-EV'ENTEI
Northw€st Supcrcross Championships
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REDMOND,
OR,
MAR. IO-I I
T-his
ye:li
WashinEton's Ryan Abrigo carries d'e
I
Nauonal number
74,
and on rwo
(onsecu(ive
nights of
racing inside
the Exposition
Arena
on
the Deschutes Count/ Fairgrounds in central
Ore8on, he showed the
large
Eallery
of specta-
tors on hand,ust
why he
s so
highly ranked.
Abrigo was one of a large number of Pro
riders drawn to Oregon
for
the
eighth annual
Nonhwest Supercrors Championrhip,
and he
pocketed
a large chunk of money from the
purse for his
clean
sweep o{
rhe
weekend's
l25cc and 250cc Pro
classes.
Abrigo had tough
competition from another Washington rider, as
National Arenacross conrender Brad Hagseth
was also among rhe front-runnersi he
placed
second overall to AbrQo in both classes.
Abrigo s
rirst
of rwo overall Fnday wins
came in rhe l25cc Pro class. Abrigo aced both
motos, finishing ahead of Yamaha-mounted
Brad Hagseth, whose 2-2 finishes netted the
rider from Centmlia second overall. while the
top'placing Oregonian was ahe third-place
Iinisher, |\.ike Horban, who finished third in
moto one and backed up that scellar
performance
with a founh-place flnish, behind
Abrigo, Hagsech and Kenny Webster, in moto
two.
Webscer (9-3)
and Rory Sullivan
(4-8)
roLrnded out the top
llve.
Abri8o s \,{eekend ended with his
polishinS
PHOTO BY JASON BBUMMONO/PFIONTOPICS
Abrigo
Unstoppoble
in
Redmond
ofi of the 250c. Pro class. Second'year Pro
Miles Warren was
rhe
only rider orher than
Abrigo to beat Hagsethj that
happened in
the
first moto, where HaSseth
placed
third to
Abriso and Warren, but ahead ofl.R. Vielle and
Horban.
Moro two was
€ain
AbriSo's; he was
rrailed by Hagseth
(3-2), warren (2-3), Vielle
(4-4
and
Websrer
(6-5).
ln addition to the exceprional
Pro .acing,
there was a full slate of Amateur classes, and
not much of a lull in th€ race
program
on
either nighr. On Friday, Evergreen State riders
nrled many of
those
classes, as Alex Watts of
Brush Prairie.
Washington, won
the
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