FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
9/5/15
Port Royal Nearly 100 racecars packed
the Port Royal Speedway pit area on Saturday night to kickstart the
161st annual Juniata County Fair featuring the annual Butch Renninger
Memorial for super late models.
The UFO-sanctioned Renninger
Memorial was taken by Selinsgroves Dylan Yoder for his second victory of the
season at the track and including lap money, Yoder took home just shy of $4,000
for the prestigious victory.
The 25-lap sprint car
feature saw Dave Ely outlast Ryan Taylor and Greg Hodnett for the $3,200 payday,
which was the third of his career at the track.
In the econo late model
main, Andrew Yoder took the win and point lead in the division over Eric Irvin
with just two races left in the point season for the stock cars.
And to close the night Corey
Kepner scored his second win of the season in the xtreme stock main event.
Yoder started second in the
33-lap Butch Renninger Memorial for the super lates with Bryan Bernheisel on the
pole and Yoder took the lead at the drop of the green.
Fourth starter Nick Dickson
motored into second on the first lap as Yoder began opening up a lead and eyes
turned to ninth starter Coleby Frye.
Frye was up to sixth behind
UFO point leader Devin Friese and was challenging for fifth when the pair made
contact in the second corner, bringing out the yellow flag for a stopped Friese.
UFO rules forced Frye to the
rear due to the contact and a double file restart saw Yoder choose the outside
lane for the new green.
However Yoder got a terrible
start when action resumed and allowed Dickson to take command and start
stretching out an advantage while he slipped to third behind Jeff Miller
briefly.
But Yoder was back to second
on the seventh tour, trying to catch new leader Dickson.
The leaders entered lapped
traffic on the 14th tour with Dickson ahead by nearly a second and
Yoder was clearly coming on and was alongside Dickson for the lead when another
caution flag slowed the pace on the 19th tour.
Yoder again chose the
outside for the restart and this time didnt falter, instead staying alongside
Dickson into the first corner before riding the high line into control.
Yoder was pulling away when
a final yellow slowed the pace with eight laps to go and he again stretched it
out as the final laps were recorded, taking the win by 5.5 seconds over Dickson.
After starting
11th, Dan Stone raced forward to finish third, taking the spot on lap
21.
Tim Wilson was fourth with
Jeff Miller fifth at the line.
Sixth through
10th went to hard charging 21st starter Jeff Rine, Jim
Yoder, a rebounding Coleby Frye, Jason Schmidt and Trent Brenneman.
Heats for the 35-car field
went to Schmidt, Wilson, Dylan Yoder and Friese.
Twin consolations went to
Chad Hollenbeck and Mike Lupfer.
Ely of West Lawn started
third in the 410 sprint main with Curt Stroup and Blane Heimbach sharing the
front row.
Richfields Stroup took the
lead at the start with Heimbach second but Ely blasted into the runner up spot
on the second tour.
Stroup was holding sway over
the pack on the eighth tour when the red flag appeared for a flipped Davey
Sammons on the frontchute.
Sammons was running fifth at
the time, battling with Greg Hodnett for the spot when he impacted the outside
fence as he raced to the outside of Hodnett to defend the spot.
Both Hodnett and Aaron Ott
shuffled Heimbach backward on the restart before Heimbach fell out of the race
while sixth starter Ryan Taylor advanced around Stroup for second on the
12th lap.
Stroups left rear tire
exploded on the 13th tour and Hodnett lined up third for the restart.
But Taylor protected his
turf for second over the last half of the race as both he and Ely kept ahead of
Hodnett.
They leaders entered the
rear of the pack with five laps to go but Ely kept up his pace to record the win
by 1.166 seconds at the finish.
Taylor was second followed
by Hodnett, Ott and 12th starter Brent Marks.
Sixth through
10th went to Dylan Cisney, Lance Dewease, Doug Esh, Lucas Wolfe and
Mike Wagner.
Heats for the 30 cars went
to Heimbach, Ely and Cisney with Joey Hershey scoring the consolation.
Todd Snook led the first 10
laps of the 18-lap econo late model main before sixth starter Andrew Yoder took
over while cruising the outside lane to perfection.
Yoder checked out on the
field to the finish, winning by 6.4 seconds over Snook, Devin Hart, Jared
Fulkroad and Eric Irvin, who entered the race as the point leader before Yoder
took over with this winning run.
Heats went to Dave Leidy and
Snook.
Jason Zook controlled the
first eight laps of the xtreme stock feature before giving way to Corey Kepner
on a lap nine restart.
Kepner then rolled to the
win over Zook, Jason Davis, Pete Leister and Deron Henry.
Race
Results:
Feature
Finishes
9/5/15
410 sprints, 25 laps:
1. Dave
Ely, 2. Ryan Taylor, 3. Greg Hodnett, 4. Aaron Ott, 5. Brent Marks, 6. Dylan
Cisney, 7. Lance Dewease, 8. Doug Esh, 9. Lucas Wolfe, 10. Mike Wagner, 11.
Logan Wagner, 12. Mike Erdley, 13. Trenton Sheaffer, 14. Dustin Baney, 15. Curt
Stroup, 16. Joey Hershey, 17. Mike Wagner II., 18. Dan Shetler, 19. Blane
Heimbach, 20. Anthony Fiore, 21. Dave Hahn, 22. Davey Sammons, 23. TJ Stutts,
24. Carl Bowser
DNQ: Karl Baker, Cory Thornton,
Vince Snyder, Wayne Dadetto, Scott Wilson, Justin Barger
Late models, 33
laps: 1. Dylan Yoder, 2. Nick Dickson, 3. Dan Stone, 4. Tim Wilson, 5. Jeff
Miller, 6. Jeff Rine, 7. Jim Yoder, 8. Coleby Frye, 9. Jason Schmidt, 10. Trent
Brenneman, 11. Mike Altobelli Jr., 12. Mike Lupfer, 13. Chad Hollenbeck, 14.
Steve Campbell, 15. Devin Friese, 16. Bryan Bernheisel, 17. Waylon Wagner, 18.
Dwayne Tanneyhill, 19. Mike Mort, 20. Scott Flickinger, 21. Jerry Bard, 22. Matt
Parks, 23. Tim Smith Jr., 24. Larry Baer, 25. Mitch Hack
DNQ: Andy
Haus, Derrick Casner, Patrick Bryner, Hayes Mattern, Steve Bailor, Danny Snyder,
Cole Amsden, Steve Stitt, Dave Brouse Sr., Eric Zembower
Econo late
models, 18 laps: 1. Andrew Yoder, 2. Todd Snook, 3. Devin Hart, 4. Jared
Fulkroad, 5. Eric Irvin, 6. Dave Leidy, 7. Tim Fedder, 8. Shaun Miller, 9. Rod
Stroup, 10. Curt Dunn, 11. Chase Bowsman, 12. Garrett Gray
DNS: Jason
Davis, Jason Nace, Ken Beck, Harold Ranck
Xtreme stocks,
15 laps: 1. Corey Kepner, 2. Jason Zook, 3. Jason Davis, 4. Pete Leister, 5.
Deron Henry, 6. Austin Johnson, 7. Walt Peters, 8. Dustin Snook, 9. Charlie
Bryner, 10. Jen Zook, 11. Nathan Henry, 12. Bill Powell, 13. Mike Goodwin, 14.
Tyler Amtower, 15. Craig Dodson
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