Race Report July 2nd
One of the issues that affect the local racing on Sundays
is the fact that all NBL National and Regional Races
are held on weekends. The same goes with most holidays.
This weekend was a weekend where these two issues really
came into play. One of the NBL's premier events was
held this weekend just outside of Pittsburgh Pa. It's
the Stars and Stripes National held at one of the NBL's
premier tracks; South Park. Over 700 riders were in
attendance, some of which were our local riders. Couple
that with the weekend being the 4th of July weekend
and it surely had an effect on the numbers of riders
at Foothills. None-the-less, 188 riders were there and
split into 47 exciting motos. Thanks to all the volunteers
who really stepped up and filled in for our staff members
who attended the South Park event. It was another on
time start as the gate dropped at 1:27 .pm.
Starting with the opening ceremonies Don E. Olson,
now a 10 year old Novice was named the rider of the
week from the June 18th race. Donny who his rookie class
that day for his 15th win and, at least for a few moments,
became the newest novice in the country. Congrats Donny,
you are awesome. I'll get your picture next week.
In Cruiser racing 12 yr old Zach Purelli won the 12-13
class while proud father Don Onlso Jr. did the same
in 35-39. Alfred Roy held off Stuart McCready in the
40-44 competition.
The Girls were there in limitted numbers and Julionna
Olson and Shay Brown, sponsored by The Sandy Shore Motel,
traded wins in the 8-9 class with Shay winning the class
overall with 2 of 3 moto wins. Amanda Wedge was perfect
in the 10-11 grouping as was Deanna Batista in 12-13
girl action. Christy Kestler had to work in the 14-15,
16 & over combined class but she was fast enough
to hold off Rite Bikes Cassy Scott.
The experts were very small in numbers this week and
there were combined classes everywhere. In 8-9 ex and
nov combined it was New Yorks Casey Tanner the top expert
with Nick Killmer the fastest novice. In 9 ex-10 nov
combined 10 nov Jash Rivera beat 9 yr old expert Jake
Pirulli for the win. In 10 Ex Shawn Mcauley and Dan
Batista each won in motos but Shawn's two of three earned
him the win. The 11 year old experts on hand saw "The
Animal" Zach Andringa putting a dent in Kyle Blocks
bid to be the three time Foothills Track Champion by
winning the class with Taylor Anderson second and Kyle
third. 12 ex and and 12 nov was combined together and
Zack Pirulli won it. The fasatest nov in the group was
Denis Sheahan. 13 ex and 15 nov class were combined
and 13 ex Kyle Strong was the champ. 15 nov Dan Krouse
was the fastest novice. 15 ex, 16 ex and 16 novice riders
made up a 7 rider field in their class and the action
was pretty good. Vermont's Cody Buck and his brother
Kory Buck, along with Ryan Cebollero won motos with
the main event going to Cebollero. The 18-21 expert/novice
class win went to the only novice in the mix - Onil
Vasquez.
The pure novice classes saw the return of Austin Vaillencourt,
sponsored by Slapco LLC, winning the 11 year old bracket.
In 13 novice action D.J. Hall's Mike Borla was perfect.
The 17 yr old gang was dominated by Kevin Matthews although
New Yorks Mike Tommasino was definately a hard charger
all afternoon. Finally, the 22-29, 35 & over gang
had Dan Krouse, the oldest rider in the 5 rider shoot
out, earning yet another move up award with the win.
He's had a good week as he nailed a 16 inch Kokanee
Salmon up in West Hill lake this week. hmmmmmmmm something
fishy here?
The numbers were in the rookie classes. 5 riders in
the 5 & under group saw the rider of the week from
week number two Sky Elwood winning another first place
trophy. 8 riders in the 6 yr old rookie class saw Justin
Boissonneault and Sean Graveline perfect through the
motos with Justin winning the Mian event showdown. another
main would be required in the 7 rookie class and Dave
Moody was this week's winner. The 8 rookie group also
had great numbers and Stampede's Troy Achison won the
main event. After the 10 riders in the 9 rookie class
sorted themselves out Mike Buonocore won the title with
Chris Seti a close second. Zack Mikelic was the fastest
10 yr old and Stephen Kallas won the 11 yr old rookie
main event. New Yorks Anthony Destefano won two of three
in the 12 yr old division for the overall win. James
Oslander, 13 yr old, won his main event and in 14 rookie
comp it was Josh Sanford coming out on top. The 15 rookie
class saw Caleb Dubourg perfect right through his main
event. The Winchester Modular Housing sponsored Jeramey
Bakunis was perfect in 16 rookie. The last rookie class
was also a big one with 19 riders vying for the win
in 17 & over. Tim Bierce only won one race but it
was the main event and he was the champ this day. Moto
wins by Eran Martinez, Mike Daddario and Bryant Mendez
just wern't enough.
In the 16 & over open class 11 riders were going
for the cash. Brian Adamaitis was definately the rider
to beat and no one really could. Brian was first, Mitch
Mahner was second (in his first money-open) and Josh
Knowlton was third. A tough wreck by jeremy Eickelberg
took him out of contention. Check out the photo page
for that one.
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