Action At The Valley Had Everyone Seeing Double
Action At The Valley Had Everyone Seeing “Double�?? -By: Rodney Rescott 06/04/2005 New Lebanon, NY: A Standing Room Only crowd saw twice the action for one low price as Keybank and Wohrle’s presented an action packed night of racing. With a rain shortened program on the card from last week, Howard Commander’s Lebanon Valley Speedway was filled to capacity as the action unfolded Saturday night. The Sportsman Consi, Rookies, Pro Stocks, Sportsman, and Modifieds were all on tap to serve up some fantastic wheel to wheel action, times two! And in round one, it was all Yetman again in the Pro Stocks. Rob Yetman, aboard his Beer Belly Bob’s #7 powered his way to the front in the first 20 lap feature, then backed it up with a hard fought battle with the #8 of Jay Corbin to capture the second one to go 6 for 6, and undefeated in 2005. In the Rookies Jim Cronk’s #83 got to the front and ran away with the checkers in the first feature. The second, saw Cronk again battle with the #71 of Kyle Hosier for several laps, but couldn’t finish it off, giving the victory to Kyle Hosier. The Sportsman class served up one of the most exciting races of the night. In the first race, the #117 of Jason Tompkins had the race in the bag until 1 lap to go, when the “Alligator�?? Art Collins’s #68 forced his way underneath Tompkins going into turn one, and the two made contact. The #117 suffered a left rear flat, and the #68 labored his broken car acrossed to finish line first, only to be denied the victory. Track officials deemed the pass to be too aggressive, and a “rough riding�?? penalty was applied, giving the win to second place finisher K.C. Goewey, aboard his #2 Team Goewey car. In the second Sportsman Feature, Collins redeemed himself by capturing the lead early in the race and checked out on the field, taking the victory in dominating fashion. The Modifieds didn’t want to be outdone, and they too, piled on the action. The “edge of your seat�?? door-to-door racing had the defending champion Brett “the Jet�?? Hearn making a late race pass on leader John Alberti’s Abele Tractor Sales #473, to take the victory, with the hard charging K&F Modular Homes #45 of Wayne Jelley hot on his heals. Hearn and Jelley were followed by Alberti, Heffner, and Tremont to round out the top 5. Feature number two showed how even this field is this year. The features had its’ sixth different winner, in six different races. Paul Gilardi, aboard his stout #87x got the lead early and ran away and hid to capture his first checkers of 2005. The field was coming to Gilardi in the closing laps, led by the #21 Rifenberg of Donnie Corellis, and “The Wild Child�?? Andy Bachetti, but it wasn’t going to be enough. Following Bachetti, was a great run by Matt Quinn, and Jelley returns for a second top 5 run. Not to be forgotten, the Pure Stocks were on hand for their normal Saturday Night bumper-to-bumper action. These features offered up some good clean, and fun, racing action for the packed house on hand. The 51 cars on hand were split into four features. And the four winners were Jay LaMountain, Randy Myers, ray Hall Sr., and Howard Madsen. Williams Lumber and Heavy Hauler are presenting the program for Saturday, June 11th. The 358’s are returning to action, along with the usually Saturday program. Gates open at 5pm, racing at 6pm. For more information visit our website at _www.LebanonValley.com_ (http://www.lebanonvalley.com/) , or call the speedway offices at (518) 794-9606 or (518) 794-7889. KEY BANK - WOHRLE'S MEAT PRODUCTS RAINED OUT FROM 05-28 MODIFIED RESULTS (30 LAPS) - 1 Brett Hearn, 2 Wayne Jelley, 3 John Alberti, 4 J. R. Heffner, 5 Kenny Tremont Jr, 6 Andy Bachetti, 7 Eddie Marshall, 8 Guy Sheldon, 9 Dave Leckonby, 10 Mel Schruffer, 11 Hector Stratton, 12 Matt Quinn, 13 Donnie Corellis, 14 John Hewitt, 15 Mike King, 16 Steve Hough, 17 Russ Reckner, 18 Paul Gilardi, 19 Dave McFeeters, 20 Kyle Sheldon, 21 Dan Humes, 22 Al McCoy, 23 Wayne Figler, 24 Stanley Wetmore, 25 Sean Gallivan, 26 Dave Baranowski, 27 Rich Ricci Jr, 28 Ron Dwyer SPORTSMAN RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1 K.C. Goewey, 2 Bob Bouchard, 3 Alan Houghtaling, 4 Don Miller, 5 Bobby Knipe, 6 Kyle Hoffman, 7 Ryan Larkin, 8 Jeff Watson, 9 Kory Sandstedt, 10 Ed Harkin, 11 Neil Stratton, 12 Frank Harper, 13 Chad Pierce, 14 Lorne Browe, 15 Chris Tryon, 16 Greg Hoffman, 17 Mike Molloy, 18 Kim LaVoy, 19 Wayne Keyes, 20 Jason Tompkins, 21 Carmon Carnibucci, 22 Brian Sandstedt, 23 Kevin Lynch PRO STOCK RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1 Rob Yetman, 2 Jim Langenback, 3 Kevin Arnold, 4 Bob Duzlak, 5 Jay Corbin, 6 Paul LaRochelle, 7 Mike Middleton, 8 Dave Blanchard, 9 Rick Fosby, 10 Victor Hopkins, 11 Tom Brandt, 12 Ronnie Jacobsen, 13 Jason Casey, 14 Jay Casey, 15 Robbie Speed, 16 Chris Crews, 17 Frank Boucher, 18 Rick Dempsey, 19 Don Collins, 20 George Miles, 21 Hugh Page, 22 Steve Goodemote, 23 Larry Megan, 24 Rich Colesanti ROOKIE RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Jim Cronk, 2 Brian Keough, 3 Rob Maxon, 4 Kevin Kennedy, 5 Kyle Hosier, 6 Jim Keough, 7 John Rivers Jr, 8 Bill Hammell, 9 David Shepard, 10 John Santolin, 11 E. J. Legeyt 06-04 RESULTS - MODIFIED RESULTS (30 LAPS) - 1 Paul Gilardi, 2 Donnie Corellis, 3 Andy Bachetti, 4 Matt Quinn, 5 Wayne Jelley, 6 Kenny Tremont Jr, 7 J. R. Heffner, 8 Brett Hearn, 9 Eddie Marshall, 10 Ron Dwyer, 11 Russ Reckner, 12 Steve Hough, 13 Guy Sheldon, 14 Hector Stratton, 15 Mike King, 16 John Hewitt, 17 Dave McFeeters, 18 Roy Bridge, 19 Kyle Sheldon, 20 Al McCoy, 21 John Alberti, 22 Wayne Figler, 23 Dave Baranowski, 24 Dave Leckonby, 25 Rich Ricci Jr, 26 Brian Berger, 27 Dan Humes SPORTSMAN RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1 Art Collins, 2 Ryan Larkin, 3 Bobby Knipe, 4 Lorne Browe, 5 Ed Harkin, 6 Brian Sandstedt, 7 Kyle Hoffman, 8 Kory Sandstedt, 9 Jeff Watson, 10 K.C. Goewey, 11 Jason Tompkins, 12 Rob Barile, 13 Danny Burl, 14 Greg Hoffman, 15 Chris Tryon, 16 Kim LaVoy, 17 Chad Pierce, 18 Kevin Lynch, 19 Wayne Keyes, 20 Frank Harper, 21 Alan Houghtaling, 22 Mike Molloy, 23 Don Miller, 24 Carmon Carnibucci PRO STOCK RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1 Rob Yetman, 2 Jay Corbin, 3 Jay Casey, 4 Paul LaRochelle, 5 Jim Langenback, 6 Ronnie Jacobsen, 7 Mike Middleton, 8 Jason Casey, 9 Dave Blanchard, 10 Rick Fosby, 11 Victor Hopkins, 12 Bob Duzlak, 13 Robbie Speed, 14 Tom Brandt, 15 George Miles, 16 Hugh Page, 17 Larry Megan, 18 Don Collins, 19 Chris Crews, 20 Kevin Arnold, 21 Rick Dempsey ROOKIE RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Kyle Hosier, 2 Jim Cronk, 3 Bill Hammell, 4 Brian Keough, 5 Rob Maxon, 6 John Rivers Jr, 7 Kevin Kennedy, 8 John Santolin, 9 Jim Keough, 10 David Shepard PURE STOCK #1 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Jay LaMountain, 2 Kevin Hilt, 3 Matt Humes, 4 Paul Engwer, 5 Steve Kahler Jr, 6 Steve Hatch, 7 Larry Stickles, 8 Tony Martino, 9 Gary VanDenburg, 10 Lynn Wesley, 11 Robert Hammell, 12 Dave Houser PURE STOCK #2 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Randy Myers, 2 Karl Castagna, 3 Kirk Stanaway, 4 Jay Casey, 5 Brian Houghtaling, 6 John Chapman, 7 Chris Stalker, 8 Tim Kramer, 9 Sparky King, 10 Jay Kreutziger Jr, 11 Jesse Murphy, 12 Nick Regis PURE STOCK #3 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Ray Hall Sr, 2 Jon Routhier, 3 Al Relyea, 4 Pete Wiegand, 5 Tom Harkins, 6 Bob Palmer, 7 Ryan Coon, 8 Richard Puff, 9 Pete DeFiglio, 10 Ed Hatch, 11 Chrissy Hilt, 12 Shannon McDermott, 13 Wuggie Burdick, 14 Kerri Vandenberg, 15 Phil Wood, 16 Dave Stickles, 17 Justin Herron PURE STOCK #4 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Howard Madsen, 2 Nick Hilt, 3 Joe Chenail, 4 Don Coon, 5 Anthony Maddalla, 6 Marcus Tifft, 7 Larry Ball, 8 Chip Martin, 9 Joe Walcott, 10 Douglas Olds Contact Heather O'Dell For Information