Buckwalter And Keller
Wire Williams Grove Sprint Fields For Wins
8/25/17
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mechanicsburg
– Steve Buckwalter and Cody Keller
wired the sprint car fields for victories on Friday night at Williams Grove
Speedway, in the 410 and 358 sprint car divisions, respectively.
Buckwalter started second in the field to lead every lap
of the 25-circuit main event for the 410 sprint cars.
His pace was slowed only once, on the
fifth lap when the red flag appeared for a fire on the machine of Eric
Tomecek.
For the restart, Kody Lehman chased
Buckwalter but fifth starter Cory Haas moved into the second spot on the 13th
tour just as the leader entered the backmarkers.
Eighth starter Brock Zearfoss followed Haas and took third
one lap later.
Although Zearfoss took his shots at Haas, it was Haas who
tried to spoil Buckwalter’s party late in the race.
Haas steadily drove down Buckwalter’s
advantage, shaving a full second off of his lead from lap 17 to lap 20.
However during the final circuits, Buckwalter was again
able to stretch out his advantage to 1.277 seconds at the finish.
Haas shot low across the third and fourth turns repeatedly
during the late going trying to stick with Buckwalter but instead rode home
second.
The victory was the eighth of Buckwalter’s career at
Williams Grove Speedway.
Zearfoss crossed the line in third followed by Lucas Wolfe
and Freddie Rahmer.
Sixth through 10th went to
Alan Krimes, Kody Lehman, Anthony Macri, Brian Montieth and Rick Lafferty.
Heats went to Nicole Bower, Lafferty
and Wolfe.
Keller of Selinsgrove ran the ragged edge and sometimes
over it to pick up his first career 358-sprint victory at the speedway.
After starting second in the field, Keller would lead all
25 laps of the K1 RaceGear Summer Series main event to take home a $1,500
payday.
However the Snyder County pilot nearly gave the win away
on several occasions when he jumped the cushion at both ends of the
speedway.
The initial lap of the 358 sprint main was halted for an
eight-car melee in the third turn that saw at least two cars flip.
No injuries were reported however.
Keller entered the backmarkers on the ninth tour of the
event, chased by Brett Wanner and Phil Walter.
However one-time 2017 winner Kevin Nouse was on the move
through the top-five and eventually worked his way into second with a pair
of laps to go.
And by that time, Keller was losing ground and hopping the
cushion repeatedly, creating a closer finish at the end than perhaps would
have developed otherwise.
Nouse rode home second behind an exciting performance by
Keller, followed by Wanner, Chad Trout and Troy Wagaman Jr.
Sixth through 10th went to
Steve Owings, Chase Dietz, Phil Walter, Chris Frank and Brent Shearer.
Heats went to Walter, Keller, Nouse
and Nyle Berkes with Denny Gross scoring the consolation race.
August 25, 2017
Feature Finishes
410 sprints, 25 laps:
1. Steve Buckwalter, 2. Cory Haas, 3. Brock Zearfoss, 4. Lucas Wolfe, 5.
Freddie Rahmer, 6. Alan Krimes, 7. Kody Lehman, 8. Anthony Macri, 9. Brian
Montieth, 10. Rick Lafferty, 11. Matt Campbell, 12. Nicole Bower, 13. TJ
Stutts, 14. Chad Trout, 15. Kyle Pruitt, 16. Ryan Higgins, 17. Troy Fraker,
18. Chris Arnold, 19. Dwigth Leppo, 20. Danny Dietrich, 21. Eric Tomecek,
22. Rodney Westhafer, 23. Brandon Rahmer
358 sprints, 25 laps:
1. Cody Keller, 2. Kevin Nouse, 3. Brett Wanner,
4. Chad Trout, 5. Troy Wagaman Jr., 6. Steve Owings, 7. Chase Dietz, 8. Phil
Walter, 9. Chris Frank, 10. Brent Shearer, 11. Matt Findley, 12. Steve
Drevicki, 13. Wyatt Hinkle, 14. Denny Gross, 15. Micheael Hamer, 16. Dalton
Dietrich, 17. Shai Morris, 18. Jared Esh, 19. Nyle Berkes, 20. Jordan Givler,
21. Doug Hammaker, 22. Adrian Shaffer, 23. Brie Hershey, 24. Kyle Denmyer
DNQ:
Kenny Kuhn, Hank Donovan Jr., Zachary Allman, Rich Eichelberger, Cody
Fletcher, Ashley Capetta, Eric Parker, Adam Lyman, Dan Richcreek, TJ Dehaven,
Scott Fisher