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"heroes or zeroes" speech: describing a nasty
Braden on the first lap. Berry got around
little mud ravine at the bottom of a steep off-
Braden to take second and the overall,
with Doves and Batman again running fourth
camber hill, he claimed a rider was either a
taking the 30· to 40-second-shorter
used four logs as a launching pad to
15-foot-wide drainage ditch, or a
taking the longer but definitely safer
and fifth.
Yamaha-mounted Cash Maitlen got the
jump off the gate in moto one of the Outlaw
route across the bridge.
With an "interesting" (and that's an under-
this class. though, as he pushed his Yamaha
to the front and stayed there for the five-
statement) off-camber uphill starting line, the
first wave of AA and A riders launched off
from a dead-engine start, followed by the
Senior A. Band C classes.
lap race.
"hero" by
route that
jump the
"zero" for
class. Nathaniel Benoit was the domjnator of
Another Yamaha pilot, Steven Sampley,
moved into second and never relinquished
ers entered the woods. Converse ended up
that position. Jon-Paul Powell rode his KTM to
a respectable third-place finish, with Maltlen
and Suzuki rider Trae Norton not far behind.
Shane Rafferty put his Honda in the
hoieshot position in moto two but quickly suc-
being the first rider to exit the first 2-mile
woods section, and by the end of lap one,
Converse was followed 13 seconds later by
cumbed to Benoit. As Benoit rode a lonely
race out in front, Sampley moved past PoweU
to take over second, and Josh Johnson came
Scott Porter. Tight on Porter's rear wheel was
from back in the pack to knock on Maitlen's
fourth-place door.
Converse did not have a very good start,
but he benefited from a seven-or-eight-bike
pile-up that occurred just as the AA and A rid-
Dave Campbell, on his Honda CR450.
On lap two, the top three remained the
Mota one of the Over 30 Amateur class
had Kawasaki jockey Greg Ingels in front from
the drop of the gate to the checkers, with
another KX rider, Rick Cotten, right behind
him. The third-, fourth- and fifth-place finish-
same, but Kirk Foster, who was at the bottom
of that fiasco off the start, had rapidly moved
up into fourth place.
By the end of the fifth lap, Converse had
opened up a 1;43 lead over the hard-charging
Los Angeles County Raceway: Randy
Gorman (117) and Joshua Hall (417) were
this close for most of the second 250cc
Beginner moto at CRC's Saturday night
motocross in Palmdale, California.
Hall went 1-1 for the win.
Foster, who finished first in the AA class.
Converse appears to be the man to beat in
District 22 hare scrambles.
"These guys [the Hill Blazers Cycle Club)
did a hell of a job with the course," the winner
enthused. "It was really fun and technical. I've
raced here three times and this is my first
overall. I had a bad start, but after the pile-up,
I guess I was first or second into the woods."
ers were aU on Hondas: Larry Peterson, Todd
Cooperland Motocross Track: Max
Jordan gets a good start toward winning
the first-place prize - a mountain bike - at
round one of the Cooperland
Championship Motocross Series In
Stillwater, Oklahoma. Jordan went 1-1 in
the aocc Senior and 80cc Open classes.
Results
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Jr. (Yam); 4. Jared Brown (Kalil).
SCHBY: t. C.J. Mahon (Suz); 2. Anthony Barbacovi (Yam); 3.
Omeck Murphy (Hon); 4. Cammxl Hessler (Yam); 5. Chad Abbott
(Yam).
125 BEG: I. Chad Abbott (Yam): 2. Greg Owen (Hon): 3. Mike
Garcia (Yam): 4. Ariel G~ (Yam); 5. Jessie Berg (Hon).
125 NOV; I. SterlJng _
(Sw); 2. Ileneck ""