70 cars
Heat one (started): 1. Tim Crawley 88 (6) 2. Justin Sturch 9 (4) 3. Lane
Whittington 9w (3) 4. Brandon Corn 30 (7) 5. Tyler Blank 75 (8) 6. Chris
Morgan 7HX (1) 7. Brad Bowden 17BB (2) 8. Wade Human 7w (5)
Human flipped off of turn two at the drop of the green in the 10-lapper
and was done for the night. Morgan shot out to an early lead before
Bowden got over the berm on turn two. The restart saw Morgan ahead of
Sturch, Crawley, Whittington and Corn. Crawley shot from third to the
lead on the restart, and two laps later, Whittington did a wheelie in turn
one and landed on the back of the Morgan machine. Morgan would restart,
but get over the berm on the last lap.
Heat two (started): 1. Randy Hannagan 22H (2) 2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 141
(6) 3. Chris Sweeney 93s (1) 4. Danny Lasoski 01 (8) 5. Mark Shirshekan 3m
(5) 6. Jon Stinson 26s (3) 7. Kent Buckley 87B (4) 8. Rick Pringle 38 (7)
After Hannagan took the lead, Shirshekan did a 360 spin and stopped with a
lap in the books. Hannagan led Sweeney, Buckley, Stenhouse and Lasoski on
the restart. Stenhouse made quick work of Sweeney, but Hannagan won it
going away.
Heat three (started): 1. Zach Pringle 8z (1) 2. Chad Kemenah 6K (5) 3.
Taylor Velasquez 21V (3) 4. Shane Stewart 57 (7) 5. Kyle Larson 75L (8) 6.
Andrew Marshala 87A (2) 7. Mark Huddleston 33 (6) 8. Donnie Ray Crawford
55c (4)
Pringle led the distance. The only caution came when Crawford went over
the top of turn two to avoid a Stewart slider in a battle for fourth.
Heat four (started): 1. Danny Wood 94 (1) 2. Jason Sides 7s (5) 3. Brian
Brown 21 (6) 4. Ricky Logan 10a (3) 5. Lee Sowell 51s (4) 6. Casey Rowland
c4 (2) 7. Zach Chappell 50z (8) 8. Marty Stanford 59 (7)
Wood shot into the lead as Brown made a move around Logan and Sowell for
second. A Chappell spin on lap seven set up a restart that saw Wood
leading Brown, Sides, Logan and Sowell. Sides used the restart to shoot
under Brown for second.
Heat five (started): 1. Justin Carver 24 (5) 2. Wade Oliver 58 (4) 3.
Robbie Standridge 22s (1) 4. Sheldon Barksdale 20s (8) 5. Brandon Schure
21TX (2) 6. Brad Welborn 17w (3) 7. Jimmy Brooks 17G (7) 8. Dave Glennon 5
(6)
Standridge led Oliver early before a lap three spin by Welborn. Carver
restarted third, and had the lead by lap five in a three-wide battle with
Standridge and Oliver.
Heat six (started): 1. Ernie Ainsworth 40 (1) 2. Jerry Bell 85 (3) 3. Kyle
Bellm 14K (5) 4. Jessica Zemken 14 (8) 5. Aaron Berryhill 97B (7) 6. Klint
Angelette 19 (2) 7. AG Rains 3 (4) 8. Darren Long 3G (6)
Before a lap could be completed, three cars were eliminated when Angelette
spun in front of Rains and Long, who sustained damage. Ainsworth led when
the green fell and won by a comfortable margin.
Heat seven (started): 1. Matt Covington 95 (2) 2. Jeff Swindell 90 (4) 3.
Cody Gardner 1G (6) 4. Garry Lee Maier 11x (3) 5. Tommy Bryant 14E (7) 6.
Jack Dover 53 (5) 7. Junior Jenkins 40J (1) DNS - Charles Tankersley 53T
Coving led before Maier spun while running fourth on lap three. Bryant
was charging before a 360 spin and contact with Jenkins sent him to the
back. Gardner came on strong to finish third at the checkers.
Heat eight (started): 1. Nic Jenkins 1H (1) 2. Jason Solwold 55s (2) 3.
Brandon Wimmer 7TW (6) 4. Dustin Morgan 93 (7) 5. Miranda Arnold 5m (4) 6.
Gary Floyd 58F (3) 7. Ryan Bickett 17B (5)
13 year old Jenkins held of Solwold and Wimmer in a tight battle in the
non-stop heat.
Heat nine (started): 1. Brooke Tatnell 3x (1) 2. Brad Sweet 49 (5) 3. Tim
Kaeding 29 (7) 4. Eric Sandage 60 (4) 5. Ben Wagoner 84 (6) 6. Andy Huston
40H (2) 7. Chad Corken 11xx (3)
Tatnell led the distance. When Huston stopped on lap three after going
over the berm, Tatnell led Sandage, Sweet, Kaeding and Wagoner back to
green. Sweet and Kaeding shot by for second and third.
Qualifier one (started, qualified for feature): 1. Lasoski (2) 2. Sweet
(5*) 3. Z. Pringle (3*) 4. Crawley (6*) 5. Dover (10) 6. Berryhill (8) 7.
Bowden (13) 8. Glennon (14) 9. Larson (7) 10. Huddleston (12) 11. Oliver
(4) 12. Corn (1) 13. Wagoner (9) 14. Marshala (11)
Heat points were combined with those from the Qualifiers which inverted
the top six in heat points to form the 20-car field for the A main. Corn
spun in front of the field to start this one, collecting Marshala and
Wagoner who suffered front end damage. Lasoski shot out to a lead after
inheriting the pole and never looked back. Sweet did well to move up, as
did Larson, who was challenging Crawley for fourth on the white flag lap
when he went over the top of turn two.
Qualifier two (started, qualified for feature): 1. Wood (3) 2. Kaeding
(5*) 3. J. Swindell (4*) 4. Carver (6*) 5. S. Stewart (1) 6. Shirshekan
(9) 7. Bryant (8) 8. Chappell (10) 9. Barksdale (2) 10. Whittington (7)
11. R. Pringle (13) 12. Rowland (11) 13. Bickett (12) 14. Long (14)
Barksdale contacted pole-sitter, S. Stewart before the green, sending the
57 sideways. Whittington got sideways in one in an incident that
collected R. Pringle, Rowland, and Bickett, who was done. Wood shot out
to the lead when the race finally went green. Bryant spun on lap two
bringing caution. Wood led Kaeding, Barksdale, J. Swindell and Carver on
the restart. J. Swindell and Carver moved into third and fourth to secure
A main spots with the last lap going green with Rowland sideways in turn
four.
Qualifier three (started, qualified for feature): 1. Brown (4) 2. Morgan
(1*) 3. Sandage (8*) 4. Zemken (2) 5. Stenhouse Jr. (6*) 6. Hannagan (5)
7. Ainsworth (3) 8. Sowell (9) 9. Stinson (10) 10. Buckley (12) 11.
Stanford (13) 12. Angelette (11) 13. Velasquez (7) DNS - Human
Morgan led lap one, but Brown shot around on the high side of four to
complete lap two and won going away. An Angelette spin on lap two was the
only thing to slow the event. Sandage moved up nicely from row four to
earn an A main transfer.
Qualifier four (started, qualified for feature): 1. Solwold (1) 2.
Kemenah (6*) 3. Logan (8*) 4. Gardner (4*) 5. Bell (2) 6. Rains (12) 7.
Covington (5) 8. Welborn (10) 9. M. Arnold (9) 10. Crawford (14) 11.
Sweeney (7) 12. Huston (11) 13. Brooks (13) 14. N. Jenkins (3)
Solwold led an event that went non-stop until N. Jenkins spun with two to
go. Gardner tested a tough cushion on both ends to hold down fourth.
Logan took advantage of the late caution to get by Bell for third and earn
a transfer spot.
Qualifier five (started, qualified for feature): 1. Wimmer (4*) 2. Bellm
(2*) 3. Tatnell (1*) 4. Sides (6*) 5. Standridge (5) 6. Sturch (3) 7.
Schure (7) 8. Maier (8) 9. C. Morgan (9) 10. Floyd (10) 11. Corken (12)
12. J. Jenkins (11) DNS - Blank, Charles Tankersley
Bellm led early with Wimmer getting by Tatnell for second. J. Jenkins
went over the turn four berm on lap four with Bellm leading Wimmer,
Tatnell, Sides and Sturch. Wimmer dogged Bellm until taking the lead on
lap 10.
A main (started): 1. Sweet (2) 2. Wimmer (4) 3. Kemenah (1) / 4. Crawley
(5) 5. Sides (10) 6. Carver (8) 7. Lasoski (9) 8. Brown (3) 9. Wood (7)
10. Kaeding (6) 11. Logan (16) 12. Solwold (12) 13. J. Swindell (11) 14.
Stenhouse Jr. (14) 15. Sandage (13) 16. Bellm (15) 17. Z. Pringle (17) 18.
Tatnell (19) 19. Morgan (18) 20. Gardner (20)
Sweet shot out to an early lead ahead of Kemenah and Wimmer in the
non-stop 25-lapper. Sweet and Wimmer worked a line through the middle
that developed rubber. Wimmer raced hard with Kemenah before getting by
him around the halfway point and pursuing Sweet. Crawley came on late to
challenge Kemenah and got by him for the third transfer spot. Kemenah
came back to take the spot and the two swapped it again the last few laps
before Kemenah shut the door on the white flag lap, giving the top six
spots in Saturday's finale to 410 regulars.
- Bill Wright on Oct 30, 2010
- Article Date: 10/30/2010