5-11Lebanon Valley RESULTS

TREMONT CHECKS OUT VICTORY LANE, GOEWEY SPRINTS TO SPORTSMAN WIN

May 11, 2002

WEST LEBANON, NY-Kenny Tremont Jr. captured the victory in the 30-lap 
modified feature at Lebanon Valley Saturday night ending Brett Hearn's win 
streak at three. K.C. Goewey took top honors in the 20-lap sportsman main. 
The ageless veteran, Jim Lagenback was victorious in the 20-lap pro stock 
feature. IGA SUPERMARKETS and RONNIES CYCLES were the night's sponsors.
    Jason Goff was the early race leader in the 30-lap modified feature. Some 
great three and four wide racing in the pack as the big guns were trying to 
get to the front. Rich Ricci Jr. had a super fast car early in the race. His 
Fall Fittings #55 was into the top five before lap ten, after starting 13th. 
Two caution flag periods were required on lap ten. The first was for Steve 
Devine as he got turned around on the frontstretch. The second incident saw 
several cars get tangled up in turn two on the restart. The remainder of the 
event would go caution free. Sparky Lowe took the lead from Goff on the 
restart with Kenny Tremont moving right with him into second. While Tremont 
was battling Lowe for the lead, Brett Hearn and Ricci were slugging it out 
for third.
    Tremont finally ended the three-lap battle for the lead by taking the 
front spot on lap 16. John Hewitt has had a very strong start to the 2002 
season. Unfortunately he was one of the drivers that got caught up in the 
second lap ten incident. The effects of that would force him pitside for good 
on lap 18. Ricci made his way past Hearn for third on lap 19. There appeared 
to be a problem with the right rear brake on Hearn's car in the last half of 
the event. The right rear brake rotor must have been stuck because it was 
glowing cherry red. Ricci moved into the runner-up spot on lap 21, but could 
not run down the high flying Tremont and he had to settle for second two 
weeks in a row. Lowe was able to hold off a late race challenge from Hearn to 
finish third. Goff held off Matt Quinn in the final stages of the race to 
round out the top five.
    The Emerick Associates-Freihofer Baking #115 of Tremont graced victory 
lane for the first time in 2002. A jubilant Tremont said he was beginning to 
have doubts if his five-year old Troyer could still get the job done. Those 
worries were answered with a trip to victory lane. Tremont is now just three 
victories away from the century win mark at Lebanon Valley. 
    Kory Gurney was the early race leader of the 20-lap sportsman feature. 
Ryan Larkin was right in tow behind Gurney in second. K.C. Goewey had his 
Sprint PCS #45 hooked up as he went from eighth to third on lap two. Problems 
for sophomore driver, Mike Keeler on lap 2 as he spun around in turn two 
collecting Walt McKay. Keeler would drive away from the incident and was in 
the top five before the end of the race. Goewey used the lap two restart to 
take the lead just before hell broke lose behind him. A three-wide battle for 
second resulted in disaster on lap six. A huge melee ensued as at least 
eleven cars were collected in the incident. Tempers were hot, as several of 
the cars were several damaged, fortunately no one was injured. Speedway 
officials parked Roy Bridge for the night for his role in the incident. 
    The caution flew again on lap six as Pat O'Hanlon changed lanes on the 
restart. That is a violation of the speedway's zero tolerance policy and he 
was sent to the rear of the field. Goewey was able to pull away after each 
restart and looked to run away and hide. And hide he did, after a second 
place finish last week Goewey was able to improve that by one and visited 
victory lane for the first time in 2002. Joe Bennett ran second most of the 
second half of the race, holding off every challenge from last week's winner, 
Art Collins. Mike Keeler recovered very nicely from his lap two problems to 
finish fourth and opening night winner Ed Harkin rounded out the top five. 
    Adam Haas led over half of the 20-lap pro stock main on Saturday night. 
Al Blackburn looked strong early in the race moving into second on lap seven. 
Robbie Speed's bad luck continued as he dropped from the event on lap eight. 
Meanwhile Jim Lagenback, Ed Bachand and Rob Yetman were three-wide for third. 
Bachand and Yetman made contact forcing Yetman to lose several positions. 
Lagenback continued his forward charge passing Blackburn for second on lap 12 
and taking the lead from Haas on the very next lap. Yetman made his way 
passed Blackburn for third on lap 16, but he got turned around coming off 
turn four. Blackburn was sent to the rear of the field by speedway officials 
for his role in the incident. 
    Lagenback cruised home easily for his first victory of 2002. He dedicated 
the victory to long time engine builder, Denny Raspuzzi, who passed away in 
the off season. Haas finished second, Paul LaRochelle third, Bob Duzlak 
fourth and Danny Sanchez rounded out the top five.
    Brett Hearn was not the only driver at Lebanon Valley who saw his win 
streak halted at three. Henry Warner took top honors in the rookie pro stock 
feature, ending Jason Dibello's stranglehold on that division.
    Saturday May 18th is Double Trouble night at Lebanon Valley. Anderson 
Equipment and T-Net will bring us double features in the modifieds, sportsman 
and pro stocks. Race time is 6:15.

5-11 IGA SUPERMARKETS / RINNOE'S CYCLES MODIFIED RESULTS (30 LAPS) - 1) Kenny 
Tremont Jr, 2) Rich Ricci Jr, 3) Sparky Lowe, 4) Brett Hearn, 5) Jason Goff, 
6) Matt Quinn, 7) J.R. Heffner, 8) Maynard Forrette, 9) Donnie Corellis, 10) 
Dave Leckonby, 11) Andy Bachetti, 12) Ron Blake, 13) Stanley Wetmore, 14) 
Chris Moore, 15) Eddie Marshall, 16) Rob Pitcher, 17) John Alberti, 18) Guy 
Sheldon, 19) Steve Devine, 20) Charlie Humes, 21) Dave Mosher, 22) Hawley 
Smith, 23) Tom Sanchez Jr, 24) John Lutes Jr, 25) Mike King, 26) Russ 
Reckner, 27) John Hewitt, 28) Paul Gilardi, 29) Hector Stratton, 30) Wayne 
Fugler, 31) Dave McFeeters, 32) Denny Soltis, 33) John Ruchel,

SPORTSMAN RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1) K.C. Goewey, 2) Joe Bennett, 3) Art Collins, 
4) Mike Keeler, 5) Ed Harkin, 6) Whitey Slavin, 7) Don Miller, 8) Tony 
Ferriero, 9) John Hotchkiss, 10) Kory Gurney, 11) Pat O'Hanlon, 12) Ryan 
Larkin, 13) Dan Humes, 14) Ted Layton, 15) Graham Howes, 16) Bobby Knipe, 17) 
Lorne Browe, 18) Frank Harper, 19) John Scarborough, 20) Mike Molloy, 21) 
Mike Visconti, 22) Jeff Carr, 23) Will Galm, 24) Walt McKay, 25) Roy Bridge, 
26) Jeff Watson 

PRO STOCK RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1) Jim Langenback, 2) Adam Haas, 3) Paul 
LaRochelle, 4) Bob Duzlak Jr, 5) Danny Sanchez, 6) Ed Bachand, 7) Chris 
Crews, 8) Dan Blackburn, 9) Buddy Hencke, 10) Jim Dellea, 11) Mark Therrien, 
12) Al Blackburn, 13) Rob Yetman, 14) Brian Keough, 15) Robbie Speed, 16) 
Rich Colesanti  

ROOKIE PRO STOCK RESULTS (10 LAPS) - 1) Henry Warner, 2) Jason DiBello, 3) 
Bill Hammell, 4) Bill Lobdell, 5) Jery Helms, 6) Jim Hankle, 7) Joe Mabb Jr, 
8) Chris Claus, 9) John Santolin, 10) Mark Forrest, 11) Chris DeCiel, 12) Jay 
Corbin, 13) Kim LaVoy, 14) Larry Megan  

PURE STOCK #1 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Mike Witherell, 2) Pete DeFiglio, 3) 
Chris Streeter, 4) Don Coon, 5) John Connor Jr, 6) Keith Barlow, 7) Chris 
Hutnik, 8) Larry Ball, 9) John Betz, 10) David Stickles, 11) John Chapman, 
12) Dan Crosby, 13) Alan Hill, 14) Shannon McDermott, 15) Brian Sandstedt, 
16) Kevin Hilt  

PURE STOCK #2 RESULTS (10 LAPS) - 1) Mike Eichstedt, 2) Earl Soulier Jr, 3) 
Scott Kilmer, 4) Eric Sbrega, 5) Rich Douglass, 6) Michael Middleton, 7) Paul 
Harding, 8) Jeff Douglass, 9) Mike Fachini, 10) John Hubbard, 11) John Rivers 
Jr, 12) Marcus Tifft, 13) Ray Pierre Jr, 14) Dwayne Dauski, 15) Dave Atwater, 
16) Jeff Kuhnow, 17) Jay Martin, 18) Chip Martin    

PURE STOCK #3 RESULTS (10 LAPS) - 1) George Miles Jr, 2) Randy Myers, 3) 
Peter Wiegand, 4) Ronald Johnson, 5) Bob Palmer, 6) John Denue, 7) Joe 
DiStefano, 8) Michael Davis, 9) Kory Sandstadt, 10) Mark Huston, 11) Jim 
Fachini, 12) Jim O'Neil, 13) Josh Brandt, 14) Michael Dianda, 15) Ryan Hover, 
16) D.T. Pickard, 17) Jeff Wilbur, 18) Jim Hankey, 19) Jeremy Pease 

PURE STOCK #4 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Chrissy Hilt, 2) Bob Chenette, 3) Roy 
Kilmer, 4) Robert Gibson, 5) Ron Tritschler, 6) Ronny Jacobsen, 7) Poncho 
Hankey, 8) Ron Hapeman, 9) Dave Houser, 10) Nick Hilt Jr, 11) Mark Stevens, 
12) Ryan Coon, 13) Tom Murphy, 14) Kevin Dolan, 15) Bob Burl, 16) Todd 
Pelkey, 17) Lee Gallant