Mulvany first to East Moline Late Model checkers
Denning, Franzen, Henry, Zemo, Fulton, Hawkins, Begyn also pick up wins
BY ROB HINCKLEY
EAST MOLINE, Ill. (June 13) – The car tiptoed off turn four and all could feel Shawn Mulvany’s sigh of relief.
Mulvany paced all 25 laps of the Eriksen Chevrolet IMCA Late Model feature Sunday evening at East Moline Speedway.
“We almost stayed home,” Mulvany said in the winners circle. “We haven’t had much luck lately, struggling with little stuff.”
B.J. Jackson showed his nose a couple times, but Mulvany stayed the course on the bottom groove.
“This is great to finally get one at my home track. I think we finally found something. We haven’t been able to get forward so this is great.”
The race went without a caution. Gary Webb, Jacob Waterman and Andy Nezworski started to close on the front battle and finished in that order behind Mulvany’s seventh career Late Model win, but first in awhile.
Travis Denning moved out front early and stopped Jeff Larson’s win streak at three with the 20-lap J&J Camper Sales IMCA Modified finale. Larson, Nezworski, Brandon Durbin and Doug Lenth followed.
Point leader Jarett Franzen took the Legacy Corporation IMCA SportMod 15-lap main for his fourth victory. Logan Veloz, Dustin Schram, Brandon Jewell and Jacob Copley were next.
A veteran driver but a new winner took the checkers in the County Waste Systems Street Stocks. Rob Henry beat Jesse Owen and stopped the latter’s three-race win streak. Peter O’Dell, Rick Schriner and Veronica Anderson rounded out the top five in the 15-lap ender.
Mike Zemo, Jr. raced from the back to the Weekend Performance IMCA Mod Lites 15-lap win. Mike Morrow, Jon Padilla, Michael Dominguez and Anthony Guss followed.
Duke Fulton led all 12 laps of the Nostalgic Stock Car Racing Club feature, beating Andrew Hamburg, Mark Claeys, Brian Ashmore and Ben Hamburg.
The Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compacts started the evening making up a May 16 rained out feature. Cyle Hawkins beat Dustin Begyn in that 12 lapper. The tables turned in the regular finale.
In the make up, Norm Marcov, Tommy Staggs and Jimmy Dutlinger followed. In the nightcap, Dutlinger, Staggs and Forbes were the rest of the top five.
A total of 97 entries hit the quarter-mile oval and racing was concluded by 10 p.m.
The season continues on the quarter-mile dirt oval this Sunday June 20 with The Salute to Gary Webb Eriksen Chevrolet IMCA Late Model special with guest Kenny Schrader. The Late Models will run for $2,000 in honor of the 17-time track champ. All six other classes also in action. Gates open at 4 p.m. Hot laps are at 5:30 with racing to follow.
For more information, log on to the East Moline Speedway Facebook page or call 563-343-8250.
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS:
Eriksen Chevrolet IMCA Late Models
Feature (25 laps) – 1. 70 Shawn Mulvany 2. 14 B.J. Jackson 3. W56 Gary Webb 4. 10 Jacob Waterman 5. 7 Andy Nezworski 6. R19 Joe Ross, Jr. 7. 53 Leroy Brenner 8. 65 Chuck Hanna 9. 99 Brian Harris 10. 1H Mike Haines (Did Not Start – 007 David Norton, 6 Brian Webb)
1st Heat (10 laps) – 1. Webb 2. Nezworski 3. Harris 4. Waterman
2nd Heat (10 laps) – 1. Hanna 2. Jackson 3. Mulvany 4. Ross
J&J Camper Sales IMCA Modifieds
Feature (20 laps) – 1. 27 Travis Denning 2. B1 Jeff Larson 3. 85 Andy Nezworski 4. 15D Brandon Durbin 5. 313 Doug Lenth 6. J1 Jim Sandusky 7. G1 Mike Garland 8. 81C Casey Franks 9. 35 Chance Huston 10. 19C Mark VerVynck 11. 3C Richard Vela 12. 23 Alex VerVynck 13. 19H Nick Hillyer 14. 613 Dan Hahn 15. 89 T.J. Patz
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Larson 2. Durbin 3. Sandusky 4. Lenth
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Nezworski 2. Denning 3. Franks 4. Hillyer
Legacy Corporation IMCA SportMods
Feature (15 laps) – 1. 33 Jarett Franzen 2. 43LV Logan Veloz 3. 92 Dustin Schram 4. 99 Brandon Jewell 5. 55C Jacob Copley 6. S4 Steven Spiker 7. 88 Trey Grimm 8. 79 Nathan Balensiefen 9. 34 Josh Marth 10. 75M Zach Huston 11. 18C Dakota Cole 12. 922 Chris Hesseling 13. 4G Kevin Goben 14. 3 Will Emerick (Did Not Start – 54F Andrew Francis).
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Spiker 2. Veloz 3. Franzen 4. Grimm
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Schram 2. Jewell 3. Copley 4. Cole
County Waste Systems Street Stocks
Feature (15 laps) – 1. 00 Rob Henry 2. 95 Jesse Owen 3. 37 Peter O’Dell 4. 8 Rick Schriner 5. R00 Veronica Anderson 6. 7 Justin Thomas 7. 6X William Bennet 8. 3P Alex Pappas 9. 61S Jeff Streitmatter 10. 8H Kyler Hickenbottom 11. 36 Ben O’Dell
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Thomas 2. Henry 3. P. O’Dell 4. Bennett
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Owen 2. Hickenbottom 3. Schriner 4. Anderson
Nostalgic Stock Car Racing Club
Feature (12 laps) – 1. 32 Duke Fulton 2. 57 Andrew Hamburg 3. 55 Mark Claeys 4. 56 Brian Ashmore 5. 75 Ben Hamburg 6. 43 Terry Mattly 7. 25 Austin Honts 8. TR1 Terry Hirst 9. 112 Pat Tuttle 10. XX Steve Tanner 11. 95 Cruz Birkhofer
1st Heat (6 laps) – 1. B. Hamburg 2. Ashmore 3. Mattly 4. Tuttle
2nd Heat (6 laps) – 1. A. Hamburg 2. Honts 3. Fulton 4. Claeys
Weekend Performance IMCA Mod Lites
Feature (15 laps) – 1. Z Mike Zemo, Jr. 2. 17M Mike Morrow 3. 11P Jon Padilla 4. 5 Michael Dominguez 6. 29 Anthony Guss 6. 91 Rob Guss 7. 54 Zach Holerud 8. 131 Bryan Wonick 9. 18G Kris Massa 10. 00B Brittani Dominguez 11. 21 Tiffani Dominguez
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Morrow 2. Padilla 3. Holerud 4. Wonick
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. R. Guss 2. A. Guss 3. M. Dominguez 4. B. Dominguez
Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compacts
Make Up Feature from May 16 (12 laps) – 1. 28 Cyle Hawkins 2. 22DB Dustin Begyn 3. 53 Norm Marcov 4. 24X Tommy Staggs 5. 28X Jimmy Dutlinger 6. 514 Jason Rhoads 7. 7T Kyle Taets 8. 03 Blake Dotson 9. 12 Brandon Snyder 10. 4 Chris Kissel 11. 28E Andrew Bolio 12. 815 Dustin Forbes 13. 14 Drew Wise 14. 11P Codie Proehl 15. 33 Cody Brewster (Did Not Start – 71 Michael Snyder, 78J Jamie Armstrong, 3X Cody Montgomery, 92 Brandon Schneider, 21KC Steven Cruse, 3 Steven Schmitz, 4R Ashley Reuman, 8B William McPherson, 126 Justin Moffitt)
Feature (12 laps) – 1. Begyn 2. Hawkins 3. Dutlinger 4. Staggs 5. Forbes 6. 43J Joel Simpson 7. Rhoads 8. Marcov 9. Wise 10. 63 Tim Schnathorst 11. Kissel 12. 24A Ashton Blain 13. Bolio 14. 4D Dustin Porter 15. B. Snyder 16. 27 Michael Lundeen 17. Taets 18. 516 Kristin Lane 19. 42A Troy Anderson 20. Brewster (Did Not Start – Dotson, Proehl)
1st Heat (6 laps) – 1. Brewster 2. Dutlinger 3. Simpson 4. Wise
2nd Heat (6 laps) – 1. Forbes 2. Marcov 3. Taets 4. Anderson
3rd Heat (6 laps) – 1. Begyn 2. Staggs 3. Hawkins 4. Kissel
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