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INC. ALL CONTENT COPYRIGHTED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. JSE SUBJECT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT. REPRODUCTION, DISSEMINATION, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION PROHIBITED. PAGE 14 APRII By SAM LOWRY News Reporter To young fans of off-road, grand prix motorcycle racing, Nathan Woods and Bobby Bonds, Lance Small and Ty Davis are figures worth pursuing for an autograph. They may be less famous than other athletes named Woods and Bonds and Lance, but that is half the point. What other top athletes, fresh from a grueling two-hour competi- tion, will interview their seven- year-old counterparts before a closely-packed Crowd of fans and families, then personally place medals around the young competi- tors' necks? The gesture says it all for the rac- ers of the 13-event World Off-Road Championship Series (WORCS). They are tops in their class, hum- ble in their manners. All four stars, and a few dozen more, were at the Eddieville race- track south of Goldendale this weekend to compete in the first WORCS event ever to come to the area, sponsored by Eddieville's Over-The-Bars Gang motorcycle club. The pro race was the main event among a dozen amateur, semi-pro and professional races held Saturday and Sunday. Most of the others had been organized, in tan- dem with the WORCS race, by Goldendale's Scott Doubravsky and his many local volunteers, "The best thing about the whole deal is the people," said Dave Brosius (who is related to a famous athlete, as far as he knows). "It's a family-type sport, with all ages. There's camaraderie." Brosius, who hails from Arizona, works with WORCS promoters Roger, David and Julie Hamill of Boulder City, Nev. to run the events. He was the weekend's announcer. On Saturday, in a mixed pro/semi-pro event, the stars got their first chance to try out the ser- pentine track that Doubravsky has laid out on his land. Davis, who is last year's WORCS series champi- on (his photo adorning the "worc- sracing.com" Web site), won hands down. "The course is in great shape," he said as he rested in his trailer. "There's a mellow motocross sec- tion, some blind rises. It's rocky in places. "But I'm glad I didn't race this morning," he added, referring to the previous night's rain and the day's muddy start. Davis and Woods, who is this year's series leader, race for the Yamaha team. Davis used to race with "Team Green," the Kawasaki team. Small, who is second in the series, races with Bonds for Team Green. Standing unperturbed after the race, polishing his machine in the shade, Small took a break to sign a fan's T-shirt. "I got to know the gear changes, made adjustments," he said. Woods wrapped himself in sweatshirts against the wind. -"Your butt and hands get the sor- est," he said. "You can get carpal tunnel." On Sunday at 11 a.m., the 4o pro Photo by Sam Lowry WORCS pro-series winners give awards to boys' (ages 7-8) 50cc win- ners: (LEFT TO RIGHT) runners-up Nathan Woods and Walker Roe; top finishers Bobby Bonds and Clay Gishey; third-place finishers Kolton Phillips and Ty Davis. Photo bYI A line of ATV racers bounce rough-shod over the whoop-dee-doos along the spectator stretch of the~ ing a Saturday afternoon race at the Eddieville track. racers waited kickstand to kickstand, revving their engines as Roger Hamill roared a sign that read "30 seconds." As Davis and Woods flashed to the coveted inside position through the first and second turns, their pit crew cheered. Said a disgusted Team Green manager Jason Smigel of Irvine, Cal., "We're third and fourth and someplace else." Bonds was lost in the pack. But not for long. The racers wound nearly back to their start- ing place, twice, before disappearing over the ridge. When they re-emerged, Bonds was in the lead. After two hours of racing, he had not relin- qushed it. Woods finished second, Davis third. Small hurt his knee and rode the last two laps standing up, finishing 21st. As the trio gathered in the winners' circle and prepared to interview their young admir- ers, they swapped gentle boasts. Woods kept his overall series lead. Davis smiled - he'd allowed that it might be "time to bring kids up to race against me." Boil. were impressed with Bonds' victory. "My bike is completely stock parts," said the winner. Photo bY' Alec Erland, of Goldendale, revs up to pass Altadena, Calif., during racing action Saturday. Colorado and Utah, and Coors and Pepsi have signed on as sponsors. The poker run will cruise Highway 14a, on June 12, rolling from Goldendale to JiI Glenwood, then down to BZ the way and at ~1 Corner, through Whiterider will get a cara.:| Salmon, turning east to Lyle Robinson hopes .v~| and back to Goldendale via ers is a $500 gilt] Klickitat. donated bv Hog Fat]. 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'~Ilaere won t be any pie who ran tractors in the an adult family home for the wet T-shi,,rt contest at this event last year told him that it developmentally disabled six poker run, said Robinson. was the best-organized first- miles east of Goldendale, and At the moment there is a time pull they had seen. that makes it different from 5o/5o raffle going around The Goldendale Jaycees have town. Robinson has spent a been in,,strumental in the trac- other runs. Scott Robinson, the poker few thousand dollars of his tor pull s success. They are run organizer, knew he wanted own money getting things working more this year in a to host a run this summer, together. One move Robinson combined effort hope to double Then he asked himself, ~,at made was to place an ad in the number of hooks. Another do we do with this? His Thunder Press, a motoreyde addition this year is a 4X4 pull. answer: Try to rais~$2o,ooo, magazine with a circulation of Organizers have plastered New Hope will be the main 51,ooo. He placed a large ad in posters from Pendleton to recipient, he said. Robinson's every issue seen from the Ellensburg. The Guys and Gals interest comes from care and Rocky Mountains west. would like to see 6o0 spectators concern for his developmental- Information has gone out to MOTORSPORTS frompagel ly disabled brother. Ix~eal Boy Scouts and the Klickitat County fully loaded, can go to 16,000 in the stand this year. "That'll Sheriffs Posse will also receive pounds. The farther the tractor be a draw," said Carrigan, who donations from the money pulls, the greater the weight dif- added that event "is for local raised. ferential of the sled. An iron boys only." Any money left after To raise $20,000 with this weight moves along a fulerum, cost goes to the Jaycees. event, Robinson hopes to draw forcing down a shoe until the 2000 people for the two-day