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Cameron Smith (Carroll Motor
Fuels Honda) led the field into
the first turn.
Stollings had the lead at the
end of the first lap and it looked
like he might be able to take
control. Smith grabbed second
over Norris and Kolby Carlile
(Parkinson Brothers Honda).
But last week's winner Shayna
Texter (Richie Morris Racing
Honda) was recovering from
a slow start and by lap six had
moved into second place right
on Stollings' rear wheel.
"You try and visualize mile
racing all the time. Unfortunately
it never goes how you visual-
ized it," said Texter. "I got off
to a pretty bad start. I kind of
struggled all night with starts
actually, but the main event start
was really bad. I just tried to
pace myself. I knew it was fifteen
laps and I tried to pick them off
quickly. All of a sudden I got to
Stollings, and it just felt like I was
stalling, trying to catch him."
All the while Texter was stalk-
ing Stollings, Tristan Avery (Ron
Ayers Racing Honda) was carv-
ing his way to the front. After be-
ing as low as seventh on lap six
Avery was in the mix by lap 10.
"I put it into three one lap
and kind of got a little sniff of
his [Stollings] draft. The five-to-
go board came out, and I was
thinking that I've just got to hit
these markers right," said Texter.
"I finally caught him and Tristan
Avery came out of nowhere."
Avery took the lead on the
last lap, but Texter was not to be
pace early and dropping to thir-
teenth Vanderkooi was able to
struggle back to 10th some two
seconds behind Robinson.
AFT SINGLES
As usual the, 15-lap, AFT Singles
main produced some great
racing. Parker Norris (Goodroe
Racing Honda), Kevin Stollings
(Ben Evans Racing/Dave's
Cycles Honda) and fast qualifier,
Racing/Kawasaki USA Kawa-
saki) came out on top of a 25-lap
war with Brandon Robinson
(Harley-Davidson Motor Com-
pany/Vance & Hines Harley-Da-
vidson) for eighth place, with the
two riders exchanging positions
repeatedly.
Rounding out the top 10 was
Jarod Vanderkooi (Richie Mor-
ris Racing/McElroy Packaging
Kawasaki) after slipping off the
