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Team Green rider Ted Hunnicutt. riding a KX250. finished third overall and captured the 250cc class victory at the BO-mile. Moose Run National. " I don't reall y kn ow wha t happened," sai d Krau se. " Everyth ing was go ing really well then 1 came over a rise and th e next thing 1 knew 1 was going over the bars. 1 have no idea wh y 1crashed. 1looked all round an dI still don 't kn ow wh at 1 hit." The crash left Krause with a sore shoulder and a badly cut knee wh ich forced h im o u t of th e funni ng. Wi th Krause ou t, Pfeiffer in herited fo urth ov erall, Gauthier moved thro ugh into fifth and a race-long battle between YZ250 pilot Dan Ashcraft an d KX250 pilo t Roger Hurd mov ed up into sixth . " Me and Ashcraft h ad a good battle going. It went on for ages," said Hurd, wh o bat tled a fro nt fla t for the last 20 mi les of th e race. " It 's fun wh en you're racing th at close." The raci ng at th e front of th e pack stayed close all th e way to th e finis h . Roeseler kept his hard-on-the-ga s sp ri nt going throughou t the final stages and still held the number o ne position when the finish line came into sig ht. Back in seco nd, Miller refu sed to ad mit defea t a nd pushed hi s CR500 to the limit all the way but cam e up 26 seconds short wh en the checkered flag finally fell. " Miller was righ t th ere all th e . way, " sa id Roesel er , " so 1 was concen trating on ridi ng smooth an d just stayi ng a li ttl e bit a head of him ." "Oh well , I guess you can' t win them all and secon d isn 't too bad," said Mill er. " I gu ess we're tied for points now, so th at 's goi ng to mak e the next race prett y interesting. " Hunnicutt' s co n sis tent r i de brough t him in to th e finish line in third overall to claim the honors in th e 250cc division. "1 was just trying to hold a good fast pace all the wa y thro ug h and everything we go ing really well un ti l (Roeseler ) ca u g h t me," said ·H un nicu tt. Kurt Pfeiffer bro ugh t his YZ250 home in fourth overall to claim second in the 250cc di vision. Gauth ier came home right behind Pfeiffer to cla im th ird in th e 250cc class. . " I had the flu al l week so 1 wasn' t expec ti ng to do very well ," said Gauthier. T h e race-long ba ttle between Ashcra ft and Hurd was settled when Ashcraft slid home in sixth overa ll. " I had him right a t th e end bu t 1 stalled at th e top of th e last hill and he went by me," said H ur d, wh o h ad to be co n tent with seventh overall. YZ250 pilo t Grant Palens ke recovered from a slow sta rt to captur e eigh th overa ll, just ahead of the R M250 racer Sco tt Steams. " I j ust didn't hav e a good line going to the bomb and 1 was 18th after the first loop," said Palenske. Stearns was also well back a t the start of the race. "I got a terrible start - 30th or 40th at th e bomb, 1 think," sai d Stearns. "The bik e j ust wou ldn't start. It's getting a bit old and 1 think it must be time to buy a new one." Ron Shuler crossed the finish lin e in 10th overall. Lewis continued to dominate the l 25cc class all th e way to the checkered flag. Second in the 125cc class went to Rieger, II p laces behind Lewis and J ohn Braasch 's YZl 25 was not far behind. Sco t H arden raced in at th e head of th e Vet class to claim 19th overa ll and hi s second class wi n of th e cha mp io ns h i p se r ies a n d P arry I repeated his round one performance in second. . T en- year-old Tommy Ro ber ts co mpleted the 4 l -m ile Na tion a l caliber course o n a YZ80 and came ' out on top of th e Mini bi ke division . Yamaha YZ250WR -mounted Kurt Pfeiffer finished [ust ahead of Kenji Gauthier to claim fourth overall and second plaFe in the 250cc class. • Despite j ust getting over the flu. Gauthier powered his Suzuki RM250 to ·f ifth overall. taking third in the 250cc division. 'Result s (unofficial) 1. Larry Roeseler (Kaw); 2. Chuck Miller (Hon); 3. Ted Hunnicutt (Kawl; 4. Kun Pfeiffer (Yam); 5. Kenji Gauthier (Suz); 6. Dan Ashcraft (Yam); 7. Roger Hurd (Kew); 8. Grant Palenske (Yam); 9. Scott Stearns (Suz); 1D. Ron Shuler (Kew); 11. John McCorm ick (Hont 12. Cun is Dice (Hont 13. J immie Lewi s (Yamt 14. Dave Poner (KTM). 13