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IN THE WIND P44 lead and steadily pulled away from the rest of the field, eventually tak- ing a five-second margin of victory over his teammate Garrett Gerloff. On Saturday, it was a little closer but Beach still dominated. Beach led from the get-go and never faltered, taking the win again over Gerloff, this time by just 1.98 seconds. Gerloff, however, felt pressure from behind the whole way, as the two M4 SportbikeTrackGear.com Suzukis of Valentin Debise and Cameron Petersen hounded him for the majority of the race. Debise had a run-in with a lapped rider at the end of the race that allowed Gerloff to gain some ground, and the Texan ultimately crossed the finish line 3.5 sec- onds clear of the Frenchman. Team H35 Honda's Benny Solis Jr. finished a lonely fifth on his CBR600RR. Superstock 600 MotoAmerica crowned its first champion of the 2016 season with Riders Discount/Tuned Racing's Bryce Prince winning the Super- stock 600 battle Saturday to wrap up the title with three races left. Prince, second in class Friday, was sixth overall in the Supersport race Saturday ahead of seventh- placed Richie Escalante, the HB Racing/Meen Motorsports rider who won Friday's Superstock 600 race one. Jason Aguilar, riding with five broken bones in his foot, filled the Superstock 600 podium Saturday with his brave third-place finish. Millennium/Kyle Wyman Rac- ing's Travis Wyman took third in class over HB Racing/Meen Motorsports' Dakota Mamola on Friday. KTM RC CUP AXcess Racing's Brandon Paasch made his MotoAmerica KTM RC Cup debut last year in Utah and made an instant name for himself with a podium finish. This year the youngster is leading the cham- pionship and he extended that lead on Friday with a victory in the first of two KTM races. Paasch beat Yates Racing's Asthon Yates by just .300 of a second with Anthony Mazziotto III finishing third on his Jimmy Winters Motorsports RC 390. On Saturday, Georgian Ashton Yates won his second KTM RC Cup of the season in the red- flag-shortened race two. Yates was in the mix for the lead with the two others who are always at the front—Brandon Paasch and Anthony Mazziotto—but he didn't have to rely on any last-lap strat- egy as this one was decided by Brazilian Renzo Ferreira's crash in the final corner. Yates was ahead at the right time, the completion of lap five, and that earned him his second win. Mazziotto ended up second to gain back four points in the title chase on Paasch, who finished third. Paasch now leads Mazziotto by 15 points, 246-231, with three races remaining in the series. CN SUPERBIKE RACE 1: 1. Cameron Beaubier (Yam) 2. Josh Hayes (Yam) 3. Roger Hayden (Suz) 4. Toni Elias (Suz) 5. Josh Herrin (Yam) SUPERBIKE RACE 2: 1. Toni Elias (Suz) 2. Cameron Beaubier (Yam) 3. Roger Hayden (Suz) 4. Josh Hayes (Yam) 5. Jake Gagne (Yam) Aston Yates (120) and Brandon Paasch (516) split KTM RC Cup wins.