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a day after finishing third on
Saturday. He ended up some
six seconds ahead of Gagne's
Fresh N' Lean Attack Perfor-
mance Yamaha's teammate Josh
Herrin (fifth on Saturday), who in
turn, was seven seconds ahead
of Petersen's teammate Bobby
Fong (seventh on Saturday).
Panera Bread Ducati's Toni
Elias (who was eighth on Satur-
day), got the better of Scheibe
Racing BMW's Hector Barbera
after a race-long duel to finish
seventh. Elias was riding the
Ducati in place of the injured
Kyle Wyman at Laguna Seca,
but Wyman will return to the
Honos Superbike class in three
weeks at Brainerd International
Raceway.
Travis Wyman Racing's Travis
Wyman (10th on Saturday) and
BPR Tuning's Bryce Prince
(12th on Saturday) rounded out
the top 10 finishers while also
finishing first and second in the
Superbike Cup.
KING OF THE BAGGERS
A champion was crowned on
Sunday. Kyle Wyman battled
through a broken elbow to win
the race and clinch the Mo-
toAmerica Mission King of the
Baggers Championship.
Wyman started from the pole
and was never headed in the
eight-lap race. He gained more
than a full second on second-
place finisher and Mission
while running in third. Gagne
managed to eek out some breath-
ing room during the last five laps
and take Sunday's win by another
close 1.789 seconds.
The South African, Scholtz,
ended up 7.8 seconds behind
Baz after finishing fourth the day
before.
After the race, Gagne said it
was his toughest win yet in this
year's championship.
"It's been a little lonely up front,
but this weekend it was a lot more
exciting," Gagne said. "We all
banged some elbows today."
M4 Ecstar Suzuki's Cameron
Petersen was fourth on Sunday,
Foods S&S Cycle Indian rider
Tyler O'Hara on almost every lap
of the race until he decided to
slow his pace just a bit towards
the end. At the checkers, he
took the win by just under
four-and-a-half seconds over
O'Hara. Third place went to DTF
Performance/Hoban Brothers
Performance Racing Harley-
Davidson's Michael Barnes, who
added yet another podium finish
in yet another motorcycle road
race class on yet another brand
of motorcycle.
Wyman, who had broken his
elbow in a crash last month at
Road America, made a miracu-
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4-3 SUPERBIKE
"Yesterday was good," Scholtz said of his
weekend a er Sunday's third. "Finishing
just 4.8 seconds behind Jake [Gagne] is
the closest we've been to him. Last night,
we made some changes, and it definitely
helped today [Sunday]. I think I hung onto
Baz and Jake for the first 12 [of 20] laps or
something like that. I didn't think it would
be possible running low to mid 24's for
most of the race. I got a nice surprise for
myself there. These have been difficult
mes, but we persevered and managed to
work our way back up to the podium here.
We definitely have our work cut out for
us to catch (Gagne and Baz). I feel like the
bike is now going where I feel comfortable
riding it."
Kyle Wyman won the King of the
Baggers race and the championship,
bum elbow and all.
