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Bob Hannah (26) and Jeff Hicks (20) bid for the early lead in Saturday's 250cc Expert MX event. Hannah went onto take the w in. - - - - - - - - - - - back Kiser for th e win in the next heat with Troy Rose taking third. Aselt ine a nd Don Wilson battled to th e end of the final heat with Wilson com ing up short at the end. Steve Aseltine (22) was unbeatable at Friday's Sportsman TT and Sunday's Western Regional TT. Aseltine, Hannah hammer Boise TT weekend By M ike Thuleen BOISE, 10, MAY 5-8 Steve Aseltine won every race he entered at O wyh ee 'Mo torcycle Cl u b 's 33rd Annual Western R egional T T weekend a t Peaceful Cove. British Columbia, Canada's Aseltine clinched his main at Thurday night's rained-out short track and dazzled everyone with green light-to-checkered flag 8 wins a t both Friday night's Sportsman TT and Sunday's Western · desoi h R egiona I TT ,esplle en d i mg eac race with a n at tire . . . . Suzuki factory nder Bob H a nna h col lected both 2~Occ Expert rnoto wu~s at Saturday s motocross even t, wh i le th e 125cc Ex pert · clas s belonged to Larry Ward. Jeff H icks won the Open Expert class and Dan Lees hammered the Vet Experts . Regional TT Cougar Gulch Distillin g/ Ca stro l/ Shoei/Tsubaki/ BBR P/Lilly R &D/ Holz Trailers /Team Pan th er/ Deeley H -D- supported Aseltine pulled th e Experts off t~ e start 10 lead Sunda y's W.estern R~gtonal TT. T rophy Dash wmner Mickey Fay held co ntrol of second ah ead of Ch arl ie Orr, Kirk Strong and Dan Bennet t. Br e tt Barkman charged by Bennett a nd . t f th A It' built h' in 0 our as se me U1 up .IS lead. Fay was unable to reel m Aseltine, a nd alt hough Barkman p ressured Orr for third he was unable to get by. T he order rem ained th e same throughout the rest of th e race with Aselti ne taking the checkers first followed by Fay, .Orr, Barkman and Ben nett. Kris Kiser took charge of the Junior final at th e outset, but Speedy . Kell soon blasted into th e lead. Clinton Vahsholtz passed Kiser on th e sweeper, the n And y T resser also p ushed by Kiser a nd drop ped h im to fo urth. Kell led to the checkers with Vah sho ltz, in his second race a s a J uni o r, "fi n is h i n g sec o n d . T ucked tightl y behind Va hshol tz was Kiser, Rex Fisher, Robert Mo ran and . ea n Ha rt. Dan Cahoon go t the drive a t the start of the Pro-Am class wi th Dan St anl e y a nd J o el Hu sk ey close behind. Stanley dove by Cahoon in th e sweepe r fo r first a nd maintained control 10 tak e th e win. Cahoon a nd J eff Ru ssell faced off for second, with Cahoon ta king th e position. Short Track T h ursday ni ght's short tra ck was sho rtened wh en torrential rains fell after th e last heat. The rest of the program was ca nce lled and each of th e six, six-rider heats were treated as a main. Fa y dominated th e first heat and won by a large margin over Marty Zirbel and Orr, wh o barely nipped Russell for third. l The second heat featured a charge by Joel H uskey fro m fifth to second, bu t it wa s Kirk Strong taking the win. . Ryan Fis her .bliu ed to a five bike length lead in the thi rd heat over Kit Farley a nd Dean Autrey. Ro yal Anderson pulled out the stops to collect the win in th e fourth heat over Tim Stults a nd Aaron Waggoner II , while Tresser ba ttled Sportsman :TT Asel tine gree n- lighted perfectl y a t th e sta rt of th e ma in with Adderson, O rr, Fay , Wilson . Bryan McDowell a nd T resser in tow . Orr slipped by Adde rso n, as di d Fay, in pursuit of Aselti ne. T he top three pu t so me distance o n the rest of th e pack as Fay put th e hea t on Orr. La te in th e race Fa y fina lly nabbed Orr for second, but Aseltine was u ntouchable a nd took the win. Rod Reyno lds exploded in to th e lead a t th e sta rt of th e 250cc Expert main with Dan Stan ley, Ricky Hen so n, Kirk Strong a nd Sea n H art following. Stro ng quickl y d ispl aced H en son and Sta n ley then po unced o n Reynolds and went on to take' the win. Motocross Bob Hann ah pulled th e first 250cc Ex per t moto hol esh ot · with Ri ch T a ylor , Lo well T homso n, J eff Hicks a nd Larry J ackson in tow, Hi cks stu ffed J ack son fo r fou rt h a nd . fo llo wi ng Thomson , slas hed by Taylor in to third. Taylor dropped further back. ma kin g the final order Hannah , Thom son , H icks, La rry Ward a nd J ackson. H annah again led th e pac k to start mo to two , but th is time it was Mark Olberding hol d in g down seco nd a hea d of Hi cks, War d a nd T a ylor. Ward moved by H icks and assumed second as Olberd in g faded. Thomson was o n th e move and passed H icks and Ward 10 pursu e Hannah, but he was unable th e close the gap on th e Suzuki teamster. Hannah took a co mfortable victory over Thomson, H icks, Taylor and Ward. Suzuki-mounted Chaun McAlister holeshot th e fir st 125cc Expert rnoto followed by T odd Smith, Brian Thomson, Lowell Thomson and Ward. Ward charged up a nd challenged McAlister for the lead, and after a fierce battle he took it. Ward then pu t tim e on McAlister and a three-way duel for third developed between Sm ith, Lowell T homson and Jackson, who had blitzed from dead last. T homson event ually DN F with mechanical problems and J ackson stuffed Smith at th e infamo us sandhill. Ward held down first for the wi n whi le Jackson took seco nd