Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's

SRMA Tri-State Arenacross Championship Parker Coliseum Oh, Brothersl By Roy JENKINS BATON ROUGE, LA, JAN. 2·3 otocrossers comp et ed on Friday and Saturday inside Parker Coliseum on LSU's cam pus, and the re was no shortage of racers to com pete (or the S-foot trop hies and cash. Two sets o f brothers raced for the top spots in t he 12sc c Money class. Corey Romero , 24, and Chase Romero, 20, sw app ed pa int w ith the Man ue l brothers, 18-year -old Jason and IS-year-old Dustin. On Friday night. Jason wo n the q ualifier on his N2G ea r/D&L Powersports Kawasa ki w hen Chase slid out. Chase got his Inn 01 Iberia-bac ked KTM up laster than Santa can ma ke a delive ry to salvage sec o nd place. Cody Smiley se tt led into third on his D&Gl8ardwell Yamaha. 113·Elf...., inti. F"oeId When the gate dropped for the main event , hom etown bo y Chad McNemar fired his Champion Cycle KTM into the lead and 1131 • Edison inti. Field M SMLlI, SPAIN' 12/& - Estadio Otimpico ARNHEM, HOllAND' 12/13· Gelredomo AllAHEIM.CA' + ~ PHoENIX,Ar+ lNO' a.nJcOnt Bahparl< AlIA OM, CA'+ IN)' EdIson inti. Field SAN IEGD.CA'+ 1124 • Qualcomm Stadium ANANEIM. CA'+ SAN FRANCISCO.CA'+ held off Chase to capture the win and the cash. Corey piloted his Suzuki into third . beh ind his brother. In Saturday night's 125cc Money class, Chase Romero , Chase Guidry and Jaso n qualified one-twa-three. But in the main, jason quickly grabbed the lead, w ith the two Chases chas ing him. Chase Romero and Guidry battled bar to bar for a couple laps until Guidry w e nt down . jas o n held off Chase Romero until halfway, when the latt e r used a block-pass to secure the lead. Meanwh ile, Dustin had worked his way up to challenge jaso n fo r second . The two brothers from Lorange r, Lo uisiana, raced from turn to turn until Dustin finally prevailed. Chase Romero won the race . The 125cc No vice and Open classes had some of th e closest battles of the week ends . Loranger's Broc Andre , Sunset's Ryan Quebedeaux and Mandeville's Tim Bergeron filled out the top three spo ts in the Open class w hen perennial front-ru nner Chase Melancon crash ed into fifth. Q uebedeaux won the 125cc Novice qualifier. w hile jacob Heintze squeezed out jordan Champagne in an e xcit ing battle for second. Loranger rider Dust in Sampey crashed right 011 the gate and got run ove r by the pack, but he shoo k off the pain and ca me back to take second in the main, behind Qu ebedeaux. Port Vincent's Mitch Gourney bested 15 other ride rs in the Mini Open 8scc class and finished second in both the 8scc ( 12. 15) and Schoolboy classes . It too k Andre several laps to finall y edge out Goumey for the win in the Schoolboy co ntest . Glen Guidry cont inues to defy father T ime, racing with the fro nt-runne rs in the 250cc Open. Com bining his experience with timely boleshots. he showed the young stallions a few old tr icks from the '70s. He tangled up w ith one of his students, Melancon , in tu rn thr ee and gave him a good -natured slap on the helmet while they were picking up their bikes. Melancon got up to take third , behind Daniel Viningand eventual w inner Brock Hollis. With more entry-level classes emerging [l.e., Ladies, Hobby, Four-Stroke Mini). more and more people are discoveri ng - or returning - to the sport and are not con tent just to sit on the side lines and wa tch . Nex t up: t he much-anticipated SRMA Winter Series . For more info, go to www.mxseries .com 211 • PacIf", Bell Pan R USToM. TJI'+ 2I1C -Reliant Stadium MINNEAPOLIS, MN'+ 2121 - HHH lIetrodome ATI.AIITA. GA'+ 2128'Goofg Dome l> DAYTONA. FL+' I'll ' Daytona Ind. Speodway StlOUIS.MO'+ 3/13 ' EcIwanI Jone. Dome INDlANAPoUS.IN'+ 3120'RCA Dome PONTIAC ,111' + ~ • SilYonlome DALlAS, TJI'+ un -Teu s Sttdltn SALT LAII CITY, ur + Cl2C- Rk:e-Ecdel Stadium LAS VEGAS, NV" + 511 ' SamBoydSI>dium TICKETS ONS lENOWI ~ ... ·. t· ~ ~ .-...., ImIl ~ . --.... ~ eW AIIAKA c:.Jl..... RESUL TS 50 OIL-IN): I. Kolby Johnson (KTH ); 2. Barron Bellar d (HCKl). 50 (4-6): I. Ty Rogers (KTH) ; 2. Cha d Pattison (KTH) . 50 (7-8): I. Austin Riggins (Lem ); 2. Koi Westbrook (KTH ); 3. Levi Bourque (Pol); 4. And rew Leboeuf (KTH ); S. Jonathan Hagan (Y ). 50 OPEN: I. Shaw Guillotte (Le m); 2. Austin Riggins (Lem); 3. am Andrew Leboeuf (KTH ). 4-ST RK MINI: I. Perri Prevost (!

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