The following article was published in the St. Cloud Times newspaper Monday April 7, 2008.

Youth news: Big Lake boy takes home 2 1st place awards in motorcycle racing

Big Lake resident Colton Reschke, 8, was awarded first place series championship plaques in the Youth Cross Country Hare Scrambles Micro division and the Youth Cross Country Enduro Micro division on February 2 in Little Falls, the site of the Minnesota District 23 Amateur Riders Motorcycle Association awards banquet.

At 7, Reschke was awarded third place in the state Youth Enduro Championship Series as well as third in the state Youth Hare Scrambles Championship Series. In 2007, he swept the Youth Hare Scrambles Series, placing first in all of the races to take the championship. In the Enduro Series, he placed first in all but one race (he took second in that one). His points total gave him the series championship.

Reschke started racing at age 4 in the 4-8-year-old Micro class. He is eligible to compete in the Micro class for 2008 and will defend his championship with a No. 1 plate aboard his Honda CRF 50. He will also use 2008 as a transition year to the 7-11-year-old PeeWee class aboard his new KTM 65XC supported by sponsor CD Tile & Stone.