{"id":103178,"date":"2017-10-14T22:34:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T04:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/alex-vestal-of-cortez-places-fourth-at-monster-energy-cup\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T22:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T04:34:12","slug":"alex-vestal-of-cortez-places-fourth-at-monster-energy-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/alex-vestal-of-cortez-places-fourth-at-monster-energy-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Vestal, of Cortez, places fourth at Monster Energy Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Alex
Alex Vestal practices on Oct. 10 before leaving for Las Vegas to compete in the Monster Energy Cup Supermini.<\/span>Emily Rice\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Alex Vestal, of Cortez, placed fourth overall in his debut appearance at the Monster Energy Cup on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The 15-year-old Kawasaki rider finished in the middle of the pack in his first race at the University of Las Vegas-Nevada stadium, and followed it up with a third-place finish in the second race.<\/p>\n

Vestal, who was selected for the invitation-only race, finished ninth in a field of 20 in the first of two Supermini races Saturday night at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas stadium. After the first lap, he was in ninth place, and he stayed there till the end.<\/p>\n

In the second race, he got a good start, and was in fourth place after the first two laps. He moved up to third place by the end of the third lap, and held on despite a late charge by the eventual champion Jett Reynolds, who came from fifth to second place. Jace Kessler won the race, followed by Reynolds and Vestal.<\/p>\n

Vestal is the son of John and Sandra Vestal, of Cortez.<\/p>\n

Provisional Results<\/em><\/p>\n

Supermini Final Standings<\/div>\n

Provisional Results<\/em><\/p>\n

1:<\/em> Jett Reynolds of Bakersfield, Calif., on a Kawasaki Supermini (3 points)<\/p>\n

2:<\/em> Kaeden Amerine, Great Bend, Kan., on a KTM Supermini (9 points)<\/p>\n

3:<\/em> Jeremy Ryan of Santa Nella, Calif., on a Kawasaki Supermini (10 points)<\/p>\n

4:<\/em> Alex Vestal of Cortez, Colo., on a Kawasaki Supermini (12 points)<\/p>\n

5:<\/em> Jace Kessler of Eagle, Mich., on a Husqvarna Supermini (13 points)<\/p>\n

Supermini, Race 1<\/div>\n

1:<\/em> Jett Reynolds of Bakersfield, Calif., on a Kawasaki Supermini<\/p>\n

2:<\/em> Matthew Leblanc of Breaux Bridge, La., on a Yamaha Supermini<\/p>\n

3:<\/em> Preston Kilroy of Afton, Wyo., on a KTM Supermini<\/p>\n

4:<\/em> Kaeden Amerine Great Bend, Kan., on a KTM Supermini<\/p>\n

5:<\/em> Jack Rogers of Brookeville, Md., on a Kawasaki Supermini<\/p>\n

9:<\/em> Alex Vestal of Cortez, Colo., on a Kawasaki Supermini<\/p>\n

Supermini, Race 2<\/div>\n

1:<\/em> Jace Kessler of Eagle, Mich., on a Husqvarna Supermini<\/p>\n

2:<\/em> Jett Reynolds of Bakersfield, Calif., on a Kawasaki Supermini<\/p>\n

3:<\/em> Alex Vestal of Cortez, Colo., on a Kawasaki Supermini<\/p>\n

4:<\/em> Jeremy Ryan of Santa Nella, Calif., on a Kawasaki Supermini<\/p>\n

5:<\/em> Kaeden Amerine, Great Bend, Kan., on a KTM Supermini<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ninth in first Supermini, improves to third in second<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6313],"tags":[21,162,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-103178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-2","tag-cortez","tag-eli-tomac","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103178"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=103178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}