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slight gap on the battle brewing between Myers and Raemisch, while Stephens, the TCCRA cross country champion, ran a consistent fourth. Hudson established a seven-second lead over the pack, while Raemisch pulled to Myers' back wheel and the battle intensified. Raemisch gave it everything she had, but Myers would not yield and retained the runner-up spot to the finish, over Raemisch and Stephens, who overcame a crash to net fourth. When the gate dropped for Moto two, Hudson again took the holeshot entering turn one. Remembering the start from the first moto, Hudson held a tight inside line, determined to score the holeshot money. Again, Hudson was to be denied, as she broke too hard and skidded, allowing her nemesis Raemisch to steal the holeshot yet again, this time from the outside. Raemisch held the point position on the opening lap, followed by Myers, Hudson and Stephens. On lap two, Hudson made a push to the inside of Myers and then countered with an outside move in the following corner to relegate Myers to third. With a clean track leading up to Raemisch, Hudson set her sights on the fleeing Suzuki rider and zeroed in. Inch by inch, Hudson closed the gap. By the halfway mark, Hudson had closed to Raemisch's back wheel. In the back sweeper leading to the finish, Hudson moved inside Raemisch to take command of the moto. Hudson extended her lead when Raemisch made a serious error, casing the double leading to the whoops. Raemisch nearly endoed and hit the whoops stiIJ out of control. Somehow, Raemisch was able to remain on the bucking bronc and regain control as she exited the whoops. The mistake would prove costly, as Myers, sensing blood, closed in for the kill. With the laps winding down, it became a battle of willpower and time. Raemisch was clearly hanging on for dear life, while Myers was a model of precision. Doubling everything in sight, Myers put in a last-lap charge that had everyone in the pits watching the action. Hudson took the uncontested win, while the battle for second went down to the flag. Raemisch narrowly defeated Myers by half a wheel at the checkers to take over the points lead for the series. Stephens again claimed fourth. In Amateur action, Florida's Patty Whitehouse entered the turn in first, only to have Drake pull an inside/outside pass to take the holeshot money at the mark. Drake never looked back and rode a flawless race to the checkers. Whitehouse had her hands full with a charging Kimberly Kocher, from Ohio, who was using every inch of the track, while Whitehouse hogged all the best lines. Lindsay 'ilDD@ 0/kflj 00 ODD@ OOfjjJOOQ -r ..... v l . p a _ t r a n a Fact:or.., S u z u k i AHEAD ~ C?C7C7C7 .x OF" THE FUTURE l5anres F ' r e e s t y / e C:::ha".,pion r-/ R~R ~C?~ N a t i o n a l M ""'0 ' t o c r o _ . C:halnpion C?C7C7C7 ~ C?C7C7~ R~R ~C?~ east S u p e r c : : r o s _ c:::hanrpion o o o C?C7C7~ R ~ R ~C?~ National ""'0 'toc;rOElB s e r i e s supercros& Series C?C7C7C? R~"" C?~C7 N a t i o n a l ,.."o'toc::ro&& S e r i e s ('ayron Memoria' oundarion cycle neVIl's APRIL 25,2001 39