HEARN FIRST TO WIN TWO AT THE VALLEY IN '98

WEST LEBANON, NY- The action was fast and furious in the 30-lap modified

feature Saturday night as Brett Hearn took home win number two of 1998.

Ron Blake took the win in the 20-lap sportsman feature and Scott Goversten

won the 20-lap street stock feature.

The yellow flagged flew nine times during the 30-lap modified

feature. John Gibson and Maynard Forrette spun as they ran first and

second. The rest of the field had to scramble to avoid the spinning racers.

One driver that got caught up in the melee was Kenny Tremont. Tremont did

not make severe contact with anyone, but was forced to go back to the rear

with all the other cars that were in the incident.

Guy Sheldon inherited the lead on the restart. Dave Leckonby had a

strong run. He would take second on lap four and would take the lead on a

lap four restart. Meanwhile Brett Hearn and Rich Ricci were moving steadily

up through the field. Hearn had failed to qualify in the heat and started

24th. Ricci has also started in the middle of the pack. They would run

fifth and sixth respectively on lap five.

There was great racing up front. Larkin and Sheldon were racing for

second on lap seven. Hearn would grab fourth on lap eight. Tremont began to

make his move back to the front. He was twelfth by lap eight. The most

serious incident of the night occurred to the second restart on lap 13.

Several cars made contact on the front straightaway. Eddie Marshall went

over the front end of the Corellis #57 and flipped several times.

Fortunately all the drivers were all right.

Leckonby, Sheldon, and Hearn would go three wide for the lead on

lap14 with Hearn taking the top spot. Tremont had worked his way up to

fourth by the halfway point of the feature. Sheldon was able to hold off

Tremont's advances for the second position until lap 21. Hearn would see

his large lead disappear on a lap 22 caution for a flat tire on Chris

Moore's #10. Larkin and Sheldon came together on the restart on several

other cars piled into the wreck. This allowed Ricci to take the third

position. The top three would breakaway from the field by lap 24. A good

race for fourth and fifth between Leckonby, Don Ackner, and J.R. Heffner.

Tremont would not be able to run down Hearn in the final stages.

Ricci crossed the line third but was disqualified for being light in post

race inspection. This moved Leckonby up to third, Heffner fourth, and

Ackner fifth.

The yellow flag fever would also plague the sportsman feature. Mike

Mason would lose the early race led to Bobby Chalmers on lap two. George

Marcus and Chris Kokosa were both involved in a lap two incident in turn

four. Both were able to continue from the rear of the field. Bobby Hackel

had a good run going early, he was up to second by lap three. Opening night

winner, Art Collins was up to the fourth spot by lap four. Hackel would

battle Chalmers for the front spot and take it on lap eight.Ron Blake would

put himself into contention on lap nine by grabbing second. Action was

taking place up near the front. They were running two and three wide from

second on back. Disaster struck on lap eleven for the front running Hackel.

He would spin in turn two and collect Chalmers in the process. Blake would

take over at the point. Kokosa and Marcus had worked their way back to third

and fourth by lap 12. Kokosa take second and chase after Blake. Marcus would

grab third from Collins lap later.

No one was able to catch up to Blake in the final stages of the

event. Kokosa and Marcus would race for the second spot late in the race.

Kokosa would hold on for second and Marcus was third. Collin came home

fourth and Roy Bridge rounded out the top five.

Yellow fever was not as rampant in the 20-lap street stock event.

Danny Sanchez held the front spot for nearly half of the event. Scott

Goversten would take the top spot on lap eight. Sanchez would attempt to

get the lead back as Lorne Browe watched from third. Goversten would open a

big lead on the rest of the field just after halfway.

John Routhier was up to third by lap 12. Todd Goldstein had a tire

rubbing and was black-flagged on lap 14 he was running in fourth at the

time. Robbie Speed would take fourth on a lap 14 restart. Goversten

continued to dominate up front. Routhier and Speed had a good race late in

the going for third. Speed would take third on lap 18. Goversten cruised

home to his first win of the year. Sanchez came home second, Speed third,

Routhier fourth and Browe fifth.

Join us at the Valley next week for our big Memorial Weekend racing

action. Saturday night will see a full night of all the regular divisions

plus a ladies cannonball and a 4-cylinder demo derby.

MODIFIED SUMMARY

1 Brett Hearn 3, 2 Kenny Tremont Jr 115, 3 Dave Leckonby 1, 4 J.R. Heffner

60, 5 Donnie Ackner 97, 6 John Hewitt 24, 7 Dickie Larkin 99, 8 Maynard

Forrette 78M, 9 Chris Moore 10, 10 Glen Grossjung 94, 11 Skippy Fox 347,

12 Dave Mosher (358) 28, 13 Chip Mitchell (LV) 28C, 14 Al Mc Coy 4, 15 Guy

Sheldon S, 16 John Gibson (LV) 11, 17 Jeff Lutes J21, 18 Todd Wilkinson 47,

19 Eddie Marshall 98, 20 Donnie Corellis 57, 21 Jeremy Matthies 99M,

22 Mike Benson 33, 23 Jody Tornabene 2J

SPORTSMAN SUMMARY

1 Ron Blake 44, 2 Chris Kokosa 00, 3 George Marcus 91M, 4 Art Collins 68

5 Roy Bridge S, 6 Wes Powell 33, 7 Mike Mason 26, 8 K.C. Goewey 2

9 J.R. Delvechio 110, 10 Lee Gagliardi 1, 11 Dave Baronowski 112B, 12 Joe

Bennett 7, 13 Darral Hulbert 8, 14 Frank Harper 25, 15 Mike Hotaling 5,

16 Carmon Carnibucci 81S, 17 Mike Boomhower 88M, 18 Shawn Whitbeck 18,

19 Bobby Hackel 97, 20 Bobby Chalmers 24, 21 Scott Puckett 711V, 22 Jason

Tompkins 117, 23 Dave Sanchez 23, 24 Chris Sprague 108, 25 Will Galm 406,

26 Dave McFetters 98M, 27 Butch Lyons 19, 28 Jeff Cassidy 111

IMCA MODIFIED SUMMARY

1 Henry Tanner 90, 2 Bill Lander 4, 3 Brian Wilbur 34, 4 Jeff Carr 5J

5 Craig Simmons 20, 6 Jay Casey 322, 7 Don Denue 45, 8 Anthony Markou 10

9 Cory Fachini 28, 10 Kevin Buff 92, 11 George Catanzano Z1, 12 Steve

Hough 25, 13 Paul LaRochelle 78, 14 Karl Hacker 73, 15 Jeff Heath 23

16 Rich Colesanti 41, 17 Chris Crews 757, 18 Dan Galullo 14, 19 Kevin

Priest 27, 20 Steve Bidwell 111, 21 Phil Bulmer 17

STREET STOCK SUMMARY

1 Scott Govertsen 117, 2 Danny Sanchez 63,3 Robbie Speed 24, 4 John

Routhier 315, 5 Lorne Browe 14, 6 Adam Haas 55, 7 Bobby Blackburn 234,

8 Ed Bachand 165, 9 Rob Yetman (R) 7, 10 Todd Parent 94, 11 Jim Gustafson

111, 12 Dave Kokindo 120, 13 Victor Hopkins 243, 14 Bob Duzlak 29, 15 Todd

Goldstein 41, 16 Bill Deak 26, 17 Bubba Tanner 72B, 18 Spencer Hughes 1,

19 Ray Hall 327, 20 Rick Fosby 91, 21 Dave Streibel 273,

22 Larry Turner L37

ROOKIE STREET STOCK SUMMARY

1 Ricky Duzlak 22, 2 Don Ely 00, 3 Shane Peele 25, 4 John Denue 145,

5 Paul Rogers 77, 6 Wayne Keyes 122, 7 Walt Clark 372, 8 Jim Schmidheini

213, 9 Mike Block 17, 10 Mike Bungay 33, 11 Richard Sigler 33, 12 Larry

Niemiec 62, 13 Chris Lawlor 277, 14 Tim Emmons 2, 15 Earl Farley 59,

16 Bill Moon 112, 17 Don Collins 115

PURE STOCK A SUMMARY

1A Bill Hughes 44, 2A Scott Kilmer 47, 3A Josh Webb 11, 4A Eric Sbrega 99

5A Mark Huston 97, 6A Rich Schumann 28, 7A Tom Meltz 88, 8A Ed Bishop 7

9A Jim Dellea 77, 10A Bob Palmer 29, 11A Jerry Lawton 73, 12A Peter De

Figlio 51, 13A Ralph Hotchkiss 54

PURE STOCK B SUMMARY

1B Ron Fredericks 75, 2B Tim Drumm 94, 3B Rich Kratt 18, 4B Tom Sanchez Jr

23, 5B Dave Colwell 57, 6B Ryan Crellin 63, 7B Bruce Moffit 62, 8B Ron

Tritchler 22, 9B Guy Hughes 3, 10B Henry Warner 49, 11B John Reed 48,

12B Tony Zerbarini 58, 13B Kevin Arnold 67

PURE STOCK C SUMMARY

1C Kirk Stanaway 9, 2C William Hammell 37, 3C Philip Moffit 55, 4C Jake

Coons 46, 5C Carl Baillargeron 34, 6C George Miles 36, 7C Pete Leffler 15,

8C Steve Hatch 21, 9C Anthony Lopresti 17, 10C Danny Ensign 33, 11C Gill

Twing 12, 12C Anthony Cotugno 43, 13C Mark Callahan 5