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Ryan Young scored his second-ever National win in Temecula, Califomia, ending Schrieber's 14-event win streak in the process. Former World Champion Bemie Schreiber rode his Fantic to an eightpoint win over Ryan Young in round three, but lost in round four. AMA/NATC Nati~nal Championship Observed Trials Series: Rounds 3 & 4 Schreiber, Young split Temecula wins By Len Weed TEMECULA, CA, MAY 23-24 National trials returned to southern California after a four-year absence - marked by the return of a familiar face, Bernie Schreiber. The one-time ATA whiz kid and former World Champion rode his Fantic to an eight-point victory over Ryan Young on Saturday for his 22nd career win. Young reversed the order on Sunday as he rode his Beta to his first Win of the young season. Saturday's win was also Schreiber's third in a row this year, as he posted a score of 23" to top Young's 31. Swedish National Champion Jonny Andersson finished third on his Honda with a 55.4. Sunday was a different story, however, as Young scored hiS second-ever National victory. The win ended Schreiber's l4-event win streak. This was the second time Young has snapped impressive win streaks; last July he ended Scott Head's l6-event win ~treak. Young edged Schreiber, 30-33, with Mark Manniko finishing third with 49. AnderssQn added a fourthplace finish to his third-place result from Saturday, after tallying 51.2. Saturday ~ Saturday's event marked Schreiber's first competitive ride on the justreleased Fantic 303. The new model, " currently ridden in World Championship competition by Thierry Michaud and Steve Saunders, made its debut in the first round of the series in Arizona, but Schreiber's wins came on the 301 Progress 2, released last December. " Ninety-seven riders turned up for the southern California event after over 90 riders showed for the opener in Arizona. Schreiber jumped out in front on the first loop, taking an 8- 13 lead over Young. Both cleaned nine of the 12 sections. At an early section, Schreiber said. "I think it's going to be easy. I'm going to have a percentage ride." The traditional Schreiber approach to trials. Andersson dropped 21, one less than Maniko, to post the third best score for the first circuit. Schreiber turned in another eight on the second lap, although his clean-count dropped to six for 12. Meanwhile, Young dropped 12. On his final effort, Schreiber lowered his tally to seven, but Young, coming up with another nine-clean scorecard, dropped just seven. That gave the victory to Schreiber, 23-31. The France-based Californian cleaned 24 of his 36 rides, a mark topped by Young's 26 perfect sections. Andersson, on a Mid-South Honda, finished third with a 55.4 while Manniko posted his best series effort to date, a fourth. Ron Comma and his Beta took fifth with a 70, four better than Andy Saum. Kip Webb guided his Merlin to seventh place while two Fantic riders, threetime Canadian Champion Steve Fracy and Californian David Pyle took eighth and ninth, respectively. Fracy edged Pyle by one point. The trial was held on private property, a real estate development near Temecula. The site offered outof-state visitors a glimpse at traditional southern California trialing dry, dusty terrain cluttered with big rocks and bigger rocks. The fi ve-mile loop wasn't demanding on the riders, but the section layout allowed spectators to catch most of the action on foot by short-cutting the loop. In Support class action, the day's closest contest came in th~ Sportsmen class. Michigan's Todd Coffey, . last year's High School Champion, topped Jeff Kingsford by one point, 34-35. Robert Strohman, Jr. and his Fantic continued to dominate High School riders by taking his third straight National. Kevin Manniko finished second, 12 points behind while Geoff Aaron ended up third. John Ekdahl posted an easy Senior victory, 35-65, over Bob Kirkegaard. Bill de Garis took the Super Senior competition. Sunday Young seemed confident of beating the champion sometime during the year and after turning in the previous day's best loop score and topping Schreiber in cleans, Young said. "It seems like I'm progressing everytime I get on the bike. I was third in the first round. Then I beat Jonny (Andersson) the next day and yesterday I was eight points from Bernie, so we'll see what happens today. My goal is to keep my number two ranking and see what I can do about Bernie. I want to keep moving up. I'll be really happy if I can beat .. Bernie. Young jumped out to a first loop lead, dropping 14, and was never headed. Schreiber, who posted eight cleans to Ryan's four in 12 rides, found himself in third place with 16. Sandwiched between the two was Colorado's Manniko, who lost 15. After using more than three hours of the allotted five, the championship riders completed the final loops in two hours. Schreiber turned in the lowest second lap score, a seven, one better than Young's eight, to narrow the lead to a single marker. Both riders scored seven cleans as Manniko heM third place, six off the pace. Schreiber added eight more cleans on the final circuit to score a nine. Then he awaited Young's arrival. Ironically, Schreiber was talking to Team Beta coordinator Ron Comma, Sr., when Young made a quick pit "stop before tackling the final three sections. Working on four, he needed a nine or less to score the win. Young cleaned sections 10 and 11, the second clean giving him the win. He then three'd 12 - a three or five section.