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; ·••_._•••• •"io• •• ••_"_._" ._..._._._._. I: Western hotline ._._. ._._ ._._._._._._._._.- ~ t !Above! Doug Nicol (241 put it to Greg T or gerson in bot h 250 Pro m otos at AME. winning via a clean sweep. o (Below! Joe Root leads Bobby Jones in the first moto of the 125 Pros. Root seized. Jones won. (Continued from page 28) it sure helped. Bill got a third in the first mota, then came from last place to second on the second mota to put him in second overall. Cal Browning did a "Laugh-in" fall in the second mota. but took a third overall. Marvin Olson , riding as though he was on the shoulder of a freeway during rush hour, won the Master class . AI Dennler took second and Doug Archibald third. Results in Results Section. Jones gefs big comebackaf AME nlghfMX By Lee Taylor VALENCIA, CA. OCT . 28 Bobby Jones (Suz-Cole Bros .), back racing after be ing out for some time with inj uries, rode to vict ory in the 125 Pro class. In 30 the first mota , Joe Root (Suz-Luft Shocks/Pesky's) grabbed the holeshot. Rick Guilmette (Suz-Aircone) pressured Root and took over the lead. W ith Root now in third . Jones ' was right on his tail. Kirk Sturgeon passed from fifth to first and opened up a strong lead. The Root-Jones battle continued until Root's bike could take no more and seized. As the mota drew to a close , Sturgeon was ou t in front for the win . Jones crossed over in second and John O 'Mara held down the third place slot. The second time off the line . Jones took control at the top of the hill with Jerry Shore in second and Edwin Amet running a strong third . As Jones opened up a beautiful lead. Shore went off the track with bike problems and Arnet to second , In fourth , Sturgeon was fighting to regain his first mota lead and was challenging O'Mara in third . Wheels banging off the drop-off. they charged with O'Mara easing his way into second, before getting into trouble and slowing considerably. Stu rgeon was in second and out to get Jones, Heading in to the white flag lap. Sturgeon had closed to within half-bike's distance from Jones and was hot on his back right down to the wire . Jones held on for the overall win, Sturgeon crossed over to secondplace money and third went to Shore. The first 250 Intermediate mota got off to a rocky start with Pete Snorteland (Suz-Murry's Accessories) taking the lead. Behind him were Jeff Brigham (Yam- R&D Port and Polish) and Joe Johnson (Yarn- Fred's Union Station). Coming up out of the gully , Brigham took over the lead. While others were over -shooting every conceivable berm, Brigham was still in the lead with Johnson bearing down hard. Finally. Johnson slid out and Snorteland moved into second and David Gr a ha m took over third. Coming in for the checkered flag. Brigham held the lead with Snorteland in second. sliding out just before the finish line but recovering in time to hold his position over Graham. The second time around , Mike Prothro took over the lead with Randy St. George in second and Graham third. With a lot of lead changes taking place , Gr aham moved on into second with Johnson and Snorteland locked in tight combat for third. Right down to the wire , the fight for second continued with St. George holding the lead. In the overall results, Graham picked up top honors , Snorteland was second and Johnson took home third . (A bov e! Tony Gomez hol ds off TIm Lunde at CMC's South Bay Speedway motocross. (Below! Randy Hess grabs the holeshot ahead of Gomez and Lunde . Doug Nicol racked up a beautiful pair of wins for the 250 Pros , topping Greg Torgerson and Rick Cavish. Results in Results Section. Hess, Lunde and Messer win CMC SoufhBayMX By Chuck Burris CHULA VISTA, CA , OCT. 19 After being rained out on the last scheduled race date. South Bay Speedway had over 150 riders tum out for this week's CMC motocross event. As usual the 125 Pro riders put on an .u nreal show under the lights and FMF rider Randy Hess came out on top. Hess got the holes hot in the first mota j ust ahead of Yamaha's Pete Wanket. Tony Gom ez and FMF rider Cliff Lett were right behind with Terry Shek ell moving up on th em. Lett slid by Gomez to move int o the th ird position and tried to reel in Wanket'" but it was no use as Hess and Wanket just rode away . stretching out a solid lead. Gomez never let Lett out of reach and at the finish they were side ' by side with Lett winning onl y by half a bike length. In the second mota . Hess aga in got the holeshot with Gomez, Lett and Wanket behind. Wanket quickly got past Lett and began a du el with Gomez. Hess had again moved way out ahead and easily took the win as Gomez held off the charging Wanket and Lett this time finished fourth. In the 250 Pro division Hess also rode but did not dominate as he did in the 125s. He d id get the holeshot in the first moto but T im Lunde (Yam) got by after a few la ps and stayed ahead of r the rest of th e mota for the win with Hess second and Abian Lelevier (Mai ) third . The second mota was mu ch the same and so was the finishing order. In th e Open Pros , Luke Messer (Ma i) battled it out with hard rid ing Max Maple, a lso on a Maico. Luke came out o n top in both motes and took th e overa ll. Results in Results Section.