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winner Jim Cushing. Don Crane, Tazio Anderson and Mike Dempsey rounded out the top riders . Two-Day Gold Medalist Don Ivan laid out a nice , challenging course with lots of up-hills and down-hills and one fantastic tacky trail through FiveMile Canyon. . Preston, Hersman and Timossi win D&C$1000MX By Pat Doyle BR ENT W O OD , CA. NOV. 13 D&C Promotion's second race on the new and dema nd ing Sa nd Hill Ranch race course saw some ' excellent expert actio n . .H usky Racing through the dusty forest at the Wilseyville hare scrambles. ot her trophy. That m ade Danny Castlehano a bit peeved for his first effort here and good third place finish. Joe Co dy won the 125 Juniors over a pair of real life seniors still classed as juniors with Terry Sage (he wrenches on Skip Aksland's motors) in second and Mike "Ancient Age " Peavler holding on for third. Bill McNair beat out Steve Elliott and Timmy Crossfield in close competition that saw the O ld Timers ride along which is great because a lot of dads get to race with their sons like Cloyse Holland , Sr ., taking third Old Timer Expert. Jerry Jenkins is still proving that the old men can go fast as he and way over-40 Bill McClinton took the first two Old Timer Expert spots while Jack ' Lewis recovered from a big get off take the fourth behind Holland. Gene Kelso took the junior win with Rich Lopez competing in this class but being eliminated for not being old enough . All in all. the event was superior with the exception of the dusty conditions. If the drough t co ntinues, none of us will be around here m uch more to not enjoy these beautiful hills in the lower Sierras. Results in Resu lts Section. Bailey chases ghost, wins High Desert 100 By Larry Ulrich BEND, O R , OCT . 23 Clear skies greeted som e 385 riders as they lined u p for the eighth annual High Desert 100 that is held 20 miles east of Bend , 28 Ore. Copious amounts of rain three weeks earlier were hard to believe today with great amounts of dust. The drought in Oregon is no t over yet. , Members of the Cascade M.C. are now putting a starting check on all the helmets. Just prior to the start, you could hear a sage rat sneeze. Then the ban ner dropped and about 350 of the 385 bikes roared into life and headed for the smokebomb three miles away. In a few minutes the remaining riders prod their mo unts into action . After the smokebomb it was pretty fas t going for about a mile and then they headed up a rocky road . A couple of miles of dodging rocks and 'then back out on WFO desert again, through a big culvert under the highway and then it starts getting rough. A trials ,rider , wou ld have bee~ right at home for the next few m iles; rocks, rocks and more rocks. At this point a past High Desert winner, Dale Dem aris , was leading by at least two or three minutes . A big rock jumped out in front of him and "pow," instant flat tire. He pulled off the trail and hid behind the trees as eventual winner Ken Bailey went by. Bailey was heard to say at the 50 -mile point, "W here is that Demaris? I haven't even seen his dust for miles!" Bailey had really been pushing his 390 Husky trying to catch Demaris, when Demaris pulled off 38 miles back! The first 50 -miles were rockpiles, fun roads, fast roads, and some real fun trails. The second 50 miles went south up into the pine tree country of the Deschutes National Forest. Last year the entire High Desert 100 was held on USFS. Many riders voiced disapproval, so it was moved back to the desert for the start-finish-gas with about 30 miles of running up in the pine country. T his yea r there were no killer hills , no bad bottlenecks, just fun rid ing as can be attested to in the fact that 265 riders finished , the h ighest percentage of any "High Desert ," In an attempt to make a different course that hadn't been ridden to death, the sponsoring club used some trails that had not been used for a couple of years and some roads that had never been raced on. With all the BL M restrictions, that is sometimes difficult. A lot of familiar names were in the top 20. ISDT veteran Ken Maahs finished fourth overall. Dusty Coppage copped a 16th overall position. As was mentioned earlier, Ken Bailey of Kennewick, W A picked up the overall win, two trophies and $100 cash. Ted Lafon was second overall on a Yamaha and a local rider. Joe McCormick of Redmond was third and first 250 Expert on a Yamaha. The 200 class should be renamed, the "IT 175 Yamaha class ," Another local rider, Hank Court (Bend) recently switched to a 400 IT and won the Old Timers class . Going down the finisher list, reads like a combined effort of H usqvarna and Yamaha . One Greeves finished, at least two Kaws , one or two Bultacos and quite a few Suzukis.: The Cascade M.C. asked dealers around the state for donations to gi ve to the riders . The response from dealers was great and quite a few things were thrown to the guys and gals during the rider's meeting. Then the rest was saved and after the trophies ran out (30% to amateurs and 50% to expe,ts)"the finishers. got Winner Phil Jacobson finds his KTM airborne over a Pescadero Olympiad obstacle . to pick what they wanted . All b ut the last three or four finishers got something. Like last year. a trophy for 125th overall was given; same size as the first place ones. This guy that won was out of the trophies in his class and was surprised to see this trophy . Results ran last week . Jacobson wins Pescadero •'Olympiad" By IT Productions PESCADERO, CA. NOV . 6 Olympiad contestants Chris Carter and Rick Hocking were pitted against the likes of National #20 John Gennai and ISDT q ualifier Gary Vanderpool at the Knob Hill Ranch Hare Scrambles in Pescadero. W hen the dust settled (and , there wasn 't much d ust due to a well timed ra in during the week) however. it was loca l expert Phil Jacobson going wide open from start to finish for the win . Chris Carter took second awa y from John Gennai , who was ridin~ a box stock TT 500. Vanderpool joined the over-the-bars club when his bike seized. . Dave Morgan, the hottest 250 Expert around, snuck ' in between Chris and John for first 250 and third overall . Open Novice John Mason from the racing Mason family thumped his way to the checkers ahead of Pescadero's Consi stent Don J immy Moore . Cameron was third with Steve Simons (offork fame) fourth . Inspired Tony Williams rode from dead las t to a win in the Vets class, with Bob Hurst close behind. Tim Crossfield's moto cross experience paid off with Tim blazing to a 125 Novice win ahead of Pa ul Tucker and Tom Best. Jim Bert ram copped the last trophy. Tim's dad Bill O 'Brien got seco nd place brass in the Old Timers race . The 125 /250 Junior Combined class went to Steve Benkovich with Joe Bertram (Both Bertram brothers had a trophy day) second and hard riding KTM rider Al Banta the third trophy winner ahead of Art Flemming. The huge 250 Novice field saw Greg Houle shine. Jim Dieo took second ahead of Cowbell enduro trophy , rider Jeff Watts took the first 125 Expert moto ahead of Mike Preston's Suz uki with Jim Zack, Da ve Woodall and Jerome Heiberger rounding ou t the top five. ' Preston came back to win the tie breaking second moto aheadof Watts ' and Zack while Woodall , having trouble, dropped back, making Heiberger's two fifths good for fourth overall. CMC number one Mike Hersman. on the JK Cycle Inn Husky. led the pack of 250 Experts flying off the big downhill jump in the first rnoto action . New expert , l-t-year-old Joey Schlag moved into second on the fourth lap when Shawn McConn dropped his Yamaha on the horseshoe. Heiberger gassed his Maico from a ninth place start into a third place finish. The second moto again saw Hersman pulling away from the pack . to make it two in a row for the overall . Problems dropped Heiberger from second to last on the second la p while George McNamara moved into second place to stay ahead of Schlag. In' the Open Experts, Rick Timossi and Todd Kohlmeister traded moto wins with Timossi winning the tie breaker. Dave Mythen wrapped up third place with two consistent rides. Rick Barry had his new Yamaha dialed in , grabbing both moto wins in the Open Novice division . Scott Kinsman moved his Dirt Factory KTM into second p lace in the first moto only to be overtaken on the last lap by eventual second place winner Mike Westover. Claro Cabading showed the Vet Experts around after earlier tak ing second overall in the Open Intermediates behind Gary Davis. The only 125 in front of Rich Goldberg all day in the novice divi sion was Greg Brown who led the first part of the first moto before Goldberg ' gra bbed the lead for the rest of the afternoon. Results in Results Section : Myers, Chandler, and Lesniewski win at Plymouth By Andy Medin PLYM OUTH, CA. OCT. 31 The O pen Experts st a rted , the program with Bob Mye rs (M a i) dominating both motos. Myers too k m oto one by a huge m argi n with Duane Joice (Yam) and Da n Waller (Mai) having a terrific duel for second. Lap after lap, Waller was waiting for Joice to make a mistake.