Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

John tSandona "and 'Mike Mazza· cane gotLOo close at lhe s'tart of event . nine and got a restart that Sandona used well LO win over Jeff Johnson and a slowing Mike Parsons. Bart Bast bandied number 10 over Jeff Jones while Faria flew LO his second win in number II. Jim Sisemore saw his perfeCl score go up in a halfgainer on lap two of number 12 while Chrisco LOok home the win wilh Bobby Olt second. John Houston Jr., shotgunned the start of evem.13 but Steve Lucero caught the outside traction and LOok home the three poims while Eddie Ingels did likewise in number 13 over Pat Linn, who found some of that outside stuff and got the fans LO rolling. Brad Oxley aced number 15 over Dwyer while Gary Hicks got an ace in number 16 over Rocky Robinson balliing with Pfetzing. John HousLOn came back with a great win in evem 17 keeping a good posting over McBride and Oxley while Pfetzingcame back to win number 18 to stay in the points with Sandona second. Gary Hicks came up with tbe ace in numbj':r 19after Mazzacane had his troubles and Oll aced Bast in number 20. The ballle for the perfect scores came in event 21 as both Faria and Chrisco had a pair of wins going in. Faria got the start from the middle and was gone while Chrisco couldn't find a way around Ed Castro. Tim McCasland came up with no fire in number 22 with Correy the winner over Sisemore while Lucero once' again found some outside traction to keep his score card prelly and Rich Sweaney took Ingels' chance for a perfect away in lhe last regular round. Fonhesemis, only Faria and Lucero had the perfect nines while Oxley, Ingels, Houston and Hicks were right there with eights. Bart Bast, Chrisco and PfeLZing had seven with Sisemore, Ott and Sweaney all six. Two runoffs were required to place the final four with Sandona, Crawford, Correy, McBnde, Jones and Diem all in with five points. Correy beat out Sandona in the first with one going to each semi while Diem handled McBride in the other for the final transfers. Bart Bast got wide off the first turn of number 25 to drop back to a no transfer spot while Sweaney made the win look easy over Correy. John Sandona had not been looking real goOd 111 the early rounds, but was big time • in ~umber 25 winning over Pfetzing whtle Lucero and Oxley got imo each olher necessitating a restart for number 27 lhat saw Lucero gate second, but come up with the win over Oxley and Houston. Chrisco had lhe unfortunate aspirations of crashing in style in the last semi with Faria home the winner over Sisemore. Brad Oxley came up with the con· solation win after Pfetzing did some sty lish crashing with Correy second over Sisemore. Bringing out the final four was tense what with a long night of rapng already under tbe bell. Sandona went for the bucket and was rewarded with the wall while Lucero dug deep and came up wilh the pole. A wildly cheering crowd helped referee Moon get a good start with Lucero out of the gates first, but Faria going around down the back straight for the pass and the perfect win. Lucero and Sandona were battling around Sweaney when he hit the wall bringmg out the red and checkers, but left no doubt about Faria being the winner. Results MAIN EVENT: 1. Mike Faria; 2. John Sandona; 3. Steve Lucero. CONSOLATION: 1. Brad Oxley; 2. Ron Correy; 3. Jim Sisemore. POINTS: #9 Mike Faria. 3·3·3·3·8;20: #19 Steve Lucero. 3·3-3·3·6;18; #B John Sandona. 0·3·2-3· 7;15; #11 Rich Sweaney. 1·2·3-3-5;14; #5 Brad Oxley, 2-3--2-4=::14; #8 Jim Sieemore 3-1-2-2- );11; #2Q,Ronnie Corr\lY. '·1·3·2·2;9; #52 Eddie Ingels. 3-3-2- ~;9; #103 .GaryoHicks. 2-3-3-1 ;9. Hermann hammers MissouriHS g"- >< ' a: :3 u 0:: By Bruce A. Clark - a fa <.0 00 :I:

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