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Steward Baylor, who turned some blazing laps on the final two times around to nearly catch the KTM rider at the finish. Kelley crossed the finish line with Stew- ard on his rear fender. "It was upsetting," said Baylor. "We did everything we could. I gave it absolutely everything I had. Those last two laps, there was nothing left. I don't think I could have done anything better or anything different." Ricky Russell turned in his second-best finish of the year (he finished second at the Tiger Run), and he grabbed the hole- shot to boot! "I had an awesome start, and finally got that holeshot," said Russell. "I led for almost two laps and made a little mistake and Ben Kelley got by. I was following him for a while, and we came to a bottleneck area and there was probably about twenty guys kind of blocking the trail. Ben was able to just kind of plow a trail through there and Josh Strang followed him and got by me and the two just kind of got a little gap on me. Then Stew went by." Josh Toth was fifth. The FMF/ KTM rider got a great jump off the line but went down in turn three and was the last of the pro riders to enter the woods sec- tion. After passing Steward later in the first lap, Toth ended up having to ride the remainder of the lap with no rear brakes. Magna1 Motorsports/Husqvar- na's Jordan Ashburn led the second half of the top 10, finish- ing sixth, nearly three minutes behind Toth. Craig DeLong was the first of the XC2 250 Pro class riders. It was the Rockstar Energy Factory Husqvarna rider's first win of the year, putting an end to Coastal Racing GasGas' Johnny Girroir's run of five-straight. KLM Milwaukee GasGas' Grant Baylor had an off day, finishing eighth overall. Babbitts Online/Monster Energy/Kawasaki Team Green's Lyndon Snodgrass was ninth overall and second in the XC2 250 Pro class, 11 seconds ahead of Rockstar Energy Factory Husqvarna Racing's Trevor Bol- linger, who was 10th overall. Coastal Racing GasGas' Ben Parsons claimed his first win of the FMF XC3 125cc Pro-Am class, fin- ishing ahead of class points leader Magna1 Motorsports/Husqvarna's Jonathan Johnson, while Lojak Cycle Sales/Yamaha's Chase Coleville was third. In the XCW class, AmPro Ya- maha's Rachael Archer took the win by over two minutes ahead of Babbitts Online/Monster Ener- gy/Kawasaki Team Green's Korie Steede, who came on strong in the end to finish second. Steede's runner-up finish matched her best performance of the year. Magna1 Motorsports/Husqvar- na's Tayla Jones was third, ahead of BABS Racing Yamaha/Fly/ Maxxis/Pro Circuit's Becca Sheets and Enduro Engineering/ FLY/KTM's Mackenzie Tricker. Shan Moore OVERALL 1. Josh Strang (Kaw) 2. Ben Kelley (KTM) 3. Steward Baylor (Yam) 4. Ricky Russell (GG) 5. Josh Toth (KTM) 6. Jordan Ashburn (Hus) 7. Craig DeLong (Hus) 8. Grant Baylor (GG) 9. Lyndon Snodgrass (Kaw) 10. Trevor Bollinger (Hus) IN THE WIND P40 Craig DeLong won the XC2 class, putting an end to Jonathan Girroir's win streak.