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Owen’s pair of wire-to-wire Main Event wins propelled him to his seventh overall victory in 2017, further extending his lead in the championship standings. Goerke’s consistent scores placed him in the runner-up spot on the night (2-4), with Osby scoring a career-best effort in third (5-2), clinching the 10th and final spot in the Race to the Championship and solidifying the 10 riders that will chase this year’s Ricky Carmichael Cup. Owen added 11 points to his lead in the 250AX Class standings, which now sits at 36 points over Faith as the Race to the Championship now sits just two weeks away. Goerke remains third, 42 points out of the lead. In the third 15-lap Western Regional AX Lites Class Main Event of the season, Honda rider Lane Shaw led the field early, followed by DrivenMX KTM’s Jared Lesher and KTM rider Isaac Teasdale in second and third, respectively. Sayles, who started fourth, quickly went to work and found his way past Lesher and Teasdale to take over second. Friday night Main Event winner Ryan Breece found himself battling through the field due
to a bad start, and put his Team Babbitt’s/GPF/Monster Energy Kawasaki/MMCR into the top five
on Lap 6. Sayles successfully took over the lead from Shaw on Lap 10, while Teasdale attempted
to follow him into second. As he tried to make the pass, Teasdale and Shaw made contact, sending both riders to the ground just before the start of Lap 11. Sayles capitalized on the leaders’ mistakes by gaining control of the lead and claiming his first Main Event win. Lesher rode well to finish second, while Breece used several late race passes to round out the top three. Sayles, who entered the evening six-points behind Breece in the Western Regional Standings, now trails by just four points following his Main Event win. Following his second place finish, Lesher is just five points out of the lead and remains in the championship hunt.
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