Greenville BMX rider Ryan Nyquist has some company atop the AST Dew Tour's Dirt standings following the Right Guard Open in Cleveland.

The Right Guard July 17-20 was the second competition on the five-event Dew Tour circuit. Nyquist — the defending Dew Cup Dirt champion — is tied with Cam White atop the Dirt standings.

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Ryan Guettler during the AST Dew Tour's Right Guard Open. He hit his face executing a 1080, sustaining a broken nose and 14 stitches. He will also need to replace five teeth.

Each rider has 175 points heading into the Wendy's Invitational, which will take place in Portland, Ore., Aug. 21-24.

White and Nyquist traded places on the medal stand in Cleveland. Nyquist kicked off the Dew Tour season with a Dirt victory at the Panasonic Open in Baltimore in late June, while White finished third.

In Cleveland, White's score of 93.92 was good enough for first place and Nyquist, who's been trying more high-risk maneuvers this season, took third with a 91.59. Greenville's Ryan Guettler bounced back from a lackluster showing in Baltimore with a second-place finish and moved up to seventh in the season standings.

Guettler's back-to-back 720s and front flip during his second run no doubt earned praise from the judges and love from the crowd. He'd need both since he couldn't complete his third run, although he did hit a 1080 before he was through.

But he came up a bit sideways on the 1080 and hit his face during the landing.

Guettler sustained a broken nose and needed 14 stitches to his lip and nose. He will also need to replace five teeth because of the fall. He does, however, plan to ride in the X Games regardless of the injuries.

Nyquist has been executing some incredible tricks, but inconsistency plagued him at the Right Guard Open. While Nyquist pulled off his powerball (a double barspin cannonball), a double barspin backflip and a new downside tailwhip 360, he crashed while attempting a barspin 720 on his last run.

Park

Greenville's Mike Spinner and Rob Darden finished second and third, respectively, in the Right Guard Park event with Nyquist taking fifth.

Spinner made history in Cleveland, landing the first-ever quadruple tailwhip in competition.

His second-place effort leaves him with 160 points in the Dew Cup Park standings, just 40 behind leader Daniel Dhers, who has taken first in both Park finals events this season.

Nyquist moved into third place after two consecutive fifth-place showings. In Cleveland, he executed the downside tailwhip 360, a couple of barspin 540s and a barspin 270 off the course's curved wall.

Darden earned his best-ever Dew Tour finish and he's currently sixth in the season standings with 120 points. He put together what most everyone in attendance considered the most complete run in the competition, including flawlessly executed 720s and a huge backflip.

Guettler — who crashed hard during his first Park run and wasn't able to continue at the Right Guard final — is one point ahead of Darden in the Park standings.

Another Greenville rider, Marcus Tooker, is seventh with 102 points.

X Games

Nyquist, Guettler, Spinner, Allan Cooke, Josh Harrington and Dave Mirra were all invited to participate in X Games XIV in Los Angeles from July 31-Aug. 3.

All six Greenville riders were invited to compete in the Freestyle Superpark competition while Cooke and Mirra got the call to ride in the Freestyle Big Air event. Harrington was also scheduled to ride in Freestyle Street.

Mirra has more X Games BMX medals than anyone in the history of the Games with 14, 11 of them gold.

Check next month's Mixer for a recap of how the local riders fared.

Tony Castleberry can be reached at tcastleberry@coxnc.com or at 329-9591.