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(~bove) ~ ~5cc class champion Drey Dircks is chased by second moto wmnerWllhe Surratt. (Below ) Willy Simons - 500cc Trans-Cal Champion. Bret C~hors ~ode consis~entlyall series lo ng and picked up the 250cc class championshtp. Here he IS pu rsued by Tracy Oswell , CMC/Skoal Bandit Lady Liberty Trans-Cal Series: Round 7 . Dircks, Cahors,Simons clinch titles By Kit Palmer GORMAN, CA. OCT. 7 T he final roun d of the Continenta l Motosp ort Club, S ~oal Bandit/U .5 . Suzuki-spon sored Lady L Iber ty T rans-Cal Series re turned to H u ngry Va ll ey's SVRA Q ua il Canyon 10 motocross track in Gormari, California, where three Honda riders wrapped up championhi ti I D D' k h S ip It es. : re~ IrC s, w 0 was second going mto today's rac e, emerged with th e 125cc class champ~~nship, while Brett Cahors and wIlly Slmo~s cli!1ched the 250 and 50OccchamplOnshlps.AnotherHonda rider, Scott Brown, claimed the 80cc Expert class cha m pio nsh ip with a third overall. Dircks, Cahors, Simons and Brown mighr've clinched championship titles today, but the fastest riders on the rough track were Shaun Kalas, Gordon Ward and Phil Larson. Kalos - who missed his first Trans-Cal win of the series after leading all but the last two laps last week at Ascot came back and nailed the I25cc overall with a 1-2 score. Willie Surratt, ~hose I:Ionda seized on the first lap 10 the first moto, came from behind to win the second rnoto, Yamaha . rider Ward picked up his first major motocross win of his career by dominating both 250cc rnotos. Ward blitzed his way through the pack after a 10thplace start to win the first rnoto and topped the second by leading from start to finish. Larson didn 't have any problems controlling both 500cc motos, especially when factory Husqvarna rider Micky Dymond dropped out for the day in the first rnoto with mechanical problems. Brown completely dominated the 80cc.Expert class all series long, and he picked up the class cham pionship today with a third overall. Brown motored to the first rnoto win , and all he had to do in the second was finish in the top' 12 to claim the championship, which he did. Brown went 1-5 for the day, while Yamaha-mounted Chris Young went 2-2 to pick up todav 's class win. Young finished second in the series, . eight points ahead of Yamaha rider Shane Trittler 275-267. Brown earned 294 points. ' There was no suprise when ATKmounted Ra n dy Rodriguez wrapped up the Vet Pro class championship. VI? until the Hungry Valley race, he d won every single Vet Pro event. ~e ended the series in sty le by sweep109 both motos after dicing with first-time Trans-Ca l entrant Honda rider Kenny Zahrt, to keep 'his win record spotless. 125cc Pro Kawasaki rider Terry Fowler led the pack after th e first lap at the start of the first I25cc Pro moto, but Kalos, Kawasaki rider Doug O 'Donnell, Keith O'Neal, Suzuki's Mike Healey and Tim Rutherford closely pursued. Fowler, Kalosand O'Donnell quickly pulled away from the rest of the pack, while Healey pressured O'Neal from behind. The three leaders remained handlebar-to-handlebar for another lap before Kalos snuck by Fowler and started to pull away slightly. By the fifth lap, four riders were hungry for second - Fow ler, O'Donnell, O ' Neal and Healey; Kalos wanted no part of it. The 14-year-old Honda rider kept inching his way farther and farth er ahead, while the battle over second raged on. O'Donnell made an attempt to pass Fowler through a straight, but the move backfired. O'Donnell pulled along side of Fowler and outjumped him into second, but when O 'Donnell landed from the jump, he got out of shape, swapped, and crashed out of contention. A lap later, O'Neal dropped out of the race making the top five Kalos , Fowler, Healey, Dircks and Kawasaki rider John Conney. By this time, Kalos enjoyed a very secure lead, while Dircks was on the move. Dircks motored by Healey and set after Fow ler. Two laps from the finish, Dircks had reeled in the Kawasaki rider and passed him, but there was no time left for Dircks to catch the a lready-gone Kalos. Kalos easily took the win , followed by Dircks, Healey, Fowler, Conney, Kenny Clifton (Suz) and O 'Donnell. Heading in to the second rnoto (the final race of the series), Dirc ks held a slim one-point lead over Ro bert Naughton, who p laced 14th in the rnoto, and Honda rider Ed Arnet (who placed ninth), 323-322. The fourth and fifth spots were held by ~ Ios (3?1) and O' DonneII"(318). O n ly five points separated the top five riders . Fowler once again jammed to the front of the pack at the start of moto two, but Kalos , O'Donnell , Dirc ks, Ron Turner (Cag ) and Surratt weren 't far behind. Kalos moved into the lead during the second lap, and as he had done in the first rnoto, started