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._._._._._._._.__._._._._._.__._.-..-.. ," the lin e to run for gold. It was again Law son who started on tap followed by G rigsby. Ra iney and Perkins. Per kins got under R ain ey on th e second lap to move to th ird . Everyone held position until th e eig ht h la p wh en Ra iney got the feel of his new machine and reclaimed thir d . R ainey started to put the p ressu re on Grigsby bu t tim e ran out wit h La wson co llec ting his second win of the night , Grigsby second and Ra in ey third . R a in ey didn 't go hom e emp ty h anded. flat socking it to th e bo ys in the Money short track. R a ine y' went wire to wire a nd left the bat tle to the res t of th e troops . Fortune was in second followed by Rob Mor rison aboard one of Pet e Piston e's in famous Buls . On th e second lap Morrison got by Fortune and went look ing for Ra in ey. Fortune came ba ck on the third la p ' to tak e b a ck se cond . Morrison 's bike went sou r a t th is point and he was out . Dylan Neihart mov ed in to plug up th e ga p a nd th ey fini shed in th at orde r. Todd Brown had no trouble taking th e win from Bill Matherson in the 250cc Exp ert short track. He tri ed to repeat h is performance on th e h al f m ile but Pete Hames had differ ent ideas, goi ng ou t fast an d ne ver look ing back. Brown was right behi nd him looking for the mi stake that never ca me . N eih art , who had t hi rd off the lin e . held on to it until the fifth lap when bike problems forced him out and Chris Cannon took over and brought it home . Results in Results Section . Staten tops Corona MX By Elaine Jones CORONA, CA , DEC . 16 Rex Staten, aboard a very fast Bassett Yamaha, set a star-studded fiel d of O pen Experts on its collective ear, literally cruising to victory in the season finale at Corona. Staten had th e start wired and from there on it was clear sailing from "Mr. Smooth," who put enough distance between himself and the rest of the field to stop and have coffee. In th e first mota he let those behind him battle with J im Fishback grabbing second awa y from La rry Roeseler, In the seco nd mota . Steve "Moto" Cross got off behind Staten with Fishback in the number three spo t and G.S .M. rider Mark Rawley in fourth. Rawley chased Fishback for five laps before he got through and held him off for the next two to collect the show. Fishback still had enough for second overall while Rawley ended in a tie with Cross for third and lost it because of Cross' second-place finish in the final go . Joe Price, who ' keeps telling everybody h e's too old to go the distance with the younger kids, will have to eat his words as he swept the 125cc Pro class with two straight. They mixed it up pretty good in the first moto with Jeff Hollie claiming the second from Robert Gray. The second moto saw the ranks greatly depleted as Price and Hollie were the only two to make it to the line. Hollie got out ahead of Price but by the second lap Price had the lead and Hollie , shortly thereafter , was sidelined. He still picked up second with Robert Gray one point behind in third . Nine 125cc Intermediates were on hand and no one had a lock on first ~-~- ' - --- --' . place . Keith Doege looked pretty strong, winning the first moto with Mark Denning and Cary Steiner in the two , three spots. Doege was again out on top in the second mota but Ri ck Davis had taken care of him by th e second lap and settled down to some seriou s ri di ng. Ke ith W ill ia m so n , coming off an eigh th -p lace fin ish th e first rnoto , moved to second as Doege dropped to th e end of t he pack . Kondus filled in the thi rd spot for three laps before he fell by th e wayside a nd Denning took over. W ith th ree more laps to go everybody cooled it and it was Davis, Williamson and Denning at th e checkered . T he overall went to Denning in a tiebreaker with Doege. Da vis ro unded out t he field in third . Results in Results Section. Cajon High School Corona HSMX • wInner By Elaine J ones CORONA , CA , DEC . 3 Cajon came, saw and conquered Saturday morning as they took on Montclair, Esperanza , Linfield , Eisenhower and Pacific High Schools a t Corona Ra cewa y's high schoo l mo tocross. Cajon's strongest showing was their total dom inat ion o f th e 125c c Int ermedia te class . Bill Easley led th e charge for Cajon in the first m oto , taking it from wire to wire with teammate Bob Blaylock locked in tight behind him . Steve McHugh of Esperanza battled with teammate James Mintger for t he third place and was able to co nta in him to the checkered. The second moto had Blaylock out on top with Easley in the come-from behind role . It only took Easley two laps to catch his parmer and he wasn't the only one as Mintger chose that moment to also make h is move , putting him in second. One lap later Bla ylock came back on Mintger as bike problems took the Esperanza rid er out. From that point it was clear sailing for the Cajon boys as Easley picked up the win with Bla ylock seco nd and McHugh holding up th e honor for Esperanza in third . T roy Manning of Cajon picked up the win in th e 250 cc Senior go , riding two flawl ess races leading from wire to wire . Dan Paulson of Linfield had to be cont ent with second. Results in Resu lts Section . Fortune nails Elsinore Special Expert win By A nd i Gangewer ELSINORE, CA . DEC. 10 The 250cc Amateur class at Elsinore Raceway's TT Scrambles was clinched this night by a first timer to the Amateur ranks. Vince Burna clinched motos one , two , and three . He had his hands full with Bruce Windham, who 's been a veteran of the 250 Amateur class for quite a while. Both Vince and Bruce wer e aboard Suzuki's. Allen Daniels was third . The second race for these 250s was quite a duel. 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