MOORE AND HEARN TEAM UP TO WIN MODIFIED MAINS

WEST LEBANON, NY- A full evening of racing was held on a cool spring night

at Lebanon Valley. Chris Moore picked up the win in the first modified

feature that was held over from last week. Brett Hearn picked up the

feature win in the nitecap main. Robbie Speed was victorious for the

second week in a row in the street stocks.

The first modified feature started where it had abruptly ended last

week on lap six. Dickie Larkin led the field down for the green as Kenny

Tremont took the second position. Chris Moore would race Todd Wilkinson for

the fifth spot on lap eight. Moore would take the fifth position by lap

nine. Larkin and Tremont would start to pull away from the rest of the

field by lap ten. A restart on lap 13 allowed Donnie Corellis to take the

third spot. The running order at halfway was Larkin, Tremont, Corellis,

Donnie Ackner, and Moore.

Tremont would put pressure on Larkin going into turn two on lap 15.

The two cars would make contact going into turn three crashing both cars

out of the event. Corellis inherited the lead after the incident in turn

three. Rich Ricci would move up into the top five just after halfway. he

grabbed the fourth spot on lap 17. A restart on lap 17 allowed Moore to

take second and Ricci to grab third. Moore would grab first after a lap 18

restart with Ricci taking second. Hearn would take fifth on the same

restart. Moore and Ricci would pull away for the remainder of the race and

would race for the lead the final two laps. moore would be able to hold off

Ricci and claim his first win of the season. Corellis would finish third,

Ackner fourth, and Brett Hearn fifth.

The second modified feature started off with a big wreck on the

start in turn one. Glenn Grossjung got spun around while in fourth and

several cars got caught up in the melee. Dickie Larkin suffered a right

rear flat during the mishap and went pitside to change it. J.R. Hefner led

the field down for the restart. Donnie Corellis would take second and Brett

Hearn shot into third. Meanwhile they would go three wide for the fourth

spot. Moore would take the sixth on lap two. Hearn would take the lead on a

lap four restart with Heffner second and Corellis third. Corellis would

take second on lap five as Hearn opened up a twenty car lead. Eddie

Marshall and Moore would race side by side for fifth on lap nine.

Rich Ricci was moving up through the field quickly after going to

the rear at the start. Ricci was up to eighth by lap ten. Marshall would

take fourth on lap 11. Hearn continued to dominate on the front as they

reached the halfway point. Ricci would continue toward the front taking the

fifth spot on lap 16. Marshall and Ricci would battle for fourth on lap 20.

Hearn would begin to encounter lapped traffic by the 21st circuit. He would

easily get around the traffic and cruise home for his first win of 1998.

Hearn was followed across the line by Corellis, Heffner, Ricci, and

Marshall.

Ray Hall led the field down to the start for the 20-lap street

stock feature The would go three wide for third on lap two. Danny Sanchez

was running second and Adam Haas was third early in the going. John

Routhier was on the move early taking seventh on lap four. Hall would start

to run away by lap five. Adam Haas took the second spot on a lap seven

restart. Ed Bachand would grab third on the same restart, but would drop

out several laps later.

Lorne Browe would inherit the third spot when Bachand dropped out,

Todd Goldstein would take sixth on lap eleven. Last week’s winner Robbie

Speed would move up to sixth by lap 14. Danny Sanchez would drop out on lap

16. Robbie Speed would take fifth on lap 17. Todd Goldstein would hit the

wall on lap 18 and be finished for the evening. The restart would see the

second place car of Adam Haas not fire. that allowed Browe to take second

and set his sights on Hall. Speed would grab third on lap 18 as Hall

drifted high in turn three. This allowed Browe and Speed to scoot around

Hall. Browe would hold the lead very briefly on lap 19. Something on his

car broke on the final lap going into turn one on the final lap. This

allowed Speed to take the top spot for the second week in a row.

MODIFIED SUMMARY 4-18 FEATURE

1 CHRIS MOORE 10, 2 RICH RICCI JR 55R, 3 DONNIE CORELLIS 57, 4 DONNIE

ACKNER 97, 5 BRETT HEARN 3, 6 GUY SHELDON S, 7 TODD WILKINSON 47, 8 JODY

TORNABENE 2J, 9 JR HEFNER 60, 10 MIKE RICCI 15, 11 MIKE BENSON 33, 12 DAVE

LECKONBY 1L, 13 GLEN GROSSJUNG 94, 14 JOHN HEWITT 24, 15 EDDIE MARSHALL 98,

16 ART COLLINS 68, 17 GARRY WATERS 93, 18 MIKE KING 55K, 19 RON BLAKE 44,

20 SKIPPY FOX 347, 21 SAM BARLOW 1, 22 MAYNARD FORRETTE 78M, 23 STEVE

DEVINE 42, 24 BOBBY CHALMERS 24C, 25 DICKIE LARKIN 99, 26 KENNY TREMONT JR.

115, 27 BILLY DECKER 91, 28 A.J. ROMANO 12B, 29 JASON GOFF 73

MODIFIED SUMMARY 4-25 FEATURE

1 BRETT HEARN 3, 2 DONNIE CORELLIS 57, 3 JR HEFFNER 60, 4 RICH RICCI JR 55R,

5 EDDIE MARSHALL 98, 6 CHRIS MOORE 10, 7 JOHN HEWITT 24, 8 KENNY TREMONT

JR. 115, 9 MIKE RICCI 15, 10 JODY TORNABENE 2J, 11 MIKE BENSON 33, 12 STEVE

DEVINE 42, 13 TODD WILKINSON 47, 14 JOHN GIBSON 11, 15 JEREMY MATTHIES 99M,

16 ART COLLINS 68, 17 BOBBY CHALMERS 24C, 18 MIKE KING 55K, 19 SKIPPY FOX

347, 20 DONNIE ACKNER 97, 21 DAVE MOSHER 28, 22 RON BLAKE 44, 23 GARRY

WATERS 93, 24 DENNY YOUNG 12, 25 DICKIE LARKIN 99, 26 MAYNARD FORRETTE 78M,

27 GLEN GROSSJUNG 94, 28 GUY SHELDON S, 29 DAVE LECKONBY 1L, 30 GEORGE

MARCUS 91M

STREET STOCK SUMMARY

1 ROBBIE SPEED 24, 2 RAY HALL 327, 3 DAVE STREIBEL 273, 4 SCOTT GOVERTSON

117, 5 JOHN ROUTHIER 315, 6 ADAM HAAS 55, 7 LARRY TURNER 37, 8 BOBBY

BLACKBURN 234, 9 VICTOR HOPKINS 243, 10 ROB YETMAN 7, 11 BILL DEAK 26, 12

SPENCER HUGHES 1, 13 LORNE BROWE 14, 14 DWIGHT DAVIS 83, 15 TODD PARENT 94,

16 TODD GOLDSTEIN 41, 17 STEVE BROWNELL 56, 18 DANNY SANCHEZ 63, 19 DON ELY

00, 20 SHANE PEELE 25, 21 RICK FOSBY 91, 22 ED BACHAND 165, 23 MIKE BUNGAY

133, 24 RYAN PERLOWSKY 64, 25 DAVE KOKINDO 120

ROOKIE STREET STOCK SUMMARY

1 ROB YETMAN 7, 2 SHANE PEELE 25, 3 DON ELY 5, 4 MIKE BUNGAY 33, 5 WALT

CLARK 372, 6 KEVIN DENUE 145, 7 CHRIS LAWLOR 277, 8 DON COLLINS 115

PURE STOCK A SUMMARY

1A PETER DE FIGLIO 51, 2A GEORGE MILES 36, 3A RALPH HOTCHKISS 54, 4A JAKE

COONS 46, 5A RICH KRATT 18,6A STEVE HATCH 21, 7A BOB PALMER 29, 8A JOSH

WEBB 11, 9A ANTHONY COTUGNO 43, 10A MARK HUSTON 97, 11A TOM MELTZ 88, 12A

MARK CALLAHAN 5, 13A GUY HUGHES 3, 14A TIM DRUMM 94, 15A KEVIN ARNOLD 67

PURE STOCK B SUMMARY

1B BILL HUGHES 44, 2B KIRK STANAWAY 9, 3B SCOTT KILMER 47, 4B WILLIAM

HAMMELL 37, 5B HENRY WARNER 49, 6B PHILIP MOFFIT 55, 7B DWAYNE LOCKROW 38,

8B PETE LEFFLER 15, 9B BRUCE MOFFIT 62, 10B JERRY LAWTON 73, 11B MIKE MIRTO

27, 12B TOM SANCHEZ JR 23, 13B RICH SCHUMANN 28, 14B JIM DELLEA 77, 15B JOE

DISTEFANO 66

CANNONBALL RUN WINNERS

A JOHN HUGHES, B HARRY BERON