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tion Pro/100% 450 XC-F. The early going found him eating DeMartile's roost, but he gradu- ally lost touch and ended up 57 seconds back at the finish. "I honestly felt like I had the pace on them," he declared. "I was trying everything—inside, outside—trying to get Dare where I was better. They're just strong. I definitely dropped the anchor those last four laps, but I was trying hard in the beginning! Just to be in there for that long and pushing the pace and genu - inely feeling like I was the faster guy even though on paper I was in third the whole race, I felt so strong in the beginning and my bike felt awesome, so progress is there and I'm taking a lot of confidence from this." A fairly solitary fifth in the first half, Pro Circuit/Precision Coat - ings/Team Green rider Giacomo Redondi secured fourth over the last half, comfortably ahead of FMF/RPM Racing KTM's Mason Semmens, the Pro II winner for the fifth-straight round on his AEO Powersports/Precision Concepts/Moose Racing 250 XC-F. After grabbing the Pro II hole - shot, he was never headed and said, "Never had any moments or little drops or anything. About halfway, I did start to feel a little bit sick in the stomach, to be honest. I think it's the heat got to me a little bit—I don't know. "One step closer to the cham - pionship and that's the main focus." Second Pro II and sixth overall belonged to Cole Zeller and his Gainslinger Human Perfor - mance/Lake Elsinore Casino/ O'Neal Racing Husqvarna after a big crash in Saturday's AA race. Two seconds behind him and third in class was 3Bros/ Hatch Racing Husqvarna's Sam Pretscherer. Slam Life Racing (SLR) Honda's Tyler Lynn finished fifth Open Pro and eighth overall ahead of FMF/RPM Racing KTM rider Noah Gordon (his best result this season) and Hatch Racing/McCarthy Electric Kawa - saki rider Colton Aeck. (After a bike issue on Saturday, the Pro Circuit/Precision Coatings team loaned him Redondi's practice KX450 and he gladly accepted to get laps in, as he is out of the running in Pro II points.) SLR Honda's Mikayla Nielsen brought her recent WMX experi - ence to Marysville—except for starting last. But that recent speed training quickly saw her take her Monster Energy/Lava Propane/Alpinestars CRF250RX to the front of the pack for a sixth consecutive triumph this season over 395 Motorsports/ Racer Decal/Troy Lee Designs GasGas rider Ava Silvestri. Holeshot winner Ty Woolslayer finished third on her Woolslayer Racing YZ250FX. "The intensity of the shorter motos are harder for me than doing these [GPs], but once I got back [to GP training] I was wondering how I would do in [these] longer motos," Nielsen pondered. "I had a really good first half and then at the end, I just kind of felt like mellow, I guess you could say." Mark Kariya OVERALL (Top 10) 1. Dante Oliveira (KTM) 2. Dare DeMartile (Bet) 3. Mateo Oliveira (KTM) 4. Giacomo Redondi (Kaw) 5. Mason Semmens (KTM) 6. Cole Zeller (Hus) 7. Samuel Pretscherer (Hus) 8. Tyler Lynn (Hon) 9. Noah Gordon (KTM) 10. Colton Aeck (Kaw) WIND IN THE P46 Round 6 NGPC Series - Marysville Pro Race