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. Spraying the crowd the night before. Still pumped from Castle Rock, Chuck did it again at Sidewinders. , Hock cops a TO win, trick knee and all. Joyner parties at Sidewinders Regional IT By Dan .Mah ony CLACKAMAS, ORE., J ULY 18 Thirty-five hundred dollars brings ou t a lot 0 f pe op I e. T h e 0 regon Sidewinders put out the mon ey and received in return th e ' Iargest turn out of. riders (120) and spectato rs (ab out 5(00) o f the . season . Th e event w as the 11 th Annual 25 Lap Western Regional Champ ionship IT. r Br ad Hurst led off in qu alify in g wi t h a sub-I 5 second lap for fas t t im e, but.it wa s Chuck J oyner who tookhome all th e bu cks (an d had the p arty ). Still plenty pumped from his Castle Rock Na tional victory the previous night, Joyner slid his Gary Davis-sponsored Triumph under Randy Skiver to easily win the feature and collect an extra $3 00 for pulling off the double wins . Saturday and ,Sun d ay nights. A National-caliber Expert field Was on hand inclu'ding Ted Boody, who, while being thee first Harley in the final at Clackamas in years, got himself protested for rough r iding on ' Friday night at the Mark Williams benefit race. At a track like this it's almost impossible to ride without running into another rider or- the fence. Boody kept it clean this time, however, and scooted under Randy Scott to pick up third place ju st behind Skiver. ' There was lots of crash-bang stuff on the tiny track and at least one third of the races had to be restarted due to ge t-o ffs • One Expert heat had to be Jorgensen, and Mark Leggarra all did endos down the front straightaway in formation, fortunately with only bruises and busted bikes. The 25 lap feature came to a red-flagged halt when Steve Eason, Ch arlie Brown, Rick Ho cking, and Ed Herrmann formed a roadblock in the .corner , Don Dodge threw it away on the . warmup lap ; just for practice v and then, on lap five or so, Herrmann went down again . Ho cking got squee zed into the dirt clods o n the inside and tipp ed o ve r. While the Ho ck's m echanic Was being hassled by th e com er marshall about whether or not he cou ld give Rick a . push, Rick just bumped the 5aO - Yamaha off himself and wheelied away. Ted Davidson missed the Junior .T ro p hy Dash (won by Ricky Graham) , but took his he at ra ce an d . the Junior Fin al points and m oncy with no trouble a t all . Rick Waters, another heat winner, cir cu lat ed around in front of a Graham/Lars Trulson battle that eventually went to Graham, with Trulson picking up the fourth place . cash. Don Farber finished fifth . Regional Novice points leader Danny Hogue kept the pace up as he worked past local riders Dave Churchill and Jeff Fischer to take the Novice Main. Hogue, Fischer, Churchill, Kent Goar, Ken Celori, Dave Mazour, and Terry Weigand won the heat races fo r the 360s. The Semi fell to Tim McWhorter and the fou r lap Trophy Dash fell to Fischer's Honda. • Results NOVICE MAIN: 1. Dann y Hogue (Vam). Dave Churchill (Vam). 3. Jeff Fischer lHon) . 4. Eddl. Lawson (BUll. 5. Ken t Goar H~NIO R MAIN: 1. Ted Davidson (Vam). 2. R.ICk Waten rrrn, 3- R ic k Graham lvam · 4. .l urs Trulson (Yam). 5. Don Faber Va m. EXPERT MAIN: 1. cnuck Joyner (Trll- 2. Randy Skiver (BSA). 3 . Ted Boody (H-D _4 . Ran dy SCott -(Tr l ) . 5. Brad Hurst (Trl). 6 . ' ' Charlie Brown ~Trl) . : 7. Bill Oliver (Trl). 8. Don Dodge (Trl . 9. Mark Smith lvam). 10. 5tev. Eason CTr). 11. Rick Hock ng (Vam). 12. Ed Herrmann CTr". TROPHV DASH WINNERS, Expert, RiCk ~.cIllJI~ (Va",). Junior, Ricky Graham .UTu. "'Qv........ ' 1 Fischer IHon). . 2; '. ~".VbtA·"~6d'/:.'tIo·V:'.:: .~ : . ::1