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Results
SATURDAV
125 SEMI·PRO: 1. Brian McElroy (Han); 2. Barry
Carsten (Vam): 3. Mike laRocco (Vam); 4. John
Shay (Han); 5. Gerald Wood (Vam): 6. Robert McCullough (Han); 7. Kenny Kizzar (Vam): B. Paul Cornell
(Han); 9. Jeff McCune (Suz): 10. Jeff Frisz (Suz).
250 SEMI-PRO: 1. John Reinholt(Vam): 2. Jeff
Frisz (Suz); 3. Doug Hoover (Han); 4. John Shay
(Vam): 5. Keith Fox (Kaw): 6. Scooter Stafford (Yam);
7. Kenny Kizzar (Vam): B. Gerald Wood (Vam): 9.
Barry Carsten (Yam); 10. Mike laRocco (Yam).
500 SEMI-PRO: 1. Glen Nicholson (Vam): 2.
Scooter Stafford (Yam); 3. Doug Hoover (Hon); 4.
Tim Ealy'(Hon}; 5. Earl May (Han): 6. Donald Houtz
(Vam): 7. Bob Sorenson (KTM); B. Edmund Swearingen (Kaw).
85 7·11: 1. Ezra Lusk (Kaw); 2. Chris Brown
(Kaw): 3. Michael Poore (Kaw).
8512-15: 1. Justin Jackson (Suz); 2. John Kitsch
(Kaw): 3. Jared King (Han).
125 B: 1. John Kitsch (Kaw); 2. Gene Naumec
(Kaw); 3. Chuck Bell (Han).
125 C: 1. Trey Phillips (Kaw): 2. Mike Jones(Hon):
3. Brian Broussard (Yam).
250 B: 1. John Larnoyeuk(Kaw}: 2. Scott Laberge
(Yam): 3. Tim Denardis (Yam).
250 C: 1. John Grant (Yam); 2. Honan Brown
Kenny Kizzar leads 250cc SemiPro winner John Reinholt.
Jeff Frisz (52) led the 125cc Semi-Pro class on Sunday until the last la.p.
when Mike laRocco used lapped traffic to sneak by for the win.
McElroy, Reinholt,
Hoover haul at
Jacksonville AX
By Athie Sanders
JACKSONVILLE, FL, FEB. 14-15
Brian McElroy overtook Jeff Frisz's lead in
the 125cc Semi-Pro class, and Doug Hoover
moved into a tie with series points leader
John ReinhQIt in the 250cc Semi-Pro class at
the Jacksonville Coliseum National Ch"ampionship Arena.
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Scooter Stafford maintained his lead
in the Open Semi-Pro class.
The Yamaha/Kawasaki/Gear Racewear/Jake's Diet Cola-sponsored,
SuperSports promou:~d-event dl'ew
nearly 7,000 spectators for the two
day program that featured 340 riders
(rom 18 states, Mexico, Canada and
Peru.
Promoter Bill Westsaid, "jacksonville has no local track; therefore, not
a big (ollowing ohhe sport. Wit!l the
number of spectators we had (or the
first arenaa-oss in the area, I view it
as a success. We plan on making this
an annual event."
Qualifiers and heats were run to
determine the 12 riders who would be
allowed to start in the final.
Saturday
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M~Elr.oy and Fnsz wer.e fastest ?ff
the Im.e m the 125cc Semi-Pro mam,
but. Fnsz ended up on the bottom of a
maJo~ hrst turn pIleup. He came
bade 1I1tO the race at the end of the
pac~ then got out of shape andendoed
agau:t.
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Fnsz saId, T~e only thmg I us~d
my h~ad for tol1lght was to put 11111
the dut. I. w~nted t.he holeshot, and
w~en I dIdn t get It, I Just stopped
thmkll1g. I should have settled on
second and worked from there. NOI
thinking cost me the race,"
McElroy slipped away to ride. all
alone out front, leaving Wood and
Carsten to battle over the second
place position. Lapped riders became
- a (actor and Carsten, then Mike La-
Rocco and john Shay ~assed up
Wood to (ollow McElroy m for the
win.
Reinholt edged Frisz out of the
lead at the start of the 250cc Semi-Pro
main. Fiisz pulled up to ride neckand-neck with Reinholt, but got out
of shape and allowed the leader some
breathing room. Shay moved up to
third, but Hoover passed him back to
finish behind Frisz.
Frisz said, "I made way too many
mistakes and they cost me. I rode a
decent race, but he (Reinholt) rode a
good on~."
Yamaha of CanadalHurst Yamaha/
Pirelli Tires/Canadian Institute for
Prevention of Addiction-sponsored
Nicholson holeshot the Open Pro
main event, but he bobbled and let
Hoover shoot ah'ead to take over the
lead. icholson was left behind to
hold off a hard-charging Stafford.
Hoover cruised out front until he
- stalled In a turn.
Nicholson and Stafford cruised by
as Hoover remounted, forcing him to
follow in a third place finish ahead o(
Tim Ealy and Earl May.
Nicholson said, "I got the holeshot, but I got a little sideways and
Hoover got by me. He (Hoover) lost
traction in a corner, and I went by
him. Then Scooter really got on me,
when I messed up in a corner, and he
came on hard. It shocked me into getting going."
Sunday.
Frisz dominated the 125cc Semi·
Pro main and was cruising to an easy
win when traffic did him in. LaRocco
passed up Carsten and was foll