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All Terrain Vehicle Cross Country Series
Round #6
- Skoolz Out
Chireno, Texas
May 14th, 2006


By: David Culpepper

Melaine Dunn ATVCSS racer
ATVCCS Rider Melaine Dunn
Chireno, Texas - Well much to my surprise, when I got to the track on Friday it was not marked for the race yet. There is a creek that runs across the back part of the property that was flooded due to several rain showers over the past couple of weeks. When I got to the 1.5 mile marker the track looked like a lake, and it stayed that way for the next half mile. After seeing this I realized we had much more work to do than expected, and little time to do it. Brady got the tractor and followed me around the open fields in the lower portion of the property to mow out a grass track. Since we lost more that two and half miles of trail it was vital that we get more mileage in. The sun was shining hard and I didn’t think anymore about the weather. After putting in many man hours we finally had a track riders could get around. Saturday blessed us with great sunny weather but Sunday was a different story.

The PeeWee track was 7/10’s of a mile long and was layed out in a nice section of woods. The first class to race was the 6 under riders. Terry Bohanon was able to pull off the win over current point’s leader Wesley Pruitt. Pruitt lead the entire race until the last lap, when Bohanon made the pass for the win. Third went to Kenzi Potteiger followed by Adalyn Nutt and Peirre Lopez. In the 8 under class Broc Watkins was able to lap the entire field to take first place. Cody Price finished second followed by Kaden Walters, Braden Mize, and Megan Daniel. In the 10 under class it was a race between Nathan Clague and Wyatt Day. Both of these riders got off to a quick start and began to pull away from the field early. Halfway through the race it was noted that the two front runners had missed a jump on the track and as a result they were both stopped at the scoring area and held until all other riders passed them. Once back on their way Clague and Day worked their way back into the lead and would hold on to finish first and second respectively. Third went to Hart Bassana, and fourth to Dakota Davis.

ATVCCS Rider Lexie Coulter jumping her yamaha yfz450
Lexie Coulter catching some air on her YFZ450.
The Lady’s Open class blasted off the line at 3pm Saturday afternoon. There were 10 riders all gunning for the holeshot. Heather Best was quick off the line and led the group through the first turn closely followed by Becca Stanley and Lexie Coulter. It didn’t take long for Coulter to take over the lead and flat out leave the rest of the field. By the end of the race her lead had stretched to over nine minutes. While Coulter was riding away with first, Best was also riding away with second. Back in third things were heating up between Morgan Nichols, Candice Lively, and Crystal Perry. By the second lap the riders seemed to have sorted themselves out with Nichols in third, Perry in fourth, and Lively in fifth. Becca Stanley must have had some problems as she dropped back to sixth. The rest of the field on lap two was as follows: Ashley Robinson, Bobbie Amos, Amelia Wilkins, and Deanna Bohanon. It was great to see a full line of ladies at the start, and even better to see them all take the checkered flag. Congrats to the ladies. In the 50+ class the “Ragin Cajun” Dennis Wilson won in dominant fashion. In the Youth Beginner class the boys finally got a win over the girls. Travis Brown pretty much went wire to wire for the win. Jarod Roberts took second, which was good enough to move him into the point’s lead over Lacey Tincher. Tincher did not fair well in this race and finished in ninth position. Third goes to Kyle Potteiger, then Tori Oliver, and Shelby Spencer. And the Lady 30+ class was won by Annette Price followed by Dorothy Rogers, and Tina Burkett. Let’s end this paragraph by saying bye bye to the sunshine.

Sunday morning 6:00am the alarm goes off. I open the mini blinds and saw it starting to get daylight. Quickly I get up only to hear what sounded like raindrops. Then all the sudden lightning followed by pouring down rain and marble size hail. How could this be, it’s only 6:03am now! Needless to say the part of the track that was dry on Friday was now covered in water. Due to dangerous lightning we postponed the race schedule by one hour. Also the decision was made to race both programs 3 laps instead of the A Program for 1 ½ hours plus one lap and the B Program for an hour plus one lap. This was done for a couple of reasons, 1) to ensure that the track didn’t get tore up so bad that racers could make it around for the afternoon race, and 2) so we’d only do minimal damage to the land we were racing on.

ATVCSS Racer Shawn Hess
Shawn Hess staying ahead of the competition.
After a quick riders meeting it was off to the starting line to begin the A Program races. The green flag went up promply at 10 am and Shawn Hess, Gerald Dowden and Josh Hahne all blasted off in the sweeping right hand turn, which was some of that good ole red clay. The starting area was on high ground and it was actually in very good condition. When riders completed their first lap it was evident conditions out back were not so good. About the only thing you could see on riders were their eyes and their teeth, provided they didn’t have them open when the machine in front of them was spraying roost. Ron Allen who normally racing the Utility class decided he’d try to take advantage of the muddy conditions and entered the Pro race on his 4x4. Nice try but those guys in the Pro Class are blazing fast even in adverse conditions. Hess won the race followed by Hahne, Dowden, and Allen. The Open class had some really close racing between Kyle Porter, Robby Bunch, and Douglas Latham. At the finish less than 20 seconds seperated the three riders. These three riders also finished 3rd, 4th, and 5th overall for the A Program. Steven Bryant and Lexie Coulter rounded out the top five. Just a little FYI, Lexie competed in the GNCC a couple of weeks ago and finished second in the Lady’s Pro class. She is off to Ohio this weekend to see if see can follow it up with another good finish. Good luck in Ohio Lexie. Garrett Oliver took a comanding victory in the Junior class and Gaylon Knowlton in the 30+ class.

Track conditions were going away pretty quick due to the heavy rains Sunday morning but we still had 52 more riders ready to race. Track Marshalls went out to give the track a quick look and it was decided to start the B Program on time. Since the story is already getting kinda long I’m just going to list the top 5 in each class of the B Program below. The riders were able to get their 3 laps in but there where a lot eyes being washed out after the race. See ya in Hallettsville on May 28.


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