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but second place honors would
eventually go to DuVall and his
Rocky Mountain ATV/MC KR4/
FAR Husqvarna.
"Anytime I get to race I have
fun, but especially today," said
DuVall. "Ryan [Sipes] and I have
become pretty good friends in
the last few weeks during our
time in Slovakia, and racing
against someone that I knew I
could trust was just awesome."
Sipes held on for third, mak-
ing for an all Husqvarna podium
in Unadilla.
Russell collected fourth ahead
of the Rockstar Energy Factory
Husqvarna of Andrew DeLong,
who rounded out the top-five.
In the XC2 Pro Lites class, it
was Rocky Mountain ATV/MC
KR4/FAR Husqvarna's Nick Da-
vis who took the $100 Hot Cams
Holeshot award. Davis secured
the early lead and made a run
for it, but couldn't escape Dirt-
Wise KTM's Jason Thomas, who
eventually made his way around
Davis for the lead. Davis' run for
the lead was also impaired by a
bobble on the second lap that
caused him to fall back to fourth.
Davis made his way back up into
second behind Thomas, but he
couldn't regain the lead.
E&H Honda's Trevor Bollinger
had an impressive ride, worked
his way up to third after getting
out to a poor start. Bollinger had
an unfortunate encounter with
barbwire on the first lap, which
caused him to fall back to 20th
place, but he recovered to round
out the podium.
In the morning race, Kacy
Martinez continued to dominate
the WXC division, leading the
way by three minutes. Rocky
Mountain ATV/MC KR4/FAR
rider Sarah Baldwin finished
second ahead of NFab AmPro
Yamaha's Becca Sheets. The
AmPro team has another fea-
tured rider in the WXC class—
Australian rider Tayla Jones—who
will be contesting the remaining
rounds of the series. Jones
handily won the Women's overall
at the recent ISDE, and cele-
brated a win at last year's GNCC
finale. Jones finished fourth at
Unadilla ahead of Brooke Cos-
ner who rounded out the top-five
in the WXC class. CN
Fourth place
was more than
enough for Kailub
Russell to wrap up
the 2015 GNCC
Overall champion-
ship with three
rounds to spare.
Thad DuVall
(pictured)
outdueled his
ISDE teammate
Ryan Sipes for
the final podium
position.
