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(l(") 00 O"l (Clockwise from left) Dan Conway went 4 -1 to take the Open Pro win . Karl Jordan. the 12 5cc Pro winner. with tuner Ray Hempstead. Tom Benolkin (39) leads Mark Murphy in the 250s. Murphy (4 1) was the 250cc winner. Californians Dean Cates (67) and M ike Shoemaker (61 9 ) holeshot the f irst 250cc Pro moto, Honda FlorIda Wlnter-AMA MX Series: Round 2 Jordan, Murphy & Conway shine at Palm Beach By M ike & Anne Ada ir PALM BEACH, FL, JAN. 9 Yamaha mounted Karl Jordan and Mark Murphy and Honda mounted Da n Conway earn ed over all P ro class win s in ro u n d tw o of the Honda sponsored Winter-AMA MX Ser- ies. Jordan's sweep of the l25cc Pro mows was so complete that som e 0 f th e specta~o rs got o u t rods and reels to cas t In Pa lm Bea ch Ra ceway's ca na ls. Jordan and his Ra y H empstead tuned Yamah a ow n th e on ly pe rfect record after two week s o f co mpeti tio n in th e Fl orida series. J ordan sai d, " I was worri ed toda y. I'm n ot a good mud rider. All I hoped for was to keep the po ints lead ." Jordan 's most serious threat , Kenny Keylon, al ong with Honda 's David Ba iley, Steve Martin a nd Kawasaki's Bill y L iles, headed west for the CMC Serie s, -w h ile Team Ta mm, a five rider team fro m 'so u thern Ca li fornia, sponso red by Jul ie and Bob Ta mm, drove eas t to co mpete. Ju lie Ta m m, said, " T he guys like the track s here., T hey are grea t fo r co ndi tioni ng." Marty T ri pes' you nger broth er Mike is a tea m m em ber, cu rre nt ly holding sevent h pl ace in the Open class p oint standings . 125cc Pro Kawasaki's Ed die Warren blitzed the first 125cc q ual ifier a hea d o f tea mmate Eric Yarnell , New Jersey's Keith Mann an d Florida's Monte H ogge. Team Dyn am ic Prol Am rider Mark McLar en looked very professional for th.ree la~s c:>f th e secon d qualifier , but faded to finish, Moto-X FoxlWD-40 sponsored Steve Burdett e led Illinois' Greg Randa and Nevada 's David Wea k to David Dye's chec kered £lag. New York's Carlo Coen, in only hi s seco n d pro race, pl ayed rabbit in th e fir st m on ey a nd point paying m ot o, leading J ordan, Chris H o ward, R a nds an d Dennis Daft. Bu t j ordan did hi s thing after lap one and the moro was his. In th e second and fina l moto, Texan Terry Tinney and J ames Veugler made it interesting for J ordan , with Daft, Coen and Mark Flesia also in co nte n tio n. Bu t once again it was Jorda n ac ross the fin ish lin e fir st. J ord an exp lai ned h is failure to run away w ith th e moto: " J u st as I was lining up Veugler, he did an endo. I dodged him a n d smacked a tree with m y left shou lder and th at slowed me down a bit. " Co lorado 's Flesia took seco nd to ea rn third overa ll a nd Steve Burdette was thi rd for seco nd ove ra ll. Burdette sai d, " Dave R ot u ndi has my bike right, bu t th e bo dy 's j us t no t ready for Florida yet." 250cc Pro Minnesota 's Tom Benolkin and