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SHERMAN NEARS RECORD WITH HIS 12TH WIN OF THE YEAR by Windy McDonald |
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Phoenix, AZ (August 20) A near capacity crowd was treated to a potpourri of open wheel racing in Manzanita Speedway’s 54th Anniversary Races Saturday night with Jeremy Sherman (Sprints) and Jay Foster (BRA Dirt Modifeds) taking main event wins on the half mile track and Stevie Sussex (AMRA Midgets) and Chad Boat (AMSCA Mini Sprints) notching wins on the 13/rd mile track. The crowded grandstands led Dennis Wood, Manzy’s General Manager, to add an extra $500 to each of the four divisions’ purses. Beating Jeremy Sherman is not impossible but as he has proven 11 times before on Manzanita’s short track it is highly improbable and he added another win, this one on Mananita’s half mile track, Saturday night. His win came over Marty Miller, the 2000 champion who managed to stay close after Sherman took the lead from him on the sixth lap but Sherman pulled away and won by over four seconds. His 12th win puts him just one behind the record of 13 wins in a season set by Bob Ream, Jr in his 1998 championship season. Five regular season races plus the Checker Auto Parts/Budweiser Western World Championships remain on the 2005 schedule. Two of those races will be contested on the half mile track. Jay Ervine started on the pole and had his top finish of the year as he held off Chris Bonneau who scored his first top five of the year. Bobby Boone, after a race long battle with Josh Pelkey, claimed the fifth spot. Behind Pelkey at the checkered flag were Seainn Hendricsen, Jeff Henry, Ben Gregg and Andy Reinbold. The 23 car field was the smallest of the year but 18 of the top 20 were on hand. Only ninth ranked Mike Leslie and 11th ranked Bob Ream, Jr. failed to show. Leslie dropped out of the top ten and Ream’s absence cost him four positions in the standings. Ervine vaulted to ninth and Reinbold secured the tenth spot in the updated points standings. The top 10 in points were inverted in the first five rows and the rest of the field was based on the finish order in the semi main. Ben Gregg took the semi over Hendricsen, Bonneau, Chuck Buckman, Bruce St. James, Justin Fisher, Tom Ogle, Mike Bonneau, Bob Bishop and Scott Pasmore who did not finish. Bishop, owner of the #62 car ended a 35 year retirement to race in the Anniversary show. Fisher drove the Colcord- Norman car in the semi but turned the car over to Matt Rossi for the feature so that Rossi could maintain his points after his car developed problems in the trophy dash. Rossi was the second car out of the race but his 21st place finish unofficially kept him third in points but only seven points ahead of Jeff Henry. Pelkey captured the three lap dash over Henry, Sherman and Rossi. The Sprints have the show to themselves on September 3rd
Fan Appreciation night. They will be on the half mile track and will qualify
for only the third time this year. ARIZONA SPRINT CAR ASSOCIATION-1/2 mile track Main Event: 1. Jeremy Sherman 2. Marty Miller 3. Jay Ervine 4. Chris Bonneau 5. Bobby Boone 6. Josh Pelkey 7. Seainn Hendricsen 8. Jeff Henry 9. Ben Gregg 10. Andy Reinbold 11. Bruce St. James 12. Shon Deskins 13. Bernie Smith 14. Brian Hacker 15. Thomas Ogle 16. Scott Pasmore 17. Don Keesler 18. Mike Bonneau 19. Bob Bishop 20. Nathan High 21. Matt Rossi 22. Chuck Buckman Lap leaders: laps 1-3 Ervine, laps 4-6 Miller, laps 7-25 Sherman Semi Main: 1. Ben Gregg 2. Seainn Hendricsen 3. Chris Bonneau 4. Chuck Buckman 5. Bruce St. James 6. Justin Fisher 7. Thomas Ogle 8. Mike Bonneau 9. Bob Bishop 10. Scott Pasmore Arizona Race Mart Trophy Dash: 1. Josh Pelkey 2. Jeff Henry 3. Jeremy Sherman 4. Matt Rossi BARNETT HARLEY DAVIDSON DIRT MODIFIEDS- ˝ mile track Main Event: 1. Jay Foster 2. Terry Belcher 3. Anthony Madrid 4. Steve Bender 5. Tom Lucas 6. Mark Harrison 7. MaX Sadler 8. Dave Craft 9. Nick Greigo 10. Greg Bedia 11. Lyle Askren 12. Todd Hamblen 13. Lance Mari 14. Brian Miller 15. Ricky Thornton 16. Randy Harrison 17. Rick Ward 18. James Pautot 19. John Cox 20. Robert King, Jr. 21. Jeff Stafford 22. Jeff Gibson 23. Aaron Mari 24. Terry Belcher, Jr. 25. Jason Noll ARIZONA MINI SPRINT CAR ASSOCIATION-1/3rd mile track Main Event: 1. Chad Boat 2. Kurt Stults 3. Dennis Carrier 4. Mike Colegrove 5. Dennis Parks 6. Paul Martin 7. Brian Mathus 8. Nathan High 9. Brandon George 10. Rick George 11. Ryan Lindhorst 12. Dustin Carrier 13. Brent Yarnal 14. Jim Mattison 15. Don Keesler 16. Duane Adams 17. Ron Copley 18. Eldon Johnson 19. Dustin Cormany 20. Derek Williams (New 15 lap record: 3:55.58) Semi Main: 1. Nathan High 2. Don Keesler 3. Rick George 4. Ron Copley 5. Brent Yarnal 6. Dustin Carrier 7. Brandon George 8. Jim Mattison 9. Derek Williams 10. Ryan Lindhorst 11. Valerie Smith 12. Dan Goodman 13. Scott Cox 14. Daniel Williams Trophy Dash: 1. Chad Boat 2. Brian Mathus 3. Mike Colegrove 4. Dennis Carrier 5. Kurt Stults ARIZONA MIDGET RACING ASSOCIATION-1/3rd mile track Main Event: 1. Stevie Sussex 2. Darrin Bolton 3. Jeff Perry 4. Mike Welker 5. Cole Houser 6. Ken Perry 7. Bugs Norbury 8. Chad Boat 9. Mike Hunnicutt 10. John Sarna 11. Dustin Burkhart 12. Darin Fala Trophy Dash: 1. Mike Welker 2. Stevie Sussex 3. Bugs Norbury 4. Chad Boat |
