Nations Grabs 1st USRA Midway Mod Main As Morton Grabs B-Mod
Win
LEBANON, MO (August 15) - With over 70 race teams in the pits and perfect
weather conditions action Friday Night at the LebanonmidwaySpeedway again
provided excellent racing with two first time winners grabbing the checkered
flag for 2009.
The USRA modified feature was all Shawn Nations as he grabbed the win for
his first ever USRA feature event.
After competing Thursday night at Springfield with the USMTS
Modifieds,Nations made his first visit this season a well remembered
event.Grabbing the lead from Sam Petty on the start.,Nations would find Kris
Jackson and point leader Donnie Fellers coming quickly on lap 3 only to see
Jackson spin in turn 1 with Fellers also getting collected-up.On the restart
Nations had 2 time and defending champion Jamie Ragland right on his bumper
as Ragland was looking for a faster line around the track.Terry Kirk and Sam
Petty continued a battle for third as Ragland applied pressure.Nations would
pull away and take the win in a dominating performance with
Ragland,Kirk,point leader Donnie Fellers and Jackson rounding out the top 5.
The B-Mods provided lots of excitement as another new winner this season was
crowned.Micheal Stake grabbed the opening lead with JC Morton and Josh woody
following closely.On lap 3 a three wide battle developed with JC Morton
splitting the middle lane and taking the lead. as Stake and Woddy
battled.With morton pulling away from the field the real race was for second
place as Reggie Jackson was making some moves to the front also as spots
were being swapped.Woody,Jackson and Stake battled until lap 10 when Jackson
got to high in the turns.Up front morton put the car on cruise control
capturing his first Midway win of the season with Woody,Jackson,Stake and a
fast moving Brian Webster completing the top 5.
The Bombers provided tight action all evening long as Kevin Forshey grabbed
the opening lap lead.Rodney Yost took over the lead on lap 2 with Sundance
Keepper running the top groove and applying pressure as a 5 car battle
developed.Following a couple of restarts,Yost withstood the challanges as
Brandon Waters moved into the second place spot on lap 7 as Shawn Strong and
point leader Joe Francis were coming quickly through the pack.On lap
9,Forshey's good run went sour as a flat tire slowed him on the track.On the
restart Strong went to the top groove of the leader yost as they battled.On
lap 11,Strong took the lead as Francis followed.Keepper's good run up front
ended as a right flat tire sent him to the pits.The final laps were all
Strong as he grabbed the win with Francis,early leader yost,Kolt Barker and
Jack Hamer completing the top 5.
The LateModelSportsman feature saw 13 take the Green flag with Justin
Stoufer grabbing the lead from his front row starting spot and began to pull
away as Jeff Scroggins would hold the second place spot as point leader Ben
Newell was charging from his fifth starting spot.Stoufer driving his normal
FactoryStock class car was trying to pull the upset as Scroggins and Ben
Newell went side by side with previous winner JC Newell charging hard.On lap
7,Ben Newell went to the outside of Stoufer and held off a late race surge
from JC to capture his 7th win of the season with JC Newell,Micheal
Jones,Stoufer and Jeff Scroggins following.
The PureStocks really provided side by side racing with 14 cars takngi the
green as pole setter Scotty Jones took the opening lead as Jason Brumley
followed.Jones kept glued to the middle lane as Korey Barker began his move
to the front.On lap 9,Barker moved around Jones to grab the lead as Jones
took back the spot in turn 2.Going into turn 3,Barker moved around Jones
again to take over the lead and grabbed the victory with jones,Billy
Waters,Adam Lowrance and and Brumley completing the top 5.
In the final StpCrew Challange of the season,the Team of Shawn Strong pulled
off a total time of 52 seconds.Crew members Sundance Keepper and Elijah
Keepper got their driver in and out the fastest as the were awarded $100 for
the efforts from EZ Port-A Potties
Racing action continues Next Friday night Aug.21 with action in the USRA
Modifieds,FactoryStocks,B-Mods,Bombers and PureStocks.The speedway will also
be having Doctor Danger perform his death defying car stunts at
intermission.
Racing will start at 8PM sharp with the Adult Admission next Friday night
being $12 for Adults and kids 10 and under Free.
More information on the website at WWW.LebanonMidwaySpeedway.com or contact
Jack Jones at 417-594-0594.
Results
USRA Modifieds
A Ft-1)Shawn Nations-Macks Creek 2)Jamie Ragland-Lebanon 3)Terry Kirk-Urbana
4)Donnie Fellers-Wheatland 5)Kris Jackson-Lebanon 6)Sam Petty-Niangua 7)Matt
Dotson-Sturgeon 8)Tim Dotson-Sturgeon 9)Josh Bindseil-Sturgeon 10)Tony
Moore-Lebanon DNS-Wayne Graybeal-Springfield Brian Troxel-Sturgeon
1st Ht-1)Jackson 2)Nations 3)Petty 4)Bindseil 5)Ragland DNS-Troxel
2nd Ht-1)M.Dotson 2)Fellers 3)Graybeal 4)Kirk 5)T.Dotson
B-Mods
A Ft-1)JC Morton-Springfield 2)Josh Woody-Buckhorn 3)Reggie Jackson-Lebanon
4)Micheal Stake-Lebanon 5)Brian Webster-Richland 6)Tyler Brown-Stoutland
7)Ted Ballinger-Halfway 8)Derek Cook-Lebanon 9)Jack Lancaster-Urbana
10)Mickey Burrell-Fair Grove 11)Tim Ballinger-Fair Grove 12)Brian
Myers-Lebanon 13)Brian Cook-Lebanon 14)Joel Cochran 15)Derek Brown-Stoutland
16)Jason Otto-Richland 17)Rob White-Lebanon 18)Trevor Ellingson-Lebanon
1st Ht-1)Otto 2)R.Jackson 3)Ellingson 4)Tim Ballinger 5)Myers 6)Cochran
2nd Ht-1)Burrell 2)Stake 3)T.Brown 4)D.Brown 5)White 6)Lancaster
3rd Ht-1)Morton 2)Woody 3)Webster 4)Ted Ballinger 5)D.Cook 6)B.Cook
LateModelSportsman
A Ft-1)Ben Newell-Stoutland 2)JC Newell-Decatureville 3)Micheal
Jones-Lebanon 4)Justin Stoufer-Camdenton 5)Jeff Scroggins-Brookline 6)Bill
Joiner-Lebanon 7)Bennie Joiner-Lebanon 8)Clinton Betts-Stoutland 9)Donnie
Betts-Stoutland 10)Leland Seymour-Springfield 11)Justin McDowell-Eldon
12)Bradley McDowell-Eldon 13)Jay Flinn-Lebanon DNS-Mark Davis-Grovesprings
1st HT-1)B.Newell 2)D.Betts 3)Stoufer 4)Bennie Joiner 5)B.McDowell 6)Flinn
DNS-J.McDowell
2nd Ht-1)Jones 2)JC Newell 3)Bill Joiner 4)Scroggins 5)C.Betts 6)Seymour
DNS-Davis
Bombers
A Ft-1)Shawn Strong-Republic 2)Joe Francis-Lebanon 3)Rodney Yost-Squires
4)Kolt Barker-Lebanon 5)Jack Hamer-Ava 6)Matt Pilant-Lebanon 7)Keith Cheever-Lebanon
8)Brian Warner-Phillipsburg 9)Monk Barker-Lebanon 10)Brandon
Waters-Lynchburg 11)Josh Lewis-Stoutland 12)Kevin Forshey-Dixon 13)Sundance
Keepper-Springfield 14)Tim Bostwick-Urbana DNS-Andrew Cheever-Lebanon
1st Ht-1)Waters 2)Strong 3)Keepper 4)Forshey 5)Hamer 6)M.Barker 7)Warner
8)K.Cheever
2nd Ht-1)Pilant 2)Bostwick 3)Yost 4)Francis 5)Lewis 6)K.Barker 7)A.Cheever
PureStocks
A Ft-1)Korey Barker-Lebanon 2)Scotty Jones-Lebanon 3)Billy Waters-Lynchburg
4)Adam Lowrance-Lebanon 5)Jason Brumley-Camdenton 6)John McGinnis-Lebanon
7)Tom Monnahan-Grovesprings 8)Joey Long-Mansfield 9)Les Hayes-Camdenton
10)Shorty Doublin-Lebanon 11)Jeff DeLong-Lebanon 12)Justin Grindstaff-Bolivar
13)Mike Mauzey 14)Adam Williams-Lebanon
1st Ht-1)Barker 2)Brumley 3)Jones 4)Waters 5)Grindstaff 6)Long DNS-Doublin
2nd Ht-1)McGinnis 2)Lowrance 3)Hayes 4)Monnahan 5)DeLong 6)Williams 7)Mauzey
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