Lebanon Valley Speedway Press Release

A Wild Night At the Valley, Hearn and Collins Survive F\or  Wins! 
-By: Rodney Rescott                                   
-June 18,  2005 
West  Lebanon, NY:  There were no fireworks on the schedule for Saturday  
Night’s main events, but there was plenty on the race track.  Anderson Equipment 
and Taconic DSL present an action packed,  on the edge of your set action in 
every single  division. 
The weather was perfect,  the nearly sell out crowd was chomping at the bit, 
and the drivers were all  fired up to put on a show for the fans. The Jersey 
Jet, Brett Hearn, aboard his  familiar Gable Auto Stores #3 tip-toed his TEO 
Pro Car through the field and  crossed the line first, Art Collins survives the 
caution filled Sportsman race  to win his 2nd, and Mike Middleton is the 
second to upset the  “unbeatable�?? Yetman in as many weeks.   
Earlier in the night, a  scary crash was witnessed in the warm-up session 
when the Advanced Auto Parts,  Morrison powered PMC #3D of Dave Leckonby suffered 
a exploded right rear brake  rotor while coming down the front stretch at 
speed.  He ended up making severe contact with  the turn one wall, damaging that 
car beyond repair.  He brought out the backup car, and  qualified it in the 
heats, to an inside second row start for the main  event. 
That was just merely just  the beginning of what was to be in the main, when 
Steve Hough’s #34 brought the  field to the green, and began to pull away.  
But within a couple of laps, the yellow  was out when there was a multiple car 
pileup in turns 3 and 4 that included the  #99M of Jeremy Matthias, the #473 of 
John Alberti, the #28 of Al McCoy, and the  #115 of Kenny Tremont.  Everyone  
would continue except for Alberti and Tremont, relegating them to a  23rd, 
and 24th place finish.  But in the end, Hearn had the field  covered, and 
crossed the line first capturing his 2nd victory of  2005.  He was followed by 
Hollywood  Guy Sheldon, Ronnie Dwyer, Mr. Excitement Wayne Jelley, and Fast Eddie  
Marshall.  As the checker flew, the  #66 of Leckonby and the #74 of Jr. 
Heffner made contact on the backstretch and  spun.  Heffner limped his car  acrossed 
the line in 14th, Leckonby finish 16th, and the  Willie one, Will Cagle 
brought home a respectable 15th finish in a  3rd string #115 supplied by the  
Tremonts. 
The Sportsman class didn’t  go unnoticed with a multi-car pile-up of their 
own on the front stretch at the  start of their 20 main event.  The  SportsPage 
sponsored #09 PMC of Kevin Lynch brought the field to the green only  to have 
the caution come out just as fast as the #87 of Neil Stratton slowed and  
everyone else “checked-up�?? to avoid him. This one had nearly half the field  
involved, most were able to continue with minor damage, except for the front  
runners of Kory Sandstedt, Bobby Knipe, and Kyle Hoffman.  Also involved and 
several laps down was  the #2 of K.C. Goewey.  But after  several more cautions, it 
was all the #68 of Art Collins, followed by Brian  Sandstedt, Lorne Browe, 
Jeff Watson, and Don  Miller. 
Pro Stocks saw the #7 of  Rob Yetman involved in several incidents throughout 
the Pro Stock 20 lapper that  relegated him to an 11th place finish.  But the 
story of the night was the  rookie Pro Stocker, Mike Middleton.  He powered 
his #38 to the front from a 2nd row start and never  looked back.  Even in the 
waning  laps, with heavy pressure from the #78 of Paul Larochelle, and a wisp 
of smoke  developing under the car, he never lifted and captured his 1st ever  
Pro Stock victory in fine fashion.  The rookies saw John Rivers Jr. captured 
his 1st career  victory as well. 
Pure Stocks saw the  Legendary Pete Wiegand’s #78 capturing a victory, as 
well as Chrissy Hilt  returning to victory lane.  Jay  Casey and Dave Streibel 
captured the checkers in their events as  well. 
On the card this week, is  the return of the “Eve of Destruction�??, Tuesday 
June 21st.  A Huge Demo Derby, School Bus race,  Trailer Races, the Green 
Momba, and of course, an unbelievable stunt show.  Get there early as the action 
will not  stop for anyone!  Gates open at 5pm,  Events at 6pm, and the carnage 
begins at 7pm.  Then on Saturday June 25th,  it’s Fireworks, Fireworks, and 
Fireworks!  Berkshire Bank and Capital Tractor bring the fans a full card of 
racing  action as well as the ever popular Fireworks spectacular!   
For more info, go to _www.Lebanonvalley.com_ (http://www.lebanonvalley.com/)  
or call the offices at (518) 794-9606 or (518)  794-9665.   
SATURDAY JUNE 18, 2005  ANDERSON EQUIPMENT / T-NET MODIFED RESULTS (30 LAPS) 
- 1 Brett Hearn, 2 Guy  Sheldon, 3 Ron Dwyer, 4 Wayne Jelley, 5 Eddie 
Marshall, 6 Andy Bachetti, 7 Steve  Hough, 8 Donnie Corellis, 9 Matt Quinn, 10 Mike 
King, 11 Mel Schruffer, 12  Stanley Wetmore, 13 Hector Stratton, 14 J. R. 
Heffner, 15 Will Cagle, 16 Dave  Leckonby, 17 Roy Bridge, 18 Kyle Sheldon, 19 Paul 
Gilardi, 20 John Ruchel, 21  Russ Reckner, 22 Al McCoy, 23 John Alberti, 24 
Kenny Tremont Jr, 25 Jeremy  Matthies, 26 John Hewitt, 27 Brian Berger 
SPORTSMAN RESULTS (20 LAPS)  - 1 Art Collins, 2 Brian Sandstedt, 3 Lorne 
Browe, 4 Jeff Watson, 5 Don Miller,  6 Neil Stratton, 7 Frank Harper, 8 Ryan 
Larkin, 9 Carmon Carnibucci, 10 Alan  Houghtaling, 11 Danny Sanchez, 12 Kevin 
Lynch, 13 Rob Barile, 14 Chad Pierce, 15  Bob Bouchard, 16 Kim LaVoy, 17 K. C. 
Goewey, 18 Ed Harkin, 19 Jason Tompkins, 20  Bobby Knipe, 21 Kyle Hoffman, 22 Mike 
Mason, 23 Kory Sandstedt, 24 Chris  Tryon 
PRO STOCK RESULTS (20 LAPS)  - 1                Mike Middleton, 2 Paul 
LaRochelle, 3 Kevin Arnold, 4 Bob Duzlak, 5 Victor  Hopkins, 6 Robbie Speed, 7 Steve 
Goodemote, 8 Hugh Page, 9 Jay Corbin, 10 Ronnie  Jacobsen, 11 Rob Yetman, 12 
Don Collins, 13 Rick Dempsey, 14 Jim Langenback, 15  Jason Casey, 16 Rich 
Colesanti 
ROOKIE PRO STOCK RESULTS  (10 LAPS) - 1                John Rivers Jr, 2 
Brian Keough, 3 George Miles  III, 
4 Jerry Wright, 5 John  Santolin, 6 Jim Cronk, 7 Eric Sbrega, 8 Rob Maxon, 9 
David Shepard, 10 Kyle  Hosier, 11 Jerry Helms Sr 
PURE STOCK #1 RESULTS (8  LAPS) - 1 Jay Casey, 2 Jesse Murphy, 3 Larry Ball, 
4 Robert Hammell, 5 Karl  Castagna, 6 Joe Chenail, 7 John Chapman, 8 Anthony 
Maddalla, 9 Jerry Helms Jr,  10 John Quigley, 11Lynn Wesley, 12 Richard Rogers, 
13 Matt Humes, 14 Gary  VanDenberg, 
15 Paul Engwer, 16 Steve  Hatch 
PURE STOCK #2 RESULTS (8  LAPS) - 1 Pete Wiegand, 2 Tom Harkins, 3 Jon 
Routhier, 4 Bob Palmer, 5 Phil  Wood, 6 Dave Stickles, 7 Richard Puff, 8 Ryan Coon, 
9 Ray Hall Sr, 10 Shannon  McDermott, 11 Larry Stickles, 12 Pat Jones, 13 
Wuggie Burdick, 14 Al Relyea, 15  Chris Stalker 
PURE STOCK #3 RESULTS (8  LAPS) - 1 Chrissy Hilt, 2 Nick Hilt, 3 Kevin 
Winters, 4 Justin Herron, 5 Howard  Madsen, 6 Kevin Hilt, 7 Jay Kreutziger Jr, 8 
Kirk Stanaway, 9 Douglas Olds, 10  James Stanley, 11 Tony Martino, 12 Kerri 
Vandenberg, 13 Steve Kahler Jr, 14 Ed  Hubbard 
PURE STOCK #4 RESULTS (8  LAPS) -  1 Dave Streibel, 2 Randy  Myers, 3 Dave 
Houser, 4 Mark Burke, 5 Don Coon, 6 Rich Douglass, 7 Aaron  Fachini, 8 Ed Hatch, 
9 Mark Stevens, 10 Joe Walcott, 11 Tom Krandall, 12 Chip  Martin, 13 Mike 
Acker, 14 Sparky King