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5/31/15
Port Royal
– Gregg Satterlee of Rochester Mills scored the $4,000 Late Model Speedweek
Charlie Grinestaff Memorial at Port Royal Speedway on Saturday night, loosing
the lead and retaking it to record his second career oval win in the 40-lapper.
In the 25-lap 410
sprint car feature Lewisberry’s Kevin Nouse won an electrifying main event,
holding off Greg Hodnett and Brent Marks for his first victory at the track
since 2007.
With a stunning
field of 47 super late models on hand, Satterlee drew the pole for the start of
the Late Model Speedweek event with Rick Eckert lining up alongside.
But Eckert fell
backwards when action began as Mason Zeigler drove into second spot and began
pursuing the leader.
Satterlee was
cruising the high line around the track with Zeigler challenging on the low side
as they entered the backmarkers on the 14th tour.
Zeigler was strong
on the bottom and amid heavy and stacked lapped traffic, he was able to muscle
by Satterlee for the lead as the pair raced toward the stripe to complete lap
16.
Satterlee
regrouped and never fell off the pace after getting passed and instead turned
the wick up a notch to drive higher around the speedway and use a blast of
momentum off of the fourth turn cushion to draw up on Zeigler and retake command
with 19 laps recorded.
Zeigler stayed
within striking distance for the ensuing laps and briefly drove back into the
lead on the 24th tour only to see a turn two swoop around the cushion
by Satterlee allow him to retake the point.
The races only
caution flag unfurled with 14 laps to go when a charging Dylan Yoder dropped out
of a challenging top five.
Eckert pounced on
the restart and drove into second and then took a few stabs at Satterlee for the
win only to see his deficit at the finish stand at 1.100 seconds.
Zeigler held on
for third followed by Jeff Rine and Kyle Hardy.
Sixth through
10th went to Mitch Hack, Kenny Pettyjohn, Bryan Bernheisel, Jason
Covert and Gary Stuhler.
Heats for the
stellar field fell to Eckert, Zeigler, Satterlee and Hardy with twin B Mains
going to Andy Haus and Matt Parks.
Rine set overall
fast time with a lap of 18.762 seconds.
Joey Hershey led
only the first lap of the 410 sprint main before fourth starter Kevin Nouse took
the lead to begin his jaunt for the win.
Logan Wagner
motored into second with five laps away and began his track-down of Nouse while
11th starter Brent Marks was thrilling the crowd with his brazen
moves through the pack.
Marks went three
wide in the second corner to get around Greg Hodnett in the early stages and
just knifed his way through the front of the field, drawing to their inside and
outside at will to zoom into third on the seventh circuit.
The leaders
entered the rear of the field on the eighth lap as they skated around the
thinning topside cushion with Marks pulling a slide job on Wagner for second
with 11 laps down.
At the same time,
ninth starter Hodnett began coming to the front and for the last 10 laps of the
non-stop event the front four cars rim rode around the oval, flirting with the
outside wall, all within the total distance of only one turn.
Hodnett began
dropping off the cushion for short stints with seven laps to go in an effort to
gain ground at the front and he got by Wagner for third before using the same
high-speed tactic to secure second on just the final tour.
He then tracked
down Nouse by the finish to come up just .446 seconds shy of his third win of
the year at Port Royal.
Nouse screamed for
joy in victory lane after recently becoming a regular at the track aboard the
Will Rose-owned No. 21A machine.
“This is the
nicest facility I’ve been at in Pennsylvania right now.” Nouse commented of the
revived and refurbished historic oval.
He said he never
dreamed he’d win this early with the team.
Brent Marks
finished a happy third followed by Wagner and Dylan Cisney.
Sixth through
10th went to Hershey, Lucas Wolfe, Dave Ely, Davey Sammons and Ryan
Taylor.
Heats went to Dave
Hahn, Hodnett and Sammons.
Pete Leister wired
the field for the 15-lap xtreme stock feature victory.
Jason Zook rode
home second followed by Deron Henry, Curtis Lawson and Craig Imes.
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Race Results:
Feature
Finishes
5/30/15
410 sprints, 25 laps:
1. Kevin
Nouse, 2. Greg Hodnett, 3. Brent Marks, 4. Logan Wagner, 5. Dylan Cisney, 6.
Joey Hershey, 7. Lucas Wolfe, 8. Dave Ely, 9. Davey Sammons, 10. Ryan Taylor,
11. Dave Hahn, 12. Curt Stroup, 13. Steve Buckwalter, 14. Nate Snyder, 15. Rick
Lafferty, 16. Mike Wagner, 17. Anthony Fiore, 18. Wayne Dadetto, 19. Tyler Bear,
20. Mike Walter, 21. Vince Snyder, 22. Trenton Sheaffer, 23. Ed Aiken, 24. Jack
Thornton
DNQ: Doug Esh, Daryl
Stimeling
Late models, 40 laps:
1. Gregg
Satterlee, 2. Rick Eckert, 3. Mason Zeigler, 4. Jeff Rine, 5. Kyle Hardy, 6.
Mitch Hack, 7. Kenny Pettyjohn, 8. Bryan Bernheisel, 9. Jason Covert, 10. Gary
Stuhler, 11. Jamie Lathroum, 12. Jerry Bard, 13. Hayes Mattern, 14. Jim Yoder,
15. Austin Hubbard, 16. Justin Kann, 17. Mike Lupfer, 18. Andy Haus, 19. Tim
Wilson, 20. Jason Miller, 21. Dylan Yoder, 22. Nick Dickson, 23. Matt Parks, 24.
Lindsay Barton, 25. Brian Tavenner
DNQ: Dave Stamm, Jeff Miller,
Mike Altobelli, Chris Casner, Patrick Bryner, Coleby Frye, Dan Stone, DJ Myers,
Mike Mort, Trent Brenneman, Cole Amsden, Cody Robbins, Kirk Baker, Pancho
Lawler, Dave Brouse Sr., Danny Snyder, Eric Zembower, Andrew Yoder, Jason
Schmidt, Derrick Casner, Waylon Wagner, Tim Smith Jr.
Xtreme stocks,
15 laps: 1. Pete Leister, 2. Jason Zook, 3. Deron Henry, 4. Curtis Lawson,
5. Craig Imes, 6. Teresa Kepner, 7. Walt Peters, 8. David Swab, 9. Jason Davis,
10. Bill Powell. 11. Corey Kepner, 12. Charlie Bryner
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