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McClelland, Bennett, Flud, Cole, Lee, Sawyer, & Timms Victorious in Spring Fling Prelim.

Tulsa, OK | May15, 2020: After mother nature forced the Spring Fling to a Saturday, Sunday showing, a total of 165 entries signed in for competition at Port City Raceway. Fans were in for an action packed night as the track was in great shape for the return of racing.

In Jr. sprint competition 15 drivers signed in for night one of the Spring Fling. The A-feature Mckentzi Potter would lead the field to green and lead several laps before reigning champion Brody McClelland would take over the lead point and eventually win the nights 15 lap feature. Mekentzi Potter, Carter Sauer, Ayden Parrish, & Sawyer Beers would round out the top 5.

Brody McClelland, Masyn Truitt, and Carter Sauer topped heat race action.

In the Masters class 9 driver signed in for competition. Rob Lamb and Harlan Hulsey would lead the field to green for the nights 20 lap A-feature with Hulsey jumping out to the earl lead. Nice and smooth around the bottom Hulsey would lead the majority of the feature but in the closing laps Thad Bennett would work the top methodically to take over the lead point when it mattered the most winning the evenings Masters feature. Harlan Hulsey, Rob Lamb, Tim Greene and Ruben Morris would round out the top 5.

Bennett would not only win the nights feature, he also won the nights single feature as well as capturing Hard Charger Honors.

The A-Class division had 38 entries signed in for night one of the Spring Fling. Shane Weeks and Cole Roberts would lead the field to green with Roberts getting the lead early. It wouldn’t take long for Frank Flud to come into the picture challenging Roberts for the lead. The 2 would exchange the top spot for a few laps before Flud would eventually claim the nights feature event. Shawn Mahaffey, Brady Bacon, Cole Roberts, and Chris Andrews would round out the top 5 with Brady Bacon and Blake Battles sharing the nights Hard Charger title as both drivers respectfully advanced 13 spots in the event.

Kris Carroll, Scot Sawyer, Frank Flud, Cole Roberts and Shawn Mahaffey would claim heat race wins, while Chris Andrews, and Brady Bacon each topped B-feature races.

The Restrictor class had 19 entries for night one of the Spring Fling. Kayden Cole and Joshua Gentry led the field to green with Cole claiming the top spot. While Cole worked the bottom of the race track nice and smooth Gentry would work the top side trying all he could to gain the needed momentum to challenge for the lead. Coming close on several occasions, Cole was able to hold off gentry to win the nights 20 laps main event. Gentry would claim the runner up spot with Brody Mclaughin, Garrett Benson and Caden McCreary rounding out the top 5. Rookie of the year contender Kaley Mahaffey would claim the nights hard charger title advancing 9 spots with a 10th place finish.
Kaden Smith, Garrett Benson and Joshua Gentry would each claim heat race wins.

In Non-wing competition Connor lee would best the field of 43 drivers. Starting outside pole Lee would jump out to the early lead and despite several attempts from numerous drivers Lee would go onto lead all 25 laps of the nights A feature. Ryan Timms, Kale Drake, Caleb Pence and Brady Bacon would round out the top 5, and the nights Hard Charger would be Kris Carroll advancing 13 spots to finish 7th.

Nigel Calvert, Caleb Pence, Ryan Timms, Shawn Mahaffey, and Grady Mercer topped heat races, with Brock Berreth and Avery Goodman capturing the nights B features.

Moving along to Sportsman which had 19 drivers contending for a Spring Fling prelim win. Drew Sawyer and Jeff Harris would bring the filed to green with Sawyer claiming the top spot early. With few caution Sawyer was able to take the TwoNine Sawyer Chassis to victory lane with Harris, Justin Simpson, Tyler LaPointe and Troy Minton rounding out the top 5. Dave Nicholson would take the nights Hard Charger note advancing 7 positions to finish 6th.

Larry Martinez, Bobby McIntosh, and Ryan Cody would claim heat race wins

The final class of the night would see 25 Outlaws signed in for competition. In the nights A-Feature Delaney Jost and Baron Silva would lead the field to green with Jost taking a commanding lead early. As laps clicked off Scott Sawyer, Brady Bacon and Ryan Timms would all go to work on trying to catch Jost. Timms would grab the lead late in the nights 25 lap feature event. A hard charging Chris Andrews would advance 13 positions to claim the Runner up spot with Jost, Sawyer, and KJ Snow rounding out the top 5.

Scott Sawyer, Baron Silva and Delany Jost would all be victorious in heat race action.

Complete Results:

Junior Sprints 15 Entries
A Feature 1 15 Laps | 00:15:11.905

1. 87-Brody McClelland[6]; 2. 46-Mekentzi Potter[1]; 3. 12C-Carter Sauer[3]; 4. 88P-Ayden Parrish[5]; 5. 05-Sawyer Beers[2]; 6. 2T-Tyler Crow[7]; 7. 1-Hudsyn Truitt[9]; 8. 75-Masyn Truitt[4]; 9. 14JR-Jaxon Nail[11]; 10. 25-Elliott Thomas[8]; 11. 87C-Callan Hill[12]; 12. 5O-Owen Woltjer[13]; 13. 14-Easton Lane[15]; 14. 88K-Bryce Kujath[10]; 15. 55K-Kayden Anderson[14]
   Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:01:50.000
2. 87-Brody McClelland[5]; 2. 46-Mekentzi Potter[2]; 3. 2T-Tyler Crow[4]; 4. 87C-Callan Hill[1]; 5. 5O-Owen Woltjer[3]
   Heat 2 8 Laps
3. 75-Masyn Truitt[1]; 2. 05-Sawyer Beers[3]; 3. 25-Elliott Thomas[2]; 4. 88K-Bryce Kujath[4]; 5. (DNS) 14-Easton Lane
   Heat 3 8 Laps
   12C-Carter Sauer[1]; 2. 88P-Ayden Parrish[4]; 3. 1-Hudsyn Truitt[2]; 4. 14JR-Jaxon Nail[3]; 5. 55K-Kayden Anderson[5]

Masters 9 Entries
A Feature 1 20 Laps

1. 5B-Thad Bennett[6]; 2. 36T-Harlan Hulsey[2]; 3. 13R-Rob Lamb[1]; 4. 37G-Tim Greene[4]; 5. 76-Ruben Morris[8]; 6. 9-Shane Lee[5]; 7. 35-Scott Thompson[3]; 8. 0-Johnny Goolsby[7]; 9. (DNS) 77-Jay Andrews
   Heat 1 8 Laps
2. 5B-Thad Bennett[4]; 2. 35-Scott Thompson[2]; 3. 37G-Tim Greene[5]; 4. 9-Shane Lee[8]; 5. 36T-Harlan Hulsey[6]; 6. 13R-Rob Lamb[7]; 7. 0-Johnny Goolsby[9]; 8. 76-Ruben Morris[1]; 9. 77-Jay Andrews[3]

A-Class 38 Entries
A Feature 1 25 Laps | 00:24:29.862

1. 81-Frank Flud[3]; 2. 11K-Shawn Mahaffey[6]; 3. 99B-Brady Bacon[16]; 4. 3-Cole Roberts[2]; 5. 8-Chris Andrews[15]; 6. 14-Blake Battles[19]; 7. 22M-Rees Moran[5]; 8. 83-Shane Weeks[1]; 9. 11-Riley Goodno[7]; 10. 5T-Ryan Timms[18]; 11. 59-Brody Mclaughlin[17]; 12. 93-Greg Emeterio Jr[9]; 13. 12K-Kayla Ward[13]; 14. 74T-TJ Thompson[14]; 15. 1H-Connor Lee[12]; 16. 22RL-Gage Laney[10]; 17. 20S-Steven Curbow[20]; 18. 29-Scott Sawyer[4]; 19. 1-Jeffrey Newell[8]; 20. 36-Kris Carroll[11]
   B Feature 1 12 Laps | 00:04:33.357
2. 8-Chris Andrews[8]; 2. 59-Brody Mclaughlin[2]; 3. 14-Blake Battles[4]; 4. 21-Jeremy Wickham[7]; 5. 92-Jake Rosario[5]; 6. 21K-Kobe Simpson[1]; 7. 99-Brett Osborn[12]; 8. 8R-Ryker Pace[9]; 9. 33-Cody Barnes[10]; 10. 777C-David Conley Sr[11]; 11. 22B-Colton Ratcliff[3]; 12. (DNS) 18J-Jeramiah Green
   B Feature 2 12 Laps
3. 99B-Brady Bacon[1]; 2. 5T-Ryan Timms[4]; 3. 20S-Steven Curbow[2]; 4. 8P-Caleb Pence[3]; 5. 11A-Avery Goodman[5]; 6. 87C-Cody Hill[6]; 7. 70-Aidan Silva[8]; 8. 40-Jason Gariss[11]; 9. 9-Alan Ratcliff[10]; 10. III-Trae Manning[9]; 11. (DNS) 96S-Brandon Sampson; 12. (DNS) 56-Jace Park
   Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:01:43.281
4. 36-Kris Carroll[1]; 2. 22M-Rees Moran[6]; 3. 99B-Brady Bacon[3]; 4. 14-Blake Battles[4]; 5. 92-Jake Rosario[5]; 6. 8-Chris Andrews[2]; 7. 87C-Cody Hill[8]; 8. 99-Brett Osborn[7]
   Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:03:33.173
5. 29-Scott Sawyer[3]; 2. 11-Riley Goodno[4]; 3. 22RL-Gage Laney[6]; 4. 20S-Steven Curbow[5]; 5. 8P-Caleb Pence[7]; 6. III-Trae Manning[1]; 7. 777C-David Conley Sr[2]; 8. 9-Alan Ratcliff[8]
   Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:01:46.229
6. 81-Frank Flud[3]; 2. 1-Jeffrey Newell[4]; 3. 1H-Connor Lee[5]; 4. 12K-Kayla Ward[7]; 5. 5T-Ryan Timms[6]; 6. 70-Aidan Silva[2]; 7. 21-Jeremy Wickham[8]; 8. 56-Jace Park[1]
   Heat 4 8 Laps | 00:01:49.572
7. 3-Cole Roberts[3]; 2. 74T-TJ Thompson[1]; 3. 59-Brody Mclaughlin[7]; 4. 21K-Kobe Simpson[6]; 5. 11A-Avery Goodman[5]; 6. 96S-Brandon Sampson[4]; 7. 40-Jason Gariss[2]
   Heat 5 8 Laps | 00:06:00.136
8. 11K-Shawn Mahaffey[6]; 2. 93-Greg Emeterio Jr[4]; 3. 83-Shane Weeks[7]; 4. 22B-Colton Ratcliff[5]; 5. 18J-Jeramiah Green[1]; 6. 8R-Ryker Pace[2]; 7. 33-Cody Barnes[3]

Restricted 19 Entries
A Feature 1 20 Laps | 00:12:44.329

1. 72-Kayden Cole[1]; 2. 12G-Joshua Gentry[2]; 3. 59-Brody Mclaughlin[4]; 4. 2B-Garrett Benson[3]; 5. 11C-Caden McCreary[8]; 6. 10S-Scout Spraggins[13]; 7. 11M-Kayla Martin[9]; 8. 1B-Brian Bennett[7]; 9. 50-Jackson Beers[12]; 10. 11-Kaley Mahaffey[19]; 11. 8-Jase Blevins[18]; 12. 4S-Aubrey Jo Sappington[14]; 13. 4C-Jon Lane[11]; 14. 77-Chase Wright[17]; 15. 16-Colt Holland[15]; 16. 101-Kylee Young[6]; 17. 52-Hayden Mabe[10]; 18. 7S-Kaden Smith[5]; 19. 73-Chase Mcdougal[16]
   Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:01:53.710
2. 7S-Kaden Smith[2]; 2. 101-Kylee Young[6]; 3. 11M-Kayla Martin[3]; 4. 4C-Jon Lane[4]; 5. 11-Kaley Mahaffey[7]; 6. 77-Chase Wright[1]; 7. 8-Jase Blevins[5]
   Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:01:47.243
3. 2B-Garrett Benson[1]; 2. 72-Kayden Cole[2]; 3. 1B-Brian Bennett[4]; 4. 11C-Caden McCreary[6]; 5. 4S-Aubrey Jo Sappington[3]; 6. 16-Colt Holland[5]
   Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:01:59.740
   12G-Joshua Gentry[1]; 2. 59-Brody Mclaughlin[4]; 3. 52-Hayden Mabe[2]; 4. 50-Jackson Beers[3]; 5. 10S-Scout Spraggins[6]; 6. 73-Chase Mcdougal[5]

Non-Wing 43 Entries
A Feature 1 25 Laps | 00:24:50.032

1. 1H-Connor Lee[2]; 2. 5T-Ryan Timms[10]; 3. 75-Kale Drake[11]; 4. 8P-Caleb Pence[3]; 5. 99B-Brady Bacon[14]; 6. 28P-Grady Mercer[7]; 7. 3K-Kris Carroll[20]; 8. 11B-Kaylee Bryson[8]; 9. 11A-Avery Goodman[16]; 10. 24T-Glenn James Bratti[18]; 11. 3-Shawn Mahaffey[1]; 12. 2020-Cameron Paul[21]; 13. 20-Shawn Wicker[12]; 14. 93-Greg Emeterio Jr[5]; 15. 92-Jake Rosario[17]; 16. 00-Daniel Shaffer[13]; 17. 16N-Nigel Calvert[9]; 18. 81-Frank Flud[6]; 19. 8-Gunner Bowden[4]; 20. 10-Brock Berreth[15]; 21. (DNS) 1-Jeffrey Newell
   B Feature 1 12 Laps
2. 10-Brock Berreth[1]; 2. 92-Jake Rosario[2]; 3. 1-Jeffrey Newell[9]; 4. 70-Dustin Dixon[6]; 5. 7S-Kaden Smith[4]; 6. 8R-Ryker Pace[3]; 7. 21K-Kobe Simpson[8]; 8. 31-Phillip Cordova[11]; 9. 09-Dean Drake Jr[5]; 10. 33-Kolton Nimrod[7]; 11. 18J-Jeramiah Green[10]; 12. 29P-Brian Potter[12]; 13. 56-Jace Park[14]; 14. (DNS) 14R-Jake Nail; 15. (DNS) 08-Jayson Campbell
   B Feature 2 12 Laps
3. 11A-Avery Goodman[2]; 2. 24T-Glenn James Bratti[1]; 3. 3K-Kris Carroll[9]; 4. 2020-Cameron Paul[3]; 5. 35G-Barry Gifford[4]; 6. 44-Garrett Olson[10]; 7. 36T-Ty Hulsey[13]; 8. U2-Ryan Cotney[11]; 9. 9-Ryan Mushrush[6]; 10. 77-Wayne Simmons[7]; 11. 96S-Brandon Sampson[5]; 12. 74T-TJ Thompson[12]; 13. (DNS) 3E-Ethan Wicker; 14. (DNS) 10T-Brandon Thomas
   Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:04:15.449
4. 16N-Nigel Calvert[1]; 2. 81-Frank Flud[8]; 3. 00-Daniel Shaffer[5]; 4. 7S-Kaden Smith[3]; 5. 92-Jake Rosario[7]; 6. 11A-Avery Goodman[9]; 7. 3K-Kris Carroll[6]; 8. 29P-Brian Potter[2]; 9. 56-Jace Park[4]
   Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:01:56.887
5. 8P-Caleb Pence[3]; 2. 24T-Glenn James Bratti[2]; 3. 8-Gunner Bowden[8]; 4. 8R-Ryker Pace[4]; 5. 70-Dustin Dixon[5]; 6. 9-Ryan Mushrush[7]; 7. 21K-Kobe Simpson[9]; 8. 14R-Jake Nail[1]; 9. 36T-Ty Hulsey[6]
   Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:02:51.853
6. 5T-Ryan Timms[1]; 2. 11B-Kaylee Bryson[4]; 3. 99B-Brady Bacon[5]; 4. 75-Kale Drake[8]; 5. 09-Dean Drake Jr[6]; 6. 33-Kolton Nimrod[7]; 7. 44-Garrett Olson[3]; 8. 74T-TJ Thompson[2]; 9. (DNS) 10T-Brandon Thomas
   Heat 4 8 Laps | 00:03:04.664
7. 3-Shawn Mahaffey[2]; 2. 20-Shawn Wicker[3]; 3. 10-Brock Berreth[5]; 4. 2020-Cameron Paul[4]; 5. 96S-Brandon Sampson[6]; 6. 77-Wayne Simmons[7]; 7. 31-Phillip Cordova[1]; 8. (DNS) 08-Jayson Campbell
   Heat 5 8 Laps | 00:09:06.019
   28P-Grady Mercer[2]; 2. 93-Greg Emeterio Jr[8]; 3. 1H-Connor Lee[7]; 4. 35G-Barry Gifford[3]; 5. 3E-Ethan Wicker[1]; 6. 1-Jeffrey Newell[5]; 7. 18J-Jeramiah Green[4]; 8. U2-Ryan Cotney[6]

Sportsman 19 Entries
A Feature 1 20 Laps | 00:12:49.992

1. 29-Drew Sawyer[1]; 2. 420-Jeff Harris[2]; 3. 92-Justin Simpson[8]; 4. 23L-Tyler LaPointe[7]; 5. 6M-Troy Minton[4]; 6. 17-Dave Nicholson[13]; 7. 47-Dwight Green[10]; 8. 08-Bobby McIntosh[3]; 9. 57G-Larry Martinez[5]; 10. 6-Randy Myers[12]; 11. 51K-Kaimron Schoonover[11]; 12. 11B-Bre Lamb[14]; 13. P1-Michaela Jewsbury[16]; 14. 71-Danny Clum[9]; 15. 11-Ryan Cody[6]; 16. 39-Miranda Barnes[18]; 17. 16-Darrius Myers[15]; 18. (DNS) 18-Raymond Hill; 19. (DNS) 3CS-Robert Stott
   Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:02:43.874
2. 57G-Larry Martinez[3]; 2. 23L-Tyler LaPointe[1]; 3. 420-Jeff Harris[5]; 4. 6-Randy Myers[2]; 5. 17-Dave Nicholson[4]; 6. P1-Michaela Jewsbury[6]; 7. (DNS) 3CS-Robert Stott
   Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:01:52.966
3. 08-Bobby McIntosh[1]; 2. 29-Drew Sawyer[2]; 3. 6M-Troy Minton[6]; 4. 51K-Kaimron Schoonover[4]; 5. 11B-Bre Lamb[3]; 6. 18-Raymond Hill[5]
   Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:01:51.227
4. 11-Ryan Cody[4]; 2. 92-Justin Simpson[1]; 3. 71-Danny Clum[3]; 4. 47-Dwight Green[5]; 5. 16-Darrius Myers[2]; 6. 39-Miranda Barnes[6]

Outlaw 25 Entries
A Feature 1 25 Laps | 00:12:16.427

1. 5T-Ryan Timms[5]; 2. 8-Chris Andrews[15]; 3. 25J-Delaney Jost[1]; 4. 29-Scott Sawyer[3]; 5. 34-KJ Snow[4]; 6. 11B-Kaylee Bryson[18]; 7. 14R-Jake Nail[8]; 8. 17S-Baron Silva[2]; 9. 3-Cole Roberts[17]; 10. 12-Jeffrey Newell[16]; 11. 8R-Ryker Pace[12]; 12. 4-Danny James[21]; 13. 21H-Brady Bacon[6]; 14. 11-Riley Goodno[10]; 15. 81-Frank Flud[7]; 16. 20S-Steven Curbow[20]; 17. 44-Garrett Olson[9]; 18. 21T-Ty Hulsey[11]; 19. 93-Matt Carr[13]; 20. (DNS) 21X-Tom Calico; 21. (DNS) 22M-Rees Moran
   B Feature 1 12 Laps | 00:03:29.341
2. 3-Cole Roberts[1]; 2. 11B-Kaylee Bryson[4]; 3. 22M-Rees Moran[8]; 4. 20S-Steven Curbow[5]; 5. 4-Danny James[3]; 6. 21-Jeremy Wickham[6]; 7. 96S-Brandon Sampson[9]; 8. 15-Rob Donnelly[7]; 9. 12J-Jerrod Wilson[2]
   Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:05:19.721
3. 29-Scott Sawyer[2]; 2. 21H-Brady Bacon[6]; 3. 14R-Jake Nail[4]; 4. 8-Chris Andrews[3]; 5. 44-Garrett Olson[8]; 6. 21X-Tom Calico[9]; 7. 4-Danny James[5]; 8. 22M-Rees Moran[1]; 9. 15-Rob Donnelly[7]
   Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:05:56.484
4. 17S-Baron Silva[2]; 2. 34-KJ Snow[6]; 3. 21T-Ty Hulsey[3]; 4. 8R-Ryker Pace[5]; 5. 93-Matt Carr[7]; 6. 12J-Jerrod Wilson[1]; 7. 11B-Kaylee Bryson[4]; 8. (DNS) 96S-Brandon Sampson
   Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:03:02.817
   25J-Delaney Jost[2]; 2. 81-Frank Flud[4]; 3. 5T-Ryan Timms[7]; 4. 12-Jeffrey Newell[3]; 5. 11-Riley Goodno[8]; 6. 3-Cole Roberts[6]; 7. 20S-Steven Curbow[1]; 8. 21-Jeremy Wickham[5]

2020 Feature Win Count

Jr Sprint:
Brody McClelland ( 1 )

Masters:
Thad Bennet ( 1 )

A-Class:
Frank Flud ( 1 )

Restrictor:
Kayden Cole ( 1 )

Non-Wing:
Conor Lee ( 1 )

Sportsman:
Drew Sawyer ( 1 )

Outlaw:
Ryan Timms ( 1 )

• Ryan Merz on May 17, 2020
• Article Date: 5/17/2020 by Hoss