January 2006 Banquet

Metropolitan Sports Committee

M o t o c r o s s

Awards Banquet
to celebrate the 2005 Riding Season

January 29, 2006

2005 Season Trophies (and prizes) patiently await their new owners ......
Again, another solid year of performance by district 34 riders, tracks, vendors and sponsors. Here we have the 125 expert trophies awaiting their new owners. Well I guess I really mean "motocross lites" trophies!

Leah Brew, Chairwoman of the MSC.

Terry Finkle, our new Rider Rep (replaces Tom Hall on his retirement from the MSC).

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Tucker Rocky & Hunter Motorcycle present awards to Terry Finkle

from left to right: Paul Schwab (Tucker-Rocky representative), Ed Gilroy (Tucker-Rocky district manager), Erick Guenkel (Hunter Motorcycle) and Terry Finkle (Terry won 3 classes: 125 expert, 250 expert and +25 expert)

Dean and Karen Hutson, long time members of the Walden club (Dean is the Walden MSC track representative).

Miracle man, John Weinman, actually did a little dance for me as he entered the banquet. John had a bad wreck, this past October, and it was great to see him healing like a 16 year old. Here is John and his girlfriend.

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Women's Class
Congratulations to 1st place, Chrissi Basna, and the top 10 finishers.

Ace club members

Roy Mwangi (1st place +30c) and Mike Lapinski (3rd place +25c). Party on !!

The motocross clown paid us another visit

Most GOLD table. (Serious faces that get serious results.)

Randy Simpson, Master of Ceremonies for the night

+50 class: Sal Benanti, Jeff Conboy(1st place) & Eric Heinecke
(note, Sal is 69 years old and has been seen clearing the Walden finish line table in 2005 )

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Well, this year again, we remembered to take a REALLY LONG WALK to find the most DISTANT TABLE at this huge event. And here we find Ray Thorn and friends smiling it up for the camera. And, as promised, a few clicks of the mouse moves this table to "best seat in the house" !

Just a pic of the inside of the banquet hall

Vintage Class (and Wild Man Wino is standing there in 2nd place).

+35 class


Tons of high quality prizes were raffled off during the night
YZ250F WINNER Jamie Slaughter	CRF450 WINNER Dana Fino

A few of the youth classes: Peewee 7-8, Peewee 4-6,

A few of the adult classes: 125c, 250c, 1st place 250c: Daniel Wujcik

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Dylan Kolb, standing with his VERY TALL 1st place trophy. Dylan was a "double win" tonight with a 1st in 4-6 Peewee and Peewee oil injected. He's smiling right now because he is just thinking about the day when he will be a foot taller than the trophy AND that trophy will say "250 expert" on it. Congratulations Dylan !!

This web page is donated to district 34 riders, in the memory of Rocky Cassone Jr, who passed away from natural causes during the 2005 season. Rocky will always be with us but its with special pause that I realize we will begin our first season, in over 30 years, "without the Rock". But lets look forward to the 2006 season (and all the challenges that it will surely bring) with the steadfastness and generosity that Rocky brought to our races, these past 3 decades, and set out to make this year our most successful ever for him.

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