Colton Facciotti continued with his winning ways in the MX1 class at Round 8 of the Canadian Motocross Nationals at Sand Del Lee in Richmond, Ontario.

The Aldergrove native snared the overall with 1-1 heats, pretty well ensuring a second consecutive championship is in the bag as the tour heads to Walton, Ontario for the final round of the series.

Kerim Fitz-Gerald surprised with a hard-fought MX2 overall win on the strength of 3-1 heats. It was the South African’s first career overall win in the Canadian Nationals.

Conspicuous by his absence at the Sand Del Lee motocross track on Sunday was Paul Carpenter. The American broke his wrist during Saturday’s practice, effectively ending his season.

Simon Homans snared the first MX1 heat holeshot but lost the lead before the end of the second lap to Facciotti. Next to stick a pass on Homans was local rider Tyler Medaglia.

Medaglia stuck with Facciotti for a while and the duo quickly pulled away from the chase group, which included Homans, Kevin Johnson, Dusty Klatt and Jeff Northrop. By the halfway mark Klatt had caught up to Medaglia and passed him shortly after that.

For the rest of the heat there was no action up front. Facciotti pulled some 35 seconds on his teammate Klatt by the time the checkered was waved. Medaglia settled into a distant third and would finish there.

Behind them a heavy battle for the remaining top-five positions was eventually settled by New Zealand’s Mason Phillips and New York’s Jack Carpenter, who finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

An on-the-gas Homans pegged the second heat holeshot but pulled off the track to deal with a technical issue after the first lap. He was able to rejoin the race, but as in the first heat would play no role in the top-10.

Facciotti, who started in second place, took control of the lead and would go on to record his fourth clean sweep of the season.

Tyler Medaglia again found himself in second place followed by Jack Carpenter, Klatt, and Bobby Kiniry. This time Medaglia stayed within spitting distance of Facciotti while Kiniry and Klatt passed Carpenter to swap positions a few times for third place.

Kiniry eventually latched on to that position to go on and put some pressure on Medaglia towards the end of the heat. But when all was said and done the American had to take satisfaction with third. Kiniry was followed across the finish line by Klatt in fourth and Phillips in fifth.

MX2

With a light rain starting to fall, Jeremy Medaglia grabbed the first MX2 heat holeshot followed by Kerim Fitz-Gerald, Nick Evennou, and Kyle Beaton. Fortunately the rain stopped by the end of the heat and there were no delays in the schedule.

Medaglia led the freight train until he went down some five laps into the heat handing the lead to Fitz-Gerald. From that point on the battle for a top-five finish was hot and nasty with only seconds separating first to fourth.

Medaglia, who remounted in sixth, knifed his way back into second place by the end of the heat with Fitz-Gerald crossing the finish line in third.

Meanwhile, Teddy Maier, Eric Nye and Aron Harvey, number 1-2-3 in the points chase, started outside the top-five; only Maier and Harvey would be able to claw their way into a top-five finish by the end of the heat.

Beaton made quick work of second MX2 heat holeshooter Brock Hoyer and proceeded to put some distance between himself and the chase group, which included Fitz-Gerald, Nye, Evennou, and Jeremy Medaglia.

Hoyer soon disappeared from the top-five as the rest of the frontrunners started slugging it out again for position.

Just past the halfway mark Fitz-Gerald displaced Beaton from the lead and started checking out. A few laps later Medaglia stuck a pass on Beaton, who then had to contend with Maier.

With two laps to go, Beaton had to bow to Maier but still managed to cement the top-three overall, thanks to his first heat win. Rounding out the top-five was Eric Nye, who finished seventh in heat one.

Kate McKerrol grabbed the first heat holeshot of the Women’s Nationals followed by Jocelyn Killough and Heidi Cooke.

As she did at the first four rounds of the series Cooke, who already clinched the championship in Moncton one week earlier, installed herself in the lead.

In no time she checked out to finish more than 50 seconds ahead of McKerrol in second place and Killough in third.

After the gate dropped for heat two, McKerrol duplicated her first heat holeshot but once again Cooke took command of the lead by lap two. From there Cooke went on to ride her own race.

When the checkered flag signalled the end of the heat, and the Women’s Nationals season, Cooke took the win by another huge margin. With yet another clean sweep, the Nova Scotia native became the first rider in the Women’s Nationals to record a perfect season.

Killough finished runner-up in the championship while Denayne Giroux cemented the top-three in the points chase.

Watch Monster Energy's Motovision at www.mxpmag.com for a video recap of the day's racing.