2005 GNCC "Loretta Lynn's" Round #6 Afternoon Coverage

There was an incredible battle going on out front, but where was Chris Borich was the question? Unfortunately for him, he also found himself stuck in the last lap after trying to make a pass on a lapped rider which dropped him back several positions

Once he was going again, he knew that if he wanted a change at the podium and retain his points lead he better put the hammer down, and Borich was up to the task as he moved his Alba Action machine within sight of Jeremy Rice running in 3rd Overall when disaster struck.

The front wheel of Borich’s machine hit one of the holes that formed in the track bringing his momentum to a stop and sending him over the handlebars with his leg catching on the bars as he went over the front superman style with his Honda now in hot pursuit of him to the ground. His Honda flipped and landed on top of Borich pinning him underneath. Banged up and bruised, Borich crawled out front under his Honda as Jenks went past him, and he remounted his machine once again in an attempt to salvage as many points as possible.

Borich ditched his smeared goggles and took off after Jenks with only a few miles left in the race. With a little over a mile to go, Borich caught up to Jenks and began eating a spray of roost coming off of Jenk’s tires as he tried to keep his Four Stroke Tech Machine in front of Borich

To my amazement, the next rider to come flying past me on the track was Pro Am Rider, Scott Barron running on a few seconds behind the battling Jenks and Borich after starting over a minute behind the Pros, which put Scott on the edge of the top three overall with less than one mile to go to the checkered flag

The next rider to emerge from the trees was none other than Johnny Gallagher putting together his best race since 2003 and was set to finish 6th in the Pro Class if he could hang on for one more mile.

Andy Lagzdins strategy paid off as he rode goggle less on the last lap which allowed him to work his way up to 8th place behind the struggling Matt Smiley with only a mile to go in the race. Matt wasn’t struggling because of the rough conditions because he is a very experienced mud racer, but instead, his Polaris wasn’t dealing well with the wet conditions and was experiencing some electrical issues, which was keeping it from running properly.

Andy Lagzdins was able to capitalize on Matt’s electrical issues when his Polaris shut off with less than a mile to go, which allowed Andy to make the easy pass and move into 7th place. Matt luckily was able to get his Polaris fired up again and takes off after Andy in hopes of catching him before the finish line.

#2 William Yokley was able to hold onto the lead and win his 1st race of the season. When Yokley crossed the finish line with the win the tossed his hands in the air right before the dropoff into a mud puddle, which sent William flying off his machine and into the mud, but he didn't care with the fans cheering as he got up and danced around in the mud celebrating his hard fault win.

The only problem was that coming right behind him was Jeremy Rice, and he headed to the scoring tent to get scanned, but they couldn’t scan him until the scanned Yokley, but Yokley was no where near the scanning tent as he celebrated with the fans.

Meanwhile, Bill Ballance crosses the finish line followed by Chris Borich, and Chris Jenks which created even more confusion as the scorer left the scoring tent to scan Yokley, so the other riders could be scanned.

With William Yokley, finished celebrating, he remounted his Suzuki to head to the Podium and things seemed to return to normal as Scott Barron crossed the finish line and road over to the scoring tent and was scored immediately, which showed he had just taken over 3rd Overall by finishing the race less than a minute behind Bill Ballance.

Bill Ballance and Jimmy couldn’t believe what just happened and they were explaining that Bill wasn't scanned as soon as he crossed the finish line, and his finish time wasn't an accurate reflection of his true race time.

With all the controversy surrounding the top 4 finishers, Chris Borich was able to make the last minute pass on Chris Jenks to move into 5th Overall and 4th in the Pro Class, and he was glad that the race was finally over as you could tell that he was in some serious pain from his earlier dismount.

Chris Jenk’s string of top 7 Overall finishes was kept alive as he finished his 6th race of the year between 3rd and 7th Overall and moved into 5th Place in Points.

Congratulations Chris Jenks on yet another great Race :macho

Finishing behind Chris Jenks were Johnny Gallagher (6th) and Andy Lagzdins (7th) after both of them over came the elements to put in an incredible race, but to top the pair for the overall was Pro Am Rider, Adam McGill.

Adam McGill winning streak ended, but his four race string of 7th and 8th overall finishes continued after once again working his way through the Pro Class riders to finish in the top ten overall.

A disappointed Matt Smiley finished in 8th and explained to his team manager Jay Goebel what was going on with his machine during the race, so they can have the problem solved before the next mud event.