Strawser/Miller Top Grove Twin 20's

By Brad Vores  June 22, 2008 

Gerry Strawser and Paul Miller came out on top of twin 20’s for Super Sportsman Saturday night at Williams Grove Speedway.

 Strawser’s first career Grove win came in the first 20 lap event as he led the entire distance while a good battle for the remainder of the top spots ensured behind him.

 Rookie driver Dylan Cisney grabbed runner-up honors over Rick Barr, Carlisle’s Frankie Herr and Bobby Hockenberry. Mechanicsburg’s Dave Berkheimer was sixth, Summerdale’s JR Fry seventh, Newville’s Russ Mitten ninth, Dillsburg’s Rich Eichelberger 13th, Dillsburg’s Aaron Eichelberger 15th, Carlisle’s Jake Raudabaugh 17th, Summerdale’s Jason Fry 18th, Mechanicsburg’s Derek Locke 19th and Dillsburg’s Ryan Rupp 24th after a first lap flip.

 Miller became the first repeat winner at the Grove with a final lap pass of Carmen Perigo, Jr. for the race lead and the victory in the second feature. His margin of victory was one car length over Perigo with Mitten third, Herr fourth and Gregg Foster fifth. R. Eichelberger was sixth, JR Fry eighth, Berkheimer ninth, Locke 12th, J. Fry 13th and  Raudabaugh 19th.

 Gene Knaub raced to his first Grove 358 late model win of the year after starting back in the 10th spot.

 Knaub’s win came over Bobby Beard, Travis Mease, Tommy Blackwell and Craig Wagaman. Newville’s Dave Sokoloski was 11th.

 Newville’s Doug Hoffman picked up the street stock win over Jim Salisbury, Kory Sites, Gary Welsh and Rodney Clouser while Brian Sanders won the Enduro Dash over David Wilhelm, Jen Powell, Mark Krone and Rob Keller.


RAHMER GETS TENTH WIN
 Fred Rahmer reached the 10-win mark Saturday night with another win at Lincoln Speedway.

 Rahmer started 12th and took the lead from Jim Siegel on lap 19 and drove off to a three-second victory for his fifth of the year in the Pigeon Hills and 159th career at the track.

 Brian Leppo had his second straight runner-up finish on the weekend and his best Lincoln run of the year with Friday night Williams Grove winner Siegel third over Doug Esh and Nick Schlauch, Jr.

 Sixteen-year old Aaron Ott became the first repeat winner in the 358 sprint car division with a win Saturday night.

 Ott, a Rahmer protégé, led all 20 laps of the event despite starting fifth. He defeated Adrian Shaffer, Jeff Rohrbaugh, Gerard McIntyre, Jr. and Chad Myers. Ott also finished 10th in the 410 sprint car feature.

 Sam Gallagher won for the second time in thundercar competition over Joe Racine, Mike Slaybaugh, Marshall McMullen and Scott Fisher.


SMITH TOPS PORT
 Mark Smith moved into sole possession of 11th place on the all-time Port Royal Speedway winners list with a win in Saturday night’s Challenge at the Port for 410 Sprints.

 Smith started eighth and went out front on lap three and never looked back in the big $5,000 payday for his 27th career track win and his fourth overall this season in his own No. 7M.

 Greg Hodnett came on strong late to finish in the runner-up spot with Keith Kauffman third, Alan Cole fourth and Mike Erdley fifth.

 Newport’s Tim Fedder capped off a great weekend with his first Port Royal late model win of the year.

 Fedder, who won his 100th career race in a 358 late model race Friday at Path Valley, came back to led the final 18 laps at the Port for the win over Mitch Hack, points leader Scott Haus with Tim Gray and Jason Miller both being paid for fourth spot due to a cone violation for Gray that was not cited by track officials during the event.

 Tim Krape won the pro stock event over Devin Frey and Terry Naugle.


FLAMMER TAKES BIG WIN
 Scott Flammer took the lead from Ryan Kissinger late in Saturday’s Firecracker 30 for 358 Sprints and drove off to a convincing win, his first of the year at Selinsgrove Speedway.

 Flammer’s $2,000 win came over Phil Walter, Blane Heimbach, Davie Franek and Kyle Bachman. Pat Cannon was involved in a first lap incident and came from the rear of the field to place seventh in the Highlands owned sprinter. Carlisle’s Dave Calaman finished ninth and Newville’s Todd Reed 16th.

 Ken Trevitz won his first 25 lap late model feature of the season over Steve Campbell, Jeff Rine, Chris Shuey and Brett Schadel.

 Peanut Heintzelman was the pro stock winner and Keith Bissinger won another roadrunner main.


DEHAVEN GETS FIRST WIN
 Ronnie DeHaven, Jr. kept Alan Sagi at bay for the final half of Saturday night’s 25 lap late model feature at Hagerstown Speedway to collect his first win of the year.

 DeHaven started on the front row and took the top spot with two laps complete and then fended off all challenges by Sagi before taking the win.

 Gary Stuhler came from 11th to third over Jamie Lathroum and Kirk Ryan, Jr. Shermansdale’s Mike Lupfer was 12th.

 Ashley Barrett won for the first time in late model sportsman action winning over Fred Harden, Barry Miller, Scott Palmer and Terry Flaherty. Shippensburg’s Jerry Bard finished 11th.

 Dale Hollidge won for the third time in pure stock competition over Dave Mikolajski and Steve Lowery.

 Derek Riley was the enduro dash winner over Carlisle’s Matt Smith.


MCCLELLAND GETS FIRST CAREER WIN
 Travis McClelland raced to his first career 358 late model win Saturday at Susquehanna Speedway Park.

 The Westminster, Maryland driver led all 20 laps to take the win over Sterling Kinard, Shermansdale’s Jake Jones, John Moser, Jr. and Bud Witmer. Carlisle’s Carl Billet finished eighth.

 Gregory Diehl won his first street stock main over Todd Bowersox, Paul Morgan, George Eash and Scott Thunberg.  Newville’s Wes Alleman was seventh.
 Alleman won the makeup street stock main from May 17 over Jimmy Slaseman, Steven Dove, Eric Walker and Thunberg. 

 Wellsville’s John Stoll, Jr. was the winner of the 4-cylinder feature over Jason Smith and Henry Lesher while Matt Wampler won the Xtreme Stock car main.


OTHER WEEKEND ACTION
 JJ Grasso picked up his second win of the season on the URC Sprint car tour Saturday at New Egypt Speedway.

 Grasso exchanged the lead with Chris Coyle several times before taking the exciting win. All three of his URC wins have came at the New Jersey track. Mark Bitner finished second with URC point leader Curt Michael third, Davey Sammons fourth and Joey Biasi fifth.

 URC was rained out on Friday at Penn Can Speedway with the race rescheduled for early August.

 Jack Pencil took his first win of the season in Bedford speedway late model action on Friday night with a win over Greg Fetters, Steve Everhart, Brian Booze and DJ Myers.

 Chad McClellan won the limited late model feature at Bedford over Mike Shoemaker and Derek Byler with Newville’s Donnie Farling 12th.

 Cale Reigle won the 600 Micro Sprint feature Saturday at Shippensburg Speedway over Bo Gordon, Zack Newlin, Kenny Harris and Alex Schanz.

 Other track winners were Keith Arnolt in the thundercars, Donny Stine in the mini stocks and Dillon Stake in the cyclones.

 No results were made available for Trail-Way Speedway weekend racing.
 

 

 
 
 

 

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