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Crrtc Nodhwest
Winter Arenocrors
Series
Round
6t
Forster
Livestock Povilion
Sannan,
Steinke
Strike
in Saleml
BY
CLAY UGHI
sAI.EM, OR, DEC. 17
l/Tt4-mounted
Oregonian Pere
Sannan and
Calfornian Gared
l\teinke were
among rhe top
performers
at round six of
the
Cl'lC Nonhwest Winter
Arenacross Series, held
.a Forster
Live-
stock Pavilion. also commonly known
as Salem Arenacross.
San-
nan won the 250cc
Pro clals, while
Steinke. who made the trek
{rom
Sacramento, won
the 85cc
(14-16)
and Supermini
classes.
Yamaha-mounted
St€ink€, v,iho spent
much of his
racint
career in the h.ific Nonhwest
before moving
with his family to
California nearly
two
years
a8o, wits impressive in his
pair
of
overall wins,
beating O.egon's Wlliams
See in both clasles.
See,
arSuably Oregon's top 85cc rider,
srayed wilhin
strikir6 range of
Steinke in the two
classes, but in
the end, Steinke
prevailed-
Redrnond's
Shawn Dahlman
phced
third. b+'ind Steinke
and See,
in
the Supermini class, follow€d by RJ.
Hillman and DJ.
Hills.
Anthony Cerruti,
a top
p€rformer
on the Western Four-
Stroke Nationals
the
past
several seasons, grabbed
the lead
at
the stan of the op€nin8 250cc
Pro/lntermediate
moto and held
Sannan at bay for
much of
the
r.ce. Whh
three laps remaining,
Sannan took the lead
and held it to the finish to capture
the win.
Kevin Petrushkin
was the top-placing lntermediate
rider
and
finished ah€ad of Washington's
joey
l"rncaster
and Zach Tait.
Moto
two was another
Sannar/Cerruti shootout. This
time,
thorrSh.
Sannan held the upper hand, and at
the completion he
won overall with l-l
placings.
Lancaster won
the second
lntermediate moto
to win that
class overall.
Another of the many
out-of-staters to make the
trek to
Salem
was
Washington's
Mitch Schlottmann.
ln
just
about
every
race this season, Schlottmann
has been
the top
pertormer
in
the l25cc and 25(kcJunior
classes. ThinSs were much
the same
on
lhis ni8ht, as Schlottmarn captured
overall wins in
the two
cla3ses to
join
a srnall
circle of double-class
winners, which also
included
Josh
Hill and
Steinke. fiM rider Chri! Garrison placed
second
to S.hlottmann in the l25cc class, while
Keith Birdron8
trailed khloftmann in his 25occ-class vidory
Hill, the Yamaha
rider from
southern Oregon,
gamered
the
overall l25cc
and Open Pro-class wins, both via
l-l
placinSs.
Oregon's Adam Metzler trailed Hill in
both dasses,
using 2-2
and 3-2
placings.
Matt Fouts
swept
borh
l25cc
lntermediate
motos
to
post
that class win,
ahead of Whshin8ton's Chad
Smith
and Kyle
Hehr, both riding newly acquired Kawasakis.
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