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Despite a so -so start and getting stuck in a mudho le. Kawasaki KX250~ mounted Scott Pless inger came back to f inish third overall. Honda XR600 four-stroke rider Scott Summers f in ished 10 seconds behind Loj ak for second overall. Summers w~s lead ing until he fell. AMA National Championship Hare Scrambles Series: Round 10 Lojak sacks Black Coal National HS By Merle A cord LYNNVILLE. IN. AUG. 27 Team Yamaha' s and L ojak Cycle-sp on sored Ed Lojak edged Sportstown US A-sp on sored Scott Summer's H on da XR6POby 10 seconds at the annual Black Coal National Hare Scra mb les, hosted by th e Illi noi s Ind iana Kentuck y Enduro R iders M.e. Tea m Ka wasa ki 's Sco tt Pl ess in g er was third 26 overa ll . four minutes off the pace. Th e fonn er Na tio na l C ha mpion , Loja k, co m p leted the six 11.2-mile loops 'o f tight woods tra ils, so me open fields and a co up)'>of m udho les in just u nd er th ree hours, winnin g his seco nd Nati onal overa ll o f th e season. The "':'in threw th e points s ta n di ngs int o a three-w a y ti e be twee n him sel f, Summers a n d P lessinger. " If I win th e next race, I'll be in a good posit ion to take the cha mp ionship," sai d Lojak . Loja k, firs t o ff th e lin e in th e first of six waves from dea d-e ngi ne starts, led a tightly knotted group o f riders: Summers, Pl essinger, Kevin Bro wn . Jim Stanfield. Mark H yde and Ron Navlor, At th e en d o f the first : 35~ m in u te loop. Loj ak was a few bik e lengt hs a head of Jim Stanfield and the rest o f the field . It was not u ntil aft er th e second loo p that the field began to sp read o ut. "The run went pr ett y easy for th e first co up le o f laps," said Lojak, " I stretched it o u t to abo u t a minute, bu t in th e fourth lap I went o ff a hi gh wa ll (crea ted from strip coa l minin g ) deep in th e wood s a nd lost abo u t 40 seco n ds. Also , I pitted in the sa me lap , so th ey go t aro u nd m e. T h en I rod e down Pl essin ger and go t a ro und him , th en I ca ugh t Su m mers a nd we sw itc h ed a coup le o f times. Wh e n we st arted th e la s t lap . Su m me rs had th e lead bu t I kep t p ressing him a nd he look ed like he wa s getting tired, Abo u t five m iles in (the loop) ' Su m me rs went down an d I took th e lead, " T he trail s were good, n o bi g surprises," said Loj ak. "T he fourwh eelers ran a race in ' th e m orn in g an d made it slic k in a few spots but it was n' t too bad." " O n the la st la p I was rig h t wh ere I wa nted to be," said Summers. " I was in front o f Ed. But I had one of those o nce-i n-a -career-things happen to me - th e draw-string o n . my left boot cam e loose a nd looped arou nd th e foot peg. I cou ld n 't put rnv foot down wh en I cornered and I didn't want to sto p; th at would let Ed by. But it didn 't matter , I finally , fell any way a nd Ed not onl y got by me. he ran ov er m e in th e process. But th at wa s a ll right. If th e positions had been reversed I would h ave run over h im . too . " T he bo ot s tr in g fin all y got ca ug h t up in th e sp roc ket a nd broke a n d I co u ld rid e a ga i n," said Su m me rs. " I m ad e a mad dash to ca tch Ed but he was long gone." " I had a so-so sta rt," sa id T eam Ka wa saki 's Plessin ger. " I was do in g o kay un til I got stuck in a mu dhole on the th ird lap; Summers was a lso stu ck th ere at the same time. We go t him o u t first th en we go t me out.