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Look and f••1a~ 9,.at a~ ~ou 'ide
de mo lished everybody in a class sweep.
Morse High rider Chris H arrold
coniinued his winning ways in th e
250cc In termediate cla ss with two
hard -fought wins ove r Rick Relu cio
and Mark Da y. Scott Meyer had his
three-straight 125cc Intermediate win
streak broken as he unl oaded hard in
th e first moto and Allan Fox (Suz)
worked a fourth and a second for the
overa ll in the wildest class of. the nigh t.
T he Junior classes saw three new
faces in th e winne r's ci rcl e: Ra ndy
Norma n scored ' his first ever 500cc
win ; John Mello took the 250cc stoppi ng Bill Silvers' win streak at two
- a nd Fr ank Yancey, who had a h a rd
spill earlier in the yea r, had h is first
win in th e 125cc Division Two class.
You ng Norman 's ' win was esp ecially
exciting to your reporter, since it was
h is first ever ride on a " b ig- bike" an d it
seemed like just yesterday we were
int ro d ucing him at Baron a Oa ks on a
Mini! (Ac tua lly it was a yea r ago .)
Nothi ng cha nged in the Coke/ Sa n
Diego High School MX Series fin a ls, as
Sa nt a na became th e firs t rep ea t
winner in th e five -year histo ry of the
series with a valiant effort by El
Capital a nd Monte Vista , finishi ng up
second
a nd
thi rd ,
respectively.
Although th e tota l number of schoo ls
compet in g was down from last yea r (22
vs. 29 ), the co m pe titi on was th e
to ughest ever as a ll of th e top 10 tea ms
had good representation a lmost every
week . My An nouncer's Trophy for the
individ ua l high point hig h school rider
went to Clint Hardick in a close one
over T racy McMillen. H a rd ick had the
edge with 18 class wins to 17 for
McMillen
and
six
seconds
to
McM illen 's two.
The T ri vic -Surnmer '78 Series ge ts
u nderw ay on J un e 2 1 with th e bigg est
one yet schedu led as Bob Basile ha s
been his usual busy self lini ng up ma ny
ex tra merchan d ise awa rds .
Results
250 PRO: 1. Rand y Hess IFMFI: 2. Clint Hardick
IASA ·Honl: 3. M ark Gregson ISull. .
125 PRO: 1. Randy Hess IFM FI; 2. Clint Hard;cl,
{A SA-Suzl; 3. Kenny Frost (Yam).
500 INT: t . Tracy M cM illen lSD-Suzl ; 2 . Paul Hugh es
(Yam); 3. David Nud in g (Yaml .
250 INT: t . Chris Harrold IYaml; 2. Rick Retucio
IVaml ; 3. Mark Day IA LBAI.
125 INT: 1. Allan FOil (Sul l: 2. Ro n 5 1. Germa ine
(Suzl: 3. W oody Carlson (Yaml.
100 INT : 1. Woody Carlson IVaml; 2, Curt IS Rough
(Sull: 3. Vanya Samarin (Suzl.
500 JR : 1. Randy Norman (Yaml ; 2. Nelson Olil/ieri
(Vaml ; 3. Gary Anderson IVaml.
2SO JR : 1. John M ello un: 2. Gordon Dawson
