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laps. By the time I got into
third, both Sammy and Jared
had a pretty good margin on
me."
Mees was in the "cat bird"
seat and knew it. "I looked
back and had a little bit of a
lead. I sat and paced myself
and then thought, 'I'm going
to step it up a little bit more,'
and gapped him a little bit
more. Who knows, he might
have been riding so hard try-
ing to catch me that he was
making more mistakes. That's
common for a guy in second
that is pushing so hard."
With the top spots appar-
ently set, everyone's attention
was on Jeffrey Carver (Ben
Brad Baker (6) and Brandon Robinson (44) battled for the last
podium position, which went Baker's way.
