Justin Henderson, Eric
Tomecek, Pat Cannon, Carmen Perigo Jr. and Gene Knaub Win Williams Grove
Saturday night Williams Grove
Speedway presented a busy night of racing.
The annual Fall Fest show highlighted the 410 Sprint Cars, the 358 Sprint
Cars, along with the Super Sportsman and the 358 Late Models.
Brain Leppo started on the pole
for the 25-lap Lawrence Chevrolet 410 Sprint Car feature.
Leppo took over the lead with Daryn Pittman racing in second.
Justin Henderson, the fourth place starter, then wrestled second place
from Pittman.
Justin Henderson, from
The American Ceramic Tiles 358
Sprint Cars had two features. In
the first 20-lap feature, Eric Tomecek used his second starting position to take
over the lead. Tomecek maintained
his lead through the race. In the
late stages of the race, the car driven by Pat Cannon caught the leader.
The final lap found Cannon
making a bid for the lead. In the
final turns, Cannon was almost even with the leader.
Tomecek, from Abbottstown, won the race to the finish line.
Tomecek recorded his first Williams Grove Speedway victory of 2011 in
front of Cannon, Davie Franek, Rodney Westhafer and Rich Eichelberger.
Pat Cannon gained enough points
to win the 2011 Williams Grove Speedway 358 Sprint Car point title.
Davie Franek led the early laps
of the second 358 Sprint Car main.
Pat Cannon began the event in eighth place and quickly advanced to second.
In the fifth lap, Cannon made his winning pass on the backstretch.
During the race the Cannon car
developed right side wing trouble.
Despite the problem, the New Cumberland-area driver easily won the feature.
His fourth win of the season was over Franek, Scott Geesey, Chad Trout
and Nate Hammaker.
Mike Enders was on the pole for
the start of the 20-lap Blazer's Body Shop Super Sportsman feature.
On the opening lap the left side of the wing on the Enders car collapsed.
On the third circuit Paul Miller slipped by Enders to become the new
leader.
Carmen Perigo Jr. was the ninth
place starter. Using an outside
lane, Perigo sliced his way through the pack.
The 13th lap found Pergio taking over the lead at the exit of turn four.
Miller rebound to challenge for the lead with two laps to go.
On the final lap, Miller pulled even with Perigo.
At the finish line, Perigo, from Stoystown, captured his first Williams
Grove Speedway win of 2011 by a slim margin over Miller.
Rick Barr finished third with Jay Fannasy in fourth and Frankie Herr took
fifth.
The final feature was the 20-lap
Tattooed Mom's 358 Late Model race.
John Ebersole started on the pole and quickly opened up a large lead.
Steve Clabaugh held second place.
Gene Knaub, the 12th placer starter, took over third.
Clabaugh and Knaub had a close fight for second.
Once Gene Knaub passed Clabaugh
for second, Knaub quickly caught leader John Ebersole.
Knaub's winning pass came on lap 14.
Once in front Knaub left the field behind.
The
This is the final 2011 show at
Williams Grove Speedway. The
management of Williams Grove Speedway thanks all the race teams and fans for
their support. On Saturday,
November 12, the Williams Grove Speedway Awards Banquet will take place at the
358 Sprint car
make up feature:
1) 1w Eric
Tomecek 2) 3 Pat Cannon 3) 4R Davey Franek 4) 44 Rodney Westhafer 5) 8 Rich
Eichelberger 6) 50 Tim Berkheimer 7) 18 Scott Geesey 8) 66n Nate Hammaker 9) 27s
Adrian Shaffer 10) 7c Chad Trout 11) 23M TJ Stutts 12) 66 Dale Hammaker 13) 8R
Michael Ruttkamp 14) 1s Logan Schuchart 15) 3A Danny Massey 16) 27 Jay Galloway
17) 94 Ted Thomas 18) 97 Brie Hershey 19) 80 Todd Reed 20) 88 Aaron Eichelberger
21) 5T Glenndon Forsthe 22) 99m Kyle Moody 23) 22m Brian Garland
Super Sportsman:
1) 93 Carmen
Perigo Jr. 2) 58 Paul Miller 3) 00 Rick Barr 4) 222 Jay Fannasy 5) 99 Frankie
Herr 6) 8 Rich Eichelberger 7) 45 Dave Socks 8) 33R Scott Geesey 9) 318 Chris
Meleason 10) 88w Eric Walker 11) 3B Mike Enders 12) 25 Bobby Hockenberry 13) 9K
Steve Wilbur 14) 55 Jim Shuster 15) 5 Dave Berkheimer 16) 64 Stan Wanner 17) 83
Greg Robinson 18) 83F Cody Fairchok 19) 33 John Garman 20) 21 Pete Lattanzio 21)
91 Lanny Hake 22) 77w Russ Mitten 23) 30 Scott Dellinger DNS: 66 LeRoy Martin
358 Sprint:
1) 3 Pat Cannon
2) 4R Davie Franek 3) 18 Scott Geesey 4) 7c Chad Trout 5) 66n Nate Hammaker 6)
1s Logan Schuchart 7) 27s Adrian Shaffer 8) 50 Tim Berkheimer 9) 1w Eric Tomecek
10) 23m TJ Stutts 11) 8R Michael Ruttkamp 12) 94 Ted Thomas 13) 8 Rich
Eichelberger 14) 66 Dale Hammaker 15) 64K Kyle Purks 16) 3A Danny Massey 17) 97
Brie Hershey 18) 80 Todd Reed 19) 07 Billy Schoffstall 20) 22m Brian Garland 21)
88 Aaron Eichelberger 22) 52 Austin Hogue 23) 27 Jay Galloway 24) 44 Rodney
Westhafer
410 Sprints:
1) 35 Justin
Henderson 2) 27 Daryn Pittman 3) 17B Steve Buckwater 4) 51 Fred Rahmer 5) 39
Greg Hodnett 6) 71 Brian Leppo 7) 48 Danny Dietrich 8) 11c Cory Haas 9) 15 Adam
Wilt 10) 30 Doug Esh 11) 21 Brian Montieth 12) 19m Brent Marks 13) 0 Rick
Lafferty 14) 2 Ryan Bohlke 15) 15 Jay Reichard 16) 30s Daryl Stimeling 17) 20
Ryan Taylor 18) 3 Mark Zimmerman 19) 4 Jon Brennfleck 20) 12w Troy Fraker 21)
20s Derek Sell 22) 65 Johnny Mackison Jr. 23) 49 Bobby Howard DNS: 7 Chad Layton
358 Late Models:
1) 1 Gene Knaub
2) 78 John Ebersole 3) 29 Steve Clabaugh 4) 80 Wes Alleman 5) 64 Grant Adams 6)
7 Pat Beard 7) 116 Travis Mease 8) 55 Derrike Zirkle 9) 18 DJ Mease 10) 48
Donnie Farling 11) 12 Charlie Schaffer 12) 7 Todd Leonard 13) 100 Tommy Slanker
14) 50 David Lightner 15) 22 Chase Billet 16) X Bernie Beard DNS 25 Tommy
Blackwell