Big crowd and another big night of close racing at Hilltop Speedway

  • By Mike Swanger
  • June 1, 2010
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A jam-packed pit area and another big crowd saw some close racing on Atom’s Pest Control and the Bargain Shed night at Hilltop Speedway Saturday, May 29. Wayne Maffett Jr. led the field of Super Late Models with Steve Prince, Zanesville’s Cody Parker and Lance Elson in tow. Parker would move into second on lap four with Prince and Elson dueling for third. Those two would rub together on the front stretch on lap five with Elson cutting a tire, and as he slowed down on the back stretch, Charlie Duncan and David Liles made contact with Elson. Liles and Elson had to be towed off while Duncan would continue with a badly damaged car. Dash winner Maffett Jr. used the low groove to keep the lead with quick-timer Parker right on his rear bumper. Anthony Kincaid, Shane McLoughlin (the Dash for Cash winner) and Justin Chance ran top five. Moving up the track, Parker and his Weekly Electric, North Pointe Dental and BH Racing No. 63 was able to power past Maffett Jr. for the lead at the halfway mark. With nine circuits to go, Dave Hornikel took fifth away from Chance. There was a caution on lap 19 for Ty Myers, and on the ensuing restart, Kincaid’s car lost power and rolled into the infield. He was running fourth. With two to go, McLoughlin moved past Maffett Jr. for second but ran out of laps before he could catch Parker. Maffett Jr. held on to third, and 15th-starting Hornikel used the high groove to grab fourth in front of Prince. Jeremy Canada, Elson and McLoughlin won the heats, and Chester Elliott topped the last chance race. For the Snyder Brothers Tri State Modifieds, it was Hanover’s Kevin Morehouse dominating the evening as he set fast time, won the Dash for Cash, and the Morehouse Logging, Rice Excavating and NAPA Auto Parts No. 28 led flag-to-flag for his fifth feature win of the season at Hilltop Speedway. The only race the “Logger” didn’t win was the dash, as George Lee won that to start on the pole of the feature but Morehouse used the outside front row to grab the lead at the drop of the green. Lapped traffic was the only thing that slowed Morehouse while second-running Lee had trouble with the slower cars and got tangled up with Korey Kimble with three laps to go to bring out the caution. That would put eighth-starting Gary Clark in second on the restart, but he had no answer for Morehouse either. Matt Samples and Aaron Phillis ran third and fourth and Lee came back to finish fifth. Randy Gray and Clark notched the heat wins with Ryan West capturing the last chance event. It was deja vu for Darrell Mayer of Frazeyburg as he got back in his old car that Jimmy Smith had driven to victory on opening night, and Mayer led all the way for the Street Stock feature win. The Hammon Masonary and Fat Boys Racing No. 280 was hounded all race long by John Wilson, who could never find the combination to get by Mayer. Kenny Daugherty Jr., Denny Shear, Justin Patterson, Todd Swim, Kevin Sharier and Joe Spearman spent time in the top five but Swim had to change a tire on a lap-nine caution and Patterson, who won the Dash for Cash, went sliding into the infield on the white flag lap after some contact ended their runs for top five finishes. Daugherty Jr., Shear, and Sharier, who started 11th, filled out the top five. Mayer and Patterson won the heats. Saturday was a big night for Loudonville graduating senior Jordan James, as he won the Dash for Cash, with the hood up in front of the windshield the last four laps. He won a heat race and then took the lead from Ernest Fortune on the second lap of the Holmes Tire Mini Stock feature and put the Thompson Memorials, 1st Choice Stump Grinding, and Winkler Ag Service No. 83 into victory circle for the second time this year. It was a highly competitive race for second as Fortune and Jerry Adkins went back and forth for second with Fortune edging by at the line for second with Adkins just in front of Mitch Ling for third. Brad Lawhorn rounded out the top five. Fortune and Josh Gentry also picked up heat wins. Millersburg’s John Large was also a three-time winner in the Circle Track Mini Trucks as he scored wins in the Dash for Cash, a heat win and he cruised to his second feature win of the year aboard the L&L Motors and Advance Auto Parts No. 17. Kevin Potts and Scott Gray, a heat winner, wheeled and dealed all race for second with Potts winning that battle, and right behind them going back and forth were Jerry Gardner and Rolly Heyder as they settled for fourth and fifth. Phil Bubeck led the opening lap of the Mini Wedge main but after that, it was all Blake Morris for his first win of the year at Hilltop Speedway, with Triston Lillibridge following Bubeck across the line. Two nights of racing at Hilltop Speedway this weekend as the Ohio Outlaw Motorsports quads take over on Friday, June 4, with the Mini Wedges joining that 8 p.m. show. Saturday, June 5, will be Season Championships for all the regular classes, along with Kids’ Night at 7:30 p.m.


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