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OrEgon State Motocross Championship SEries
Round 9: Forster Livestock Pavilion
Hockema's Hat Trick!
By CLAY LIGHT
SALEM, OR, OCT. 29
Y
amaha-mounted Cody Hockema has had
things his way throughout the majority of
the Oregon State Motocross Championship
Series rounds, and at the penultimate round,
the former minicycle speedster continued to
steamroll the competition at Forster Livestock
Pavilion, also commonly known as Salem Arenacross. Hockema posted the lone three-class
win tally on the day after dominating the 125cc,
250<:c and Before The Hill junior classes.
There were also several other top
KTM-mounted Wya" Fowler (433)
won the 65cc (9-11) class at round
nine of the Oregon State Motocross
Championship Series.
performers on hand, including Medford's
William See, who, like Hockema, has been a
dominant performer throughout the series.
See's unbeaten streak, though, came to an end,
as after winning the 85cc (12-13) class, See had
problems in both Supermini-class motas and
ended the day with 2-3 placings to trail local
rider Steele Angle-Davidson and Drew Mitchell
in the overall results.
Hockema's first overall win of the day came
in the opening sets of motos, the combined
Before The Hill j~niorllntermediate classes.
Hockema had stiff competition from one of
Oregon's top Intermediate riders, Mitch Rask,
and the moto concluded in favor of Rask, who
narrowly edged Hockema. Both riders, though,
were class winners. jeremiah Sparks, the
second-place rider in the junior class, rounded
out the top three.
Moto two was again a Rask/Hockema
swapfest. In the end, the race favored Rask, the
Intermediate-class winner, while Hockema
placed second, but that was good for the
overall junior-class win, his I-I class tally
placing him ahead of Sparks (2-2) and
Husqvarna-mounted Allen Yother (3-4).
Rask rallied to the head of the field in the
first combined 125cc Pro/Intermediate and
250<:c junior moto and did a crediLabIe job of
staying there until mechanical problems
PHOroS BY ClAY LIGHT
dropped ~im back several positions. Hockema
was also included in the field of riders and
assumed t~e lead w~en Rask dropped back.
Hockema stayed there to the finish to lead
Honda rider Robert Wullbrandt, Kawasaki
jockey Nathan Teel, Bradley Hillman and
Derek Foulk across the line.
Hillman, who made the jump from the 85cc
class to the I25cc and 250<:c classes this season,
assumed command in moto two, but the upand-coming rider could only maintain the
position for two laps before Hockema took
command of the race, and he wouldn't be
headed from that point on, capping off a I-I
sweep of the 250<:c junior class after finishing
ahead of Hillman, the second-place 250<:c Junior,
and Rask, the 125cc Intermediate-class moto
winner. Wullbrandt kept close tabs on Rask and
went 1-2 in the Intermediate class to win ovenIl.
Wyatt Fowler ruled the 65cc classes on the
day, although his fellow KTM rider AJyas Wardius
did all he could to put an end to Fowler's
domination. Each time out, Fowler slammed the
door shut on Wardius' attempts to post overall
the 65cc (9-1 I) and 65cc Open-class wins. CN
Foamlt IJvISTOCK PAVlUON
SALEM, OREGON
RESULTS: OcTollElt 29, 2005
(ROUND 9 OF 10)
P/W (0-6): I. Mason Forty (KTN): 2. Chase Grimes
(KTM): 3. Colton Bush (KTM). PIW (7-8): I. Conner
Mitchell (Cob); 2. Taran Offord (Cob); 3. Jack Fowler
(ICTM). 50 OPEN, I. C..... Rode (KTM); 2. N;;k Chappell
(Cob); J. Mason Forty (KTM). 65 BEG: I. Jack Fowier
(Cob); 2. lYler Fony (Kaw); 3. Shelby Van SIande< (Kaw).
65 (0-8), I. eoon... Mitchell (KTM); 2. Luke Patten (ICTM);
3. Devan Ellis (Kaw). 65 (9. I I), I. Wyatt Fowler (ICTM); 2.
AJyas Warn'us (ICTM); 3. Ben Chappell (KTM). 85 BEG, l.
Halloween Classic
2005 District 3 SEason Finale
Broome-Tioga Sports Center
Colton Bush (188) and Nick
Chappell (66) lead the opening
Pee Wee moto at Forster
Uvestock Pavilion.
Ky~ Worlton (Hon); 2. Dylan Rask (Hon); 1. Jack Ferrell
('fun). 85 (7-11), I. T",vi. Conld'n (Kaw); 2. Cooper Gana
(Suz); 1. Tyler Akfrich (Yam). 85 (11.11): I. William See
(Suz); 2. Steele Angle-Davidson (Yam); J. Drew Mitch~1
(Yam). 85 (14-16): I. Nathan Teel (Kaw). 5tMINI: I.
Steele Angle-DaVidson (Yam); 2. Drew Mitchell (Yam); 3.
Wolliam See (Suz). 125 BEG, I. Kyle ReAder (Yam); 2. Jeff
Jenkins (Yam): J. Daniel Bobo (Han). 125 JR: I. Cody
Hockema ('fun); 2. I.......iah Spari