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CMC Golden Stat e Nationals Sout h Round 4 : Hung ry Valley SVRA Going the Distance By JOHN BETHEA GORMAN, CA, FEB. 14 ike a cou ple of boxers stan ding cente r ring, nailing away at e ach other. Tim We igand and Rusty Holland locked the mse lves into a sluglest at the fourth round of the CMC Golden State Nationals South at t he Quail Canyon track in Hungry Valley SVRA. and whe n it was over, it was a draw. The ir initial encounter was the 20-m inute 2SOcc Pro solo race. Holland led the first four laps, only to be passed by Weigand, who too k L when they'd tra ded firsts and seconds in their mo rni ng sparr ing session s , C hatsw ort h' s Weigand had des igns on pulli ng off tha t rares t of deeds: w inning four Pro overalls in one day, a feat last accomplis hed in California by Lance Moorewood nearly three decades ago. Howeve r, Ho lland hadn 't t raveled down from C lovis , Californ ia, to spend t he day running shotgun for Weigand , so in the aftemoon rounds, he came out of his corner jabbing away, winning both second motos in body-pou nding battles, and he managed to eke out overa llvicto ries in both to even the score . the win . Intermed iate Jarred Browne has be e n Thei r next round was the 20-minute 12Scc attempt ing triple wins lately, with only partial Pro contest. Hon da -mounted We igand took success . On this day, howev er, he finally put it all together, ru nning a perfect six for six and the le ad from C haparra l Suzu ki speedster acing the School boy, 12Scc Intermediate and Gerrit O rdelman o n t he second lap and was 25 0cc Int e rm e d ia t e classes . T he stiffest never heade d by Holland , who move d his co mp etitio n th e Ame rican Suzuki rider fro m Honda into second after three laps. Nuevo, California, had to face came from lanky The two also faced off in two-moto battles Jeff Loo p in the Schoolboy class. They ran side in the SOOcc Pro and Ove r 2S Pro classes, and by side through t he first four turns of their first race, w it h Browne emerging in front. That lasted un til la te in t he ra ce , wh en Loop punched his Suzu ki's fro nt t ire bac k into th e lead, ent ering the last lap wi th a m eager on e bi ke lengt h advantage . But fate yanked the win from his gras p whe n his fr o nt e nd wa s hed out in a swee per and he tu mbled out of c o nt ention . The FMFI Maxxis ride r too k Jarred Browne (42 5 ) bested the 125cc Intermediate r u nne r-up in the ne xt class (pictured), a s w e ll as the 5choolboy and 250cc Intermediote classes in Gorman, California. mot o, but his first-mo ta spill allowed Calabasas , Cal ifornia's Brett Auerbach to squeeze his Moto-X Depot yz into second overall. Loop had another shot at Browne in the 2SOcc Inte rmed iate contest, and this time he scor ed runne r-up hono rs with a 2· 2 showing. Larry Reese, a 17-year-old TSD/Spy-backed Suzu ki rac e r fro m Sa n Marc os, Ca lifo rnia , placed seco nd , beh ind Brow ne, in the 12Scc Intennediate class but earned his own time in the spo tlight when he topped both Before The Hill ( 17-24) motos. eN HUNGRY VAWY 5VRA GoRMAN, CAUFORN IA RESULTS: FEBRUARY 14, 2004 (ROUND 4) 50 BEG: I. jonathan SoIz (Cob): 2. Callion McHaney (Co b) ; 1 . Joh n Cabr era (KTM); 04. Adam Hulsey (Pol) ; 5 . Kanan Vudmaska (KTM). 50 (....6 ) : I. H axwell Tedder (Kaw); 2. jake Koehnke (KTM); J. Cameron IWh ( KTM); 4 . Chaz Vo.que , (Cob). 50 (T-8) ; I. Michoel Maze (Cob); 2. Br.mdon Oliv Navarro (Hon); 4. u-wryn Mo

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