Godown and Pursell Are New Egypt’s Saturday Stars

New Egypt, NJ (August 10) – Division rookie Ryan Godown of Ringoes, NJ,

scored a convincing second of the season in the Modified ranks, while Scott

Pursell of nearby Frenchtown, NJ, aced the URC Sprint race on Opdyke Lumber

Night Saturday at New Egypt Speedway.

“This is unbelievable,” said Godown, 27. “We blew our motor here last week –

and we really ain’t got the budget to do that. We were very upset after last

week – didn’t know what we were going to do. And then (Steve) Moss offered

to lend us his motor. We’re really, really thankful to him. If it wasn’t for

Moss, I wouldn’t be standing here tonight.”

In the 25-lap Modified main, Godown swept around the early leaders to grab

the point on lap 9, then settled into a low groove more to his liking.

Meanwhile, Roger Laureno, a feature winner on June 29, was riding the

cushion like a cowboy in a roundup, showing third on lap 18, taking second

the next tour. Laureno rode the high line, almost even with Godown down low,

while the fans took to their feet for an anything-goes finish. Godown had

just enough steam to kick it hard off the bottom out of turn four and claim

his second of the year over Laureno, Tom Hager, Darren McCaughey and Eddie

Bohn. Billy Pauch, who finished eighth, retook the hotly contested point

lead.

In a wheel-to-wheel 25-lap thriller, Scott Pursell grabbed the money spot

from Glen Clarke in dramatic fashion with two laps remaining to score his

first of the season, the second of his career, in the companion URC Sprint

race. Midge Miller finished second, with Chris Coyle third, Curt Michael

fourth and Gary Gollub in fifth.

“I want to dedicate this win to my mother-in-law, who passed away a year

ago. She was a big part of our race team and she is missed,” said Pursell,

adding, “This track is great. I just love this place.”

Hillsborough, NJ’s Jeff Geiges became the 13th different winner this year in

the Sportsman ranks, holding off a spirited bid by Larry Kline for his

first-ever victory. Rookie Anthony Tramontana, Joe Szwed and Joe Papiez

chased Geiges and Kline across the stripe in the division’s 15-lapper.

After weeks of coming close with no cigar, Jon Hewitt, Pipersville, PA, won

his career-first in the 15-lap Super Stock feature. Not to be denied this

time, Hewitt nixed a white-flag charge by defending division champ Al Cheney

III for the victory. Cheney, Rich Page, George Quinlan and Gary Butler

followed Hewitt to the line.

The Herman’s Trucking Lightning Lap Awards for fastest lap in a feature

event were won by Darren McCaughey (Mods, 20.061), Jeff Geiges (Sportsman,

20.911) and Al Cheney III (Super Stock, 22.021).

More than 140 cars competed in 20 events during the night, which were

completed before 10:30 pm.

Sponsor Opdyke Lumber awarded trophies to all the winners, and tossed a ton

of custom-designed T-shirts into the grandstands to the fans’ delight.

Next week, Party City presents Hawaii Five-0 at New Egypt Speedway, with a

big 50-lapper for the Modifieds highlighting the three division race card.

Gates open at 4 pm, with first race at 6. Adult admission is $18, children

7-12 are $6, and kids 6 and under are free. For more information, call the

speedway office at (609) 758-1900.

8/10/02

MODIFIED RESULTS

1st Heat: 1.R. Godown 2.Brightbill 3.Tanner Jr. 4.T. Hager 5.Grosso

6.Reppert

2nd Heat: 1.Laureno 2.Radd 3.VanGorder 4.Burley 5.Miloszar 6.Bitner

3rd Heat: 1.McCaughey 2.Bohn 3.Pauch 4.Cozze 5.Hendershot 6.Cox

B Main: 1.Martz 2.Hoffman 3.Worthington 4.G.Hager 5.Kessler 6.Keimig (Pt.

Prov: Drayton)

Feature (25 laps):

1.Ryan Godown 2.Roger Laureno 3.Tom Hager 4.Darren McCaughey 5.Eddie Bohn

6.Tim Tanner Jr. 7.Mark Bitner 8.Billy Pauch 9.Sam Martz 10.Tad Cox 11.Rick

Grosso 12.Frank Cozze 13.Keith Hoffman 14.Kenny Brightbill 15.Bob

Worthington 16.Gary Hager 17.Mike Hendershot 18.Donny Radd 19.Todd Burley

20.Mickey Kessler 21.Korey Keimig 22.Bob Drayton 23.John Miloszar 24.Jimmy

Reppert 25.Scott VanGorder

DNQ: Richie Rutski, Mark Tranquilli, Doug Liedl.

SPORTSMAN RESULTS

1st Heat: 1.B.Godown 2.Fleming 3.Szwed 4.M.Papiez 5.Buffalino

2nd Heat: 1.Geiges 2.Telesco 3.Smith 4.Tramontana 5.Toth

3rd Heat: 1.Hisko 2.Swain 3.J.Papiez 4.Pearson 5.Kline

4th Heat: 1.Scagliotta 2.Scherer 3.Lyons 4.Meisner 5.Monk

Feature (15 Laps):

1.Jeff Geiges 2.Larry Kline 3.Anthony Tramontana 4.Joe Szwed 5.Joe Papiez

6.Brian Pearson 7.Jim Scherer 8.Mike Lyons 9.Stan Ploski III 10.G.R. Smith

11.Glenn Hisko 12.Rich Scagliotta 13.Matt Papiez 14.Fred Monk 15.Keith

Fleming 16.Brian Godown 17.Bill Tanner III 18.Jack Swain 19.Brien Ely

20.Gene Stravinsky 21.Chuck Flesch 22.Chris Wasson 23.Mike Toth 24.Keith

Foster 25.Ken Meisner 26.Dominick Buffalino 27.Phil McCloughan 28.Tom

Tomasko 29.Pete Telesco

DNQ: Keith Plumstead, Billy Tanner IV, Lou Farina III, Anthony Moran, Todd

Kuhl, Drew Grosso, Bill Raisner, Rick Raisner, Larry Lippincott, Rick Yard,

Brad Brightbill, Rich Kuiken, Rob Schuster, Rich McTighe, Rob Pfister, Dave

Woolston Sr., Barry Christ, Stan Frankenfield Jr., Nick Vasquez.

SUPER STOCK RESULTS

1st Heat: 1. Berardi 2.Butler 3.Coverly 4.Wagner 5.Roveda 6.Miscoski

2nd Heat: 1.Quinlan 2.Jn.Hewitt 3.Fleming 4.R.Page 5.Whitehouse 6.Cheney

3rd Heat: 1.Marra 2.Conaway 3.R.Gargiulo 4.Gerber 5.Bifulco 6.Bentz

Feature (15 laps):1.Jon Hewitt 2.Al Cheney 3.Rich Page 4.George Quinlan

5.Gary Butler 6.Pat Conaway 7.Paul Marra Jr. 8.Ralph Gargiulo 9.Evan Berardi

10.Carol Whitehouse 11.Kevin Bifulco 12.Brian Nixon 13.Bill Miscoski 14.Jim

Hewitt 15.Brian Wagner 16.Dan Dewey 17.Ron Coverly 18.Steve Biles 19.Kory

Fleming 20.Jake Roveda 21.Nick Gargiulo Jr. 22.Bill Gerber 23.Tom Bentz

24.Mick Search

DNQ: Rocco Infante, Spider Ensinger, Steve Mongiello, Ron Barnstead, Pete

Fogarty.

URC SPRINT CARS

1st Heat: 1.Pursell 2.Ely 3.Michael 4.Hogue 5.A.Bates

2nd Heat: 1.Coverdale 2.Trout 3.Clauss 4.Seidel 5.Zuczek

3rd Heat: 1.Emery 2.Clark 3.Gable 4.Welsh 5.Miller

4th Heat: 1.Busby 2.Gollub 3.Coyle 4.Lewis 5.McGough

C Main: 1.Rittenhouse 2.Eldreth 3.Williamson 4.West

B Main: 1.Haggenbottom 2.Massey 3.Brian 4.Aikin

Feature (25 laps): 1.Scott Pursell 2.Midge Miller 3.Chris Coyle 4.Curt

Michael 5.Gary Gollub 6.Greg Coverdale 7.Doug Emery 8.Jeremy Trout 9.Kevin

Welsh 10.Bill Brian 11.Dave McGough 12.Danny Massey 13.Dave Ely 14.Tim Hogue

15.Brian Seidel 16.Jason Clauss 17.Mike Haggenbottom 18.Ed Aiken 19.Ashley

Parlett 20.Jeff Busby 21.Ray Staats 21.Joe Zuczek 22.Glenn Clarke 23.Dave

Gable 24.Trevor Lewis

DNQ: Jon Eldreth, Todd Rittenhouse, Kramer Williamson, Gary Thayer, Ashley

Parlett, Ian Borden, Randy West, Mike Kostic, Jim Wyers, Phil Meisner Jr.,

Deric Parker, Judi Bates.