GT Thunder Yamaha's Don Ockerman won the XC2
Class over Mark Notman and Brian Wolf. Eric
Hoyland captured the Rekluse Holeshot Award.
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Yamaha
mounted Brian Wolf grabbed the Rekluse
XC2 Holeshot Award & held on for
his 4th Podium finish of the year. Wolf
remains 2nd in points behind Ockerman
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National
Guard's Mark Notman lead the charge
in the XC2 Class for a lap before finishing
2nd, which moves Notman within one point
of Wolf in the points race
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The morning race came down to another battle
between Angel Atwell and Traci Cecco, with Atwell
coming out on top again to capture the ATVRiders.com
Morning Race Overall Award. Atwell now carries
five wins into the summer break on her Tom Clark
Motorsports’ Honda. Cecco was second with
Kristin Atwell, Angel's niece, on the podium
again in third.
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The Women
once again swept the Morning Podium
with Angel Atwell claiming her 5th Win
& she was once again joined by her
neice Kristen Atwell with 3rd
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Chris Borich
wasn't the only overall winner on the
Suzuki, Sportsman Glen Pritchard actually
claimed the overall win in the Morning
by 9 seconds over Angel Atwell
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Female riders didn't leave their winning to
the morning race. In the Youth race, Cheyanne
Chadron scored a huge win to top the overall
podium, ahead of Matt Harris and Michael Spalding.
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Cheyanne
Shadron made GNCC History as the 1st
Youth Women Overall Winner with over
a minute to spare over Mattew Harris
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The National
Guard was once again on the podium with
William Yokley & Mark Notman winning
the overall with the Polaris RZR in
the UTV Race
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The GNCC UTV Racing Series enjoyed its second
round of racing, with over 40 machines doing
battle on the Mountain Ridge course.
The race featured nearly perfect weather, with
a slight drizzle on Saturday morning cutting
back on dust. The course took the riders through
a variety of terrain, from high-speed passes
through fields, to massive rock gardens.
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In the
spirit of the 4th of July, I made a
visit to the September 11th Flight 93
Memorial to show my respects to those
that died in the plane crash that terrible
day, which was located only a few miles
from the Mountain Ridge GNCC
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The Can-Am Grand National Cross Country ATV
Series begins its annual summer break, and racing
will resume on September 13 and 14 with the
Snowshoe GNCC in West Virginia.
