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everything he- could to ho ld off Kline with less th an a hal f a bike's dist ance between th em . Going into the fin al turn before th e tower , Kline slipped h y for first. The second tim e around . H endricks agai n grabhed the holeshot and th)s time he had Pau l Lane (Yam ) beh ind him . Kline was running third and R amsey in fourth . There was less than on e b ike's lengt h between ea ch of the top four rid ers. Kline m oved alongside Lane over th e d rop-off and into t he turn . Lane was right on 101' o f H endricks . Klin e slipped- a roun d to the right side o f Lane and got by, th en went to work on lIe ndri cks. Kline go t by a fter th e drop-off and st arted to pull a lead . Hend ricks was in troubl e and sta rt ed falling ba ck . Lane was back in second with Ramsey pushing hard behind him . T he t hird . fourth a nd fifth pla ce riders were right on to p of ea c h other . clear a rou nd the tra ck. Hendri cks lost his c hain and after fixing it returned to the ra ce ba ck in sixth . Lane who ran a fantas tic ra ce , espec ia lly for a fa irly new Pro , went d own and to o k a DNF. Rodney Morrison (li on ) had m oved into second a nd was fight ing o ff R amsey. Kli ne b y now had o pene d up a supl'r lead a nd held it to th e c hecke red flag for first overa ll, second going to Morrison , a nd third to Shore . • Results in Resu lts Sect ion . Bob Kline won both AME 125 Pro motos; the first victory coming in the last corner. Corona HSMX Individual Championships: Hart tops class on stock bike By Elaine Jones CORONA . CA, MAR. 26 The best th e area High Sc hoo ls had to offer wer e on hand Saturday morning- as they met to decide no t who had the best team, but who wou ld be the best in ea ch cla ss. T he ru les were : o n ly o ne rider pe r sc hoo l pe r class, a nd a ride r was on ly allowed to enter one class. just to ma ke su re e ver ything was equal . Corona designed a whole new co urse whi ch wa s t ight and rough . Ea c h class ran two motos of app roxima te ly II mi nutes whi ch was more t han enough ove r t he tight twi sty .. - - -- - - - - -- - .. . - -II UfSl., · ., • •l " Bobby H art , riding for La Sierra o n his co m p lete ly stock Honda Mini , proved it doesn 't take a fast bike to win - j ust plenty o f talent . Hart smoked th e rest of th e field in both m otos, getting out o n top and building a . com m a n d ing lead that would have allowed him to SlOp and have co ffee if he wanted. Alan Small of Corona a nd Randy Anderson o f Arlington were abl e to do nothing more than foll ow him home . Because of their la rg e number , the 125 classes had to be broken down into two d ivisions with the top tw o riders going into a two lap run -off. The 125 N ovice run-off pitted Mark Sanchez o f N orco ag ainst Tim Ma y of San Bernardino and in th e 125 In te rm ed iat es, Don Hoove r of Upland went aga inst Phil Thorstenson o f La Sierra , who had a month 's worth of troub le just getti ng into the run off. It was Hoover off on 101' with Thorst enson in second. Unfortuna tely T ho rste nso n's prob lems were sti ll wi th him and he fell short ly after take off and co u ld n 't make up th e d iffernce . Sanch ez g ot the holeshot in the N ovice d ivisio n a nd held o ff May for t he che cke re d. T he 125 Sen ior race was a close o ne . In the firs t mot o it was Mart y W ol ford (Arlington) o ff fir st with Mik e Dickherber ( Pal m Sp rings ) in seco nd and Bill j e we tt (Norco) third. On th e seco nd lap jim La wson of Nort h moved from fo u rt h to second . j ewe tt dropped ou t , Dickherbe r went to third and Do ug Lincoln of Co lton went from fifth to fourth. The t hird la p had more of the same as Lin co ln moved up a not he r spot a nd was now in th ir d a nd clos ing on Law son . Ru n ning a t th e same ti me. the slower Novices were sta rt ing to ge t lap ped and th is crea ted traffi c p robl ems tha t m a d e passi ng a lmost impossib le . W o lford got throug h to m aint ain th e lea d b ut Lawson a nd Lincoln were ti ed u p in traffic and finished in that o rd er . In th e fin al moto it was aga in Wolford out on to p with Dic khe r be r in second a nd Lawson in third . Everyt hing stayed status q uo and they ca m e home in tha t order. The overa ll went [0 Wo lford with Dic kh erber taking second on a tie breaker with Lawson . Th'e 175 In term edi a tes were the hard luck cla ss of the day , with loads of break downs . Randy Mcintyre of Norco had everything working all right. but he a long with Ro be rt Young of Hern er were the ex ception t th e rul e . Mcintyre took the first moto with case. follow ed by Tim Hoover o f Upla nd and Young. Steve Feld had a DNF. The final m otu again saw McI nrvre coll ect all th e marbles with Feld picking up seco nd and Young thi rd . Hoo ver and Thompson DNF'd . Sec ond overall went to Young with Feld gett ing third in a tie b reaker with Hoov e r . T'hey pl ayed follow the leader in th e 25 0 Sen ior class with Bob Harbor of Colton topping Dw ight Wilkinson of North and Paul Ballow of Arlington . The 500 Senior was th e same thing wit h Mitch Payton of Norco claiming that o ne . T he upse t of the day ca m e in the Powde r Pu ff di vision. Jill Mcllrath of No rco . who has dominated the class a ll season , look ed as if she'd do it ag ain when she won th e fir st motu wit h janet Grisham of A rli ngton seco nd . T he fic kle finger of fate stepped in the fin a l go ' ro u nd and Mci lra th went down and it was Grisham who co llected th e b ig one. 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