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Prior to the pair of 250AX Class Main Events for the evening Blose faced off against TiLUBE/Jack Link’s/TUF Racing Honda’s Jace Owen, the championship points leader, in the final of the RMATV/
MC Head 2 Head Challenge. Following a heated battle, Blose emerged victorious to earn an additional championship bonus point. The first 15-lap 250AX Class Main Event saw Team Babbitt’s/Monster Energy/AMSOIL Kawasaki, presented by AP Design, rider Gared Steinke grab the holeshot, with
Blose in second and Sportland 2/TZR/Kawasaki Team Green’s Josh Osby in third. Owen and Rockstar Energy/OTSFF/Yamaha’s Matt Goerke battled for fourth. Blose wasted little time in applying pressure on Steinke for the lead and successfully seized control of the Main Event on Lap 1. On the following lap Goerke broke into podium position by passing Osby for third, bringing Owen along into fourth and Team Babbitt’s/Monster Energy/AMSOIL Kawasaki’s Gavin Faith, the defending series champion, into fifth. Osby fell to sixth. Goerke’s forward progression continued on Lap 4 when he passed Steinke in the whoops to move into second behind his teammate. By this point Blose had opened a gap of nearly three seconds and while Goerke did all he could to erase the deficit, he soon ran out of time. Blose took his first Main Event win of the season, crossing the line 1.7 seconds ahead of Goerke, which gave the Rockstar Energy/OTSFF/Yamaha team its first ever 1-2 finish. Steinke held on for a solid third-place finish, with Owen fourth and Faith fifth. When the second Main Event got underway it was Owen who took control of the early lead, with Team Babbitt’s/Monster Energy/AMSOIL Kawasaki teammates Travis Sewell and Faith not far behind. Both Goerke and Blose were left to fight their way through the field, starting in sixth and seventh, respectively.
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