Familiar Faces Fall Behind as Corey Bohan Leads BMX Dirt Prelims in Baltimore

Weather was an issue again in Baltimore as wind bothered riders as much as the course, which featured a step-down after the drop-in. The end result was some riders managed to put down one strong run but had trouble putting down two and riders only get two runs in the prelims. The top nine finishers would advance, leaving 18 others wondering what could have been.

While the top three qualifiers were not surprises (Corey Bohan, Diogo Canina, James Foster), some riders were new to the finals, including Josh Hult and Chis Gerber, who last made a Dew Tour final in 2006. Getting a bye into the finals were last year’s top three ranked riders, Ryan Nyquist, Cameron White and Dennis Enarson.

Among the surprise eliminations were 2005 Dew Cup champ Ryan Guettler, who was eliminated when Luke Parlsow placed 7th, and 2006 champ Anthony Napolitan, who placed 15h.

Everyone on hand was happy to see Stephen Murray on site, as he assisted with course design with Fuzzy Hall and will be providing some announcing on Friday’s finals. Of course, Murray was injured last year during the AST Dew Tour dirt finals.

Cory Nastazio cr. AST

The BMX Dirt finals will take place on Friday from 7:30-9 p.m. ET and highlights will air on USA on Friday at midnight (ET).

Here’s the lineup for Friday’s final (in order)

12. Chris Doyle
11. Colin Mackay
10. Luke Parslow
9. Chris Gerber
8. Cory Nastazio
7. Josh Hult
6. James Foster
5. Diogo Canina
4. Corey Bohan
3. Dennis Enarson
2. Cameron White
1. Ryan Nyquist

BMX Dirt Prelim Results
June 19, 2008 – Top Nine Advance

1st — Bohan, Corey — 90.67
2nd — Canina, Diogo — 90.33
3rd — Foster, James — 89.67
4th — Hult, Josh — 89.50
5th — Nastazio, Cory — 89
6th — Gerber, Chris — 88.33
7th — Parslow, Luke — 88.33
8th — Mackay, Colin — 87.50
9th — Doyle, Chris — 87.33
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10th — Guettler, Ryan — 87.17
11th — Ellis, TJ — 87.17
12th — Darden, Rob — 87
13th — Berkheimer, Nate — 87
14th — Wirch, Scott — 86.17
15th — Napolitan, Anthony — 85.83
16th — O’hara, Kyle — 85.67
17th — Aloise, Adam — 85.50
18th — Cooke, Allan — 85.33
19th — Bowers, Charlie — 84.33
20th — Wade, Morgan — 81.17
21st — Gethard, Brad — 79
22nd — Stead, Josh — 77.67
23rd — Clark, Michael — 75.67
24th — Voyles, Ben — 74.67
25th — McCann, Steven — 74.33
26th — Dosch, Brandon — 71.67
27th — Mildon, Jed — 71.33