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00 r-- O') Sue Fish gets a helping hand off the track after a fall in the MX. Luckily for new champ Carey Steiner, the busted chain wasn't in a race. 1 second. Reno's Jenni Miles put her Yamaha in third leaving fourth place Miriam Rodriquez to deal with the rest of the pack. Lewis was able to hold the l,e!l.d for eight laps until Debbie Land, also of the Fred Lewis Team, swooped around her. On the 12th lap Lisa Delgado captured the lead only to have Land take it away from her. On the last lap Delgado took over again with Lewis, Land and Miles finishing ahead of Lana Dunfee and Randi tJJrenborg. With less than two hours' rest the Expert riders were back on the line . 0' Fish again' dominated the entire race with no one even getting close to her. Rhe Helms, DeDe Cates. Trudy Beck. Carey Steiner and Kathy Holman were Sue's closest competition. At the 45-minute mark of the race as Sue went by her mechanic, she was heard to yell, " How much longer in this gosh darn race?" With tempera tures in the low 80s, the heat was taking its toll of the riders. . After the riders meeting on Sunday the girls lined up at the gate on the motocross course awaiting the signal to go in the 125cc Pros . The holeshot was taken by none other than Sue Fish with Rhe Helms right on her knobby. Steiner, Klatt . Haag and Holman were jockying for the front positions. Fish began to open up another of her unreal leads when a getoff on the downhill sent her to the hospital with possible neck and back injuries. Helms took ovef as the leader; Klatt. Steiner, Trudy Beck and Maico-mounted Pauline Pitt ended the race in the top places. Rhe Helms took an early lead in the second 125cc moto with DeDe Cates so close to her that there were times they looked as if they were riding the same bike . For seven laps the two riders diced with Cates finally getting by Helms as they came through the gully in the bad section and Helms went off the track and into a fence. Once Cates was in the lead she just kept dialing on thepower for a half a lap lead. Cates had four lapped riders between herself and second place Steiner. Klatt, Helms. Beck ; Pitt and Diane Cox captured the next points. Steiner garnered the 125cc overall win with Roxie getting , second. Helms, Beck and Pitt took the next honors. DeDe Cates completely dominated both 250cc Pros motos to become the, . Women's 250 Champ. There was just no way any of the other riders were going to catch this 17-year- old rocket. In the first moto DeDe had Helms. Holman, Peggy Hall. Klatt . Beck and Debbie Mathews follow her across the finish line . Moto two to p scorers were Cates, Helms. Holman Steiner. Beclr. and Klatt. At the end of the day Ste iner was the winner of the Kawasaki KEIOO and the new Women's Na tional number one. DeDe Cates had moved from last year 's number three to two for the coming year and Rhe Helms was changing her number to three. ' Amateur Kathy Wall took possession of a new little Kawasaki pit bike, a KV75 by becoming the overall winner in her division . Dawn Paiment and Julie Brown were the happy second and third place finishers . . Debbie Land is now the Novice number one with Lisa Delgado, Mercedes Gonzalez and Jenni Miles getting the second through fourth highest points. During the - trophy presentation. even though it was held in the dark, there was a lot of very happy women who had worked extremely hard for all of the honors that were being given them . Gifts of Barum tires , leathers. I helmets, goggles, grips. cases of oil, weeks at the Russ Darnell School were being given to the first through sixth • place wintters in each class. • 13