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roads. open meadows. an old scrambles track, and even a half mile of pavement. Riders were started by class, and among the A rider wave. enduro rider Kevin Bethards had established a 30second lead by the end of the first lap. However. on the third lap. Bethards lost out on an encounter with a stump and the resultant broken foot ended his day. Gray assumed the lead at that point and opened up a comfortable margin on Over The Hill Gang A rider Brad Sears. Sears captured second, but finishedjust yards ahead of Ron Lemon. Tim McCoy, teve Smith, Randy DuBoi. Pat McFarland, Rex Seil, Mike Payne and David Forgaard rounded out the top 10. The Powder Pu[f class was a hotly contested race. with Tammy Pierson just edging out Mary Au[rance and Jeanne Irwin. _ Results OTHG A: 1. Brad Saars: 2. J.D. Bantlay: 3. Bill Boughten. OTH C: 1. Dennis Haymore; 2. Dan Knowles; 3. David Johnston. OTHG B: 1. Tom Jesmer; 2. Rick Ceccanti; 3. Greg Froberg. 200 B: 1. Rob Goodwin; 2. Mark Turner; 3. Dan Erickson. aT B: 1. Pat McFarland; 2. Jerry Gu.llickson; 3. Ron Dahlen. 200 A: 1. David Forgaard: 2. G. Wyse; 3. Jaff Turner. OT A: 1. Gordon Grahm; 2. Mike Elder; 3. Ron Kunz. OPEN A: 1. Rapdy Du Bois: 2. Tracy Burkey; 3. PRECISION PRODUCTS 6 Out Of The Top 7 At Houston TT lyle Duronso. 1st RICKY GRAHAM 2nd STEVE EKLU D 3rd BUBBA SHOBERT 250A: 1. Ron Gray; 2. Ron Lemon; 3. Tim McCoy. OPEN B: 1. Jay Cole; 2. Jim Walsh; 3. Tim Mcinnis. 250 B: 1. David Rhodes; 2. Jeff Throop; 3. Steve Sedarsky. aT c: 1. Less Walker; 2. Harlan Zentner; 3. Larry 1151 E. Mission Rd. Fallbrook, CA 92028 This By Joe Milian Kawasaki's future professional hopeful Kit Vick was too quick for the assembled field of 125cc Experts and Larry Hughes won a wild aHair in the 250cc Pros to highlight action at Conroe Motocross Park. Vick's domination was thorough in both motosofhis race and theonly point of contention involved the clash for runner-up cash. Rusty Dovell won that battle. posting a 2-3 score for the day to register his best showing to date as a money rider. as he edged John Bersch by a single point. Bersch appeared unbeatable in practice, handling a newly added sand section with relative ease while.others [loundered. Ironically, it was this portion of the track that proved Bersch's undoing in moto one. [orcing him to work his way back up to fourth at the Cla·g. He was back on track in the second round and his finish behind winner Vick placed him third in the overall standings ahead of. former minibike sensation Jason Otto. Crashes were the order o[ the day in the 250cc Expert division and none was more spectacular than the one at the start o[ the opening heat. Mark Saxer and Micky Pizzitola were the stars of the show. with Keith Coffey and a host of others playing supporting roles. Going wide into the first turn. Pizzitola and Saxer locked bars and executed a tandem endo that scattered bikes and spectators alike. After a brief pause for medical attention, all participants rejoined the action (or the restart. Richie Hull took the holeshot and was well on his way to the win when he committed an uncharacteristic error in the back section by the river and was forced to limp home in 21st position. Terry Thomas assumed the role of leader then and held on ahead of Hughes and Willie Phee for the victory. Mike Clement once again demonstrated that if one must lose it then it is best to do it in style with the maximum amount of onlookers on hand. His get-orr. arguably the best of the day, dropped him to 16th. Jerry Surber also was sidelined with a bad case of "brain drain." Surber came back with a much better demonstration o( his true ability "in the second moLO. leading (rom Results MINI MINI: 1. Rowdy Flanagan (Kaw); 2. Shane McGee (Yam): 3. Aggie Lambe" (Hon). MINI JR: 1. J.R. Larose (Kaw); 2. Steven Purrier (Kawl; 3. Stanley Chomer (Yam). MINI SR: 1. Jason Langford (Kawl; 2. Dave Shade (Kaw); 3. Stephen Tyler IYam). 125 NOV A: 1. Charlas Edwards (Yam); 2. Vince Rizzo (Kaw); 3. David Clark (Kaw). 125 NOV B: 1. Chris Gunter (Yam): 2. Perry Tra· cey (Han); 3. Todd Curria (Kawl. 250 NOV: 1. Keith Hatler (Hon); 2. Stacy Horn (Yam); 3. Ronnie DeRouen (Yam). OPEN NOV: 1. Keith Kram (Yam); 2. Terry Burg· ha" (Han); 3. David DaPrata (Yam). 1251NT: 1. Billy Whitlev (Kaw); 2. Brett Wagnon (Yam I; 3. Robert Neiheiser (Kaw). 250 tNT: 1. Brett Herrmann (Yam); 2. Mark Cochran (Kaw); 3. Ken Brown (Hon). OPEN INT: 1. John Mitchell (Mai); 2. Marvin McKim (Yam); 3. Dearl Croh (Yam). OVER 30; 1. TerryBurghart (Hon); 2. Tim McCaskill (Yam); 3. Paul Sonderlan (KTM). 125 EX: 1. Kit Vick(Kaw); 2. Rusty Dovell (Suz); 3. John Barsch (Hon). 250 EX: 1. Larry Hughes (Hon); 2. Terry Thomas (Yam); 3. Willie Ph.. (Hon). YAMA"fA 15·0;0 24020 Narb"n"a Ava .• lomita. 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