DECKER TOPS CAYUGA COUNTY, ON HOT STREAK!!!

WEEDSPORT, NY.8/23/98..Billy Decker, from Unadilla, NY, is on a hot

streak, winning four races in the last four nights. Last Sunday

he picked up the 35-lap victory at the Cayuga County Fair

Speedway. Winning in the sportsman division was Tim Sears. Ron

Hawker took top honors in the enduro feature.

Tim Burnett,running a 358-modified, took command of the race

at the drop of the green. Burnett was able to first Mike Ward and

Jimmy Phelps at bay for seven laps. On that circuit Phelps took

the lead from Burnett.

The first of just three yellow flags was thrown on lap 13

after Chuck Bower looped his mount and made contact with the

fourth turn Jersey Barriers. His car was towed to the pit area,

where it would later return to the fray some 17 laps down.

Darryl Ruggles looped his car in the first and second turns

on lap 15 to bring out the yellow a second time. Just four laps

later Bob McCreadie slowed going down the back stretch, while

running in seventh, and dropped out of the race.

On lap 25 Decker used the same maneuver he had the night

before at Canandaigua Speedway. He drifted higher then the lead

two cars through turns three and four. This higher grove provided

the momentum to pass both lead cars in one fell swoop.

Decker was now trying to just run away and hide from the

rest of the pack. Jimmy Phelps held second followed by Bobby

Varin, Tom Sears Jr. and Tim Fuller.

The yellow was displayed just one more time when on lap 29

the number 15 of Bob Melone slowed on the track.

At the finish it was Decker followed by Phelps, Varin,

Fuller and Alan Johnson.

The 20-lap sportsman feature saw Tim Sears pass Ryan Baye

for the lead on lap six. Sears simply cruised home the winning,

only being slowed by two cautions, both coming on lap 17.

Following Sears across the finish line were Baye, Greg

Doust, Rick Miller and Mike Button. A major bumping incident on

the speedway during the lap 16 restart saw Rich Swarthout try to

slam into the Jim Spano machine on the front stretch after the

checkers. Spano remarkably did the correct thing and stayed

inside his car. Both drivers were fined their earning for this

event.

This Sunday racing continues at the Cayuga County Fair

Speedway with the Dwarf cars joining the modifieds, sportsman and

enduro divisions. Race time will be at 7 p.m..

WILDFIRE SAFETY EQUIPMENT-JOHNSTON PAPER NIGHT SUMMARY

ENDURO

FEATURE (TOP 3): RON HAWKER, Tom Hitchcock, Mike Potts.

SPORTSMAN

HEAT 1: R. Miller, V. Vitale, M. Button, T. Sears, J. Cronin.

HEAT 2: R. Baye, G. Doust, R. Swarthout, R. Plantz, S. Gray.

FEATURE (20-laps): TIM SEARS, Ryan Baye, Greg Doust, Rick Miller,

Mike Button, Jim Spano, Steve Gray, Jim LaRock, Ron Davis, Dave

VanArsdale, Vince Vitale, Bob Haws, Rich Swarthout, Rodney

Plantz, Jim Cronin, Mark Cammuso, Paul Benz, Steve Oplinger, Mark

Conrow.

MODIFIED

HEAT 1: B. Varin, S. Prentice, B. McCreadie, C. Bower, J. Horton.

HEAT 2: T. Sears jr., T. Milton, A. Johnson, J. Barney, M.

Colsten.

HEAT 3: T. Fuller, B. Decker, J. Phelps, T. Burnett, M. Ward.

FEATURE (35-laps): BILLY DECKER, Jimmy Phelps, Bobby Varin, Tim

Fuller, Alan Johnson, Tom Sears Jr., Scott Prentice, Pat Ward,

Mike Colsten, Steve Glover, Tim Burnett, Jason Barney, Darryl

Ruggles, Jay Hopkins, Jimmy Horton, Mike Ward, Roy Shields, Bob

Melone, Todd Milton, Bob McCreadie, Chuck Bower, Max Phillips Jr.