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Donny Schatz makes the winning pass Saturday night at Williams Grove.
Blane Heimbach moved to within one win from moving into a tie as Selinsgrove Speedway’s all-time leading 358 Sprint car winner with an impressive win in Saturday night’s 30-lap Jack Gunn Memorial 358 Sprint/URC Challenge at the track.
Heimbach’s third career win in the Gunn Memorial was his 24th overall at the track, one within tying Chad Layton as the all-time leading winner. He also tied Todd Shaffer as the only driver to win the race in Gunn’s memory three times.
The event saw many leaders during the early laps as Ed Aiken led for two laps before suffering a flat tire, turning the lead over to Larry Kelleher.
URC female racer Becca Anderson took over the top spot on lap five but her car stopped with problems two laps later, turning the lead back to Kelleher.
Track points leader Pat Cannon, who started 14th, drove into the lead on the seventh lap as Heimbach, who started third, moved by Kelleher for second on lap 15.
Heimbach made the race-winning move on Cannon on lap 25 and drove off to a near three-second victory for the big $3,500 payday in the Jeff and Missy Creasy owned No. 12 sprinter.
Cannon finished second in the Zane and Vicki Highlands owned sprinter with Kelleher third, URC point leader and five time champion Curt Michael fourth and Selinsgrove regular Nate Snyder fifth.
Sunbury’s Tony Adams raced to his second 25 lap late model win of the year over Jeff Rine, Jeff Smith, Brett Schadel and Bobby Croop.
Chad Davis picked up his third pro stock feature win ahead of Brad Mitch, AJ Stroup, Dan Jensen and Troy Miller.
NAGY WINS LINCOLN
Borrowing a motor from Matt Beasley, New Jersey racer Kevin Nagy picked up his first win of the season in Saturday night 358 Sprint car action at Lincoln Speedway.
Nagy led all the way from his front row starting spot in his win by a scant .48 seconds over 15th starting Scott Geesey of Dillsburg.
Austin Reed finished third ahead of Steve Owings and Adrian Shaffer. Mt. Holly’s Ricky Stonebraker was sixth and Gardners’ Jay Galloway eighth.
Craig Wagaman won the ‘topless’ 358 late model 20 lap feature in exciting fashion over Mike Walls, Pat Beard, Gene Knaub and Shaun Jones.
Sam Gallagher won the makeup thunder feature from April 26 over Doug Bennett, Greg Emlet, Gino Comi and Brad Shank while Ronnie Thomas won the regularly scheduled thundercar main over Mike Slaybaugh, Gallagher, Scott Fisher and Jimmy Combs.
TWO FOR CISNEY
A week after claiming his first career Super Sportsman win at Williams Grove, 15-year-old Dylan Cisney captured his second career win, this time at his hometown track, Port Royal Speedway.
The Juniata County resident led all 20 laps to win Saturday night’s Sportsman tour event over Stan Wanner, Carlisle’s Jake Raudabaugh, Carlisle’s Frankie Herr and Doug Hendricks. Mechanicsburg’s Derek Locke was sixth.
Lewistown’s Tim Wilson won for the first time in Port Royal Speedway late model competition after leading the final two laps in the win over Shermansdale’s Mike Lupfer, Mitch Hack, Mike Hess and Waylon Wagner.
Michael Heckman won the makeup PA 305 Sprint car event from June 28 over Michael Wagner, Mike Freet, Brian Sweitzer and Tyler Bear with Dillsburg’s Todd Spangler sixth.
Brent Comp won the night’s regular 20 lap 305 Sprint car main over Heckman, Wagner, Nathan Gramley and Reed Thompson. Carlisle’s Erin Statler had a ninth place finish.
POTTS GETS SUSKY FIRST
Charles Potts captured his first win of the season in Saturday night Susquehanna Speedway Park 358 late model action.
Potts won the marathon 20 lapper over Carlisle’s Carl Billet, Justin Ehrhart, Grant Adams and Carlisle’s Scott Richwine.
Eric Walker won the street stock feature over Newville’s Wes Alleman, Craig Morgan, George Eash and Paul Morgan while Donnie Broderick was the Xtreme Stock car winner over Mike Zeigler. Ray Broderick won the makeup Xtreme stock car feature over Adam Smith and Ronnie Buck won the 4-cylinder feature.
MCCLELLAND WINS FOURTH
Brad McClelland stopped Jeff Rohrbaugh’s four-race win streak at Trail-Way Speedway Friday night with his fourth win of the year in the 358 Sprint car feature.
McClelland’s win also moved him on top of the track’s all-time win list with 16 career wins.
He took the win over Rohrbaugh, Mike Bittinger, Dale Hammaker and Joe Trone, Jr.
Rick Weaver won the thundercar main over Allen Cullum, Robert Stough, Joe Racine and Brad Shank.
OTHER WEEKEND ACTION
Issac Sneeringer made it two straight in Trail-Way Speedway 600 Micro sprint action with a Saturday night win over Newville’s Timmie Barrick, Jimmy Brookens, Joe Robertson and Brent Marks.
Michael Ertter was the 270 Micro winner over Nik Gower, Ryan McAndrew, Jim Still and Tim McClelland while Sean Campbell won both the regularly scheduled and the makeup 1000 Sidewinder features. He defeated Brent Marks in the regular main with Tim Mertz, Jeremy Lynch and Shawn Seifert the top five while Lynch, Marks, Ryan Greth and Aaron Spahr were the top five in the makeup.
Derek Byler picked up the 358 late model win in his first visit to Path Valley Speedway Park on Friday night. Byler won over Tim Smith, Jr., Shaun Jones, Tim Fedder and Shippensburg’s Jerry Bard.
Ryan McAndrew won the 270 Micros over Brian Marriott, Jason Houtz, Tom Tice and Levi Peck while Jim Brookens won the 600 Micros over Shippensburg’s Dwayne Gutshall, Travis Saner, Tyler DevAult and Tyler Walton. Barrick was 10th.
Jason Clauss was declared the Friday night URC Sprint winner at Big Diamond Raceway after apparent winner David Gravel was disqualified due an engine infraction. Clauss won over Becca Anderson, Curt Michael, Kramer Williamson and Robbie Stillwagon.
Bo Gordon was the 600 Micro winner Saturday at Shippensburg Speedway over Dustin Sheffield, Lance Newlin, Mike Holley and Zack Newlin while Keith Armolt won another thundercar main, Rick Newcomer won the mini stocks, Nick Bloom the cyclones, Bob Woodring the 4-cylinder trucks and Eric McKee the 6-cylinder strictly stocks.
