker, Jim Harrison, and George Harvey III were the top three Open Am ateurs. Mark Granger was leading the Novices through the pits but had some problems on the second loop. He lost the lea d to George Tuiles of the Stumpjumpers, Carl Messenger also got by for second overall Novice, while Granger took third, first Open No vice. Several riders ha d a hard time m aking it over th e hill, with the Novic es lift ing it on th eir first loop at the same time th e Am ateurs / Experts wer e on th eir seco nd because of the delayed start . In fact Ro n Wrigh t was to th e check t wo on th e sec o n d loop b efore the Novices • even got th ere the firs t tim e. Results in Results Section. Double winner time at Corona By Elaine Jones CO RONA, CA L., MA R. 12 - 30 Afte r gett ing ra ined out all over Southern Cal ifo rn ia last week the riders rea lly let it all lo ose on the C o r o n a q u a rt er and ha lf-m ile ova ls. Mike Tidwell ridi ng ou t o f Yamaha of Mo nt clair pu t together th e nigh t 's only triple crown collecting go ld in t he 125 cc Short Trac k and th e 250 cc Expert Short Trac k and Hal f-mil e. Litt le minicycle rider Buddy Crisp cap tu red both wins in h is divis io n wh ile Jeff Pruett grabbed the Division 11 go. Brea kdo w ns really p l agued t hese yo u ngste rs with local riders Chris r Cannon an d Chris Gables both seiz ing their Yamaha YZs and a strong possibl e for Donny Berry and his YZ. All gave fair wa rn ing th ey would be b ac k next week running strong. Rick Bird , a regular th at was lo ng overdue made his entry into the winner 's circle with a splash taking both short and half-mile wins in the Open Novice classes. Dennis Aguirre the rider he 's been having to chase all these many weeks got a taste of what it 's like an d Rick did it with a machine that was running far fro m par. Mark Scoggins captured the only other double win in the 100cc Novice Short Track an d combined 100-125 Novice Half-mile and h as just ab o ut ridden himself into an Amateur rating which will have him pitted against his older brother. His half-mile win was a real battle . with . Riverside . riders Fred Conover an d Davi d J on es pressing h im every inch o f the way loo king for th e m istake t h at n ever came. Fred dy Conover on his hot set up Kawasaki minicycle did win th e 12 5cc Novice Sh ort Track an d again it was David Jones apply ing the pre ssure but ' he co uld do no better th an seco nd. The Ascot boy s showe d up and did thcir th ing in the Op en Expert goes wit h the likes of Charl es Soderst rom , Brian Garcia. Mike Th om sen . Paul Lamber an d Terry Grinner o n ha nd. Soderstrom to o k th e Ope n Short Track win with Lambert getting the 35 0cc Expert nod . Mike Thomsen looking m ore imp ro ved every week ran away with the Open Half-mile despi te a go fo r b roke effo rt o n the part of Brian Garcia. The big bo ys are finding Corona mo re to their bag every wee k. • Resul ts in Results Sectio n. Holcomb hurt as Over The Hill Gang rides into town From our correspondent in the field VAL ENCIA. CAL. . 1>IA R. 9 En route to a sweep ing dominat ion o f the 500 Expert class in an AME 5600 purse motocross at Indian Dunes. Motocross Nat io nal :\0 . 84, Bry ar Holcomb went down in the sjart hill tu rn on a European-sty le changing tr actio n tr ack . Holcomb had jus t passed his main co mpe titio n , Lu ke Messer (Mai). in the sec o nd moto (afte r winning the first combined 25 0-50 0 Expert round of 30 minu tes] and was on his way to being S I 00 richer when an injury that may prove disastrous to his seaso n plan s struck. Messer went on to co llec t his seco n d S I 00 increment from AME in a wee k as he had litt le tr ouble st aying w a y a h e a d of the remaining 500 Experts. Billy Payne, noted SoCal hotshoe no w riding a 250 CZ after years on a Maico, had to work considerably h arder fo r his C-note as Will Harper, Al\IE No . One led the 250s until mechanica ls put him 0 u t in th e first moto. After H o lc om b 's unhappy demise in th e second rnoto , Payne had to wo rk fro m ab ou t sixth up to second behind Tra cy Oswell (Pen ). Even his second place , good en ough fo r th e over all top dol lar, was threatened until the last lap, as Gary Hymes in his firs t ride fo r Montesa wo rked up to a passi ng position on Payn e several ti mes o nly to finish thi rd.