Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

Events Texas State C hampionshipSeries, Round 3 and -mouse in the Over 30 Expert event, wi th Coop er the mouse off the start an d Ha w th orne the ca t in pursuit. Cooper held off Hawt horn e for two laps before "The Doctor" used his surgica l skills to slice past Coo pe r over jump 12 for the lead . Cooper's bike began to lose power, and Mike Cle ment passed him , followed by Dean Lane on lap three. Chris Craft also took advantage of Cooper's misfortu ne, getting by him on lap four . It was la te r discovered t ha t the je t ting on Cooper's bike was set incorrectly, causing th e KTM to bog d o w n and lose power. In the second mo to , Coo pe r o nce again g ra bbed the holeshot. This time h is jetti ng was set correctly, and his machin e stayed strong enough to hotd off Ha wthorne's at ta cks . Cooper firiis h ed with a la r ge le a d , bu t Hawthorn e' s second-place fin ish took the overall win. Cleme nt finished third , wh ile Lane and Craf t rou nd ed out the eN top five. ,1-1-£ ~R£WS UP Z By Kat Span n and The Beckster Photos by Connie Johnson mER, TX, SEPT. 25-26 a m iso n Mill er broke th e points tie in the hotl y contested 50cc (7-8) event on Saturda y a t round th ree o f th e fift h annua l Texas Sta te Cham pio ns hi p Series, the halfwav ma rk of the 1999 series. Miller return~d to the gate on Sunday to top the 50cc Open class, over com pe titors Cha z Holladay, De rek Barath and Rod olfo Fernandez. The third round of t he Tommy' s Cycle Supply /MTA Bridgestone-sp onsored event was run in conjunction with the fifth Annual Pro Challenge, with the majority of the 633 entered amateurs racing on Satu rday, and onlv three selected events - the 50, 60 and 80cc Open classes - were carried over to Sunday to p u t some time between the 125cc and 250cc Pro events . The se ries points leader going into th is round , Chaz Holladay, did n't get the start he wa nted Saturday morning, as Derek Barath led the 50cc (7-8) ga te, chased by Jamison Miller . By the end of th e fi rs t la p, Rodolfo Fern a nd ez had s li p ped b y M ill er a n d w a s hun tin g d own Barath for the lead , while Hollada y raced at Miller's back tire, in fou rth , followed by Zeb Smith, Matth ew Yost and Cole Messick. The race for the lead nar ro wed d own to the front fou r, w ho were so close your could thro w a blanket ove r all of them . But it was Bara th who claimed the moto w in. In th e secon d mo to, a reju ven at ed Miller went out front off the start, with Holladay nipping a t his rear knobbi es. Miller kep t the lead a ll the way to the checkered flag, pu rsu ed by Fern andez, Barath a n d Sm i th . Holl ad a y came aro und in 12th after havin g pro blems on the first lap and then working his way up from 14th. Miller' s 3-1 tally was good en ou gh to b re a k a th r ee-w ay tie in points between the 2-2 of Fernandez and Barath's 1-3. In Sund ay' s 50cc Open contes t, Miller absconded with the holeshot in the first moto and led Holladay thro ug hout the course, eluding him from start to finish , with Derek Barath in third . Barath was the fastest off the gate in moto two, cla iming the holes hot, with Holladay in second an d Miller in third . On lap two, Hollad ay cha rged Barath in the whoops for the lead , bu t Barath held his line and rem ained ou t front. In' the me ant im e, Mill er w a s at H oll ad a y' s back tire an d charge d for second in the woods, passing Hollad ay and hold ing th e n u m ber- two s p o t to th e fin ish . Miller' s 1-2 score once agai n netted him the overall, while Barath had to se ttle for second, with a 3-1. T y ler' s own "Ba d" Brad Smith grabbed the holes hot in moto one of the 350/650cc Open Ama teu r event, blasting his way through the first turn with .J M ., ~ .c E ~ o Z 36 Swan Cyc le Park · Ty ler, Texas Results: September 25·26, 1999 (Round 3 of 5) Jam iso n Miller battled In both the SOCC (7-8) and SOCC Open classes, riding away with bot h overall wins, at the third round of the Texas State Championship Series. the "Longview Ranger," Cod y Sande rs, at his rear fender. Smith held his lead into lap two before Sanders hun ted him d own on the fr on t s tra ig h t a nd took ov er th e position. O nce ou t fron t, the Longview Rang er se t a fast pace, w ith Smith finishing in th e runner-u p spo t, followed by Ju st in Du vall , Eric Miller and Terry Dike. The second mot o wa s almost a repeat of the first, with Bad Brad out fron t off th e s tart an d San de rs in se cond . Th is tim e, howev er, th e Longv iew Ran ger didn't wait until the second lap to ma ke the pa ss. He used the first section of the cou rs e to ta ke th e lead , a nd he nev er looked back, clai mi ng the w in. Sm ith finished second, once again followed by Du vall, but this time ou t Dike finis hed fourth an d Miller fifth. In the Over 40 class, Darw in Hu ckabee led the charge to the first turn, in front of Steve McCombs, who cruised in seco nd to the finis h, with Alan Olson thi rd and Boo Custer fourth . Robert Po rter, be tter known as "Uncle Bob," rounded out the top five of the 19-ricler gate. In moto two, McCombs stole the lead by way of a grea t holeshot, chased by "Hu ck" and Ols on. Mike Com for t finishe d fourth , in fro n t of Steve Massey and Peyton Treadwell. On Sunday, Ronny Jackson picked up where he left off on Saturday, grabbing the 60cc Open holeshot, in front of Tyler "Bu ll" Begu e. By the end of the first lap, though, Begue was at the back of th e pac k and Matt Lemoine wa s in the ru nner-up spot, behind Jackso n. Jake Lowry raced in thir d, followed by Cody Stark, Rod olfo Fernandez and the rest of the 21-rider gate. Stark chased Lowry into th e last lap before he staked his claim for third, pus hing Lowry back to fourth. "Bull" cha rged to finish fifth at the checke red flag, having worked his w ay up fro m a 10t h-place s pot in just two laps. Jac kson led th e way in m ot o two, with Begue in second and Lowry third. Lemo inewas in eighth at the star t of lap tw o, b u t h e wo rke d h is w ay into th e number-two spo t by the end of the next lap . In the meantime, Lowry had already passed Begue for seco nd , but Lemoine passed him jus t short of the finish-line jump before th e white fla g ca me out. Jackson took the win, Lemo ine was second, and Lowry held on to third. Begue was fourth and Stark fifth. Stacv H orn le d th e fi r s t Over 30 N ovice 'gat e in to the first tu rns , chased by Miles Keeney. Keeney took over the lead by the end of the first lap , with Jeff Mi lliga n a n d A la n Tr amm ell in hi s w ake, w h ic h p u she d H orn b a ck to fou rth. Milligan go t around Keeney on the seco nd lap and never loo ked back on his way to the checkered flag. Trammell followed in second a t th e finish lin e, with Mark Chrisman th ird a nd Earn ie Mode four th . Terry Dike stole the holesh ot in the second rnoto, but Chrisma n took over the lead on the first lap , chased by Don nie Holcomb and Jason Draycott, se nd ing Dike back to fourth. Trammell gated sixth but used the second lap to ca tch up to Holcomb and pass him for the nu mbertwo position. Ferrel Fooshee gated behind Tra mmell off the start, following him as they passed ride r upon rider to finish the second lap in third , which pushed Holcomb back to fourth. Milligan, who gated 13th, had an amazing ride, as he used the next three laps to move up to fourth by the time the checkered flag came out. Guy "Airti me" Cooper and Den nis "The Doctor" Hawthorne played cat- 50 (4-6); 1. Ca le b Du well (Co b); 2. Lance Begnaud (Cob) ; 3. Neal Be gnaud (Cub); 4. Bryer Ca lley (KTM); 5 . Jona than Tawney (KTM). 50 (7-8): 1. Ja mison M ill e r (C o b ); 2. Rodolfo Fernandez (Co b); 3. Derek Bara th (Cub) ; 4. Zcb Smith (Cob); 5. Matthew Yost (Co b). 50 OP EN: 1. jamison MiI1('f (Cob) ; 2. Derek Barath (Co b); 3. Cbaz Holla da y (Co b); 4. Rod olf o Ferna ndez (Cob) ; 5. Darnel R"""" (Cob). 60 (1-9): 1. joseph Marburge r ( Ke w); 2. Rodolf o Fernandez (Ka w ): 3. Cody Sta rk (Kaw ): 4 . Ramsey Th ornton ( Ka w): 5. Brad Brid ges (K.1w). 60 (10·]1): 1. Ronny Ia ck so n (Ka w): 2. Ma thew Lemoi ne IKaw ); 3. Marshall Sm ith (I( a w); 4. Ja ke W \\T)" (Kaw); 5. JO!'hEurc ( Ka w ). 60 OPEN: 1. Ronn y jac kson ( Ka w) : 2. Ma th ew Lemo ine (Ka w): 3. lake Lo wry (Kaw); 4. Co dy Stark (Ka w); 5. Tyler Begue IKaw). 80 BEG: 1. Chris Milligan (Yam); 2. Jason Sonnier (Hon); 3. Ch ris Co tton (Ka w ); 4. Jordan Cupples

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