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I . I .Round two'winner Marland Whaley sneaks a dab in section 12. Whaley took a five there the first time; turned in a one the next time. AMA/NATC Trials Championship Tony Leduc explodes out of " The Deep, " which was the organizers' name for section 10. . Round two Whaley bouncesbackat ·Frank Baines '111 By Dale Brown no PATTERSON ,CA,APR.9 Marland Wha~ey rebounded from a defeat at ·tHe Murderer's Gulch round to blitz the second round of the u.s. Trials Championship, held at Frank Raines Park. Whaley, who dropped . anly 19 points compared to 65 die day before, was well ahead of second-place finisher Jack Stites h d .h w.? woun . up Wit a 38.2 sc~re . '- ane Leavitt , .who. won the. P~~VIOUS d ay, sat out th is mal as his home rou n d ." All riders must sit -out one round; those riders with national roun ds in their area must sit out that ro und. Whaley and Bernie Schreiber must sit out the ' Apr. 15 round at Sad dleb ack Park. Frank Raines Park differed greatly from Murderer's Gulch. Most of th e sec t ions were rockpiles , wi th an occasiona l trickle of water moving across them t6 make them slippery. Section 12, for Experts only, was one of the more difficult examples. Rocky all the way, there were three case- -. snagging 'steps; the middle one waswet l an? slippery. Whaley h~d a clean g?mg when he los~ traction on the slippery step and shd backwards. On his second try , he got through with a one, the best .score of the day in that section. Sections 19 and 20 , almost a double section ,'were also wall to wall boulders with a trickle of water going through . Nineteen started along a rock ledge , then turned and clambered over a three-foot rock step. Section 20 's entrance was a wet four-foot roc k fa ce . with another four -foo ter in the middle of the sec tio n. Sections 10 and 11 were righ t next to each other, but quite different . Ten was a drop into a shallow stream with a slippery climb to get out. Eleven was a hillclimb ; scores 'b ased on how far one made it up . Clerk of the course Derrick Belvoir gav e riders permission to ride 11 first so they wouldn't have to go down the steep hill with ' soggy brakes. One spectator reported that Whaley wheelied down the lenghth of the hill . ' . The loop was approximately eigh t miles long; much of i~ straight up and down . The original time limit was three and a half hours plus an . hour's grace , but that was extended by 30 minutes. : Bernie Schreiber rode the trial after dropping out the previous day. ' H is injured right foot still hampered his ability to dab and in one section he cou ld n' t take a dab and ended up falling over, his foot still on the peg. After one loop, Whaley led with 15 po ints. Bob Hopkins (Bul) and Jack Stites had 18. . O n th e seco nd loop Whaley dabbed but four times, winning' ea sily. Stites had a 20 -point loop , coming in. two minutes into h is grace peri od . H e finish ed seco nd wit h 38 .2 p oints. Schreiber , who said his foot felt b etter as he went along , did a hot 13-point second loop ~o take third overall with 40 points. Hopkins slipped a bit, turning a 28-point second loop for 46 total. Oregon's Brad Sheen (Mon) found himself tied with Hopkins. The tie was finall y broken by ones after th e two had tied on cleans as well . Hopkins was fourth , Sheen fifth . Alan Todd took sixth ahead of another tie. Marv Heath (Bu l) beat T erry Cheney (Bul) for .seventh by nine cleans. Bob N ickelsen again dominated the Senior class , winning by a lmost 30 points desp ite an ' oil leak and loose cam chain on th e factory Honda. Les Kallem took his second second in two days with a score of 73.6. Wiltz Wagner was third. Kevin Cullen (Bul) beat ea rlier Sportsman class ' winner Terry Tuck (Mon) for overall honors by less than thr ee points. Howard Ga lbreath , who worked on the even t the d ay before, was third . • . 'Unofficial Results 1. Marland Whal ev (Han) 19; 2. Jack Stites (Man) 38.2; 3. Bernie Schreiber (Bul>40 ; 4. Bob Hopk ins IBul1 46 , 22 cl, 9 ones; 5. Brad Skreen (M onl 46. 22 cl, 5 ones; 6. Alan Todd (Han) 57; 7. Marv Heath, (Bull. 56. 21 cl.; 8. Terry Cheney IBull, 56. 12 cl; 9. Curt Com er Jr . (man ) 62; 10. Bill 8urgener (M an) 65. SENIOR CLASS: 1. Bob Nick elsen (Han) 47; 2. Les Kallem (Bul) 73.6; 3. Wiltz Wagner (Bul) 78. SPORTSMAN CLASS : L Kevin Cullen IBull 89 .9; 2. Terry Tuck (Monl 92.2; 3. Howard Galbea1h(Bull 93 . 11