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Mike LaRocco (6) and Mike Kiedrowski (4) spent most of the first 125cc moto this dose while dicing for the lead. LaRocco won both motos, scoring his thi rd win of the year. himself in last pl ace after fall ing in the second turn. " I was beh ind Bayle, co u ldn 't see, hit a rut and j us t go t h igh-sided," Bradshaw sa id . " I h ad to dodge everybody before I cou ld ge t back o n my bik e." By th e tim e Brad shaw restarted hi s Yamaha and go t go ing again, he was dead last. The teenager th en spent the rest of th e moto pla yin g ca tch -u p, eventua ll y fin ishing fift h. Ward , m eanwhile, led the pack , albeit br iefly. T he defending champi on also su fferi ng a crash. " I ca me 0 (( a ju mp and my back wheel landed in a hol e," Ward said la ter. "The back end bounced u p a nd I rode th e fro nt wheel for a lo ng time before it finally went over." Wa rd quickl y dusted himself 0(( and rejo in ed the race in sixth, right beh ind Fisher. Up front , a two -way dice formed between lead er Ba yle and teammate Sta nton. A few seco nds back, Lechien a nd Kawasaki Team Green 's Gene Na umec ga ve chase. Naum ec lost co nt ro l o f fo urth, though , when he laid his bike do wn in a turn. Things didn 't get any better for the Fl o ri da reside n t when h e cras hed again, ending his day and handing fourth to Ward, who had just di sposed o f Fisher. . It was a Bayle/Stanton show to th e end, as th e two riders pulled away from th e pack . Stanton sta rted cha llenging Bayle near the hal£way poin t and th e two Honda pilots traded positions a few times, then Bayle, once again, took con trol. " I was j ust watching him for a while, chec king out h is lines, " said Stanton. " I made a cha rge at him , but he kept pas sing m e back." Stanton waited until th e seco nd-tolast lap befor e making a second serious sta b a t th e leader, but h is stra tegy backfired when he cra shed. " I waited until th e last few laps to make a not he r cha rge, but I went down in a turn ," sa id Stanton. " I went into th e turn too fast and the next thing I knew I was bouncing all to hell." Sta n to n's cras h ga ve Bayle a huge lead a nd a n easy win, while Stanton recovered to finish all alo ne in seco nd p lace. Wh ile Stan to n a nd Bayle dueled for j he lead , Ward a nd former factory Kawasaki teammate Lech ien we re doi ng th e same for third. After passing Lechien earlier in the race , Wa rd was caught by surpri se when L echi en fought back and. at one time, actually got a wheel in on Ward. Unfortunately for Lechien, tho ug h, a la p ped rid er got in his wa y and he couldn 't co m p lete the pa ss. Kno wing that Lechien was now a threa t, Ward picked up th e pa ce and pu lled slightly away for th e rest of the race. Ward end ed up cros sing the finish line some 49 seconds behind runnerup Sta nton , wh ile Lec hien fin all y bro ke hi s fifth-place streak by crossing the fin ish line in fou rt h. Finish in g fifth, 47 seco nds aft o f Lechien , was Fisher , who was com fortably a head o f Dubach , Sommo, KTM 's Keith John so n and Kawasaki ri der Dag Boyesen . 125cc N a tio n al The first 30-minute plus two-lap 125cc rn o to quickly turned . into a Ward (I), Damo n Bradshaw (11) an d Jean-Michel Bayle (8) bat tled in the first mo to, Bradshaw won the mo to but crashed in the second and finished third overall. shoo t-ou t bet ween Kiedrowski a nd La Rocco. By th e end o f the first lap, Kiedrowski led th e way with La Rocco in close pursuit, followed by Cooper and Team Pea k/H onda rider Jeremy McGrath. " I came up short o ver th e triple jumps and cased it ," said Kiedrowski, who rejoined the ra ce in fifth place, sa n d wich ed between Vohland a nd Cooper. "By the time I got going, everybody had gone by." 13