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Sewell went unchallenged en route to his first Main Event win of the season, taking the checkered flag 6.4 seconds ahead of Herrlein and lapping all the way up to fifth place. Lamay followed in third, with Faith fourth and Osby fifth. Owen finished sixth. When the overall results were tallied, Herrlein’s impressive 1-2 results were more than enough to give him a breakthrough win. Lamay grabbed the runner-up
spot (2-3), while Sewell’s second Main Event win gave him the final spot on the podium in third (5-1). Owen was fourth (3-6), his worst outing of the season, while Osby finished fifth (6-5). With the Race to the Championship set to get underway, the 250AX Class standings were reset with Owen earning the
top seed on the heels of 12 Main Event wins and seven overall victories. Faith will begin the Race to
the Championship in second, just one point out of the lead. Goerke (3rd) and Blose (4th) will sit two points back of Owen, while Lamay (5th) and Team Babbitt’s/Monster Energy/AMSOIL Kawasaki’s Gared Steinke (6th) sit three points behind. Herrlein (7th) and Sewell (8th) are four points out of the lead, while Woodstock KTM’s Cody VanBuskirk (9th) and Osby (10th) round out the Race to the Championship
field, five points behind Owen. With a title on the line, the 15-lap Eastern Regional AX Lites Class Main Event began with Woodstock KTM’s Hunter Sayles grabbing the early lead, followed by Williamson and Sportland 2/TZR/Kawasaki Team Green’s Scott Zont. Cooper, the championship leader, found himself mired back in ninth and in need of gaining several positions if he hoped to clinch the title.
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