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HAYES TIES IT UP WITH ARENACROSS WIN
J
ust as it looked like the
championship was shap-
ing up, Babbitt's Monster En-
ergy Kawasaki's Jacob Hayes
took his second consecutive
win to tie up the Race to the
Championship in AMSOIL
Arenacross, featuring Ricky
Carmichael's Road to Su-
percross. At the penultimate
stop of the championship
the series came to the Save
Mart Center in Fresno, where
Hayes used a consistent pair
of second-place finishes to
claim the overall win.
The win in the first of two
main events went to Hayes'
teammate Matt Goerke, who
led the charge from start
to finish while Gavin Faith
finished third behind Hayes.
Husqvarna TiLUBE TUF Rac-
ing's Kyle Regal, who came
into Fresno as the series points
leader, ran with the lead pack
for most of the race, but made a
mistake and went over a berm,
which caused him to drop back
to 15
th
place. Regal finished
a distant 11
th
place in the first
main.
In the second main event,
Regal got away clean while
Kiniry, Goerke, Chris Blose
and several other riders got
caught up in a first-turn crash.
The melee allowed Regal to get
out to a solid lead, and behind
him, Hayes and Preston Plumb-
ing Yamaha rider Ryan Breece
battled for second. The pair
raced side by side for most of
the race, but Hayes was able
to hold off Breece to take the
runner-up slot behind Regal,
who sailed to victory.
Hayes' 2-2 finishes were
enough to put him on top of the
overall podium. Goerke recov-
ered from the first-turn crash
in the second main to finish
seventh, earning him second
on the night with a 1-7 score.
Breece enjoyed a career-best
finish in third overall with his
5-3 finish. Cory Green used an
extra point scored in the Head
2 Head Challenge to land fourth
with his 6-4 tally while Regal
rounded out the top-five with his
11-1 score.
Regal came into Fresno with
an eight-point lead in the cham-
pionship, but his fifth place
finish yielded as many points to
Hayes, and the two now sit in a
tie with only one round remain-
ing.
In the Western Regional
Arenacross Lites Class, Dave
Ginolfi enjoyed a wire-to-wire
win aboard his College Hunks
Hauling Junk/Spinechillers
Racing KTM. Daniel Blair and
Scott Zont finished second and
third, respectively, for an all
KTM podium.
Jean Turner
A second
consecutive
win by Jacob
Hayes has tied
up the points in
the Arenacross
Race to the
Championship.
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
JOSH
RUD
/
SHIFTONE
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