On The Pegs July 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 7 | Page 150

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Border Battle XC Round 2 - Battle At The Bluffs
Presented by Custom Outfitters
Nathan Ferderer Gets Meadow Valley Win, AA Championship Heats Up
The Hoosier Off-Road Border Battle XC series, presented by Klim, made it’s first-
ever stop at the picturesque Meadow Valley MX Park in Lake City, Minnesota for a
Father’s Day throw down. Meadow Valley is a popular practice track that also fea-
tures miles of single track and two-track trails in the bluff country that borders the
Mississippi River in Southeastern Minnesota.
The annual hare scramble event hosted by the Straight Arrow Enduro Riders club
is the only race event of the year at the facility and despite heavy and persistent
rain on Saturday, nearly 300 riders and a record number of overall gate entries
turned up on Sunday for what would be a challenging but awesome day of racing
in the mud.
Minnesota’s Nathan Ferderer, the 2018 series Champion, scored his first victory of
the season over rising star Logan Kittock and 2017 District 23 off-road Champ Nick
Swenson. Ferderer is racing a Checkpoint Off-Road backed Suzuki this season and
appears to be quite comfortable on the striking yellow machine, as he paced Kit-
tock throughout the day and then turned it up in the closing stages.