Hunter Yoder nearly nabbed the holeshot in this one but went too wide and Julien Beaumer took the spot. Ryder DiFrancesco held second, with Drew Adams, Levi Kitchen, and Cole Davies filling out the top five.
As the race progressed Beaumer was holding a steady gap over DiFrancesco, but Beaumer made a mistake in some sand rollers, swapped, and had to slow up to avoid crashing. That put DiFrancesco right on his rear wheel for about half a lap, but Beaumer was able to inch back away. Back in fourth Davies had gotten by Kitchen and was starting to surge. When he got up to Adams he blew by him in the sand rollers like Adams was on a 125. A few laps later he caught DiFrancesco, who was only about a second back of Beaumer. The pass wouldn’t come so easily for Davies this time, however, as DiFrancesco responded, refusing to let Davies get close enough to show him a wheel. It’s also possible that Davies was biding his time here too, because there was still ten minutes left in the race and Beaumer wasn’t getting away up front. In any case, Davies ended up making a small mistake and sliding out a little which gave DiFrancesco a few seconds of extra breathing room.
Kitchen, meanwhile, must have had a problem or went down because suddenly he was in tenth place chasing Dilan Schwartz. Up front DiFrancesco was enduring an all-out onslaught from Davies, who’d caught back up. Davies tried to throw it inside on DiFrancesco, but DiFrancesco held him off. When Davies went inside in the split lane it looked like the pass was made, but then Davies pushed the front in the sand section and went down, handing third to Adams.
DiFrancesco had done a great job of keeping Beaumer close all moto, but with about three minutes left Beaumer started widening the gap, and with nobody anywhere near DiFrancesco to threaten him from behind, it looked like DiFrancesco settled in to bring it home for second. Beaumer took the win with DiFrancesco, Adams, Davies, and Kayden Minear filling out the top five.
Jo Shimoda didn’t get a good start and was only able to work up to sixth, while Kitchen battled back up to seventh. Hymas didn’t get a good start and at one point he stalled. If he crashed, we didn’t see it, but it’s unusual for him to finish 15th. Max Vohland got together with Marshal Weltin early in this one and DNF’d, while Weltin took 19th.