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We fig u re d that it was g oing to be a nin e- lap race, and th e first lap was a mile shorter becau se of the sec tion they left out off the sta rt. I passed Fred while he was getting gas and tried to make a . break right there." The st rategy did n ot w ork at first because An d rew s w as ab le to ea t u p Hatch's ad va ntage before the end of the next lap, and wh en the Suzuki rider had no cho ice but to stop for fuel after five laps, And rews was right back in front. For the next tw o laps Andrews held a strong lead, actually pulling away fro m Hatch a littl e bit at a time until the former GNCC number one h ad a run-in w ith a lapper of his ow n . The collision lef t Andrews with a bent bark-bus ter tha t would requ ire yet ano ther pit stop, but the Kawasa ki rid er was still in the hun t. However, the dust had taken its to ll o n An drews' a ir fil t er , and hi s KX250 began coughing late in the race. (The fi lte r b ec am e s o clog g ed that Andrew s actually stopped to change the u nit, dropping b a ck to fourth in the pr ocess.) "I shou ld have cha nged the air filter wh en I stop ped th e firs t tim e, " An d re ws sa id la ter. "My b ike co u ld barely run a n d Ste ve go t away . The Team Gree n guys go t me ou t of th er e q u ick, but I was goi ng so slow, th e o the r guys ca ugh t me . I really had to fight to ge t go ing aga in. I floo red it and ca ug h t Ed dy (Ed mondson) , and th en Laffert y just let me by." That was the last break Hatch would need , an d the Ne w Yorker opened up a lead of nearl y tw o mjnu tes on Lafferty be fo re cr uising th rou g h the settling dust clo ud s in to th e winn er's ci rcle . Hatch led Andrews across the line by abou t a mi n u te and a h alf, a nd And rews in tur n led a cr u is in g Edmo ndson hom e by 25 seconds. Lafferty was another 40 second s back, and then came the Jarrett-Haw k ba ttle, the two cros sing th e finish li n e v irtually side by side - advantage Jarrett. It was Hatch's second win of the '98 GNCC Series and it p uts him in the driver's sea t in the ba ttle for second p lace wi th And rews (151-50) w ith two rou nds left. " "I feel pret ty good abo u t m y chances of , ge tti l\g n umber two again because m y th ro waway races are a little worse tha n Fred's are," said Ha tch , who is 29 yea rs old . "I d on ' t necessarily have to beat Fred in eith er race, but I wo uld like t o g ive Suzu ki a co u p le mo re w in s bef ore the season ends ." ,Among the other class wi nners we re 200cc A-class leader Jim my Evans, who is 'a ctually a Pro-Am motocrosser, an d 250cc A fro nt-runner Chuck Woodford of.Ohio, wh o wou ld actua lly ra te a solid se venth overall on adjusted time . The fast es t of the O pe n A-class rid ers was Ron Pa ler mo (KTM), w hile Ge ne O nail to pp ed th e Ve t A class a boar d a Ka w a saki. Pennsyl van ias o w n Rick Kresic rode his Suzu ki to the Senior Acl a s s wi n, a n d K entuckys H a rve y Whitaker wo n the Four-Stroke A d ivisi on. I~ High Point Raceway Mount Morris, Pennsylvania Results: September27, 1998 (Round 11of 13) { a lA: 1. Steve Ha tch (Suz): 2. Fred Andrews (Kaw ): 3 . Paul Ed mo ndson (Suz); 4. Micha el Lafferty (KTMl; 5. Ka Jim Jarrett C w ); 6. Ba rry E. Hawk Jr (Ya m); 7. Bria n Garrahan (KTM); 8. Ro nnie Burn field (Su z): 9. Ge ne O nai l (K<\w); 10. Patrick Ga rra ha n (KTM) ; 11. Aaron . Kopp: 13. Er ic Berna rd (KTM); 14. Jos hu a McLcvy (Hon ): 15 . Steve McSwai n (Ka w ): 16 . Ja mes Eva ns (K.1W); 17. Harvey Whitaker (Kaw) : 18. Stev en Graves (Sut ); 19. Cole Cl lkins (Kaw) . Upcoming Rounds: Round 12 - Lisbon , Ohio. October 11 Round 13 - Crawfordsville. Indiana. 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