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| Hurricane Walter Wins Career First At Selinsgrove In Sprint Car Competition |
SELINSGROVE, Pa. - April 15, 2006 Mike "Hurricane" Walter of Penns Creek made a last-lap pass by Kyle Bachman of Selinsgrove to win his first ever sprint car feature Saturday night at Selinsgrove Speedway.
Walter started 14th in the 24-car field and reeled in race leader Bachman in the final laps to score the win at the wheel of the Selinsgrove Ford No. 63.
Jimmy Adams of Herndon won his fourth career late model feature in the division's 25-lap feature, while AJ Hoffman of Richfield won his first race of the season in the 15-lap pro stock main. Gary Kerstetter of McClure won his second 12-lap roadrunner feature this year.
Selinsgrove Speedway will present the Late Model Spring Championship at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. The 30-lap main event for late models will pay $2,000 to win and $200 to start. The sprint cars, pro stocks and roadrunners will be a part of the four division show.
Second-place starter and former big block modified driver Scott Flammer led the sprint car feature at the drop of the green flag. Flammer was chased by polesitter Scott Tate for 10 laps before Tate lost control of his racer in turn four.
When the race resumed, Flammer was trailed by third-place starter Kyle Bachman and sixth-place starter Bryan Golden. Seventh-place starter Nate Snyder stormed to the front of the pack while racing the high line around the oval. On the 14th circuit, Snyder challenged Flammer for the lead on the backstretch when their two race cars made contact but were able to continue.
Snyder streaked away from the field while 12th-place starter and current point leader Blane Heimbach drove into the top five. On the 17th circuit, Heimbach's No. 12 blew a right rear tire while racing fourth.
While under caution, Snyder's No. 5 also developed a flat tire and Flammer spun while pacing in second. This turn of events put Bachman into the lead for the restart. With only five laps remaining, 14th-place starter Mike Walter reeled in Bachman and made the winning pass using the inside lane in turn three on the final circuit.
Walter took the checkered flag by only .47 of a second over Bachman, Jason Shultz, Golden and Brian Nornhold. Snyder came back to finish ninth, while Heimbach settled for 13th.
Polesitter Jimmy Adams led flag to flag for his win in the late model feature. For most of the event, second-place starter Dustin Hoffman raced in his shadow.
The second half of the event saw both sixth-place starter Jeff Rine and seventh-place starter Donnie Schick put in bids for the runner up position. Hoffman held off any challenges, however, and continued to pressure Adams for the lead.
At the checkered flag, Adams was victorious by a mere .60 of a second over Hoffman, Schick, Rine and fifth-place starter Tony Adams.
Outside front row starter AJ Hoffman led wire to wire for his victory in the pro stock feature but not without having to fend off several competitors, including sixth-place starter Dave Brouse Jr. and 12th-place starter Gerald Kratzer.
During the last five laps of the event, Kratzer tormented Hoffman for the lead and the win. At the finish line, however, Hoffman was victorious by just .50 of a second over Kratzer, Dan Jensen, AJ Stroup and point leader Gary Beward.
Second-place starter Tim Mitch led the first two laps of the roadrunner feature before polesitter Ray Rothfuss led a single circuit on lap three. Lap four saw eighth-place starter Gary Kerstetter power into the lead and hold off teammate and fourth-place starter Matt Keister for the half car-length victory. Matt Drum, Rothfuss and Dave Kamp completed the top five.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY SUMMARY - 15 April 2006
Sprint Cars - 39 Entries
25-Lap A-Main: 1) 63 Mike Walter $1,200 2) 99 Kyle Bachman 3) 2 Jason
Shultz 4) 12G Bryan Golden 5) 1N Brian Nornhold 6) 3 Pat Cannon 7) 4B
Adrian Shaffer 8) 6 Colby Womer 9) 5 Nate Snyder 10) L70 Larry Kelleher
11) 45 Kyle Purks 12) 3K Len Krautheim 13) 12 Blane Heimbach 14) 81 Bob
Beidleman 15) 43 Doug Dodson 16) 9 Scott Tate 17) 19 Jordan Frontz 18)
28 Keith Prutzman 19) 71 Charlie Anderson 20) 37 Scott Flammer 21) 99B
Nyle Berkes 22) 21 Duane Mausteller 23) 1J Jake Raudabaugh 24) 1M Babe
Mader
Heat Winners: Scott Tate, Kyle Bachman, Blane Heimbach, Scott Flammer
B-Main Winner: Nyle Berkes
Late Models - 25 Entries
25-Lap A-Main: 1) 8 Jimmy Adams $1,200 2) 7 Dustin Hoffman 3) 6 Donnie
Schick 4) 2J Jeff Rine 5) 88 Tony Adams 6) 21 Chris Shuey 7) 7NY Alan
Sagi 8) 61T Kenny Trevitz 9) 45 Eric Hons 10) 64 Chris Wilkinson 11) 75
Terry Neitz 12) 27 Jim Yoder 13) 32 Jeff Smith 14) 92 Randall Paxton 15)
14 Dave Reed 16) 4S Dave Shulski 17) 81 Dwayne Taneyhill 18) 17 Dave
Brouse Sr. 19) 90 Kyle Rhoads 20) 68 Tom Fogelman 21) 38 Rob Baker 22)
44 Tony Smith 23) 0 Les Lyons 24) 16 Brian Cochran 25) 1 Brett Schadel
(dns)
Heat Winners: Jeff Rine, Eric Hons, Donnie Schick
Pro Stocks - 27 Entries
15-Lap A-Main: 1) 21 AJ Hoffman 2) 10 Gerald Kratzer 3) 6 Dan Jensen 4)
26 AJ Stroup 5) 19 Gary Beward 6) 14B Dave Brouse Jr. 7) 70 Matt Johnson
8) 13 Chris Badger 9) 115 Troy Miller 10) 23 Jim Somers 11) 5 Neil
Langtry 12) 14 Neil Conrad 13) 7X Jeff Rayson 14) 8H Lonnie Hile 15) 711
Jim Jurasich 16) 54 Sammy Troup 17) 8 Brad Trump 18) 18 Roger Stoneroad
19) 81 Todd Kiger 20) 99H Peanut Heintzelman 21) 17 Brian Bowersox
(alt.) 22) 28 Jason Stahl 23) 8C Jace Cresswell 24) 7 Meade Hahn 25) 70G
Bill Glass (dns)
Heat Winners: Troy Miller, Gary Beward, AJ Hoffman
Consolation Winner: Sammy Troup
Roadrunners - 22 Entries
12-Lap A-Main: 1) 05 Gary Kerstetter 2) 010 Matt Keister 3) 48 Matt Drum
4) 17 Ray Rothfuss 5) 9 Dave Kamp 6) 19 Chad Davis 7) 69 Tim Campbell 8)
10 Tim Mitch 9) 00 Cory Long 10) 11 Keith Bissinger 11) 31 Brandon
Shultz 12) 67 Anthony Munn 13) 13 Jim Collier Jr. 14) 41 Dennis Conrad
15) 15 Shawn Stahl 16) 1 Kyle Miller 17) 57 Mark Spencer 18) 27 Wayne
Weist 19) 12 Doug Minium 20) 10M Brad Mitch 21) 44 Jim Collier Sr. 22)
22 Zack Lingle
Heat Winners: Ray Rothfuss, Gary Kerstetter
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