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:. Gary Furravati (17F) leads Cra ig Howard (67Z). eventual w inner of the
600cc Pro class at the Bakersfield Speedway.
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moto two and was closely pursued
by Bryan Smith, Swink, Armbruster
and Ryan Smith. Swink mov ed into
second to again hound McL ear. The
pair duked it out arou nd th e techni cal co u rse as Swink h eld th e
th rottle wide o pen. Both riders got
into la pped tra ffic causing Swink to
p lay foll ow -th e-leader. It was any body 's race down to th e checkered.
Swi nk was unsuccess fu l in winn ing
the mot o as McLea r held tight to the
win o n hi s YZ125. Des p it e th e
ou tcome of the second mo to, Swink
clai med the overall victory.
Swink returned in the Senior 80
to perfect two mo tos riding flawlessl y around th e co u rse being
unstoppable and untouchable.
Results
HIW A; 1. Derrick Roe (Kaw); 2. Chris Knox
(Kawl; 3 . Chuck Reed (Kawl; 4 . J ason Gray (Suz);
5 . M ar k M ussel man (KTM I.
UW A : 1. Greg Bowen (Honl; 2. M ar k Mussel m an (KTM); 3 . Bryan Smit h (yam); 4 . J ason Gr ay
(Suz); 5 . Chuck Reed (Kaw ).
250 B D-l : 1. Ja mes Jermer (Yam); 2. Steve
Kiesler (Hon); 3. Rodn ey Walker (Kaw); 4. Ji m
Atwood (Kaw): 5. M ike Fuller (Han).
250 B D·2: 1. Ja mes Eickel (Vam); 2. Bryan
W eiler (Kaw); 3. Brad Davi s (Kaw ); 4. Tim Sm it h
(Suz); 5. M ike Hagan (Han).
125 B n -t : 1. Eric McCl ear (Vam ); 2. Dean Baker
(Han ); 3 . Bill Eby IHon); 4. J eromy Buehl (Kaw) ;
5. Joe Woosley (Kaw) .
125 B D'2: 1. Man Pow ers ISuz); 2. Blan e
Armbruster (Hon); 3. Mike Hagan (Hon); 4 . James
Eickel (Yam): 5. Carl Willi ams (Kaw).
OPEN B: 1. Man Kell ey (Yam); 2. Mike Gilleran
(Kawl; 3 . Dave Blauman (Han); 4 . David Per ry (Han );
5. Scon Kraus er (Hon) .
A UTO: 1. Jeremy Berwanger (Yam); 2. Mike Ivers
(Vam); 3 . Paul Peterson (Vaml: 4 . Joseph Hill (Vam ):
5 . Josh MaSl ers (Vam).
VET: 1. Phillip A ldenon (Cag): 2. Tim Sm ith (Suz );
3 . Jeff Steinrock (Han): 4. Alan Bowman (Han);
5. Kenny Reil (Suz).
65 : 1. Greg Rand (Kaw); 2. Ronald Durrer (Kaw);
3 . Brian Wolff (Kaw); 4 . Man Maxinoff (Kawt 5.
Randy Sal anon (Kaw).
80SR: 1. Br ian Swink (Kaw ); 2. Hayden Richards
(Kaw); 3. Joshua Steel (Kaw ); 4 . Justin Jarrett
(Han); 5 . M ike Howell (Han I.
SCH8V : 1. 8rian Swink (Kawl; 2. Bryan Sm it h
(Yamt 3. Jeromy Buehl (Kaw); 4 . Ryan Smith (yam l;
5. Hayden Richards (Kaw) .
80 JR : 1. Greg Rand (y aml; 2. Brian Wolff (Vam);
3. Chris Orme (Suz); 4. John Kidd (Kawt 5. Man
Maximoff (Kaw) .
McSwain tops
Devil's Ridge HS
By Ted Baxter
. SANFORD, NC , MAY 29
Steve McSwain and his Scott Goggles
Honda 500 co ntin ued the ir domination of the North Carolina H are
Scramble Seri es by taking his fourth
overall win in five events at the
Devi ls R id ge hare scra m bles .
McSwain won on a hot and dusty
day but not before 125cc rider Gregg
Erwin applied some hea t of his own.
T he 500 and 125cc class started
together setting up a head-to-head
shoot-out between the two riders.
Erwin put in his best ride of the
year giving McSwain all he wanted
in the tight sections. Mc Swain
pushed hard in the open sections and
It p roved too m uch for Erwin and
the Triangle Cycl es Honda 125.
McSwain built a lead of abou t two
minu tes by the gas stop and never
look ed ba ck. Erwin went o n to
destroy th e 125cc class with G ra y
Leonard taking second on a Suzuki.
Buren Hamick came back from an
injury to take th e 250cc class win and
regained a slim lead in th e series .
Harry G reenlee go t a win in the
Sen ior class aboard his Kawasaki 250
and tigh tened up the sta ndings in
th at class also.
Racin g was close in the FourStroke class with Ch r is Wa lt o n
getting the nod over J ack Elliott.
Results
0 / A : Steve M cSwain (Han).
125: 1. Greg Erwin (Hont 2. Gray Leonard (Suz);
3. Richard W atton (Hon); 4 . Rich ard Hicks {Kaw}.
200: 1. David Ashley (Kaw); 2. 8 ill Sherr ill (Kawl;
3. A rch ie Epley (Kawl; 4. Nick Presson (Yam).
250: 1. Bur en Hamrick (Han ); 2. Donny Graham
(Kaw); 3. Rick Wagner (Yamt 4 . Ashley Brewer
(Hus).
OPEN: 1. Ferre ll Sm ith (Hus); 2. Kim Thompson
(C-AI ; 3 . Greg 8 unn (C-Al; 4 . Frank Goodwin (KTM) .
4 -STRK: 1. Chris Walton (Hont 2. Jack Ellion
(Han); 3. Joey Lawson (Han); 4 . Dona ld Walters
(Han).
SR: 1. Harry Gr eenl ee (Kaw); 2. Darr el Hilliard
(Han); 3 . Ja mes Everhan (ATK); 4 . W on h Carswell
(C· A).
TR: 1. Dar ry l Hug hes (Hon); 2. John Crs well
(Kaw ); 3 . Dann y Skipper (Han); 4 . Lara Paul (Han).
Howard hammers at
Bakersfield ST
By Laura Tisinger
BAKERSFIELD, CA, MAY 20
. Craig H oward p iloted his WoodRotax to the 600cc class win at
Bakersfield Speedway in th e fourth
ro und of th e BRA Points Seri es.
After a restar t in th e 600cc hea t
race, Gary Furravati wh eelied off the
line to tak e th e lead in turn one.
Fu rravanti was pursued by a hungry
pack of riders who diced back and
forth fo r positions: On th e third lap,
Jim Rosa was running second and
holding off Mike H ale as H o ward
was look in g for a passing opportunity. On lap four H oward found th e
o pportunity and moved into second,
bu t then Hal e mustered everythi ng
he had and blew by both H ow ard
and Rosa co mi ng o u t of turn four
to take over the runner-up spot for
good beh ind winner Furravati.
T he pros scra mbled at the start of
th e main event as Honda-mounted
Hale held th e lead over Furravati and
Howard. Howard took over second
behind Hale on la p two and on th e
next lap he passed Hale for th e lead
and pulled out a comfortable lead.
Howard went on to win over Hale
with Furravati making a last lap
charge to take third away from Rosa.
Results
50: 1. Lance A rno ld (Vaml; 2. Jo h n Hale (Yam ).
80: 1. Jo h nny Murphree (Kaw); 2. Richa rd Tucker
(Kaw); 3 . Doug Holcomb (Suz).
125 : 1. Rob Hale (Yam); 2. Pee W ee Weaver
(Kaw) .
250 A M : 1. J eff Lowling (Hoot 2. Joe Lorchren
(Yam).
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Wallace Fincher (25) won the Open Amateur class over Allen Harrison
(258) and Jeff Ballard (13) at the Hillbilly Hills MX Series final.
250 PRO: 1. Rick Pearce (Kaw); 2. Mike Bosworth
(Suzl .
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600 PRO: 1. Craig Howard (W ·R); 2. M ike Hal e
(Han ); 3. Gary Furravali (W ·R); 4 . J im Rosa; 5 .
Vietor Heasley .
Haynes, Heisler handle
Hillbilly Hills MX closer
By Gary Crider
MACON, GA, MAY 15
Alabama racers Dan ny H aynes and
Darr yl H eisler came away with
doub le victories in their respective
Mini a nd A divisions at H illbill y
Hills MX in the final round of th e
Georgi a-Alabama Spring MX Seri es.
Over 200 entrants were on hand for
th e Georgia Cycle Supply-sponsored
event. Overall series awards, along
w i th co n t in gencies from Scott,
An swer, Oury and Silkolene, 'were
pres ented a t the tra ck.
H eisler topped both th e 125 and
250cc A classes after winni ng three
out of four motos, Marti n rode all
three A divisio ns but finished seco nd
each tim e. H o wever, he won the 125
and 250cc A Series Champ ions h ip .
J oe Rogers was series ru nner-u p in
both classes.
H aynes led the 65cc and Junior
Min i points race fro m the open ing
round of th e six-race series and he
concl uded the series in style, win nin g all four motos. Identical twin s
J ason a nd J am es G ri er fin ish ed
second a nd third, respectively, in
Junior Mini ac tio n and th ey finished
the series with identical 232-point
scores. Runner-up honors fell to
J ason by virtue of h is better finish
in today's fin al round.
Du e to the unusually large number
of ent ries in th e 250cc/10 pen A and
Senio r (30+) cl a sses , ad d i tio nal
classes were crea ted. The A class
riders with 500cc machines go t th eir
own class wh ile Senior riders over
38-years -old cou ld ride in a "Su per
Senior" di vision.
Florida's J on McCabe topped th e
500cc A division with hi s perfect
score over Tom my Martin a nd Dar ryl Ahonen while Randy Tillery
claimed th e Super Senior (38+) race
over Charl ie Ow ens a nd Jimm y
Pinson.
Andre Pene matched wh eels with
Johnny Dean in all four Senior and
Super Min i motos, Pene held the
edge each time out and won both
classes. Pene won the Super Mini
Championship Series by a threepoint margin over Dean.
Coming into the event, Kevin
Cozadd held a narrow lead over
Brock Bullard in the 125cc C point
race. But when 125cc C action got
underway, Cozadd suffered a broken
ankle in a massive first turn pileup.
More than half of th e 34-rider field
went down , so th e race was restart ed.
Bullard emerged with a perfect
score a nd th e serres win . Cozadd was
unab le to ride and dro pped to third
in th e fin al standi ngs beh ind Chris
Denn y and finis hed six th overa ll for
the day. Chris Dun kin , a recen t
grad uate fro m the Mini ran ks, posted
2-3 fin ishes, netti ng second o vera ll. e
Resu lts
PIW; 1. Ma n Wa lke r (Y8 m~; 2. Ma son W illiams
(Yam) ; 3 . Jeremy Nevels (Yam ); 4 . M an Boon e
(Vam); 5. Aaron Lindsey (Yam).
65 MIN I: 1. Danny Haynes (Kaw) ; 2. Patr ick Hizel
(Kaw); 3. David Dish man (Kaw ); 4 . Bry an Johnson
(Kaw ); 5 . Kyle Kelly (Kawl.
JR MINI : 1. Danny Haynes (Kaw ); 2. J ason Grier
(S uz); 3 : James Grier (Su z); 4 . Patrick Hlret tKaw );
5. Gary Kellum (Kaw) .
SR MINI: 1. A ndre Pene (Han); 2. Johnny Dean
(Suz); 3 . Bri an Raym ond (Kawl; 4 . Dale Ulrich
(Kaw ); 5 . Eric Pinson (Yam ).
S/MINI : 1. A ndre Pene (Han ); 2. Ma n Shue
(Yam); 3 . Johnn y Dean (Suz); 4 . Brian Raymond
(Kawt 5. James Tims (Vam).
125 C: 1. Brock Bull ard (Kaw); 2. Chr is Dunkin
(Vam); 3. Sha ne Pene (Yam); 4 . Scan Garland (Hont
5. M ickey Wal den (Vam).
2 50 C: 1. Kipp Bru le' (Vam); 2. Russell Radf ord
(Suzl; 3 . M ickey W alden (Vam); 4 . J im my Willis
(Han); 5 . Paxt on Ow ens (Han) .
'25 B: 1. Ross Jo h nston (Hon); 2. Earnest Harbi n
(Han ); 3 . Pau l Cline (Han); 4. 8usbee Dyer (Han);
5. Gabe Gadd is (Han).
250 B: 1. Ross J ohn st on (Hon); 2. Earnest Harbin
(Han); 3. Gr anl W ood (Han); 4 . Todd Downs (Vaml;
5. Jay M cClellan (Yam ).
OPEN AM : 1. W all ace Fincher (XR); 2. Ali en
Harrison (Han) ; 3 . J eff Ballard (Kaw); 4 . Tim
Hawkins (Sul); 5. Jeffrey Kin g (XR).
SR (30)): 1. Jay McCl ell an (Vam); 2. Cliff Evans
(Kaw); 3. Brad Jones (Han); 4 . Ricky Lam b (Han);
5 . Sam Mazich Jr. (Suz).
SR (38 +): 1. Randy Till ery (Hon); 2. Charl ie Ow ens
(Han); 3 . J immy Pinso n (KTM ); 4. Eugene Good e
(Kaw); 5. Stev e Corl ee (M ai).
125 A : 1. Darryl Heisl er (Han); 2. Tommy Manin
(Han); 3 . Joe Roger s (Han); 4 . Tracy Whaley (Yam).
250 A : 1. Darry l Heisler (Han); 2. Tommy Manin
(Hont 3 . Jon McCabe (Han); 4. Joe Rogers (Han);
5. Earl May (Kaw).
500 A : 1. Jon McCabe (Ho nl; 2. Tommy Manin
(Han); 3. Darryl Ahonen (Kaw l; 4. Ear l May (Kaw );
5. Joe Rogers (Hoo ).
SERIES OVERALL .
PIW; 1. Mason Wi ll iams (25 6); 2. Jeremy Nevels
(2 5 1); 3. Man Boon e (24 31;4. M an Walker (233);
5. Aaron Lindsey (190).
65 MINI: 1. Danny Hayn es (2 88 1; 2. David
Dishman (24 9t 3 . Bryan Johnson (1 731; 4. Man
Boone (17 3); 5. Nicholas Kosko (13 1).
JR MINI: 1. Danny Hayn es (256); 2. {TIEl Jason/
James Gr ier (2 32); 4. Gary Kellum (184); 5. David
Dishman (160) .
SR MINI ; 1. Dale Ulrich (204); 2. Johnny Dean
(194); 3 . Andre Pene (185 ); 4 . Eric Pinson (151);
5. Brian Raymond (112).
S/ /MINI: 1. A ndre Pene (193); 2. Johnny Dean
(l OOt 3 . Eric Pinson (170); 4. Chr is Waddle (109);;
5 . Dennis Harris (90) .
125 C: 1. Brock Bull ard (216); 2. Chris Denny
(182); 3. Kevin Cozadd (1691; 4. Sam Gallegy (114);
5 . Richard Joye (98).
250 C: 1. Kipp 8 urla' (217); 2. Russell Radford
(1 831; 3 . Jimmy Willis (17 9); 4 . Randy 8arfield
(160); 5 . Ken Kowalczyk (149).
125 B: 1. Ross Johnston (2581 2. Earnest Har bin
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(2011; 3. Bu sbee Dyer (188); 4. M arc W add le (14 2);
5 . Cha nce M an he ws (1.001.
250 B: 1. J ay McClell an (203 ); 2. EarneSl Harb in
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(195); 3 . Gary Evans (180 ); 4. Jason Al day (13 4 1
5 . Brad Hayes (97) .
OPEN AM : 1. Allen Harrison (2731; 2. Wa lla ce
Fincher (2 68); 3 . John Trissel (18 81; 4. Jeff Ball ard
(184) ; 5. Dan Lipscom b (80) .
SR (3 0)): 1. J ay McCl ellan (26 3); 2. Ray Carr oll
(184); 3 . Cliff Evans (15 9); 4. Randy Tillery (150);
5. Sam M azich Jr. (14 81.
12 5 A : 1. Tommy M an in (291 t 2. Joe ROgers
(231t, 3. Darry l Heisler (1 7 6); 4 . Tracy Whaley
(1 5 6~
250/0PEN A : 1. Tomm y M an in (277); 2. Joe
Rogers (23 2t, 3 . Dave Robel (18 9); 4. Darry l Heisler
(1 61) .
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