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Saturday Morning Post Vintage: Early Saturday morning, Post Vintage bikes lined up. Or as I like to say, the evasion of the XR200's. The top five spots were taken by XR200's and winning the Overall was new to AHRMA rider, Ried Mal- com from Kansas, followed by Heath Parker, Ricky Parker, Alessandro Reniero and Brian Aliff, all in the PV 200 Expert class. It must have been a great war between Reid, Heath, and Ricky as they slid into the finish line within seconds of each other. Husky rider Eric Bolin took the win in the PV Open Expert class, and while riding with some busted up ribs, G. Sco Price won the PV Open Expert class. Mark Reed riding a nice Yammy IT175 won the Historic Intermediate class, chased by Randy Holford on his fun Hodaka. A special men on to my friend Bruce Dalton, owner of Moto Adventure in Loveland, Col- orado, he had a great ride at the T&S event in the very stacked PV 200 Expert class, won 7th place for the day and 2nd place in the end of the year Cham- pionship behind Iron Man, Bill Hester. Sunday Morning Vintage/Women/Novice: Rolling the clocks back for Daylight Savings, Vintage riders were on the line at 7:30 am. Again at the front of the pack was Chris Gillespie taking the Vin- tage Overall win. But look who took second place! Sheila Monk riding her trusty PE and winning the PV Women's Expert class. Rounding out the Vintage Overall Podium was Mark Shafer winning the Vin- tage 50+ Intermediate class. Riding a 1970's Suzuki was Steve Heahthcock who I see at almost every event and won the Vintage 60+ Intermediate class and took home the end of the year Championship. And as always I love seeing the gals out on the course. Trini Cunningham won the Vintage Wom- en's Intermediate class and took home a number 1 plate as well. In Summary: What a great way to top off a fantas c year of Cross Country racing. Perfect weather, perfect ter- rain, and perfect trails. A er the Cross Country on Sunday, there was a lot of motocross to watch and ride and always fun final Wild West Shootout races. When the final checkered flag as waived we all cleaned up and headed to the community center for some fine food and of course plenty of bench racing. Again, thank you to Team Parker for pu ng on another great event. To Honor Becky Hayes: Sadly, it was also Becky Hayes last event as AHR- MA Cross Country Coordinator. Becky has spent many years guiding our cross country program into what we now know as a strong, compe ve series with consistently well run events. It's not an easy task; there is a lot of behind the scenes that we never see. She has worked with every promoter, walked almost every course. Noted any arrowing issues and poten al trouble spots using her indebt knowledge of what it takes to put on a Vintage race which is not your average Hare Scrambles race. She fine tuned a consistent scoring format that you could count on to provide accurate and mely scores. Becky; you will be missed as a coordinator, but your presence at the events will always be a happy occasion. Enjoy your re rement. You earned it!