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Steve Oehrle splashes down en route to the Expert win in the Mantua Trial in Mantua, Ohio; Oehrle beat Gil Reed and Jeff Hursh. 80 8EG DIV 2: 1. Jason Krikorian (Vam); 2. Jesse Schmidt (Yam); 3. D'amian Pineda (Kaw). 80 JR: 1. Chris Ridgway (Kaw); 2. Derek Meyer (Han); 3. Jason 8reen (Kaw). 80 INT: 1. Jeff Grafton (Vam); 2. Kevin 8ussey (Vam). 80 EX: 1. Mike Pascarella (Suz). 125 8EG DIV 1: 1. Adam Pontrelli (Han); 2. Roger Hammonds (Suz); 3. Matt Michael (Yam). 125 BEG DIV 2: 1. Brian Burgess (Kaw); 2. David Lockhart (Han); 3. Brian Kerr (Han). 125 BEG DIV 3: 1. Greg Thoma (Han); 2. Johnny Johnson (Kaw); 3. Lyle Thompson (Vam). 125 JR DIV 1: 1. David Bush (Hon); 2. Maneo Cosentino (Ceg); 3. Jon Berg (Suzl. 125 JR DIV 2: 1. Guy Deckert (Suz); 2. Billy Mclaughlin (Han); 3. Vinnie Mertinaz (Vem). 125 INT: 1. Chris Boice (Han); 2. Steve Sequeira (Han); 3. Scan McDonough (Kaw). 125 PRO: 1. Ron Turner (Vam); 2. Devid Graff (Han); 3. Tim Rutherford (Kew). 250 BEG DIV 1: 1. Rick Mulder (Vem); 2. John Antenucci (Yam); 3. David Gibson (Yam). 250 BEG DIV 2: 1. Joe Norkin (Han); 2. Frank Feikema (Han); 3. Tom Lyman (Han). 250 BEG DIV 3: 1. John Theisen (Vam); 2. Nino Pollaccia (Vam); 3. Dan Lewis (C-A). 250 JR: 1. Guy Deckert (Suz); 2. Jeff Theisen (Vam); 3. Mark Marinaz (Vem). 250 INT: 1. Skip Godinez (Kaw); 2. Pat Womeck (Vam); 3. Larry Gross (Yam). 250 PRO: 1. Ron Turner (Yam); 2. Russ Wageman (Vam); 3. Brien Manley (Han). 500 JR: 1. Men Petro; 2. Jeff Bregia. 500 INT: 1. Larry Gross (Vem); 2. Roger Guard (Han); 3. Mark Allen (Vam). 5OOPRO: 1. Todd Peterson (Han); 2. Mike McMiII- Cycle News, America's weekly motorcycle newspaper, brings you an action-packed year of motocross, flat track, endurance, speedway and road racing. Plus all the latest news, personalities, bike tests, a weekly' ----Calendar section, tons of Want Ads, and much morel en (Hon); 3. Craig Hofmeister (Hon). VET JR: 1. Den Lewis (C-A); 2. Brad Sloen (Han); 3. Frank Mier8u (Hon). VET INT: 1. George Collins (Han); 2. Bob Hedland (Vam); 3. Vietor Trepke (Vam). VET MSTR: 1. Pete Andrews (Hon). VET PRO: 1. Rick Johnson (Han); 2. Dele Lewis required a full-lock turn into a threefoot rock step for the Experts with a more open turn for the Advanced class participants. William Troll took the Novice class win decisiveLy with 27_ points and has now earned enough promotion points to be promoted to the Intermediate class. Carroll Conley was second with 41 points. ]n the Beginner class, Laddie Papp rode to the win and a promotion to Novice class with 23 points. John Copley and Jot: Deck had a close contest at the halfway point with Copley showing a three point lead. Deck changed the standings on the third loop by leading by five points and stretched the advantage to II points at the end, finishing second with 54 points to Copley's 65. Results EX: 1. Steve Oehrle (Hon) 18; 2. Gil Reed (Fen) 33; 3. Jeff Hursh (Fan) 53. ADV: 1. Bob Brown (Vem) 54; 2. Bob Maxwell (Fen) 61; 3. Russ Driver (Yam) 71. SPRTSMN: 1. Dennis ezacherski (SWM) 54; 2. Jon Rentschler (Hon) ONF. INT: 1. Ric Kral (Vam) 53; 2. Jim Wilder (Vam) 68; 3. Dean Bredenbeck (Bul) 72. NOV: 1. Bill Troll (Bul) 27; 2. Carroll Conley (Hon) 41; 3. Steve Williems IBul) 62. BEG: 1. Laddie Papp (Suz) 23; 2. Joe Deck (Fen) 54; 3. Johnny Copley (Fen) 85. (Kaw). :::-~--Subscription Coupon/Order Fonn ------ OT JR: 1. Jemes Shepperd (Mai); 2. Richerd Dye (Han); 3. 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Box 498, Long Beach, CA 90801-0498 (213) 427·7433 I 7.0 ._~~~---~~~~~~--------------~ Oreal: CN.20 Oehrle tops .Mantua Trial By Royce Klein MANTUA, OH, APR. 27 Honda-mounted Steve Oehrle skillfully rode to the Expert class win with a large margin of victory over Fantic riders Gil Reed and Jeff Hursh, who dropped 33 and 53 points, respectively, to Oehrle's 18. Bob Brown took the Advanced class win over Bob Maxwell by seven points, 54 to 61. Russ Driver, who moved back to the Advanced class for the day due to the lack of other Senior class riders, showed the youngsters he still has what it takes by finishing third over the remaining five Advanced riders. The Trials, Inc. sponsored event hosted 39 riders in unseasonably hot weather over a IO-section, four-loop course. All riders rode all the sections with different lines marked out for the different classes. One o£ the more difficult sections for the Expert class entailed climbing a creek bank, turning, jumping off a steep bank back into .the creek, climbing back up the same bank at an off-camber angle, executing a steep drop over tree Toots back into the creek and climbing a hill while executing a very tight "S" tum to the finish. Another section Canadians invade Motomasters MX By Joel Church MAPLEV]EW, NY, APR. 27 The Canadians came down in force and made for very close and exciting racing on the demanding Motomasters MX track. Chris Coleman holeshot the first 250cc Expert moto with his brother Charlie Coleman following. Charlie Coleman dropped back a bit while Chris Shipclark and Rich Westfall moved up. Chris Coleman then opened a lead over a close second place battle between Shipclark and Westfall. Westfall pulled away while Matt Levy put pressure on Shipclark. Shipclark was able to hold off Levy to take third behind winner Chris Coleman and runner-up Westfall. The second moto saw Charlie Coleman pull the holeshoL Chris Coleman hounded his brother through each turn and then made a clean pass, pulled ahead and led to the [inisl). Levy and Westfall diced it out [or second after getting by Charlie Coleman in the late stages o[ the reace. Levy took second at the finish line just ahead of Westfall. In Open Novice action Dave MacDonald came [rom a mid-pack start and charged to third place at the [inish line. Mike Sanford took the lead on. ~he. S!~9I]q lap ,ang n~ve! loo~e;d