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Darren Poulsen won the first moto in the 250cc Intermediate class. Ryan Huffman (30), Travis Berry (34), Danny Ulven and Todd Maderis (215) blast out of the gate in the aocc Intermediate class. Berry was the overall w inner and Maderis took second overall. Former 500cc National Champion Ric k Burgett stormed to w ins in bo t h Vet Pro cl ass m ot os to take t he overall victory. Tom Rowland was sec on d . Burgett dazzling at Washougal Amateur Motocross By Clay Light WAS HOUGAL, WA, AUG. 27 'O ver 500 riders were on hand for the firstever Washougal Ama teur Day held the day prior to the AMA 125/500cc N a tiona l Mo tocross a t Washougal Motocross P ark 22 a n d a mo n g the da y' s big win n ers was for m er 500c c I Nationa l Champion Rick Burgett. Burgett has only raced twice this season , but showed all on hand that he can still turn it on by win n in g both Vet P ro class motos aboard h is Kawasaki. R iders from a five-state radius, w h ich included O rego n , Washingto n, Idaho, California and Montana and also severa l Ca nadian pro vinces, cam e to do battle on what was, according to promoter Ra lph H u ffman , " Bas icall y the same course that th e Professional riders would use the following day." Washington 's Brett DeVries, riding a Honda, won th e 3 l-rider 125cc Interm edia te class to join Bu rgett , Ca lifornia n Craig Davis, winner of the Open Pro class , and 25 other overall winners in the winner's circle at the co m p letion of the day of amateur racing. Burgett, most lik ely the holder o f th e m o s t wins recorded here a t Wash ougal , proved that h e's sti ll pl enty fas t as th e fo rmer Team Yamaha rid er , now 'rid ing a Kawa saki, a nd sponsored by AXO Sports, landed h oleshot laurel s in th e first Vet Pro moto, wh ich ra n co m bined with the U p The Hill cla ss, making for some in credib le racing action. T ed DeVo l rode in Burgett's sha dow after displacing H onda rider Tom Row land and Canadian J ari H einonen. DeVo l trailed in for a seco nd in the Vet Pro class behi nd Burgett and a h ea d of H einonen. H einonen pi cked up th e win in the Up The Hill class followed by Vet Pro s Rowland, Mitch Kirkpatrick a nd Ga ry Wozen . Burgett did a sim ila r di sappearing act in th e seco nd co ntest a nd came a wa y w it h the to p cas h pa yoff as well as the p laudits from th e ga llery of spectato rs estima ted a t 2000. Second in th e Vet Pro clas s went to Rowland a fter his second moto seco nd-p lace finish while DeVol's 2-3 rid es netted third. In the Up The Hill class it was Heinonen p ickin g up the overall wi n on th e Fox Racin g Ya maha after II w ins over H onda riders Sco t Bergr en and Mik e Kates. Several classes were of over flow capacity , in cl ud i n g the l 25cc Beg inner class with 61 entries, an d were sp lit into two div isio ns . Division one saw Cal gar y, Albert a 's Todd Sla rcha k, ridi ng a Honda , ta ke th e moto win in th e first ro u nd o f competition a head o f Eric Irvine, Tim Gates, Mark Koehn a n d fifth pl ace finishe r Mark Miller. Mo to two had Irvine contro ll ing th e tempo, good for a mo to wi n a nd the overall for his efforts, taking to p brass home to Manhattan, Mo ntana, a fter 2-i rides. Seco nd o vera ll went the way o f Slarchak (1-3) while G a tes claimed third a fter 3-2 showi ngs. Division tw o wen t to H ondamounted Mark Nitsch , winner of both motos. Second to Nitsch wa s Shane Wh itak er, riding a Kawasaki with 2-3 sh owings whi le h ometown hero Rusty Garman nett ed a third after h is co nsistan t 4-4 showings. Roundin g o ut the top five overall fin ishers were Ma tt Sisson (7-6) an d Ch ris H o udek, fift h via 6-7 posti ngs. O ne of th e day's most exci ti ng races were the two 125cc Pro-Ami Intermediate class contests, gating 29 riders. The firs t moto saw lo ne ProAm rider Brian Thomson, jump into th e lead o n h is Ya maha followed by Bri an G ipson , DeV r ies, Dan n y Ulven , T revor Meagher a nd Monty Spalding. Thomson h ad an easy ti me up fro nt, "opening u p a huge lead wh ile DeVn es, ridi ng th e P ro Circ u itl P J IIGearl DeVo l En g .sponsored Honda , ove rtook Gipson for th e nu mb er two spot, which wa s actually th e lead in the Intermedia te portion. DeVries made up a n in credible amount o f grou nd o n leader T hom so n , an d with two laps to go had n arrowed th e gap to two secon ds. The last lap was disaster for Thomso n, when he smas hed hi s p ipe a nd lost power, a llowing DeVries to nab th e win. Followin g Thomson across th e fini sh line were Spalding, who mounted a la te cha rge, Meagher: U lve n , J a son Nort on a n d T y Birdwell. Devries' l -I demolition came a fter a thrashing of th e competition in th e second moto, which was shortened due to the length o f the p ro gram . DeVries used the shortened m o to to his advantage, breezing to a win a h ea d of Birdwell , Spalding , Meagher a nd Andy Grinder. The overalls read DeVri es (I- I), Spalding (2-3) a nd Meagher (3-4). Ri chard Merrit rode h is H onda to a n ove ra ll wi n in th e Open Inter mediate class, but hi s im p ressive performances were o versha dowed by the presen ce o f Pro class rider Davis. Davis logged sensa tiona l wins in both rnotos, and his co mpetitio n came fro m Merri t, who ran second in the early stages of moto o ne, and Ken Peterso n , the on ly o ther P ro rider to finis h af ter loca ls ' Monty Mitch ell a nd Kei th Foidel dropped out. Davis dazzled th e specta tors with ,h is skyshot antics enroute to a moto o ne win ove r Peterson, Tony DeVries, Merri tt , Don Boespflug and Kevin Dela p . Mot a two was also th e Davis show as he went wire-to-wire to fina lize his I-I swee p. Second wen t to Peterso n (2.-2) while Merritt pi cked up a win in th e Intermediate portion after a moto two wi n in th e class. DeVri es