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MOTOCROSS ' . . A 1251250CC N MA ational C hampionshipM otocross Series Round 2:Prarie City OHV Park , thinking that it would be just like last year when I we nt 1-3 at Was hougal and Dam on we nt 2-2. I was trying my har d es t but I couldn't ca tch u p , so I just wa tc hed an d pull ed fo r Ferry." Ferry d id win for first time in his profess ional caree r and ,the prize wa s third o ve rall behind Hughes and Huffman . Rounding out the top five overall in the 125cc class were Honda of Troy 's often ove rlooked 125cc hero Mike Brown and California ve tera n priv at eer Budd y Antunez. Th is year's Hangtown Classic had to rate as one o f th e best eve nts th e Dirt Diggers M / C Club has ever hosted. After several years of terribl y hot or ext remely (Left) Mike Kiedrowski secured the 250Cc overall win with a runawa y perfromance In the second moto. (Below) Ryan Hughes won the first 125cc clas s moto and bac ked it up with a solid th ird in moto two. By Davey Coombs Photos by Kinney Jone s and Coombs SACRAMENTO, CA, MAY 7 n a p e rfe ct d ay fo r racing, Tea m Kaw as a ki' s M ike Kied ro w ski a nd Team Spi tFi re / Pro Circuit / Kaw asaki' s Ryan Hu ghes emerged fro m a pair of fierce bat tle s to claim the 250cc and 125cc overa ll wins, respectively, at the 27th annual Dirt Diggers Hangtown MX Classic. The 26-year-old Kiedrowski post ed 4-1 moto scores to beat out Yam aha' s Jeff Emig (1-4) on a tie breaker, while Hughes sco red th e third 125cc Nation al win of his caree r with a 1-3 score, edgi ng Suzu ki's Damon Huffman (2-2) based on po ints scored (45 to 44). " I had so me p roblems in th e- fi rst moto, but we d id so me th ings d ifferent I Ll) 0\ 0\ ....-I betw een m otos and it worked just perfectly in the seco nd race," said Kiedrowski, who ran and hid from the rest of the field in th e se con d 250cc moto. "I wa s just getting poi nts for the championship and not rea lly worried about the ove rall after I go t fou rth in the firs t mo to, but I'll take a win an yway I can get it!" Emig fin ish ed a car eer-hi gh second overall in the' 250cc class, w hile th reetime World Champion Gr eg A lbe rty n put in his bes t score of the sea son wi th third overall via a 2-6 tally. "There w as nothing 1 cou ld do at the en d of th e second m ot o but watch the battle up front ," sa id Hughes of the deci sive duel betw een Su zu ki team m ate Huffman and Tim Ferry. "I tried as ha rd as I could to catch those guys, but I was just too fa r back to be gin with. I was we t co n d itions, th e e ve n was mov ed , at th e request of the club, to the first weekend of May in the hopes that the weath er would not be too drastic either way. The club w as fortunate enough to get a warm, breezy day tha t brou ght out a crowd of close to 10,000 race fan s to witness th e second round of the 1995 AMA 125 /250cc National MX Championships. Thi s ye a r's co u rse w a s popular among the riders. Run in counterclockwise direction, th e long, fast track w as augmented with more than 100 load s of sa nd to so ften up the normally hard-pack ground . The resulting track w as still fast, but deep berms an d braking bumps were everywhe re, and the faces of the jumps w ere laced wi th ru ts. The mix complicated thin gs eno ugh to pu sh lap times up to around the 2:10 mark on what many riders felt w as the best Hangtown track in years. "The track was wa y better this year compared to last, " said H ughes. "The track was fast and slippery last yea r and I