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Phoenix, AZ.....Sept
5-6........Averaging 16.55 per lap in an all green 25 lap feature, Jeremy
Sherman won his third straight ASCA unwinged 360 sprint car feature Saturday
night at Manzanita Speedway. The win gave Sherman five wins in the last six
events for the club as he paced the final 7 laps. Not having run a full
schedule, Sherman has climbed to 4th in points as Ricky Johnson came out of the
with a 36 point lead on Josh Pelkey in the title fight. A large field of mini
sprints rounded out the Saturday night action, all on the 1/3 mile clay oval.
Kiley Fellars won their feature ahead of Jeff Greszler and Dave Alexander. The
factory stocks headlined the Friday night show and Reeve Staley beat point title
hopeful Bobby Taylor in their feature race. Brian Bennett outraced Jeremy Kimble
in the claimer main and female racer Sheila McCurdy won the bomber action ahead
of Randy McCrory.
Sherman has won 12
feature races in 2003 as he has six with ASCA, five with the Arizona Midgets and
a lone SCRA unwinged 410 victory. A 33 car field battled for the 20 A main
starting slots. Sherman beat Bugs Norbury in heat 1 and Pelkey outraced Nathan
High in heat 2. Bob Ream Jr won heat 3 over Shon Deskins while Davey Bateman
outraced Jeff Branaman in heat 4. The dash found B Norbury winning ahead of
Sherman and Jeff Slinkard with an average time of 16.12. The top four from each
heat moved into the A Main and they were joined by four transfers from the B
Main. The B Main had 16 starters and California's Darren Hagen won ahead of
Brandon Lane and Slinkard. Point leader Ricky Johnson just made the cut as he
edged out his young son R J Johnson for that spot. Buddy Earle was 6th ahead of
Bernie Smith. In the 25 lap feature, Sherman lined up 12th, but was 4th by lap
8, third on lap 10 and second on lap 15. He passed Deskins to take over second,
but stood three seconds behind leader Bateman. Bateman had taken the top spot
from early leader Deskins on lap 12. Sherman used lapped traffic to quickly cut
into Sherman's lead and raced into the top spot on lap 19. Sherman was 2.1
seconds ahead of Bateman at the checkered flag. Deskins ran third ahead of Chuck
Buckman, Yuma's Mike Martin, Branaman, Pelkey, Ream and Eric Wilkins. 2002
champion Wilkins bounced back from his fierce crash in Casa Grande the previous
weekend. With his 7th place finish compared to the 10th for Ricky Johnson,
Pelkey cut the point lead in half to 36 points. Wilkins is 315 points out of
first in third, but 262 ahead of Sherman. The caution free 25 lapper was run in
413.72 seconds, well off the track record of 395.28 seconds held by Ream.
The mini sprint
club brought 26 cars and Dustin Carmony beat point runnerup Danny Mathus in the
dash. Heat winners were rookie Tony Osuch, last year's champion Dennis Parks and
point leader Greszler. Phoenis TV personality Scott Pasmore won the B Main ahead
of Mathus, Tim Ogle, Scott Birdzell and Jim Mattison. Fourth ranked Fellars was
chased to his feature win by Greszler, Alexander, Osuch, Carmony, Charles Mokry
II, Mathus, Parks, Thomas Ogle and Mark Stroh. Greszler improved his point lead
to 400 over Mathus with Thomas Ogle another 170 points back in third. Fellars is
105 back of Thomas Ogle and just 20 ahead of Stroh.
The Friday night
racing drew 19 factory stocks, 17 claimers and 11 bombers. Ron Poe won the
factory stock dash ahead of Ryan Roath. Heat winners were Terry Mumaugh and
Richard Kirn. Mumaugh was disqualified from his feature finish as R Staley won
ahead of Taylor, Clifton Maggard, his father Kent Staley, female racer Jackie
Parmeley, Mike Lilly, Ed Crabtree, Poe, last week's winner Ty Warner and Roath.
Robert Husted and Jeremy Lilly won claimer heat races. Bennett was third in his
heat, but won the feature race ahead of Jeremy Kimble, Lilly, James Pautot, Ben
Shepherd, Larry Upton and Chris McCurdy. Scott Campbell beat Howard Powell Jr in
the first heat for the bombers. S McCurdy had a perfect night as she won heat 2
over Chris Attel and then raced to the main event win ahead of McCrory, Dan
Lawrie, Attel, Aaron Rider and Larry Sowacke.
The same Friday night show runs
this weekend the ASCA unwinged sprint cars getting a rare half-mile show on
Saturday night as the IMCA Modifieds and mini sprints round out that card on the
1/3 mile clay oval.
Summary
Sept 5
Bombers
Heat 1-Scott Campbell, Howard Powell Jr, Peter McSorley, Dan Lawrie, Randy
McCrory.
Heat 2-Sheila McCurdy, Chris Attel, John Stafford, Doug Barrett, Larry Sowacke.
Main-McCurdy, McCrory, Lawrie, Attel, Aaron Rider, Sowacke, Stafford, Campbell,
Powell Jr, McSorley.
Claimers
Heat 1-Jeremy Lilly, Richard Pino, Chris McCurdy, Larry Upton, Donnie
Birmingham.
Heat 2-Robert Husted, Jeremy Kimble, Brian Bennett, Shane Savage, Jeff Moeglin.
Main-Bennett, Kimble, Lilly, James Pautot, Ben Shepherd, Upton, McCurdy, #87,
Pino, Donald Yates, Savage, Husted, Moeglin, Birmingham, Ace Gordon, Thomas,
Miguel Garcia.
Factory Stocks
Dash-Ron Poe, Ryan Roath, John Reynolds.
Heat 1-Terry Mumaugh, J Reynolds, Reeve Staley, Bobby Taylor, Clifton Maggard.
Heat 2-Richard Kirn, Ty Warner, Poe, Roath, Daniel Romero. Main-R Staley,
Taylor, Maggard, Kent Staley, Jackie Parmeley, Mike Lilly, Ed Crabtree, Poe,
Warner, Roath, Jared Keener, Joseph Pino, Kirn, Paul Arseneau, Romero, J
Reynolds, Jeff Carter.
Sept 6
Mini Sprints
Dash-Dustin Carmony, Danny Mathus, Jeff Greszler.
Heat 1-Tony Osuch, Dave Alexander, Thomas Ogle, Mark Stroh, Scott Pasmore.
Heat 2-Dennis Parks, Kiley Fellars, Carmony, Brian Shaw, Jim Mattison.
Heat 3-Greszler, Lance Peterson, Charles Mokry II, Judd Hathaway, Tim
Ogle.
B Main-Pasmore, Mathus, Tim Ogle, Scott Birdzell, Mattison, Don Keesler, Kurt
Stultz, Rick Alexander, Robert Mobley, Michael Young.
A Main-Fellars, Greszler, Alexander, Osuch, Carmony, Mokry, Mathus, Parks,
Thomas Ogle, Stroh, Pasmore, Tim Ogle, Birdzell, Hathaway, Mattison, Keesler,
Stultz, Shaw, Alexander, Peterson.
Unwinged 360 Sprint Cars
Dash-Bugs Norbury, Jeremy Sherman, Jeff Slinkard.
Heat 1-Sherman, B Norbury, Mike Martin, Eric Wilkins, Darren Hagen.
Heat 2-Josh Pelkey, Nathan High, Jay Ervine, Paul Norbury, Chris Edwards.
Heat 3-Bob Ream Jr, Shon Deskins, Chuck Buckman, Joey Moriarity, Brandon Lane.
Heat 4-Davey Bateman, Jeff Branaman, Mike Kuemper, Justin Fisher, Buddy Earle.
B Main-Hagen, Lane, Slinkard, Ricky Johnson, R J Johnson, Earle, Bernie Smith,
Willy Grombach, Jeff Henry, Ashley Corey.
A Main-Sherman, Bateman, Deskins, Buckman, Martin, Branaman, Pelkey, Ream,
Wilkins, Ricky Johnson, Hagen, Lane, Fisher, Kuemper, Moriarity, Slinkard, High,
Ervine, P Norbury, B Norbury.
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