Phillips comes out on top at Salina Highbanks Speedway
Clint Brown

MLRA (July 21, 2006) - For the 77th time in the career of the O'Reilly MLRA Terry Phillips took home the checkered flag as the grabbed the win at Salina Highbanks Speedway on Friday night. Phillips lead from start to finish as he continued to add to his career leading wins total.

The green flag waved over the field with Phillips and outside row one starter Shane Essary quickly powering to the front where Phillips quickly built up his lead over Essary. The 15E of Essary began to slightly reel in Phillips on several occasions only to have the 75P of Phillips pull back away every time and race to the end and garner the checkered flag. Essary held on for the second position with Justin Wells, Steve Rushin, and David Turner rounding out the top five.

Phillips and Essary were joined by Bartlesville, OK driver Terry Melton with heat race wins earlier in the night.

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Full Results
Salina Highbanks Speedway
July 21, 2006

Heat 1
1) Shane Essary, 2) Gary Stolba, 3) Steve Rushin, 4) Al Purkey, 5) Alan Vaughn, 6) Shad Badder

Heat 2
1) Terry Phillips, 2) Justin Wells, 3) David Turner, 4) Dewaine Hottinger,
5) Larry Clawson, 6) Jason Bodenhamer

Heat 3
1) Terry Melton, 2) Stacy Taylor, 3) CJ Lyle, 4) Jack Simmons, 5) PJ Haskins, 6) Dan Pablo

A Feature
1) Terry Phillips, 2) Shane Essary, 3) Justin Wells, 4) Steve Rushin, 5) David Turner, 6) Al Purkey, 7) Dewaine Hottinger, 8) CJ Lyle, 9) Jack Simmons, 10) Jason Bodenhamer, 11) PJ Haskins, 12) Alan Vaughn, 13) Larry Clawson, 14) Gary Stolba, 15) Stacy Taylor, 16) Dan Pablo, 17) Shad Badder,
18) Terry Melton