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Tucson, AZ...April 15....Doing double duty on the all open wheel night at USA Race Park, Jerry Coons Jr won the ASCA wingless 360 sprint car feature and raced Cole Boyd's car to a 2nd behind New Mexico star Rick Ziehl in the winged sprint car main. Coons drove for Fred Bryan in the ASCA action. It was a night of seconds for Jeremy Sherman in the ASCA action as he ran second in the dash, his heat and the feature. Charles Davis Jr won his heat race and ran third in the feature. Ziehl got $1200 for his winged win and Coons won $600 in the Boyd car. With SCOA racing at Canyon Raceway, Rickey Hood ran here in the Steve Cushman cars racing with both ASCA and the local winged sprint class. Hood had problems in the ASCA main and ran 16th, but placed a $500 third in the winged sprint car action ahead of Ben Gregg. Adam Millsap won both his heat and the feature for the modified midgets. After a last place heat finish, Garrett Guilkey battled to second in the feature ahead of heat winner Jacob Hawkins.

                The ASCA wingless 360 sprint car group runs the vast majority of their schedule at Manzanita Speedway but book a few road trips each season and 23 cars appeared at the Tucson 3/8 mile clay oval. Sherman had won the last two feature races at Manzanita but Jeff Henry beat Sherman and Matthew Rossi in the dash. Marty Miller outraced Coons and Yuma's Mike Martin in heat 1. Davis Jr won heat 2 ahead of Hood and Bret Mellenberndt. Rossi edged out Sherman and dirt modified graduate Dana Fite in heat 3. Henry ran fourth in heat 3. Coons Jr took feature honors ahead of Sherman, Davis Jr, Rossi, Josh Pelkey, Mike Leslie, Bernie Smith, Martin, JT Imperial, Andy Reinbold and Ronnie Clark. Tucson's age limit rules put young racers Chad Boat and Michael Colegrove in midgets at Prescott because they needed to be 16 to race here. Sherman came out of the night 108 points up on Pelkey and 186 ahead of Rossi. Miller ran 18th and dropped 15 points back of Rossi, 43 in front of Smith. Henry ran 19th and is 12 points back of Smith.

            With the double duty drivers, the local winged sprint car action had 17 cars. Coons Jr won heat 1 over Hood and Ronnie Clark. Steve Stone edged out Ziehl and Gregg in heat 2. Ziehl raced to the feature win ahead of Coons, Hood, Gregg, Clark, Michael Bryan, Travis Cooley, Shane Smith, Ron Kratz and Bobby Taylor. Clark and Taylor also doubled with ASCA.

             Hawkins won the opening heat race for the modified midgets ahead of Nick Aiuto and Josh Castro. Brendon Higgins was ruled too young to race here earlier this season, but was allowed to run tonight and palced fourth in heat 1. Millsap edged out female racer Ashley Robella, Austin Quick and Joey Grimes in heat 2. Millsap then added the feature win ahead of Guilkey, Hawkins, Brandon Young, Robella, Aiuto, Quick and Castro. Millsap is the point leader for the 600 division ahead of Guilkey and Young.

         With the big NASCAR weekend taking place mainly at night in Phoenix, USA Race Park is running some of it's lower classes on April 22 with the factory stocks, hornets, tuff trucks and mod lites in action. The winged sprint cars, Barnett Harley Davidson dirt modifieds, pro stocks and street stocks all return on April 29.

Summary 

Modified Midget Heat 1-Jacob Hawkins, Nick Aiuto, Josh Castro, Brendon Higgins, Chad Fife. Heat 2-Adam Millsap, Ashley Robella, Austin Quick, Joey Grimes, Koty McGullam. Main-Millsap, Garrett Guilkey, Hawkins, Brandon Young, Robella, Aiuto, Quick, Castro, McGullam, Higgins, Fife, Thomas Parker, Doug Welty, Ron Blevin, Tony Brown, Grimes, Matt Shedarovich. 

Winged Sprint Car Heat 1-Jerry Coons Jr, Rickey Hood, Ronnie Clark, Michael Bryan, Kaylene Verville. Heat 2-Steve Stone, Rick Ziehl, Ben Gregg, Shane Smith, Ron Kratz. Main-Ziehl, Coons, Hood, Gregg, Clark, Bryan, Travis Cooley, Smith, Kratz, Bobby Taylor, John VanHorn, David Johnson, Don Sink, S Stone, Steve Lohn, Verville, Jesse Stone. 

Wingless 360 Sprint Car Dash-Jeff Henry, Jeremy Sherman, Matthew Rossi, Bernie Smith. Heat 1-Marty Miller, Jerry Coons Jr, Mike Martin, Josh Pelkey, Thomas Ogle. Heat 2-Charles Davis Jr, Rickey Hood, Bret Mellenberndt, Andy Reinbold, Seainn Hendricsen. Heat 3-Rossi, Sherman, Dana Fite, Henry, Brandon Lane. Main-Coons, Sherman, Davis, Rossi, Pelkey, Mike Leslie, Bernie Smith, Martin, J T Imperial, Reinbold, Clark, Bobby Taylor, Lane, Mike Harris, Ogle, Hood, Fite, Miller, Henry, Hendricsen, Mellenberndt.

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