Hearn, Browe, Deak, Yetman and Hughes Victorious on Opening Night

Brett Hearn took the lead halfway in the 30 lap modified feature on Saturday night and cruised home for his first win of 1997. The street stocks were also on hand on Goewey night and Lorne Browe was the victor. The rookie street stock race was won by Bill Deak with pure stock wins going to Rob Yetman and Bill Hughes.

Brian Berger took the lead on the start of the modified feature. Berger held the top spot for the first fifteen circuits. Meanwhile Brett Hearn, Billy Decker and Kenny Tremont made their way toward the front. Only three caution flags would fly on this night. The most serious yellow came out for the #93 of Gary Waters. Waters got turned around in turn two and was hit hard by another racecar. Lap ten, saw Hearn catch Berger and began to challenge the Pittsfield, Mass driver. Lap 13 almost proved tragic for last years champ, Kenny Tremont. Dickie Larkin broke going down the backstretch and Tremont did a masterful job of avoiding Larkin's disabled racecar.

Hearn would pass Berger going into turn one just after the crossed flags had been shown. Billy Decker and Kenny Tremont would battle for the third position for the final five circuits. Tremont would grab the third spot away from Decker with two laps to go. Hearn was able to walk away from Berger and took the checkered flag a good straightaway ahead of second place. Brian Berger would hold on for second Tremont was third, Decker fourth, and Donnie Ackner fifth. The hard charger of the race would have to be the #97, of Donnie Ackner. Ackner qualified through the consolation event and started nineteenth on the grid. Ackner was able to move up to finish in the top five.

The street stock feature was slowed by five caution flags. There were also four lead changes in the event. Robbie Speed was the early race leader. Speed would lose the lead on a lap three restart to Lorne Browe. By halfway the top six had checked out from the rest of the pack. Lap 11, Speed got spun coming off turn two. He only lost two spots in the altercation. Speed would get back to second and challenge Browe for the top spot with five laps to go. Browe was able to hold off the challenge and win his first career street stock race, Robbie Speed was second, Jeff Sylvester third, Rich Crane was fourth and Dave Streibel was fifth.

49 cars made up the modified heat races with 17 sportsman cars in attendance also There was a full field of street stock and pure stock division cars. Next week will be opening night for the sportsman and IMCA modifieds, plus all classes will be on hand for Ronnies Cycle night. Thanks to Ed Bittig Jr. for the recap of the evenings races.

Pure Stock Results 4/26/97

Pure Stock A Finish Pure Stock B Finish

1) #7 Rob Yetmen 1) #44 Bill Hughes

2) #21 Steve Hatch 2) #9 Kirk Stanaway

3) #60 Frank Amlaw 3) #29 Bob Palmer

4) #28 Rich Schuaman 4) #47 Scott Kilmer

5) #22 Glen Miller 5) #40 Roy Fosby

6) #59 Todd MacNeil 6) #37 William Hammel

7) #39 Bill Woolsey 7) #72 Walt Clark

8) #94 Tim Drumm 8) #14 Gary Virgillio

9) #51 Pete Leffler 9) #68 Tim Farrell Jr.

10) #30 Tim Emmons 10) #5 Steve Flanders

11) #62 Bruce Moffit 11) #97 Richard Sigler

12) #26 Clem Toffolo 12) #73 John Reed

13) #2 Mattew Jasmin 13) #66 Joe Distefano

14) #31 Jeff Hassen 14) #38 Dwayne Lockrow

15) #37 William Hammell 15) #46 Jake Coons

16) #92 Dave Colwell 16) #25 Tom Delaney

17) #23 Tom Sanchez Jr. 17) #55 Phil Moffit

18) #17 Anthony Lopresti 18) #24 Rich Karowski

Street Stock Results 4/26/97

Rookie C-Main Finish Street Stock Feature Finish

1) #26 Bill Deak 1) #14 Lorne Browe

2) #77 Paul Rodgers 2) #24 Robbie Speed

3) #17 Don Hottes 3) #132 Jeff Sylvester

4) #226 Steve Kastner 4) #69 Rich Crane

5) #22 Ricky Duzlak 5) #273 Dave Streibel

6) #690 Chris Crane 6) #120 Dave Kokindo

7) #311 Brian Keough 7) #68X Dennis O'Conner

8) #228 Don Belanger 8) #315 John Routhier

9) #25 Andy Sikes 9) #103 Tom Brandt

10) #73 Dave Gudim Jr. 10) #243 Victor Hopkins

11) #35 Jeff Sukup 11) #126 Nick Rogers

12) #9 Kevin Buff 12) #26 Bill Deak

13) #234 Bobby Blackburn 13) #777 Ed Bishop

14) #70 Need Driver Name 14) #19 Aaron Booth

15) #41 Todd Goldstien

16) #118 Dave Kelmel

17) #91 Lloyd Fosby

18) #55 Adam Haas

19) #76 Wayne Oliver

20) #77 Paul Rodgers

21) #43 Mike McDowell

22) #72 Bubba Tanner

23) #64 Ryan Perlowsky

24) #619 Tom Bortel

25) #327 Ray Hall

26) #4 Steve Pasquariello

27) #13 Jim Langenback

Modified Results 4/26/97

Feature Lineup Feature Finish

57 - 60 1) #3 Brett Hearn 16) #15 Randy Snyder

42 - 24 2) #60 Brian Berger 17) #107 John Hancamp

12 - 43 3) #115 Kenny Tremont 18) #Five Russ Reckner

10 - 99 4) #91 Billy Decker 19) #2J Jody Tornebene

91 - 55R 5) #97 Donnie Ackner 20) #S Guy Sheldon

98 - 3 6) #55R Rich Ricci Jr. 21) #14 J.R. Hefner

96 - 115 7) #24 John Hewitt 22) #50J Craig Boehler

26C - 78M 8) #57 Donnie Corellis 23) #99 Dickie Larkin

S - Five 9) #96 Bobby Albert III 24) #00 Chris Kokosa

24M - 111 10) #10 Chris Moore 25) #93 Garry Waters

97 - 50J 11) #26C Dave Camara 26) #24M Rob Pitcher

93 - 14 12) #12 Russ Blair 27) #43 Scott Dickie

33 - 55K 13) #78M M. Forrette 28) #55K Mike King

00 - 107 14) #42 Steve Devine 29) #111 Jeff Cassidy

2J* - 15* 15) #33 Mike Benson 30) #98 Eddie Marshall

*Promoters Option Starter

Modifieds not Qualifying

#1D Don Goodrich III #152 Al Narzynski

#14W Al Williams #99M Jeremy Matthiews