Posse Get Three More Chances At The All Stars

When the O’Reilly All Star Circuit of Champions invade Central Pennsylvania this weekend, there’s a good chance of the Posse pulling off a clean sweep.

Williams Grove and Lincoln Speedway’s along with Big Diamond Raceway play host to Guy Webb’s travelers for a second time this weekend and the results will most likely be the same.

The last time the All Stars were in town, Lance Dewease won at the Grove and Fred Rahmer won at Lincoln.

Dewease’s Grove win was the 21st straight Posse win versus the All Stars while Lincoln regulars have been dominate over the years as well.

The All Stars stand a chance at Big Diamond, which is sort of neutral turf for everyone.

Should a Posse win at Williams Grove Friday night, the streak for local drivers beating outside racers will extend to 10 as Posse drivers have won the last nine All Star and World of Outlaws sanctioned events at the track.

Defending champion Tim Shaffer leads the All Star contingent into the area this weekend and will bring the likes of Greg Wilson, Bill Rose, David Gravel and Jared Ridge, who recently raced in some Keystone Cup events, along with him. There is a chance that Dale Blaney will be in attendance as well. Blaney won last week’s All Star event at Lernerville Speedway but is no longer in the top 10 in ASCoC points for some reason.

The battle to beat the All Stars won’t be the only battle as two close points races are going on at both tracks as well.

Greg Hodnett leads Fred Rahmer by just 10 points at Williams Grove in the battle for the Lawrence Chevrolet championship while Chad Layton sits just 65 points out of first and Brian Montieth is just 115 points out.

Montieth sits on top at Lincoln by a 60 point margin over Rahmer while the top 10 drivers are separated by just 255 total points.

Time trials set the stage all three nights.

LATE MODEL SPEEDWEEK
The second annual Appalachian Mountain Late Model Speedweek is in full swing after Nick Dickson raced to the win in Sunday’s opener at Selinsgrove Speedway.

Dickson led all 40 laps in earning the $5,000 payday over Rick Eckert, Jeremy Miller, Frankie Plessinger and Steve Campbell.

Dickson’s win also ended Jeff Rine’s fifth race win streak at the track. Rine won the first five regular shows at the track this season.

Selinsgrove had 51 cars in the pits.

Monday night at Winchester Speedway, York’s Eckert came out on top of the 40-lap event for the $5,000 payday. Eckert defeated Josh Richards, Jason Covert, Jimmy Mars and Keith Jackson.

Winchester had 46 cars on hand.

Speedweek continues tonight at Lincoln Speedway followed by tomorrow at Port Royal Speedway and concludes Friday night at the Bedford Speedway.

STUHLER, GEESEY TOP GROVE
Late model veteran Gary Stuhler ended a long winless streak after he led all 40 laps of Tuesday night’s Appalachian Mountain Late Model Speedweek event at Williams Grove Speedway.

Stuhler, one of the best late model racers in the history of local racing also gave new car owner Paul Crowl his first win. Stuhler, of Greencastle now has 21 career Williams Grove wins.

Stuhler kept 19-year-old Keith Jackson at bay with Vic Coffey third, DJ Myers fourth and Jimmy Mars fifth.

Points leader Rick Eckert finished sixth over Coleby Frye, Jeremy Miller, Nick Dickson and Scott Haus.

Myers set fast time over the 50-car field with a lap of 22.319 seconds. Heats went to Frye, Miller, Coffey, Jackson and Eckert with Jamie Lathroum and Andy Anderson topping the consolations.

Wellsville’s Scott Geesey took the lead from Kevin Nouse on the final turn to win the 20-lap 358 Sprint car feature on Tuesday night.

Geesey came from his ninth starting spot for his first win of the season followed by Nouse, Pat Cannon, Cory Haas, Chad Trout, Ted Thomas, Todd Rittenhouse, Jr., Danny Massey, Danny Dietrich and Blane Heimbach.

PIT STOPS
Port Royal Speedway will be extending its season two weeks after postponing its Bob Weikert Memorial until September 25. That’s the same night as Lincoln Speedway’s Kenny Weld Memorial… Mother Nature has taken her toll on area tracks already this season with last weekend nearly being a total washout other than Bedford Speedway racing on Friday night and Selinsgrove on Sunday night…

Stevie Smith will be in town this weekend as the Zemco team plan to compete in all three All Star events. Smith flew in from Oklahoma last week to race at Port Royal, which turned out to be a wasted trip…

Tim Shaffer won Monday night’s All Star show in Canada over Jessica Zemken, Aaron Ott, Greg Wilson and Danny Holtgraver. Mark Coldren was ninth while Fred Rahmer did not start the A-Main…