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(Above) Terry Poovey i. batting 1,.900 in the Shootout series, with • win in Fort W0r:th backing up hi!l previous triumph in 0.11••. (File photo). (Below) Ronnie Jone. notched .nother top-three finl.h, .nd now tr.... Poovey by 14 series points. (Inset) Poovey .nd Jones celebrate on the victory ~nd. (File photo.) Great American Shootout Series: Round 2 Poovey packs a wallop By Frank Harrison Photos by Barbara Barkley and Harrison FORT WORTH. TX. JAN. 7 Texan Terry Poovey tracked to another grand slam at the Tarrant County Convention Center, winning his Scratch heat and regular heat, surviving a restart in the semifinal and two restarts in the slam-bang main for two more wins. plus the trophy dash. all on his Al Lamb Honda. 10 The win puts Poovey some 14 points ahead of Oklahoma's Ronnie Jones in Mike Kidd's Great American 'Shootout in this second round of the five-race series that began in November in Dallas. Tonight's track was a little different. As second-place finisher. Ronnie Jones put it, "The bike starts hopping around as the tires warm up." The usually polished concrete was well coated with rubber, thanks to a full -fo-". , ••• : day of amateur racing and ATVs burning-in the turns. Jones led two starts in the main. In the first stan Jones headed Chris Carr and Poovey into turn one, only to have Bubba Shobert and Dodd Dyson go down. The second start saw Jones again in the lead followed by Poovey, Billy Herndon, Kris Armentrout and Scott Adams. The main was on as Poovey grabbed the lead on lap two with Herndon in Jones' roost and Carr, Adams and Shobert jockeying for fourth. Poovey stretched his lead as the [ield settled down, but Shobert started to work from his fifth-place position only to go too wide. The field closed up with Poovey, Jones and Herndon wheel to wheel lap after lap.. Adams tried to catch up, and he in turn was followed by Jeff Narramore and Kris Armentrout. Californian Chris Carr fell at about the halfway mark, as did Shobert. The front pack of Poovey, Jones, and Herndon closed up even further, .... so it was still anybody's race with Adams com[ortably in fourth. The [inish was Poovey. Jones, Herndon and Adams all in a pack, followed closely by Armentrout, Narramore, Dyson, Carr and Duvall. When Mike Kidd calls a "shootout" it's really a shootout! With 50 top professional riders the evenin~ was off to a real slam-bang start With seven Scratch healS. six regular heats. four semis, a trophy dash and the main. Scratch healS were run off smoothly with Poovey, Armentrout. Rusty Miskovsky, Charlie Orr, Craig Louis, Carr and Danny Huffman grabbing lhe lOp SpolS. Heat race number one was probably one o[ the best races of the night with Miskovsky taking the lead into turn one only to have a crash with Bubba Shobert, Darrin Quinn and John Taylor. The restart again saw Miskovsky in the lead [ollowed by last year's winner Carr and Rusty Gourley. Gourley fell and lhen Carr went into the lead wilh Shobert passing Miskovsky. The finish was Carr, Shobert, Miskovsky and Dan McDonald. .The second heat was led by Charlie Orr start tofinish, with Billy Herndon and Ronnie Jones dropping way back from the start to allow Duane Duvall and Tina Rhinlinder to fight it out [or second and third. But it was only [or a short while - the finish was Orr, Herndon, Jones, Duvall and Rhinlander. The third heat wasa Terry Poovey! Phil Darcy!Kenny Tolbert race almost wire to wire. The [ourth heat was about the same with JeH Narramore, John Johnson and Shon Stovall. Heat five saw ovice Terry Newman grab the lead followed by Scott Adams, but as Adams put the pressure on, Newman fell and the firLish was Adams, Dodd Dyson, and Terry Chastain. In the final heal, it was Phil Culver all the way with Armentroul on his tail leading Tim Hampton to the flag. Semi one saw Chris Carr in the lead, only to have a red flag when Odell Davis and Phil Darcy crashed in turn one. On the restart it was Carr all the way followed by Jeff Narramore and a real battle [or third between Ramon Huddleston, Miskovsky, and Stovall, but the finish was Carr, Narramore, and Huddleston. The second semi saw another restart and Adams then grabbed the lead lhrough the lasl lap, but then. was zapped by Billy Herndon. Duvall finished third. In the third semi it was Poovey at the start but again Shobert went down with Tolbert and Huffman in the mess in turn one. After the restart il was Poovey, Shobert, and Tolbert wire to wire. Ronnie Jones ran off and hid from lhe pack in the [ourth semi, leaving Orr and Armentrout to fight it out for second lap after lap. Wilh a wheel-towheel baltle at the white flag it was Jones, Armentrout, and Orr at the finish. The $500 t~ophy dash was then up for grabs as fast qualifiers Poovey, Miskovsky, Huffman and Orr were on the line for the battle. Poovey took the holes hot with HuHman and Miskovsky handlebar to handlebar through turns 1-2 then wheel to wheel. with Poovey in the lead at the [inish followed by Miskovsky, Huffman and Orr. • Results MAIN EVENT: 1. Torry PocNoy; 2. Ronnie Jones; 3. Billy Herndon; 4. ScoctAdoms; 5. KrisArmomrout; 6. Jolf Norramoro; 7. Dodd Dyoon; 8. Chris CO"; 9. DUI,... DuvIII. GREAT AMERICAN SHOOTOUT POINT STAND· INGS: 1. Torry PocNoy (60); 2. Ronnie Jonos 1481; 3. Soon Ado[TIS (37); 4. Billy Herndon (27); 5. Bu_ Shobert (25); 6. Chris Carr (23). 50 EXHIBmON: 1. P.J. W _ ; 2. Todd W.,; 3. ... JooG~.