Heimbach Wins Third Straight Whitcomb Memorial

When the extra cash is on the line, Blane Heimbach is always there in the end.

For the third year in a row, Heimbach came out on top of the annual Joe Whitcomb Memorial for 358 Sprint cars at Selinsgrove Speedway on Saturday night.
The race is run in memory of the late sprint car driver who sustained fatal injuries at the track in 2003.

Heimbach turned up the wick again Saturday night, driving by pole sitter Pat Cannon on lap five and driving off from the field to post a near five-second victory. The win was worth $2,071 to Heimbach and the Jeff and Missy Creasy owned team.

Cannon attempted to reel in the Selinsgrove speedster late in the race but smoke began to pour from Cannon’s Highlands Tire Service sprinter allowing Heimbach to post his 23rd career Selinsgrove win and second of the season.

Cannon held on for the runner-up finish ahead of Davie Franek, Joey Borich and Larry Kelleher.

Dover’s Coleby Frye picked up his first win of the year in the 25-lap late model feature as the checkered flag fell just in time as his race car broke at the checkered flag.

Jeff Rine finished second and also went up in smoke at the finish as young Dylan Yoder finished third over Steve Campbell and Bobby Croop.

Jason Smith won the pro stock main over Scott Landis and Troy Miller while Keith Bissinger returned to victory lane in the roadrunner event over Ricky Bender and Doug Minium, Jr.

KELLER WINS FIRST CAREER RACE
Despite using a back-up car with an ill motor, Glenn Keller was able to capture his first ever Super Sportsman feature win Saturday night at Williams Grove Speedway.

Keller started on the front row but had to battle motor woes and then held off Bobby Hockenberry on a final lap restart before taking his first win in his 13 year career.

Russ Mitten finished in the third spot over Frankie Herr and Paul Miller with Derek Locke, John Garman, John Stoner, Jason Fry and Carmen Perigo, Jr. finishing out the top 10.

Tyler Armstrong, of St. Thomas made it two wins on the season after this 20-lap 358 late model win.

Armstrong started 11th and worked his way to the front past the halfway mark of the race and went unchallenged to the win over Travis Mease, Dave Sokoloski, Andy Fries and Craig Wagaman.

Newville’s Jim Salisbury won a thrilling final lap battle over Kory Sites for his first street stock win of the year with Kevin Wirt, Doug Hoffman and Brian Towsey the top five finishers.

Dale Kreiser scored the 4-cylinder win over Kevin Thomas, John Stoll, Jr., Leroy Long and Joe Jakubic while Bill Powell won the Enduro over David Wilhelm and Brian Sander.

TWO STRAIGHT FOR ROHRBAUGH
Jeff Rohrbaugh drove through a crash Friday night at Trail-way Speedway and still came out on top for his second straight 25-lap 358 Sprint car win.

While coming up to lap three cars running at the rear of the field, those cars crashed and Rohrbaugh drove straight through the crash sustaining top wing damage. It didn’t hinder his run to the checkered flag for his 13th career Trail-Way win.

Danny Dietrich finished second ahead of Mike Duncan, Bill Dietrich and Dale Hammaker.

Marshall McMullen won the thundercar feature over Rick Weaver, Kyle Martin, Brian Walls and Allen Cullem while Walls won the makeup feature that was rained out on April 26. Justin Mong finished second over Mike Fletcher, Larry Neiderer and Martin.

MYERS GETS FIRST WIN
DJ Myers raced to his first win of the year Saturday night at Hagerstown Speedway.

Myers, driving for car owner Greg Gunter this season took the lead on lap 13 and easily drove off for the win. It was his first win since March 2006.

David Williams finished in the runner-up position over Gary Stuhler, points leader Roy Deese, Jr., and Brent Smith.

Chad Boat became the youngest driver to ever win in USAC Sprint car competition with a win at Hagerstown.

Boat, who recently turned 16 battled another 16-year old driver Colt Whitt for the top spot before taking the win over Whitt. Whitt, who won at Big Diamond Raceway on Thursday night is the new USAC Wingless sprint car points leader.

Completing the top five were Jerry Coons, Robert Ballou and Damion Gardner.

COLE WINS PORT
Alan Cole picked up his first Sprint car win of the year at the Port Royal Speedway Saturday night.

Cole, who won last week at Williams Grove came back to led the final 13 laps of the 30-lap Pete Swarmer Memorial for his third career win at the track aboard the Sorokach Motorsports JEI Chassis.

Mark Smith was second over Greg Hodnett, Mike Erdley and track points leader Todd Shaffer.

Scott Haus won for the fifth time in late model action over Mitch Hack, Tim Gray, Dan Stone and Waylon Wagner.

Tim Krape won another pro stock main over Terry Naugle and Derick Garman.

THIRD WIN FOR BILLET
Carlisle’s Carl Billet raced to his third 358 late model win of the year Saturday at Susquehanna Speedway Park.

Billet led the final three laps of the 20-lap event taking the win over Charles Potts, John Moser, Jr., Sam Leonard, Jr. and Grant Adams.

Steve Dove won the street stock main over Craig Morgan, Todd Bowersox, Paul Morgan and Wes Alleman.

Adam Smith was the Xtreme stock car winner while Geremy Sheaffer won the regularly scheduled Legends car feature over Josh Morrow and Greg Burd while Tom Mayberry won the makeup Legends car feature from April 26 over Josh Morrow and Scott Houdeschell.

OTHER WEEKEND RACING
Shippensburg’s Jerry Bard led all the way to win Friday night’s 358 late model feature at Path Valley Speedway. Bard’s win came over Brad Kling, Gene Knaub, Scott Daniels and Elwood Sord.

Newport’s Tyler Walton scored the 600 Micro Sprint win at Path Valley over Sean Stolz, Jim Brookens, Tom Kohler and Heath Hehnley.

Sean McAndrew won the 270 Micro feature over Sean Good and Zach Fouse while Reed Salony was the Legend car winner over Nathan Fisher and Jason Ewing.

Jeff Miller raced to a career first late model win Friday at Bedford Speedway over Steve Everhart, Mike Altobelli, Jr., Greg Fetters and Scott Rhodes while Andy Teno picked up the limited late model win over Derek Byler, Mike Shoemaker, Robbie Black and Rick Singleton.

Keith McIntyre won the 600 Micro sprint feature at Shippensburg Speedway on Saturday over Bo Gordon, Kenny Harris, Zach Newlin and Jesse Fitz. Other track winners were Keith Arnolt in the thundercars, Roman Bard in the 4-cylinders, Nick Bloom in the Cyclones, Mike Taylor in 6-cylinders and Gary Guise in 4-cylinders.