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MOTOCROSS. .:.. .Series Round 9: Kenworthy's MX Park AD 12S25Occ"National Championship Motocross (Lett) Brian Deegan (25) momentarily leads second 125cc moto winner Kevin Windham. Windham took second overall. (Below) Robbie Reynard battled to a second-place Ilnlsh In the first 125cc moto. He would end up fourth overall. lowed by Lewis, Honda rider Tony Amaradio and Pennsylvania's Jeff Yentzer. K1M's Ty Wallace, Jeff Curry, Doug Stone, Kevin Crine and Andre Pene rounded out the top 20. Emig again grabbed the holeshot at the start of the second moto, just ahead of McGrath, Ward and Albertyn. However, before the end of the lap, McGrath would be leading with Emig running sixth. "Jeremy got me," said Emig. "He made a real good move on me. Then, right after that, Albee and I locked up in a turn. We didn't go down but like we stopped for three seconds and everyone just went by us." Albertyn got away and made a couple of quick passes, and the order after lap one read: McGrath, Albertyn, Ward, Bradshaw, Hughes and Emig. After a poor start in the first moto, Kyle Lewis was running seventh, followed by Swink and LaRocco. McGrath immediately began pulling away from Albertyn, then all of a sudden Albertyn came around heading the pack with McGrath running second. "r went over a jump and the front end pushed out," said McGrath of his crash .."r knew r had to get back up quickly and get going." As a result of the crash, almost all of the buckles on McGrath's left boot were sheared off and had to ride the re t of the moto with his boot flap flopping around. "In the crash, my leg went into the rear wheel," McGrath said. '1t (the open boot) didn't· bother me, but 1 did have about two inches of dirt in the bottom of the boot at the end. It was like r had a big heel." McGra th quickly went after Albertyn, who made a valiant effort to hold McGrath back but to no avail. A lap \D later, McGrath was in his customary 0\ position - out in front - and pulling ~ away, after passing Alberty.n over a long double jump. Albertyn looked over just in time to see McGrath fly by. Albertyn's problems continued as Larry Ward began turning up the pressure from third. Ward had Hughes breathing down his neck, followed by Emig, Bradshaw and LaRocco. Pretty soon, an epic battle developed involving Albee, Ward, Emig and Lamson still sailed way out in front on his Mike Gosselaar-tuned CRl25, while Reynard and Huffman continued to haggle over second. The two riders had the crowd hanging over the fencelined track, as they fought down to the wire. When it was all over, it was Reynard by a bike length or two. Meanwhile, a full-on dual was being waged for fourth and fifth between Craig and Windham. Heading into the last series of turns, it looked as though Craig would hold off Windham, but Craig lost the front end of his Honda and went wide in the very last turn, and Windham cut to the inside and made the pass for fourth. Craig took fifth. Tim Ferry broke free from Pederson in the late gOings to take sixth, while Dowd - suffering with arm pump - settled for a disappointing eighth. Ninth went to Performance Engineering's James Dobb, followed by Chaparrals' Brian Deegan, Honda of Troy's Jeff cess in the runner-up position, holding .on to it for five laps before fatigue set in. At that point, Reynard slipped by Craig for second, but Reynard was far from out of the woods. .' Huffman, who was watching much of the back-and-forth action from behind in fourth, also passed a tiring Craig for third. Shortly thereafter, both Reynard and Huffman pulled away from Craig, who could see Windham rapidly approaching following the Yamaha rider's 15th-place start. Behind Windham chased Ferry, Pederson and Dowd, all in close formation. Willoh, SplitFire's Casey Johnson, Team Green's Paul Currie and Montgomeryville Cycle's Barry Carsten. The second moto was a mirror image of the first, except it was Windham instead of Lamson - who was doing the smoking. Windham edged out Huffman for the holeshot and roosted away from .the pack. Huffman, who held down second the whole race, tried to keep Windham in sight and that was about all he could do. "Man, once he (Windham) gets out in front like that..... aid Huffman. "If he starts off in the pack it's a different Hughes. Albertyn got the worst of it after getting passed by both Ward and Emig on the same lap, then two laps later, Hughes zapped him. Upofront, McGrath cruised, while Ward and Emig disputed second. The dice between Ward and Emig went down to the wire. Ernig made a number of attempts to pass Ward but came up empty-handed each time. Emig tried one last time just before the white flag but missed a shift, and that was all it took for Ward to hold on to second. "That was a great race," said Emig. "Ward rode great. r really have to take my hat off to him. According to our lap times during our dice, we had the fastest times all day." "1 got a little excited," said Ward. '1 couldn't get by Albee and used up too much energy, so r took a couple of deep breathes. We weren't too far behind McGrath and r kept thinking that he could fall over - that kept me going. Basically r knew that r had to hit my lines, and then Jeff couldn't get gte." After passing Albertyn, Hughes settled into a lonely fourth, while Albertyn dropped back and had Bradshaw and LaRocco to worry about. With three laps left, LaRocco got by Brad haw and set after his teammate Albertyn. It was a duel to the finish with Albertyn barely nipping laRocco at the flag. Bradshaw ended up seventh ahead of Lewis, who was followed across the finish line - at a distance - by Lawrence, Swink, Palmer and Crine. 125cc NATIONAL Lamson was simply untouchable in the first 125cc National mota. The factory Honda rider edged out Reynard for the holeshot and quickly opened up a commanding lead - a lead that no one would challenge. However, the race was far from boring, as there was plenty of action taking place behind Lamson. Reynard held down second for a while before Craig decided he wanted it. But Reynard didn't like third and passed the Honda of Troy rider right back and held on to second for three more laps before having it snatched away from Craig once again. This time, Craig had more suc-

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