Sunday, Jul. 29, 2007

Villwock wins seventh Tri-City race

By Jody Moore, hydro.commentator

Dave Villwock showed the power of the Miss E-Lam Plus, powering past the field on the second lap to win his seventh Tri-Cities race, tying Chip Hanauer's mark for most wins on the Columbia River. It was also Villwock's fourth straight Columbia Cup/Atomic Cup victory, and his fourth straight of the year.

Jeff Bernard took the inside lane in the U-5 Formulaboats.com, but the boat just didn't seem to have the power of the rest of the field. Steve David took over the lead coming out of the first turn, with Jean Theoret on his inside hip in the U-37 Beacon Plumbing.

Villwock took over on as the field headed for the first turn of lap two, coming all the way out from lane four to make the pass. David gave chase, but ended up second as Villwock opened up a roostertail lead.

Bernard fell back to fifth in the U-5 Formulaboats.com. Dave Bryant was third in the U-10 Hoss Mortgage Investors, while J. Michael Kelly surged from the trailer position to fourth place in the U-13 Spirit of Detroit. He was giving chase to Bryant on the last lap when the boat porpoised in the rough water of turn one.

Jean Theoret seemed to be down on power after the first lap, and fell all the way to sixth in the Beacon Plumbing. Seventh went to Chris Bertram in the U-9 Conover Insurance.

Results are unofficial, as the boats are still in technical inspection.

More to come.

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