Begyn sparkles in EMS July 4 sweep
Nezworski, Larson, Veloz, Simmons, Padilla, Lamar also take checkers
BY ROB HINCKLEY
EAST MOLINE, Ill. (July 4) – Dustin Begyn saw it was a different track. He formulated the same strategy as earlier in the evening, got to the front and completed the July 4 sweep of the Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compacts Sunday at East Moline Speedway.
The Taylor Ridge ace rolled off ninth in the June 27 make up 12-lap feature and used the top groove on a tacky track en route to the victory. The only difference in the regular finale was the choice of groove.
“I had to push the car pretty hard on the bottom,” Begyn said. “We still bounced around a bit, but we made it work.”
Begyn beat Troy Anderson, Norm Marcov, Cyle Hawkins and Drew Wise in the first run. Jimmy Dutlinger, Cody Brewster, Jason Rhoads and Hawkins followed in the night cap.
“It was a pretty clean run with everyone tonight. That was a fun night of racing.”
Andy Nezworski turned the tables on a week ago and beat Gary Webb in the Eriksen Chevrolet IMCA Late Model 25-lap feature.
The track point leader swept around early leader Shawn Mulvany about halfway through and cruised to his third win of 2021. After Webb and Mulvany were Mike Haines and Nebraska visitor Robbie Jorgensen.
Jeff Larson evaded traffic and took his fifth J&J Camper Sales IMCA Modified 20-lapper. His good friend Travis Denning finished a few car lengths back, ending his two-race win streak. Jim Sandusky, Chance Huston and Brandon Durbin followed.
Larson took the Maquoketa Speedway/EMS $100 bonus for the fourth time as he swept both tracks.
Seventeen-year-old Logan Veloz bounced by Dustin Schram late in the Legacy Corporation IMCA SportMod 15-lap main for his first 2021 win. Steven Spiker, David Engelkens and Rob Nylin rounded out the top five. Point leader Jarett Franzen was involved in a late race incident and finished seventh.
Danville, Ill.’s Jesse Simmons visited and ran off with the 15-lap County Waste Systems Street Stocks. A last lap move around Jim Rustaert propelled him to the win.
Rob Henry, Peter O’Dell and point leader Jesse Owen came next.
Randy Lamar topped the 12-lap Rudy’s Tacos IMCA Hobby Stock finale over Drew Burk, Adam Parker and Steven Rangel.
Jon Padilla held off Mike Zemo, Jr. for the 15-lap Weekend Performance IMCA Mod Lite win. Blake Gonzales, Anthony Guss and Michael Dominguez followed.
A total of 83 entries from four states hit the quarter-mile oval and racing concluded before 9 p.m.
The season continues on the quarter-mile dirt oval this Sunday July 11 with the return of the Nostalgic Stock Car Racing Club. All seven classes will be 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. 7 Andy Nezworski 2. W56 Gary Webb 3. 70 Shawn Mulvany 4. 1H Mike Haines 5. 41 Robbie Jorgensen 6. 71H Anthony Haines 7. 53 Leroy Brenner 8. 14 B.J. Jackson (Did Not Start – 19 Joe Ross)
1st Heat (10 laps) – 1. Jackson 2. Mulvany 3. Nezworski 4. Webb
J&J Camper Sales IMCA Modifieds
Feature (20 laps) – 1. B1 Jeff Larson 2. 27 Travis Denning 3. J1 Jim Sandusky 4. 35 Chance Huston 5. 15D Brandon Durbin 6. 47 Jason Hyerdall 7. 313 Doug Lenth 8. 28C Joel Crowbridge 9. 19 Mike Wittenburg 10. T.J. Patz 11. 37 Steve Gustaf 12. 81C Casey Franks 13. 85 Andy Nezworski
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Larson 2. Gustaf 3. Nezworski 4. Sandusky
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Lenth 2. Durbin 3. Franks 4. Denning
Legacy Corporation IMCA SportMods
Feature (15 laps) – 1. 43LV Logan Veloz 2. 92 Dustin Schram 3. S4 Steven Spiker 4. 65 David Engelkens 5. 09R Rob Nylin 6. 33 Jarett Franzen 7. 85 Erick Turner 8. 34 Josh Marth 9. 115 Jacob Lenth 10. 88D C.J. Durbin 11. 88 Trey Grimm 12. 75M Zach Huston 13. 76 Chuck Fox
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Franzen 2. Nylin 3. Schram 4. Turner
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Veloz 2. Marth 3. Durbin 4. Grimm
County Waste Systems Street Stocks
Feature (15 laps) – 1. 42 Jesse Simmons 2. 83 Jim Rutsaert 3. 00 Rob Henry 4. 37 Peter O’Dell 5. 95 Jesse Owen 6. 8 Rick Schriner 7. 36 Ben O’Dell 8. 3P Alex Pappas 9. 8H Kyler Hickenbottom 10. R00 Veronica Anderson 11. 61S Jeff Streitmatter 12. 7 Robert Cottom (Did Not Start – 6X William Bennett)
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Henry 2. Simmons 3. P. O’Dell 4. Hickenbottom
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Cottom 2. Owen 3. Rutsaert 4. Schriner
Weekend Performance IMCA Mod Lites
Feature (15 laps) – 1. 11P Jon Padilla 2. Z Mike Zemo, Jr. 3. 16G Blake Gonzales 4. 29 Anthony Guss 5. 5 Michael Dominguez 6. 00B Brittani Dominguez 7. 21 Tiffani Dominguez 8. 17M Mike Morrow 9. 54 Zach Holerud 10. 91 Rob Guss
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. A. Guss 2. R. Guss 3. Holerud 4. T. Dominguez
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Zemo 2. Gonzales 3. M. Dominguez 4. Morrow
Rudy’s Tacos IMCA Hobby Stocks
Feature (12 laps) – 1. 4R Randy Lamar 2. 77W Drew Burk 3. 81 Adam Parker 4. 09R Steven Rangel (Did Not Start – 91 Gary Bielema)
1st Heat (6 laps) – 1. Parker 2. Lamar 3. Burk 4. Rangel
Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compacts
June 27 Make Up Feature (12 laps) – 1. 22DB Dustin Begyn 2. 42A Troy Anderson 3. 53 Norm Marcov 4. 28 Cyle Hawkins 5. 14 Drew Wise 6. 00J Jimmy Dutlinger 7. 24X Tommy Staggs 8. 27 Michael Lundeen 9. 514 Jason Rhoads 10. 7T Kyle Taets 11. 4 Chris Kissell 12. 33 Cody Brewster 13. 4D Dustin Porter 14. 9 Ken Stogdell 15. 513 Josh Lane 16. 516 Kristine Lane 17. 47 Thomas Adams 18. 09 Eric Stogdell (Did Not Start – 28E Andrew Bolio, 94X Justin Stevenson, 68 Rod Wittmann, 630 Dustin Munn)
Regular feature (12 laps) – 1. Begyn 2. Dutlinger 3. Brewster 4. Rhoads 5. Hawkins 6. Anderson 7. Lane 8 Marcov 9. Kissell 10. Wise 11. K. Stogdell 12. Porter 13. Staggs 14. 472 Wayne Cox 15. Munn 16. Lundeen 17. K. Lane 18. Proehl 19. Adams 20. E. Stogdell 21. Taets
1st Heat (6 laps) – 1. Brewster 2. Proehl 3. Begyn 4. Anderson
2nd Heat (6 laps) – 1. J. Lane 2. Cox 3. Rhoads 4. DNS
3rd Heat (6 laps) – 1. Marcov 2. Hawkins 3. Porter 4. Kissell
Category: Illinois
