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moro : neither one let off the gas for a
minute . Landing wheel -to -wheel off
the dropoff, Ren no got by and held his
. position ti ll the end of the mota.
The second mota was hairier than
the first. Tracy O swell grabbed the
ho leshot and was flying . trying 10 hold
off H a ugh in second. Haugh got by
and took over the lead. Cole also
m o ved by Oswell and took out after
Haugh. Bla nd and Ren no were at it
again. running fourth and fifth. Cole
got by H augh . opening a wide margin.
O swell was closing fast on Haugh.
putt in g unbelievable pressure on him .
Renno and Bla n d were careeni ng into
~ the turns with less than o ne b ike's
length between them in their fight for
~ fo urth . When th e checkered flag
dropped . Cole took first overall .
Ha ug h scooped u p second and third
- went 10 Oswell. Bla nd held Renno off
for fourth.
Pet er Pen land ( Mai -T rac k a nd
Travel) took the overa ll win in t he 500
J u niors in a night long battle with
Steve Huth ( KTM·Mid· Valley) . In the
first moto, H u th took th e lead with
Penland close behind . ' Penland tried
every trick in the book to get .by : Going
wide in the sweeper turns , and cutting
in tight alongside. Taking the dropoff
side by side and landing inches apart.
You name it , he tried it but just
couldn't get by .
Meanwhile, a tight race for third
was taking p lace between Bo b
' K e lla m s. Alan Root and Dan
Pe terson . These three looked like the
Superchief, right on each other's tail
c lea r around the track. Rick Denney
moved up through the pack. easing his
way into fourth , putting Kellams and
Peterson behind him .
When the gate dropped for the
second moro , Roo t led the pack up the
hill with Denney behind him. Pen la nd
and Huth were runn ing th ird and
fourth. Once more , Pen la nd and H u th
were on each other's tail, pressuring
and pushing every inch of the track .
Root ran into tro u ble and ha d to turn
the lead over to Denney. Pen la nd ,
having a second in h is first moto , was
now in second and really coo king, to
keep H urh be hi nd h im . Their battle
conti n ued righ t dow n to the wire
where Pen la nd too k down the ove ra ll
win . H urh held second and Denney
sai led ho me with third .
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Resul ts in Resu lts Section.
North wins Corona
HSMX Championship
.
By Elaine Jones
CORONA , CA , MA Y 6
For the fourth vear in a row
North High Scho'ol has won the
title of Inl a n d Empire Large
Schools Champions.i T hey did it
with a well-oiled , eve n ly dis tributed
team ready to meet the ro u g h
cha llenge of Norco. Upland a nd Palm
Springs.
North and Upland eac h wo n six.
Norco took five and Pa lm Springs o ne .
Jim Law son was the star fo r North ,
winni ng th e 25 0 a nd 500 Se nio r
classes. In th e 250s, Lawson took Greg
Sheets of Upland a nd North tea m m at e
J o h n Ga llagher o n a g uided to u r of the
course and all they could do was fo llow
him home a nd try 10 stay o ut of
rrouble . :
The 500 Senior go wasn't quite so
easv. The first moro saw La wson get
the' ho leshot with Sheets in second and
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