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Tracks: Big win for Irwin in ARANY Pro Stock Tour race at Lebanon Valley

29 July 2000

WEST LEBANON, NY- The full-fendered cars took center stage Thursday night at 
Lebanon Valley Speedway. The main event was a 25-lap ARANY Pro Stock Super 
DIRT Series feature. Lebanon Valley regular Butch Irwin was able to hold off 
all the DIRT big guns and the Valley locals to take the victory. DICKS 
AUTOMOTIVE and SPEEDS GARAGE sponsored the night's racing action. 
  
    In other racing action Thursday night, Lloyd Fosby was the victor in the 
Pure Stock A-main. Claverack native, Ron Jacobsen, was the winner of the Pure 
Stock B-main. Wally Engel, from Ghent, was the winner of the Pure Stock 
C-main. There was a special Pure Stock feature run for outside invaders and 
Fonda Speedway regular Dave Bayes was the winner. The top eight finishers in 
the three Lebanon Valley Pure Stock races took part in a special 15-lap 
feature. The B-main winner, Engel led the first half of the race. Ryan 
Crellin made the pass for the lead at the halfway point and cruised home to 
victory. Brian Keough took top honors for the second time this season in the 
Rookie feature. The winner of the first cannonball run was Ken Van Alpen and 
the winner of the second cannonball feature was Al Relyea. The winner of the 
Team Cannonball feature was Team "A". 

    Craig Simmons led the first three laps of the IMCA modified feature. He 
lost the lead to Steve Hough on lap four and Hough cruised home to victory.

    A full field of thirty cars took the green flag in the 25-lap Pro Stock 
main event. Trouble early for Rob Yetman as he almost spun in turn one on the 
start. Yetman was able to hang on but fell to the rear and eventually dropped 
from the event. The brother's Duzlak, Bobby and Ricky, both had difficult 
nights and would both retire from the event on lap two as the caution flew 
for a spin by Paul Rogers. Henry Tanner was in command of this event right 
from the start and was opened up a large lead. 

    Trouble on lap four as Bubba Tanner, Adam Haas, Paul LaRochelle and Tom 
Kuck got together on the backstretch. The caution came out just a couple laps 
later as Todd Goldstein spun around in turn one and collected Ted Teal and 
Robbie Speed. The only car not able to continue was Speed. The yellow came 
out again a couple laps later for Earl Mellan as he broke while running in 
the top ten. Tom Faxon was making his first appearance of the year in the Pro 
Stocks and ran in or near the top five the whole race. The top five at the 
halfway point was Henry Tanner, Danny Sanchez, Butch Irwin, Scoot Govertsen 
and Pete DeFiglio

    Bubba Tanner was making a charge back to the front after his early race 
problems and was running eighth by lap 15. Some great three and four wide 
racing for tenth on back made for some very tense moments. While under the 
caution flag on lap 17 the complexion of the race changed dramatically as the 
second place car of Sanchez went pitside with a right rear flat tire. Then 
tragedy for the leader Henry Tanner as something let go on his car and he 
went pitside giving the lead to Butch Irwin. Govertsen and Jim Lagenback were 
sitting right behind Irwin in second and third. Goldstein spun for the second 
time on lap 19 and this time DeFiglio and Sanchez were involved in the 
incident.

    One more caution on lap 21 set up a four-lap shootout to determine the 
winner. Govertsen threw everything he had at Irwin but could not make the 
pass stick. The two came together on the last lap in turn four and Govertsen 
went hard into the frontstretch wall. Irwin was able to hang on for the 
biggest win of his career; Lagenback, Faxon and Bubba Tanner followed him 
across the line. Current ARANY Pro Stock series point leader, Jipp Ortiz, 
rounded out the top five.

    DICK'S AUTOMOTIVE / SPEED'S GARAGE AUTOMOTIVE RECYCLERS ASSOCIATION PRO 
STOCK SUPER DIRT SERIES SUMMARY (25 LAPS) - 1) BUTCH IRWIN, 2) Jim 
Langenback, 3) Tom Faxon, 4) Bubba Tanner, 5) Jipp Ortiz, 6) Tom Brandt, 7) 
Bill Hallett, 8) Paul Rogers, 9) Joe Stefanski, 10) Jay Resch, 11) Beamer 
Guzzardi, 12) Ted Teal, 13) T.J. Fitzgibbons, 14) Ken Sargent, 15) Tom Kuck, 
16) Scott Govertsen, 17) Pete DeFiglio, 18) Tom Walker, 19) Dan Burl, 20) 
Todd Goldstein, 21) Danny Sanchez, 22) Henry Tanner, 23) Adam Haas, 24) Ed 
Bachand, 25) Steve Brownell, 26) Earl Mellan, 27) Rob Yetman, 28) Robbie 
Speed, 29) Paul LaRochelle, 30) Ricky Duzlak,31) Bob Duzlak

ROOKIE STREET STOCK SUMMARY (10 LAPS) - 1) BRIAN KEOUGH, 2) Phil Wood, 3) 
Lawrence Ball, 4) Rick Spencer, 5) Dan Humes, 6) Charlie Woodard, 7) Geo. 
Stalker Jr, 8) Tony Gale, 9) Kevin Arnold, 10) Dave Colwell, 11) Walt Clark, 
12) Phil DeFiglio, 13) Pete Jeske, 14) Jery Helms, 15) Rick Fosby, 16) Chris 
Claus

PURE STOCK "A" SUMMARY (8 LAPS) - 1) LLOYD FOSBY, 2) Kevin Dolan, 3) Earl 
Soulier, 4) Jim Dellea, 5) Marcus Tifft, 6) Mark Houston, 7) Lloyd Tomlin, 8) 
Gary Ashley, 9) Phil Decker Jr, 10) Chrissy Hilt, 11) Doug Moore, 12) David 
Hall, 13) Sid Smith, 14) Jeff Douglas, 15) Matthew Jasmine, 16) Chad 
Ritrovato, 17) Brian Atwood

PURE STOCK "B" SUMMARY (8 LAPS) - 1) WALLY ENGEL, 2) Rich. Schumann, 3) Tom 
Sanchez Jr, 4) Brian Sandstadt, 5) Anthony Cotugno, 6) Philip Moffit, 7) Jim 
Hankey, 8) Rich Douglass, 9) Steve Hatch, 10) Ron Tritschler, 11) Ronald 
Johnson, 12) Donald Coon, 13) Jacob Coons Jr, 14) Art Lafferty, 15) Keith 
Barlow

PURE STOCK "C" SUMMARY (8 LAPS) - 1) RONNIE JACOBSEN, 2) Ryan Crellin, 3) Bob 
Palmer, 4) Joe Mottoshiski, 5) Richard Harkins, 6) Scott Kilmer, 7) Joe 
DiStefano, 8) Fran Marchand, 9) Pete Wiegand, 10) Bob Gibson, 11) Bruce 
Moffitt, 12) Don Collins, 13) Lee Gallant, 14) Brian Tator, 15) George Miles 
Jr,

PURE STOCK FEATURE SUMMARY (15 LAPS) - 1) RYAN CRELLIN, 2) Wally Engel, 3) 
Jim Hankey, 4) Brian Sandstadt, 5) Anthony Cotugno, 6) Richard Harkins, 7) 
Kevin Dolan, 8) Joe DiStefano, 9) Tom Sanchez Jr, 10) Fran Marchand, 11) Earl 
Soulier, 12) Rich Douglass, 13) Marcus Tifft, 14) Bob Gibson, 15) Lloyd 
Tomlin, 16) Bob Palmer, 17) Steve Hatch, 18) Mark Houston, 19) Rich. 
Schumann, 20) Lloyd Fosby, 21) Jim Dellea, 22) Gary Ashley, 23) Joe 
Mottoshiski, 24) Ronnie Jacobsen

OUTSIDERS PURE STOCK SUMMARY (8 LAPS) - 1) DAVE BAYES, 2) Rob Van Aernam, 3) 
Bob Van Aernam, 4) Dick Nichols, 5) Dan Warner, 6) Eric Harper, 7) Jerry 
Pepper, 8) Randy Cannell, 9) John Brandt

A - CANNONBALL RESULTS - 1) KEN VAN ALPHEN, 2) Nathan Sanford, 3) John 
Hughes, 4) Darrell Older, 5) Frank Boucher Jr, 6) Dan Day, 7) Travis Sanford, 
8) Dom Calabro, 9) Ryan Coon, 10) Ross Wood, 11) D.J. Sadowski, 12) Glenn 
MIller, 13) Scott Wendover, 14) Bob Burl, 15) Joel Hunt, 16) Mark Van DeCarr, 
17) Andy Wheeler, 18) Rick Dempsey, 19) Bert Long, 20) Chuck Lampe, 21) Kyle 
Loughheed, 22) Byron Wescott, 23) Mike Hughes, 24) Chris Gudath, 25) Boyd Hunt

B - CANNONBALL RESULTS - 1) AL RELYEA, 2) Dave Delamater, 3) Keith Neer, 4) 
Grant Wescott, 5) Bob Delarm, 6) Chuck Dugan, 7) David Jones, 8) John Ames, 
9) Ken Townsend, 10) Chris Hutnik, 11) Derrick McGrew, 12) Charles Delarm, 
13) Mark Blowers, 14) Bob Stalker, 15) Don Virgilio, 16) Bill Jennings, 17) 
Dan Dudley, 18) Paco Weed Jr, 19) Jamie Tambasco, 20) Walter Cook, 21) Cory 
Smith

TEAM CANNONBALL RESULTS - 1) KEN VAN ALPHEN 16A, 2) Byron Wescott 4D, 3) 
Darrel Older 17B, 4) Keith Neer 6A, 5) Bob Burl 7B, 6) John Hughes 19D, 7) 
Dom Calabro 11A, 8) Dan Day 18C, 9) Jenny Moffit 12B, 10) Ryan Coon 10E, 11) 
Joel Hunt 9D, 12) Dave Dleamater 13C, 13) Wuggie Burdick 14D, 14) Bob Stalker 
20E, 15) Bert Long 3C, 16) Jamie Tambasco 2B, 17) Boyd Hunt 8C, 18) D.J. 
Sandowski 5E, 19) Chuck Lampe 1A, 20) Frank Boucher Jr 15E

TEAM RESULTS - TEAM A = 53, D = 52,  B = 51, C = 32, E = 22