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·s._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. ;I Western hotline _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. . ~ The finish line' found Mike Harnacker taking a we ll-earned firs t overall, Cory Sawy er seco nd, ' and J ohn Lovett a strong third. • t \.0 t- South Bay Motocross O') """ By James Brammer SA N DIEGO, CAL., OCT. 6 Chuck Trent (Suz) has escaped from the 250 Junior class to the Intermediate and he won overall, with a big lead , in his second moto a: :; :; et a: '" ., :> 'et " .., > ., l/l l/l g o J: a. Wednesday night at South Bay in his first race sin ce being advanced. A glass glazier by trade. Robert Stone from Lemon Grove, is one of many intent on ' winning the 250 Junior class . He 's motivated partly by his two brothers who are also into racing. One. Don Stone, drives one of the better stock cars on the paved oval at El Cajon and the other, Joey, rides motocross. In the first moto, Stone (Suz) went for the lead but held it only briefly late in the ' first lap. Finishing third in the moto , he went down three times in slippery mud. Two o ther front runners also went down 'lat e in the ra ce leaving only the . winner, Jerry Benson (Mai), and Carl Paulsen (C· A) in front of Stone at the finish . • In t h e second moto, Bensen aga in won. Stone w as thi"!. on the start and go t b y Paulsen for se cond b u t on a last m omen t effort to ca tc h Benson, he go t out of sh ape off the last of the whoops, narrowly save d h is rid e from ending in a bad crash , an d placed second with Paulsen t h ird. Paulsen (C-A) a Jun ior from Mira Mesa , a lso placed second in the second division of 125 Juniors. Steve Haney (Yam ) won it in a breeze taking two firsts. ' Mik e T ri pes (CZ) took on the 50 0 Pros and won, with Kenny Frost (Suz) passing Rob Norgaard (Kaw) for second. The final motocross for the season at South Bay is scheduled for October 20. Results in Results Section. CRCTI& Half~Mile . By Elaine Jones ADELANTO, CAL. , OCT; 3 Mike Laney really had a heart breaker in the Open Novic e Half-Mile , He was in the lead right up to the final tum but he lost his 20 fire and could do nothing but watch as Lonnie Martin went on by for the checkered. Mike salvaged second and the problem th at cost him the ra ce was traced to two wires shorting out o~ the frame. Shawn Leopold came up with the third. Mike put his name on the Open Amateur/Expert TT though, winning w ith a lead that left no doubt in anyone's mind that it was his track. Pat Dobbins got b y Lonnie Martin on the second lap and was able to hold him off for the number two spot. • All the Open Novices in California were in Adelanto Sunday and sprinkled liberally among them were some 40 inch boys that have probably forgotten more about racing than most of their younger counterparts know. R. Bullard, Rocket Man and Neal Burns proved the point as they swept the over five hundred class , They played a few games during the course of the race but got serious when it counted . Most of these fine competitors were sporting Lost Angels jumpers. The u nder 500cc was hotly contested among 13 riders but it was Larry Blum who jumped out on top of the IT with Greg Koenig and Mike Roach in hot pursuit. These three had the people up on their fe et as the y bunched up on the turns only to str et ch out when they hit the straight. On the half-mile it , was