Swartzlander takes 2 of 3; Pearson wins other in Mercer Modified Triple 25s

By Mike Leone

May 19, 2001

Mercer (PA)...The annual Bill Emig Memorial Night was held Saturday night at

Mercer Raceway Park sponsored by Hovis Auto & Truck Supply, Inc. Four new

winners celebrated in the Auto Body Products victory lane including Brian

Swartzlander twice and Dean Pearson-Bolland Machine Big-Block Modifieds,

John Buchanan-New Castle School of Trades Sportsman Modifieds, and Bobby

Whitling-Butterfield's Pub Stock Cars. Justin Pakulniewicz won the second of

six "Gladiator Series" Demolition Derbies.

Bolland Machine Big-Block Modifieds Feature #1: 1. BRIAN SWARTZLANDER

($1,500) 2. Lou Blaney 3. Jeff Schaffer 4. Kevin Bolland 5. Tommy Kristyak

6. Gary Risch, Jr. 7. Frank Guidace 8. Bill Dorman 9. J.R. McGinley 10. Rick

Hall 11. Adam Siegel 12. Nick Ritchey 13. Rodney Beltz 14. Les Myers 15.

Jeremiah Shingledecker 16. Lou Gentile 17. Steve Young 18. Andy Priest 19.

Rob Curtis 20. Mike Sutton 21. Tim Doran 22. Joe Crawford 23. Dean Pearson

24. Lonny Riggs.

Bolland Machine Big-Block Modifieds Feature #2: 1. DEAN PEARSON ($1,500) 2.

Brian Swartzlander 3. Tim Doran 4. Frank Guidace 5. Scott Gurdak 6. Kevin

Bolland 7. Lou Blaney 8. Lou Gentile 9. Jeff Schaffer 10. Rodney Beltz 11.

Dave Harbaugh 12. Adam Siegel 13. J.R. McGinley 14. Rick Hall 15. Gary

Risch, Jr. 16. Mike Sutton 17. Pete Simpson 18. Nick Ritchey 19. Tommy

Kristyak 20. Les Myers 21. Jeremiah Shingledecker 22. Andy Priest 23. Bill

Dorman 24. Joe Crawford 25. Lonny Riggs-DNS 26. Rob Curtis-DNS 27. Steve

Young-DNS.

Bolland Machine Big-Block Modifieds Feature #3: 1. BRIAN SWARTZLANDER

($1,500) 2. Rodney Beltz 3. J.R. McGinley 4. Lou Blaney 5. Kevin Bolland 6.

Dean Pearson 7. Rick Hall 8. Chetter Johnson 9. Jeff Schaffer 10. Rob Curtis

11. Lou Gentile 12. Pete Simpson 13. Gary Risch, Jr. 14. Adam Siegel 15.

Mike Sutton 16. Frank Guidace 17. Andy Priest 18. Nick Ritchey 19. Tim Doran

20. Joe Crawford 21. Scott Gurdak 22. Dave Harbaugh 23. Jeremiah

Shingledecker 24. Bill Dorman 25. Tommy Kristyak-DNS 26. Les Myers-DNS 27.

Steve Young-DNS 28. Lonny Riggs-DNS

Did not qualify: Jim Weller, Mark Sevin, Randy Ferguson, Chris Schiffer,

Rich Ferguson, Phil Evans, Jr., Carl Weatherby, Ron Took, George Davis,

Randy Snider, John Boyer, Jr., Rick Kress, Carl Murdick, Lee Miller, Don

McKnight, Ed Alcorn.