Brightbill, Hoffman Split New Egypt Twin 20s

New Egypt, NJ (April 27) - A pair of Pennsy boys - Kenny Brightbill of

Sinking Spring and Keith Hoffman of Whitehall - were the big winners in the

headlining Modified division, splitting a twin-20 bill on Twins Night at New

Egypt Speedway, sponsored by Shammy Shine Car Washes of Milford, NJ.

It took Brightbill a mere three laps to grab the lead in the first of the

twin 20-lap Modified features, with Billy Pauch and Keith Hoffman in quick

pursuit. The hot trio ran hard and heavy-footed around the half-mile

tri-oval, but Brightbill ultimately had the upper hand. It was an easy

cruise under the black-and-white for Brightbill, recording his 25th career

win at New Egypt. Pauch, Hoffman, Bob Drayton and opening night winner Mark

Bitner followed Brightbill under the flag.

In the second 20-lapper, fans were treated to a wild run of spot-swapping,

with Rick Grosso Jr., Pauch, Brightbill, Frank Cozze and eventual winner

Hoffman pulling out all the stops. Although action was halted when Korey

Keimig barrel-rolled in turn two with four to go, the race was far from

over. On the final lap, in the final turn, Hoffman gave up a three-car lead

over Pauch when his car jumped the cushion. Pauch came up inches short of

unseating the rebounding Hoffman at the stripe. Brightbill, Cozze and Darren

McCaughey were three through five.

Stan Ploski III of Ringoes, NJ, grabbed the lead on lap 2 and powered to his

first career victory in the 20-lap Sportsman event. G.R. Smith was second,

Tom Tomasko was third, Scott Reid was fourth and Jim Scherer fifth.

In the Super Stock event, "Super" Mario Page of Somerset, NJ, blasted his

new Bernheisel car straight into victory lane to record his third career

win. Gary Butler was second for the third consecutive week, with Al Cheney

III, Pat Freiberger and Pat Conaway rounding out the top five.

There was a new winner in the Mid-State Communications Rookie Series, with

Stockton, NJ's Rick Yard taking the checker over Keith Plumstead, division

points leader Bill Tanner IV, Anthony Tramontana and Fred Monk.

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

event were won by Brightbill (Mods, 17.278), Ploski (Sportsman, 18.645) and

Page (Super Stock, 19.766). Earlier in the night, Frank Cozze broke the

existing Modified track record with a lap of 16.978.

Twins Night sponsor Shammy Shine Car Washes provided some great fan

giveaways, and twins ruled this night, with all twins admitted free to the

raceway and all leaving with prizes.

Next week at New Egypt Speedway, Pioneer Pole Buildings of Pennsylvania

presents a full card of big-block Modifieds, Sportsman, Super Stocks and

Rookies, starting at 5:30 p.m. Gates open at 2:30 p.m. Adult admission is

$14, children 7-12 are $4, and kids 6 and under are free. For more

information, call the speedway office at (609) 758-1900.

4/27/02

MODIFIED RESULTS

1st Heat: 1.Cozze 2.Brightbill 3.Martz 4.Bohn 5.Polenz 6.Van Gorder

2nd Heat: 1.Pauch 2.Hoffman 3.Bitner 4.Moss 5.Velenger 6.Tanner Jr.

3rd Heat: 1.Drayton 2.McCaughey 3.Worthington 4.Kerr 5.Koczon 6.Keimig

B Main: 1.Infante 2.Dmuchowski 3.McVay 4.Laureno 5.Grosso 6.Godown

(Fan Prov: Carberry)

1st Feature (20 laps): 1.Kenny Brightbill 2.Billy Pauch 3.Keith Hoffman

4.Bob Drayton 5.Mark Bitner 6.Darren McCaughey 7.Rick Grosso 8.Steve Moss

9.Frank Cozze 10.Sam Martz 11.Eddie Bohn 12.Gary Velenger 13.Tom Carberry

14.Ryan Kerr 15.Rich Polenz 16.Bob Worthington 17.Larry McVay 18.Ron John

Koczon 19.Fred Dmuchowski 20.Scott Van Gorder 21.Korey Keimig 22.Rocco

Infante 23.Ryan Godown 24.Roger Laureno DNS: Tim Tanner Jr.

2nd Feature (20 laps): 1.Keith Hoffman 2.Billy Pauch 3.Kenny Brightbill

4.Frank Cozze 5.Darren McCaughey 6.Bob Drayton 7.Rick Grosso 8.Sam Martz

9.Mark Bitner 10.Eddie Bohn 11.Steve Moss 12.Ryan Kerr 13.Rich Polenz

14.Fred Dmuchowski 15.Larry McVay 16.Rocco Infante 17.Scott Van Gorder

18.John Miloszar 19.Gary Velenger 20.Korey Keimig 21.Ron John Koczon 22.Bob

Worthington 23.Tom Carberry 24.Roger Laureno DNS: Ryan Godown, Tim Tanner

Jr.

DNQ: John Miloszar, Tom Hager, Mickey Kessler, Tad Cox, Mike Hendershot.

SPORTSMAN RESULTS

Rookie Feature: 1.Rick Yard 2.Plumstead 3.Tanner IV 4.Tramontana 5.Monk

6.Fitzsimmons 7.Farina III 8.Hisko 9.Woolston Jr. 10.Morris 11.Thomas

12.Lawrence 13.Kuhl 14.Acolia 15.Solderich 16.B.Raisner 17.Crowley. DNS:

Vasquez

1st Heat: 1.Telesco 2.M.Papiez 3.Smith 4.Foster 5.Buffalino

2nd Heat: 1.Lyons 2.Tomasko 3.Harris 4.Reutter Jr. 5.Kline

3rd Heat: 1.Reid 2.Scagliotta 3.Ploski III 4.Apgar 5.Leote

4th Heat: 1.Godown 2.Tanner III 3.Woolston Sr. 4.Meisner 5.McCloughan

1st B Main: 1.Scherer 2.Toth 3.Ely 4.Flesch

2nd B Main: 1.Swain 2.Raisner 3.Pearson 4.Beamer

Feature (20 Laps): 1.Stan Ploski III 2.G.R.Smith 3.Tom Tomasko 4.Scott Reid

5.Jim Scherer 6.Bill Tanner III 7.Jack Swain 8.Jeff Geiges 9.Tom Beamer

10.Jimmy Harris 11.Brian Godown 12.Brien Ely 13.Tim Apgar 14.Ken Meisner

15.Keith Foster 16.Dave Woolston Sr. 17.Larry Kline 18.Rich Scagliotta

19.Rick Raisner 20.Bruce Leote 21.Mike Lyons 22.Dominick Buffalino 23.Mike

Toth 24.Mike Reutter Jr. 25.Phil McCloughan 26.Matt Papiez 27.Rick Yard

28.Brian Pearson 29.Chuck Flesch DNS: Pete Telesco

DNQ: Jeff Geiges, Dave Hoffman, Joe Papiez, Rob Pfister, Anthony

Tramontana, Keith Plumstead, Rick Beavers, Glenn Hisko, Laura Lawrence, Tom

Fitzsimmons, Christiaan Van Schuyler, Nick Vasquez, Rich McTighe, Jeff

Carpenter, Robert Morris, Rich Acolia, Bill Raisner, Gene Stravinsky, Keith

Fleming, Lee Taylor Jr., John McClelland, Fred Monk, Lou Farina III, Doug

Boyce, Joe Solderich, Dave Woolston Jr., Anthony Moran, Todd Kuhl, Chris

Wasson, Billy Tanner IV, Randy Thomas, Wil Crowley.

SUPER STOCK RESULTS

1st Heat: 1.Melton 2.Conaway 3.Roveda 4.Butler 5.Gargiulo 6.Marra Jr.

2nd Heat: 1.Bauer 2.M.Page 3.Fleming 4.Whitehouse 5.Jn. Hewitt 6.Collier

3rd Heat: 1.Cheney 2.Freiberger 3.Quinlan 4.Gerber 5.Reed 6.Coverly

B Main: 1.Hammond 2.Nixon 3.Cologna 4.Search 5.Miscoski 6.Jm.Hewitt

Feature (15 laps):1.Mario Page 2.Gary Butler 3.Al Cheney III 4.Pat

Freiberger 5.Pat Conaway 6.Ralph Gargiulo 7.Carol Whitehouse 8.Ryan Coverly

9.Jake Roveda 10.Bryan Reed 11.Kory Fleming 12.Bill Miscoski 13.Jon Hewitt

14.Brian Nixon 15.Weldon Collier 16.Jim Hewitt 17.George Quinlan 18.Paul

Marra Jr. 19.Bill Gerber 20.Robert Melton 21.Billy Bauer 22.Mick Search

23.Ken Hammond 24.Dave Cologna

DNQ: Nick Gargiulo Jr., Dan Dewey, John Scarpati Jr., Tom Bentz, Rick

Marvin, Chris Pidgeon, Kevin Bifulco, Al Derlinger, Don Shipley.