4/24/15
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mechanicsburg –
Greg Hodnett scored for the Pennsylvania Posse against the All Star Circuit of
Champions Sprints on Friday night at Williams Grove Speedway, taking his first
oval win of the season worth $5,000.
Hodnett turned back a strong contingent of All Stars in an
event that found circuit regular Danny Holtgraver holding the pole position for
the start of the 30-lap feature.
Only two laps were scored with Holtgraver in control when the
races first caution flag unfurled.
On the restart Holtgraver held off the advances of Brent Marks
to surge out to a comfortable lead with Danny Dietrich, Cory Haas and Hodnett in
tow.
Hodnett started third in the field but
fell backward on the start and nearly spun out in the second turn before
settling himself.
Holtgraver entered the backmarkers on the
10th circuit followed closely by Marks, Dietrich, Hodnett and now
Dale Blaney.
And for the next five circuits the front five cars raced
within the same set of turns, darting through hectic traffic before all heck
broke loose at the halfway point.
Holtgraver began fading and Marks
capitalized to lead the 15th tour and by lap 16 Holtgraver was back
to fifth with Hodnett pouncing on Dietrich for second amid a dizzying pace .
Dietrich wasn’t done, instead livened-up by Hodnett’s pass and
he pushed his car higher around the oval to reclaim second as the pair dueled
for the spot before Hodnett really took hold of the surface in the bottom groove
to drive into control over Marks with 12 laps to go.
On the 18th lap, the front
four cars stacked up top to bottom, nearly four wide in the first corner as each
driver fought for control with Hodnett coming out on top in an exciting display
of speed and jockeying.
But once Hodnett got into clean air he
was able to check out on the field, leaving the pack to scrap for what was left
of the race.
After starting 10th, Ryan
Smith bolted into the top five with 10 laps to go and made inroads along with
Lance Dewease before the checkers.
Hodnett was ready to see the checkers
with a lap to go when a final yellow regrouped the field, forcing a
green-white-checker finish in which Hodnett took the victory by .683 seconds
over Dietrich.
Dale Blaney rode home third for a podium finish by the All
Stars, followed by Dewease and Smith.
Sixth through 10th went to
Marks, Stevie Smith, Steve Buckwalter, Cory Haas and Brock Zearfoss.
Heats for the 39-car field went to Holtgraver, Haas, Marks and
Smith with Gerard McIntyre Jr. taking the B Main.
Holtgraver won the dash to earn the pole for the feature
event.
Hodnett set overall fast time in
qualifications with a lap of 16.152 seconds, which was the fastest lap turned at
the oval since the imposition of a weight rule numerous years ago.
The time was the fastest turned in at the track
since Sammy Swindell came in with a time of 16.175 in October of 2011.
Les Hare wired the field for the win in
the 358 limited late model main event to close the night.
Cam Zeigler, Shaun Jones, Justin Ehrhart
and 16th starter Wes Alleman completed the top five.
Heats went to Sam Gallagher, Alan Sagi and Ehrhart.
April
24, 2015 Feature Finishes:
410 sprints, 30 laps: 1. Greg
Hodnett, 2. Danny Dietrich, 3. Dale Blaney, 4. Lance Deweae, 5. Ryan Smith, 6.
Brent Marks, 7. Stevie Smith, 8. Steve Buckwalter, 9. Cory Haas, 10. Brock
Zearfoss, 11. Sheldon Haudenschild, 12. Brian Montieth, 13. Cody Darrah, 14.
Dave Blaney, 15. Doug Esh, 16. Mark Smith, 17. Chad Kemenah, 18. Tim Shaffer,
19. Pat Cannon, 20. Parker Price Miller, 21. Gerard McIntyre Jr., 22. Nicole
Bower, 23. Lucas Wolfe, 24. Danny Holtgraver, 25. Austin
Hogue, 26. Aaron Ott, 27. Danny Smith, 28. Kyle
Reinhardt
DNQ: Rodney Westhafer, Caleb
Helms, Alan Krimes, Travis Philo, Adam Wilt, Tim Glatfelter, Rick Lafferty,
Andrew Palker, Paige Polyak, Greg Wilson, Wayne Dadetto
358 late models, 20 laps: 1.
Les Hare, 2. Cam Zeigler, 3. Shaun Jones, 4. Justin Ehrhart, 5. Wes Alleman, 6.
Jake Jones, 7. Billy Wampler, 8. Travis Mease, 9. JR Rodriguez, 10. Alan Sagi,
11. Ron Kline, 12. Pat McNEal, 13. Brad Shank, 14. Scott Richwine, 15. Devin
Frey, 16. Tyler Horst, 17. Larry Neiderer, 18. Pat Beard, 19. Daulton Bigler,
20. Sam Gallagher, 21. Dave Latsha
DNS: Sam Rial, Al Cheney, Dan
Zechman
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