CORRECTION 7-19 Press Release
"PRESS RELEASE" For Immediate Release
July 19, 2003 Contact: Kevin Wright
Phone: 518-794-9606
HEARN CONSTUCTS WIN IN NEW CAR, BROWE HAMMERS SPORTSMAN
West Lebanon NY-Brett Hearn captured the 30-lap modified feature victory at
Lebanon Valley Speedway on Saturday night. The 358-modifieds were on hand as
well and Eddie Marshall was victorious in their 24-lap main. Lorne Browe won the
20-lap sportsman feature and Paul LaRochelle won the 20-lap pro stock finale.
Brian Keough was the winner of the rookie pro stock feature. The pure stock
victories went to Kevin Hilt, Scott Kilmer, Pete Wiegand and Larry Ball
respectively. An extra special thanks to our sponsor Rifenburg Construction which has
supported auto racing at Lebanon Valley for many years.
Guy Sheldon was behind the wheel of the #42 modified owned by Steve Devine on
Saturday night. Sheldon made the most of his effort as he led almost half of
the 30-lap feature. Brett Hearn had his Budweiser-Gable #1 modified hooked up
a quickly moved up from his eleventh place starting spot to sit third on lap
nine. The first of five caution flags came out on lap 13 for Dave Leckonby's
disabled racer. Another caution came out on the very same lap for an incident in
turn two. Hearn used the restart to get by Sheldon and led the event at the
halfway point. Rich Ricci Jr cracked the top five for the first time on lap 18
while Andy Bachetti took third from Paul Gilardi on lap 21. Last week's
winner, Rob Pitcher went pitside with steering problems on lap 23.
The caution flag flew on lap 24 for Gilardi who made hard contact with the
backstretch wall while running in the top five. Sheldon's top five run came to
spinning halt on lap 27. The caution flew for the final time on lap 28 when
Sparky Lowe got send into the turn four fence by Matt Quinn. Lowe was finished
for the night and Quinn was sent to the rear for his role in the incident.
Bachetti had moved into the runner-up spot in the final third of the event and
tried to apply some pressure on Hearn. The many late race restarts gave him
several chances to stay close, but that ended as Bachetti slowed dramatically on the
final lap handing second to Ricci.
Hearn took the checkered flag first in a car that had never run in 2003. It
was brand new at the beginning of the season but the crew had decided not to
run it yet and was using it as a show car. The decision was made during hot laps
to park the old car and try the new one out for the night and resulted in a
trip to victory lane. Ricci finished second, Donnie Corellis had a strong run
in third, J.R. Heffner was fourth and Denny Soltis rounded out the top five.
The 358-modifieds were on hand gearing up for their big show this Thursday
night for Thunder in the Valley 5. NASCAR stars Tony Stewart and Dave Blaney
will be competing with the 358-modifieds in a 100-lap Turning Stone Casino
358-Modified Series event at Lebanon Valley.
Eddie Marshall was the early race leader in the 24-lap 358-modified feature.
Marshall and Hearn put on a whale of a show for the fans. The two veterans
raced side by side for several laps before Hearn took the advantage on lap 12.
His stay at the point was short-lived however as he suddenly pulled into the
pits while the field was under yellow on lap 14. The u-joint had broken on
Hearn's drive shaft ended his chance for victory. While under that same yellow flag
on lap 13, Bachetti also had to got pitside with a right rear flat tire.
Marshall now reassumed the lead with Corellis on his rear bumper. Matt Quinn
took third from Corellis on lap 19. Quinn raced Marshall hard, but clean in
the final stages of the race but could not make a pass stick as Marshall wheeled
the Goodermote Excavating #5 into victory lane. Corellis had another strong
third place run with Rob Pitcher fourth and Kenny Tremont fifth.
Chris Garrity was the early race leader of the 20-lap sportsman feature.
Lorne Browe took the lead from Garrity on lap four and never looked back. K.C.
Goewey was caught up in several early race incidents but recovered nicely to
finish sixth. Browe had to survive several restarts, but was able to pull away
each time. Last week's winner Ryan Larkin did a great job avoiding early incident
to get into fourth on lap six. Browe was untouchable as he took his first
checkered flag of 2003. Ed Harkin, Art Collins, Larkin and Willie Galm followed
Browe across the line.
Dave Blanchard won so many features in the rookie pro stock division he had
to move up to the regular pro stock division. He was looking to make the most
of his transition in Saturday's night 20-lap pro stock feature. He lead
nineteen and one-third circuits of the race before getting spun out by Scott
Govertsen on the final lap in turn two. Govertsen would go to the rear for his role.
The handed the lead over to Ed Bachand. Paul LaRochelle and Bachand had battled
side by side for much of the event. Little did they know it would be for the
win? Bachand crossed the finish line first but was disqualified in a post race
inspection. LaRochelle took the victory, second went to Jim Langenback and
Chris Crews was third.
Don't forget THUNDER IN THE VALLEY V on Thursday night featuring the
358-modifieds and Tony Stewart and Dave Blaney. Tickets are still available and racing
will start at 7:00. Call the speedway at (518) 794-9606 or visit our website
at www.lebanonvalley.com for more information.
JULY 19, 2003 COMPLETE RESULTS & UPDATED POINTS
7-19 RIFENBURG CONSTRUCTION MODIFIED RESULTS (30 LAPS) - 1) Brett Hearn, 2)
Rich Ricci Jr, 3) Donnie Corellis, 4) J.R. Heffner, 5) Denny Soltis, 6) Kenny
Tremont Jr, 7) Stanley Wetmore, 8) Mike King, 9) Eddie Marshall, 10) Eric Mack,
11) Steve Hough, 12) Mel Schruffer, 13) Guy Sheldon, 14) Chris Moore, 15)
Hector Stratton, 16) Matt Quinn, 17) Skippy Fox, 18) Andy Bachetti, 19) Ron
Dwyer, 20) Chris Whitehead, 21) Sparky Lowe, 22) Paul Gilardi, 23) Rob Pitcher, 24)
Dave Leckonby, 25) Russ Reckner
358 MODIFIED RESULTS (24 LAPS) - 1) Eddie Marshall, 2) Matt Quinn, 3) Donnie
Corellis, 4) Rob Pitcher, 5) Kenny Tremont Jr, 6) Wayne Jelley, 7) Dickie
Larkin, 8) Rich Salisbury, 9) Donnie Ackner, 10) Danny Watson, 11) Andy Bachetti,
12) Guy Sheldon, 13) Lucas Baker, 14) Ron Dwyer, 15) Craig Simmons, 16) Denny
Young Jr, 17) Jeff Lutes, 18) Mark Johnson, 19) Dave Baranowski, 20) Rich
Ricci Jr, 21) Al MCCoy, 22) Brett Hearn, 23) Lee Gagliardi
SPORTSMAN RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1) Lorne Browe, 2) Ed Harkin, 3) Art Collins,
4) Ryan Larkin, 5) Will Galm, 6) K.C. Goewey, 7) Jeff Watson, 8) Hawley Smith,
9) Chad Pierce, 10) Frank Harper, 11) Roy Bridge, 12) Whitey Slavin, 13) Walt
McKay, 14) Chris Garrity, 15) K.C. McCoy, 16) Kory Gurney, 17) Kyle Hoffman,
18) Carmon Carnibucci, 19) Joe Bennett, 20) Tony Ferriero, 21) Brian Sandstedt,
22) Jason Tompkins, 23) Bobby Knipe, 24) Mike Mason, 25) Jeff Cassidy, 26)
Ted Layton
PRO STOCK RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1) Paul LaRochelle, 2) Jim Langenback, 3) Chris
Crews, 4) Rob Yetman, 5) Tom Brandt, 6) Bill Lobdell Jr, 7) Frank Twing, 8)
Bobby Blackburn, 9) Al Blackburn, 10) Jason DiBello, 11) Victor Hopkins, 12)
Scott Govertsen, 13) Dave Blanchard, 14) Dan Blackburn, 15) Jay Corbin, 16) Rick
Fosby, 17) Don Ely, 18) Danny Sanchez, 19) Ed Bachand
ROOKIE RESULTS (10 LAPS) - 1) Brian Keough, 2) Bill Hammell, 3) Jim Cronk, 4)
Danny Burl, 5) Kim LaVoy, 6) Larry Megan, 7) E. J. Legeyt, 8) Pete Everett,
9) Jeff Haas, 10) John Santolin, 11) Jim Fachini, 12) John Hynes, 13) Jim
Keough, 14) Mike Fachini
PURE STOCK #1 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Kevin Hilt, 2) Jon Routhier, 3) Phil
Moffit, 4) Jim O'Neil, 5) Wally Engel, 6) Rich Douglass, 7) Paul Harding, 8) Mark
Stevens, 9) Tony Marino, 10) Scott Myers, 11) Lisa Gibson, 12) Dave Houser,
13) Joe Mottoshiski, 14) Ed Young, 15) Ron Johnson
PURE STOCK #2 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Scott Kilmer, 2) Ryan Coon, 3) Jason
Casey, 4) Kory Sandstedt, 5) Robert Gibson, 6) Mike Eichstedt, 7) Steve Hatch, 8)
Jeremy Pease, 9) Tom Murphy, 10) Jay Kreutziger Jr, 11) Anthony Maddalla, 12)
Ryan Hover, 13) JoAnn Stevens, 14) Eric Ofiesh, 15) Pancho Hankey
PURE STOCK #3 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Pete Wiegand, 2) Bob Palmer, 3) Pete
DeFiglio, 4) Jim Hankey, 5) Brian Houghtaling, 6) Mike Middleton, 7) Chrissy Hilt,
8) Phil Wood, 9) Bob Burl, 10) Bruce Moffit, 11) Shannon McDermott, 12) Nick
Hilt Jr, 13) Jay LaMountain, 14) Paul Engwer
PURE STOCK #4 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Larry Ball, 2) Don Coon, 3) Tom Harkins,
4) Marcus Tifft, 5) Eric Sbrega, 6) John Betz, 7) Jeff Douglass, 8) Chris
Stalker, 9) Paul Handlowich, 10) Bruce Bartolomeo, 11) Chip Martin, 12) John
Rivers Jr, 13) Ed Hatch, 14) Mike Witherell, 15) Dave Stickles
UPDATED OFFICIAL POINTS AS OF 07-19-03
POS MODIFIED CAR # POINTS
1 Kenny Tremont Jr 115 510
2 Brett Hearn 1 498
3 Rich Ricci Jr 55R 468
4 Matt Quinn 20 461
5 J.R. Heffner 74 438
6 Chris Moore 28 436
7 Eddie Marshall 98 434
8 Andy Bachetti 21 377
9 Hector Stratton 87 364
10 Donnie Corellis 57 353
POS 358 MODIFIED CAR # POINTS
1 Rob Pitcher 17 110
2 Matt Quinn 32Q 102
3 Kenny Tremont Jr 115 100
4 Dickie Larkin 39 100
5 Donnie Corellis 57 96
6 Wayne Jelley 45J 88
7 Andy Bachetti 4 86
8 Eddie Marshall 5M 79
9 Rich Salisbury 24 74
10 Guy Sheldon 45 74
POS SPORTSMAN CAR # POINTS
1 Art Collins 68 380
2 Will Galm 55G 372
3 Jeff Watson 22 368
4 K.C. Goewey 6 360
5 Lorne Browe 14 345
6 Ed Harkin 9H 343
7 Frank Harper 25 336
8 Ryan Larkin 39 323
9 Bobby Knipe 18 322
10 Roy Bridge 145 303
POS PRO STOCK CAR # POINTS
1 Rob Yetman 7 228
2 Paul LaRochelle 78 216
3 Jim Langenback 54L 205
4 Danny Sanchez 63 188
5 Scott Govertsen 117 178
6 Ed Bachand 165 156
7 Bill Lobdell Jr 11R 136
8 Chris Crews 5 122
9 Victor Hopkins 243 112
10 Frank Twing 782 108
POS ROOKIE CAR # POINTS
1 Brian Keough 311 186
2 Kim LaVoy 3 172
3 Jim Cronk 83 157
4 Bill Hammell 37 157
5 John Santolin 6 124
6 Jery Helms 86 123
7 Larry Megan 05 118
8 Jeff Haas 55 105
9 Mike Fachini 48 102
10 Danny Burl 47 94
POS PURE STOCK CAR # POINTS
1 Pete DeFiglio 99 226
2 Pete Wiegand 78 216
3 Jim Hankey 7 197
4 Phil Wood 082 183
5 Bob Palmer 29 179
6 Nick Hilt Jr 17 178
7 Ryan Coon 52 176
8 Scott Kilmer 007 173
9 Chrissy Hilt 49 171
10 Mike Middleton 38 170
Kevin Wright
V.P. Marketing & Promotions
Lebanon Valley Speedway
Phone: 518-794-9606
Fax: 518-794-7889
E-Mail: lbnvlyspwy@aol.com
website: www.lebanonvalley.com
