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- (Above) Scott Cude 111) and Bob Garrison (38) in a late-lap 125 Expert duel. lBelowlSOO Novices learn to trials-ride downed motorcycles at Spinners IT. Steve Lop ez (Ya m) ra n away from his co mpeti tio n en ro ute to t he 100cc Novice iron . T odd Copley (Ya m) was seco nd , a nd fas t-closing Don T urner was th ird . W ith a ll bu t two riders on th e penalty line , t he 200cc Expert m ain was fina lly off a nd ru n ni ng with Lee Prit chard (Yam ) in co m man d . Bob Merri ott (Ya m) occupied th e seco nd slot but righ t alo ng side was Brad Helton (Ya m), who m oved into seco nd on lap two . The radi cal -rid ing Hel ton fail ed on severa l pass tries on la p three a nd experienc ed th e sa me bad lu ck on th e final lap , following Pri tchard to th e checkers by on ly a hal f a bike leng ht. Rod ger Lad y (Ya m) stu ng Mer riott for third , a lso on th e last lap. Boyd Timm erm an , R ichard Podergois (Ya m). a nd Marty Brown juggled th e 125cc Novice lead around for three laps until whe n Timmerman decid ed to tak e charge for keeps and went on to the win . Brown and Monty Greer both got by Pod ergo is on lap four to finish second and third. The probability of one rid er being dominant in th e I2 5cc Ex pert ranks is still up for grabs as Scott Cude (Yam ) was the top man thi s week . Cude d id receive som e pressure from second pla ce man Bob Garrison but it wasn't enough to keep th e Yamaha pilot out of th e winner's circle. Rodney Sullivan (Ya m ) fought up to th ird th e hard way. coming off th e penalt y line . Results in Resul ts Sec tion . Super Mac and Sun shine at Puyallup WinterMX By Sue Sykes PUYALLUP , WA , FEB. 6 In 250 Pro action Super Mac MacKenzie put up a 2-} for the win, and they're still talking abou t the othe r posi tions . First They call Larry MacKenzie " Super Mac." Chuck Sun (21) went around Tom Bevaart at Puyallup, Young edges Sturgill at Finish of D·3STT By Cosmic Cat & CO. PORTERVILLE , CA . , FEB , 6 Not only did a la rger than usual cla ss of Open rid ers show at the Spinners AMA D-35 TT, but the thu nderi ng b ig bores also provided one of the better races of the d ay, The action started early behind leaders Bu d Sturgill (Yam) and Bob Stafford (BSA) as Rick Villane va (Ya m) stole third from Bob Young on lap one only to crash a few seconds later . Young started closing on seco nd place Stafford and took the position in the sweepe r of la p two , Final lap , and Young was now closing on leader Sturgill . Side by Sid e th rough the sweep er. Young pulled ahead and edged out Sturgill at the line. mot o winner Ma rk Gregson out of Kaw City was protested down to a fourth in the second moto but sti ll held on to second overall. Gary Potts (Suz) posted the protest - sta ting he was pushed off the track in the right back tum . Potts was awarded a second in moto two and third overall. Chuck Sun (Hus) led th e Open Pro competition with a clean 1·1 win for G and N Cycle Mart . Winter Series points leader Mark Gregson (Kaw) put up a 5-2 for the second spot. Yamaha -mounted Joel Straub of Kent scored a rnoto I -I for a Mini Junior overall, 'S tra ub has earned half the necessary points for Expert classification just one month into the racing year. John Spooner (Yam ) with a 2-3 , took the second overall, Terry D. Baker from Springfield, O regon got mixed up in the crowd that stopped to check out the tower jump on the opening of rnoto one and scored too far down to get it together. Baker ca me back with a seco nd p lace ride next m oro , Lee Voss on a Pa ulson's Suzuki ro de 3-1 for top 125 Pro. Voss passed "mild mannered" Marv Sykes in both. m otos - givi ng Sykes a 4 -2 for second overa ll. First moto ace Super Mac La rry Mac Ke nzie was way back on th e seco nd start a nd kep t clinkin' away to a rnoto sixt h for fourt h overa ll on h is Canadia n Yamaha , Ed Da vis (DG Honda) out of The Berm - pu t a 2·5 together for third mon ey. R PM mounted Buck Murphy set up a 10-3 mrfifth. • Results inResulrs Section. . .. .. .