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Cycle News 1978 10 04

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NORTHERN DATELINE CONGRATULATIONS TO DARRELL SHULTZ '*N I KO N 500cc MX ROOKIE OF THE YEAR. *HOPETOWN WINNER* George Cummings cuts off Leon Fowler at Cycleland Speedway. SPONSORED BY HI-POINT RACING PRODUCTS Moural, Sauer sock Cycleland ST By Ernie Aldrich Photo byE. W. Dominie CHICO , CA o' AUG. 26 Several riders doubled as Chicoans won five of 11 classes and 16 of a possible 27 trophies offered at Cycleland Speedway Saturday night. Lowell Moural and Dirck Sauer are. two Chico ra cers who not only won their . cl asses. but. the ir Handicap Mains as well . T roy Cummings led t he 250cc Expert Main a lmost' from start to fin ish . but Moural slipped by on th e last tum of the last lap to win it for the seco nd week in a row . The race began with Cumm in gs ta ki ng t he lead followed by Moural , Dou g Reiswig a nd Randy Freeman. Reiswig was battling it out with Mou ral for second a nd fin ally go t hi m whe n the la tter went high on tu rns one a nd two of the fourt h la p . Passin g Mou ra l didn't 'do Re iswig much good however . as he b ike broke do wn a nd he h ad to drop ou t th e next time through the stretch. Cummings .still led by a length at the wh ite flag . but Mou ral closed ground and raced on th e inside with him th ro ugh tu rns one and two . C ummings wasn't giving in as th ey shot down the backstretch whee l-to -wheel. T hey went into turns three a nd four together wit h Mou ra l still on the inside. Cu m m ings a lm ost lost it and ra ced wide as Moural won by eight lengths with Freem an taking thi rd and Jeff Fowler n ab b ing fourth. The Handicap was a different sto ry as .Mou ra l got to the front soo ner and coa sted in from there. Jim Conger fin ished second and Jady Patterson th ird . . Results IlOcc MINI NOV 1. Clarence Goss ISuzl; 2. TIm : Rahm!Yam) 3. Joey Hubbard IVam). ; IlOcc JR: 1. Clin. Ballinger !Yaml. l 00cc NOV: 1. Bren. Cash IS uzl. ' 100cc EX: 1. MikeGreslum IVaml. 125cc NOV 1. Brad Nelson 1Iion; 2. Bun Fowler : 1 IV om). 250cc EX: 1. Lowell Mour al IBul ~ 2. TroV Cummings (Vam);3. Randv "'_IBull. 250cc NOV: 1. Mike cagle (Vam); 2. "'ed Wavbd. T_7!i040 214-494-3374. 75992 Baseline Twentynine Palms. CA 922.n j 71.4/367·9179 25

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