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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=http:\\/\\/www.snowboarding-online.com\\/video\\/granhp_02901.html&gt;Click here for a Quicktime clip of the Men&amp;#8217;s Final.&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ross Powers finally won one this season. Coming from behind on a final run, he posted a score 45.8 to edge out local favorite Tommy Czeschin and win $10,000 at the Chevy Truck U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain, California.&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The halfpipe event was originally scheduled for two days, with qualifying today and finals tomorrow. However, with a big winter storm approaching, officials decided to cram the entire event into one day. What resulted was a long day that began before 8:00 a.m. and finished at 4:00 p.m. The schedule change caught J.J. Thomas and Erik Leines sleeping, and they missed their first-round runs. But for the rest who heard of the earlier start, you couldn&amp;#8217;t have asked for better weather, with perfect blue skies, a warm sunny day, and a decent superpipe. &lt;P&gt;After placing second in the qualifying round behind a surprising George Oakley, Czeschin took the lead with a score of 41.6 in the field of twenty finalists. This put him ahead of such favorites as Danny Kass and Powers, who were coming off an X Games SuperPipe win and third place respectively. Czeschin was riding in front of his hometown crowd, with parents, uncle, grandmother, girlfriend, and her parents all cheering him on. &lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Czechin, who placed second at the X Games, posted a run that included a switch seven, frontside Haakon, 540, and big straight airs stomped cleanly. &amp;#8220;In my second run, instead of a switch seven, I did a switch nine, but no grab,&amp;#8221; he said. &amp;#8220;Whenever I&amp;#8217;m home, I ride this pipe so I think that helped out a little bit. But Ross had an awesome run, and I&amp;#8217;m happy for him. Second&amp;#8217;s pretty good. It&amp;#8217;s my second second in a week, so I&amp;#8217;m happy.&amp;#8221;&lt;P&gt;For Powers, the pressure was on. &amp;#8220;For my second run, I was sitting in second place and I knew there were ten more guys to go, so I figured I might as well go for it,&amp;#8221; he said. His winning run included good straight airs, a Mctwist, a frontside 900, an air to fakie, and a switch Mctwist. &lt;P&gt;&amp;#8220;I was doing that run in practice, not as big or as smoothly but I figured I&amp;#8217;d go for it.&amp;#8221;&lt;P&gt;Sporting a fresh mohawk, Kyle Clancy  came in third with a score of 40.5 and Danny Kass was right behind with a 40.3. Riding at his new adopted home, Kass was close to pulling a win, but just sketched out a switch Kasserole at the bottom of the pipe during his final run.&lt;P&gt;Powers win comes two days before his birthday. &amp;#8220;I&amp;#8217;m glad we had the contest before my birthday this time, because last year was pretty ridiculous.&amp;#8221; He&amp;#8217;s referring to last year&amp;#8217;s Grand Prix held at Northstar-at-Tahoe that fell the day after his birthday. He was quite hung over for the finals, but still ended up in second place. &lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;For several of the riders, including Powers and Czeschin, the tour now heads over to Japan where they&amp;#8217;ll try to earn some FIS World Cup points to get the U.S. quote for the Olympic halfpipe event. &amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;d be awesome to go to the Olympics and that&amp;#8217;s definitely what I&amp;#8217;m working toward,&amp;#8221; says Czeschin.&lt;P&gt;Men&amp;#8217;s Pipe Results&lt;P&gt;1. Ross Powers &lt;br \\/&gt;2. Tommy Czeschin &lt;br \\/&gt;3. Kyle Clancy &lt;br \\/&gt;4. Danny Kass &lt;br \\/&gt;5. Rahm Klampert &lt;br \\/&gt;6. George Oakley &lt;br \\/&gt;7. Zach Horwitz &lt;br \\/&gt;8. Rob Kingwill &lt;br \\/&gt;9. Ricky Bower &lt;br \\/&gt;10. Kirk Short &lt;br \\/&gt;11. Travis Rice &lt;br \\/&gt;12. Luke Wynen &lt;br \\/&gt;12. Elijah Teter &lt;br \\/&gt;14. Lane Knaack &lt;br \\/&gt;15. Wyatt Caldwell &lt;br \\/&gt;16. Abe Teter &lt;br \\/&gt;17. Steven Fisher &lt;br \\/&gt;18. Justin Brink &lt;br \\/&gt;19. Scott Arnold &lt;br \\/&gt;20. Nicky Wieveg &lt;br \\/&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href=http:\\/\\/www.snowboarding-online.com\\/video\\/granhp_02901.html&gt;Click here for a Quicktime clip of the Men&amp;#8217;s Final.&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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