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(CIockwIH from top ~ Ron Lec:hlen doml~ the 12&cc Pro c:t.a. winning by I CGi"~ . . . . . . . M.-ty ~•.8hown here on I 12&. rode IN "'.... Pro c....... The 121icc InterrnedI8ta get undefWly. 24 USee Expert race, trading moto wins in tbe preliminaries. Douglasa puU~ ahead in the fmal to clinch tbe win as Gonzales finisMd leCond. Donna Gilio pi~ up third on ~ Suzuki after Yamaha rider Jan Murray suff~' m«hanical problems and cras~. twice. Maria Gonzales took home the Women'. Intermediate d . . honon, putting her Honda 'a~ad of Suzuki _ riden Pam McDonald and Tam Tracy. Linda _<;lhriltensen won the Novice race with second· going to Suzuki·mount~ Susan Hunt. R. McCoy rode m; Honda to a strong UScc Novice win, leaving Yamaha rider Don Moor~ to bold off K. Cummins for second. Yamaha rider Larry Harter cruised in for fourth place and Ron LewiI round~ out the top fIVe on his Suzuki. Suzuki rider Gary Curtis topped t~ UScc Intenn~te division, beating Yamaha·mount~J. Morningstar who came from mid·pack to finish second in t~ final. L. Thomaa pick~ up third on his Yamaha while Ron Hensley finis~ fourth on a Suzuki and Yamaha pilot T. Brady grabb~ rtfth. With Warren Reid out of action and Donnie Hansen pulling hit entry for the UScc c1als ("I just don't feel contfortable on a UScc. "), it look~ lilte the stage was set for a duel be· tween Ron Turner and Marty Moates for the UScc Expert win. However, it was Ron Lechien who I~ the rack as th~ power~ up the start hil and Leehien was never challen~ for t~ lead. Behind L«hien's Yamaha came Mike Tripes and Moates. Moates put the movea on Tripes on the top of t~ downhill and the former s.v. ~ took I LOP rider tri~ to dOle t~ gap on Lechien. . By lap four Lechien had a safe seven second lead on Moates while Yamaha rider Tim Brady began to chaUmge Tripes for third. Radical Ron had .tuff~ t~ gate and gotten a last place start. "I'm s~ I saw it move, maybe someone else bumped it first," no~ Turner later . " Turner was definitely on the move as he slic~ past other riden and turn~ the fastest lap times of the' day while working up to eighth by the halfway point. Moates pull~ in to t~ m«hanic's area with a seizing engine while Brady moved into second and Tri~ fad~ to fourth behind Suzuki nder Roger Hensley. T~ battle for second heat~ up as Yamaha rider]. Stanford m~ up to "preuure tbe tight running trio of runr.--up fInWIln the 2IiDcc ~ Brady, H~nsIey and Tripes. Stanford work~ his way put all ~ and took ov~r second in the dOling lap.. Turner was sti11 pushing and h~ set his sights on Stanford af~r flying past H~os1~ and Brady. With one lap remaining, T~ c10IIed with· in two seconds of Stanford but had to sett1~ for third. Lechi~n cruised past t~ ch«k~n with a comfortabl~ margin to earn the $ll!OO fint place mon~ ahead of Stanford and Turner while Hensl~ plac~ fourth and Brady fifth. Moates struggl~ in to finish sixth a~ad of Tripes. Suzuki rider Dean Cates rode a strong race to finish eighth ahead of J. Pappe on a Suzuki and R. Ryan on a Yamaha. Sunday Richard Barron rode his Yamaha to , the l!SOcc Junior d . . win over Suzuki