Lebanon Valley Speedway Release

Corellis, Collins, and Langenback Survive for Victories!

By: Rodney Rescott               July 30, 2005

West Lebanon, NY:  The crowds flocked to the High Banks of Lebanon Valley 
Speedway this past Saturday, to witness racing at it's finest.  Every class 
and every race was battled right to the bitter end.  Sheldon Oil, Big Boys 
Toys and CLS Transportation presented the evenings festivities, with plenty 
of action on the speedway.

Earlier in the evening, a scary crash involved the #44 of Dave Leckonby and 
Guy Sheldon's #42 during the warm-ups; put the two racers, and their cars, 
out for night.  The #42 of Sheldon lost his brakes going into turn 1, making 
heavy contact with Leckonby.  Both were shaken, but walk away.

When the Modifieds took to the speedway for their 30 lap main event, the 
crowd was ready for a battle.  The #28 of Al McCoy brought the field to the 
green.  As the field reached the first turn, there was contact between the 
#87x of Paul Gilardi, and the #34R of Russ Reckner, sending Reckner to the 
outside wall with heavy contact.  That sparked off a chain reaction the saw 
the #87x shoot back across the speedway directly in the path of the #20 of 
Matt Quinn.  The #20 took a violent spill, finally coming to rest on the 
bottom of the speedway.  After the red flag was displayed for nearly 20 
minutes, the field again was fired with no laps on the board.  Out of the 
race was the #20 of Quinn, the #34R of Reckner, the #87x of Gilardi, and the 
#88D of Ron Dwyer.  All drivers walked away except for Quinn, who was taken 
by ambulance to the hospital as a precaution and further observation.  No 
further word at press time.

The field was then reassembled, and got the green again.  And it didn't take 
long to see who had the car to beat.  As the #21 Rifenberg Construction car 
of Donnie Corellis took the lead and began to pull away.  But he didn't get 
far, as the #45 K&F Modulars of Wayne Jelley made his way to second, 
followed by JR Heffner's #74.  But Heffner wasn't alone, because "Fast" 
Eddie Marshall was on a rail, and was closing fast.  For the next 20 or so 
laps, it was the 4 horsemen, out front, rubbin' wheels, swapping lanes, 
side-by-side, down low, and up high,  but no one car had an advantage.

After a couple of short cautions, it just wasn't enough for any of the top 
four to make a move, as Donnie Corellis held off Mr. Excitement for the win. 
Following Corellis over the line was Jelley, followed by Heffner, Marshall 
and the #1 of Brett Hearn.

The Sportsman division saw an excellent battle to get to the front as Art 
Collins, K.C. Goewey, Ryan Larkin and Bobby Knipe charged from deep in the 
field.  But in the end, it was Collins, taking his 5th of the year, followed 
by K.C Goewey, Neil Stratton, Ryan Larkin, and the #18 of Knipe.

The Prostocks saw the ole wily veteran of Jim Langenback and his #54L charge 
through the pack to pass race leader Jay Corbin, with just 2 laps to go, to 
take his 2nd of 2005.  Corbin's #8 held on to second from a hard charging 
#76 of last weeks winner, Kevin Arnold.  Rob Yetman muscled his way to 4th, 
followed by Mike Middleton's #38M.  The Rookies, after some mid-race 
"extra-curricular" activities, had the #311 of Brian Keogh cross the line 
first, followed by Jim Cronk, John Rivers Jr., John Santolin, and Jerry 
Wright came home 5th.

The action was hot and heavy, as usual, in the Pure Stocks as well.  And for 
the fans that come out a little early, they got to see some fantastic 
wheel-to-wheel action in all four events.  In Pure Stock #1 it was Joe 
Landry with the win, after a post-race DQ of the #8 Jeff Douglass, Pure 
Stock #2 had the #28 of Brian Houghtaling force his way to the top spot. 
Pure Stock #3 was taken by Jon Routhier's #015, and Pure Stock #4 saw the 
#073 of Dave Streibel take home the win.

Next week is the County Concrete, and Taconic DSL Night with all divisions 
on tap for racing action.  Also, Monday, August 15th, it's the First Ever 
Appearance of the World of Outlaws Late Models to Lebanon Valley, as Team 
Goewey and Carquest bring you the Dirty Dozen.  The Tail Gate Party is in 
effect, so get you tickets now, while their still available.   For 
information, visit www.LebanonValley.com, or for tickets, call the Speedway 
offices at (518) 794-9606 or (518) 794-9965.

SATURDAY JULY 30, 2005 -  BIG BOY'S TOYS / CLS TRANSPORTATION MODIFED 
RESULTS (30 LAPS) - 1 Donnie Corellis, 2 Wayne Jelley, 3 J. R. Heffner, 4 
Eddie Marshall, 5 Brett Hearn, 6 Kenny Tremont, 7 Brian Berger, 8 Steve 
Hough, 9 Hector Stratton, 10 Al McCoy, 11 Denny Soltis,

12 Kyle Sheldon, 13 John Alberti, 14 Dave McFeeters, 15 Jeremy Matthies, 16 
John Ruchel, 17 Wayne Figler, 18 Mike King, 19 Andy Bachetti, 20 Skippy Fox, 
21 Russ Reckner, 22 Paul Gilardi,

23 Ron Dwyer, 24 Matt Quinn, 25 Dave Leckonby, 26 Guy Sheldon



SPORTSMAN RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1 Art Collins, 2 K. C. Goewey, 3 Neil 
Stratton, 4 Ryan Larkin, 5 Bobby Knipe, 6 Chris Kokosa, 7 Brian Sandstedt, 8 
Lorne Browe, 9 Kevin Lynch, 10 Frank Harper, 11 Bob Bouchard, 12 Kyle 
Hoffman, 13 Jeff Watson, 14 Kim LaVoy, 15 Chris Tryon,

16 Ed Harkin, 17 Don Miller, 18 Kory Sandstedt, 19 Carmon Carnibucci, 20 
Mike Molloy, 21 Rob Barile, 22 Mike Mason, 23 J.R. Delvechio, 24 Danny Burl, 
25 Alan Houghtaling



PRO STOCK RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1                Jim Langenback, 2 Jay Corbin, 
3 Kevin Arnold, 4 Rob Yetman, 5 Mike Middleton, 6 Steve Goodemote, 7 Bob 
Duzlak, 8 Robbie Speed, 9 Chris Crews, 10 Jay Casey, 11 Victor Hopkins, 12 
Ronnie Jacobsen, 13 Jason Casey, 14 Larry Megan, 15 Jeff Kelmel, 16 Rick 
Fosby, 17 Chris Claus, 18 Paul LaRochelle, 19 Hugh Page, 20 Don Collins



ROOKIE PRO STOCK RESULTS (10 LAPS) - 1                Brian Keough, 2 Jim 
Cronk, 3 John Rivers Jr, 4 John Santolin, 5 Jerry Wright, 6 Rob Maxon, 7 
Bill Hammell, 8 Kyle Hosier, 9 George Miles III, 10 E. J. Legeyt



PURE STOCK #1 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Joe Landry, 2 Karl Castagna, 3 Jesse 
Murphy, 4 Kirk Stanaway, 5 Aaron Fachini, 6 Steve Kahler Jr, 7 Wuggie 
Burdick, 8 Pat Jones, 9 David Bink, 10 Nick Regis, 11 Jay Kreutziger Jr, 12 
Don Coon, 13 Steve Hatch, 14 Mark Stevens, 15 Gary VanDenberg, 16 Jeff 
Douglass



PURE STOCK #2 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Brian Houghtaling, 2 Shannon McDermott, 3 
Randy Myers, 4 Pete Wiegand Jr, 5 Johnny Lane, 6 Chip Martin, 7 Lynn Wesley, 
8 Jerry Helms Jr, 9 Anthony Maddalla, 10 Justin Herron, 11 Windy Winters, 12 
Chuck Lampe, 13 Marcus Tifft, 14 Richard Puff, 15 Richard Rogers



PURE STOCK #3 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Jon Routhier, 2 Pete Wiegand, 3 Al 
Relyea, 4 Dave Stickles, 5 Jay Casey, 6 Nick Hilt, 7 Phil Wood, 8 Tom 
Harkins, 9 Larry Ball, 10 Chrissy Hilt, 11 John Denue, 12 Rich Douglass, 13 
John Quigley, 14 Kevin Winters, 15 Pete Defiglio



PURE STOCK #4 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Dave Streibel, 2 Dave Houser, 3 Ryan 
Coon, 4 Robert Hammell, 5 Joe Chenail, 6 John Chapman, 7 Kevin Hilt, 8 Joe 
Walcott, 9 Douglas Olds, 10 Ed Hatch, 11 Paul Engwer, 12 Jethro Rossman, 13 
Kerri Vandenberg, 14 Duane Quenneville, 15 Sparky King, 16 Tom Murphy