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Title: Hilltop Speedway - 8/20 Results
Post by LMR on 08/21/11 at 1:42pm

Hilltop Speedway
August 20, 2011
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TWO IN A ROW FOR DROWN, MOREHOUSE, ADKINS, & WYER AT HILLTOP SPEEDWAY; GARDNER, CASKEY & CLINE CLAIM WINS

by Mike Swanger
MILLERSBURG, Ohio (August 20) - The regular season comes to a close with Season Championship night at Hilltop Speedway as another full house of fans that included Track Chaplain Jerry Reed and his wife Ruth for the first time this season as he gave the invocation and thanked the fans for their prayers during his recent health problems. Last weeks Holmes Tire Late Model winner, Doug Drown, started on the pole of the feature with Dave Liles alongside and it took a lap for Drown to pull away from Liles and secure the lead. Fourth starting Charlie Duncan would move past Liles on lap six with Wayne Maffett Jr. and Dave Hornikel knocking Liles back to fifth on the next circuit. Points leader Steve Prince started third and had slipped back to sixth as his goal with a 24 point advantage over Hornikel at the start of the night, was stay close to Hornikel. As Drown and his Trenchless Technoligies, UTI, DJ Miller owned #1dj was expanding his lead, Duncan, Maffett Jr., and Hornikel were working each other good for second. As Hornikel was running the extreme top of turn three and four on lap eight, Don Conley was slowly going to the pits and Hornikel’s car made contact with Conley, and suffered a flat tire and ripping the back spoiler off the #71. He would continue but would drop out later in the race and Prince would then lock up the crown. In the last half of the feature, George Lee would move into fourth in front of Liles and challenge Maffett Jr. for third, who would deny Lee of that spot and made his run at Duncan for second on the last lap but fell short. For Drown of Wooster, it would be his fourth win of the season and his 18th career win at Hilltop. Drown, Liles who finished fifth, and Prince were the heat winners.

Jimmy Smith won the Dash to start on the pole of the TSMA main and would set the pace for the opening five circuits of the race until third starting Kevin Morehouse would take control. As that was happening, Fast Qualifier Doug Drown got around Robin Duston for third as first time visitor Dan Davis ran fifth. Drown would power past Smith with eight laps to go and chase after the Service Welding & Supplies, Intrega Shocks, and American Racer Tire #28 of Morehouse, who had built up a comfortable lead. Morehouse of Hanover, had locked up the championship just buy showing up, won for the 7th time this year and 32nd all time at Hilltop. Drown would finish second for the second week in a row to the ‘Logger’ as Smith finished a season best third with Davis and Duston filling out the top five. Matt Samples, Norm Aronhalt and Hilton Eppley topped the heats as Ty Samples claimed the last chance race.

Heat winners Brandon Gardner and John Wilson started on the front row of the Street Stock main but before the first lap of the race was finished, the second starting row of Bob Daugherty and Jeremy Dickerson made contact that sent Daughterty to the pits to change a flat and Dickerson to the tail for causing the caution. On the restart, Gardner of Perrysville, jumped into the lead with points leader Kenny Daughriety Jr. taking second from Wilson. Daughriety Jr. had a ten point cushion over Bob Chilcote for the Championship when the night started, stayed close to the RowTac Inc., Innovative Graphics, and Team GLR #g27 of Gardner, but could never make the run to get by. Gardner would win his second main of the year and it also would be his 32nd all time win on the ‘Hill’, tying him with Morehouse for the most wins. Daughriety’s second place run gives him his first Hilltop crown as Wilson took third. With the help of a couple of mid race cautions, Daugherty stormed back to take fourth in front of Chilcote.

Billy Joel’s song ‘Pressure’ would have been appropriate for the Atom’s Pest Control Truck Championship drive as only six points separated the top three drivers starting the night as David Potts (367), Kevin Potts (364) and Jack Large (361). Jack Large would finish second as David Potts ended up fourth in the first heat putting them in the third and seventh starting positions in the feature while Kevin Potts won the second heat to start outside front row. At the drop of the green flag for the feature Jack Large spun going into turn one to bring out the caution and go to the tail. Working his way back up through the field and getting back up to fourth on lap eight, Large would make contact with a couple of trucks and go sliding into the infield but kept going and lose three spots. Mean while up front, Kevin Potts was trying to hold off a pesky Mitch Caskey and with two laps to go, succumbed to the Bishop Tire Service #14. For Caskey of North Lawrence, it would be his first win of the year while unofficially Kevin Potts’ second place run would be good for the championship over son David Potts who drove to a fourth place finish behind Jerry Gardner as Kenny Duncan rounded out the top five. John Large was the winner of the first heat.

Second heat winner, Killbuck’s Terry Adkins went flag to flag in the Guerne Heights Drive Inn Mini Stock feature to win his seventh feature of the year aboard the #49. First heat winner, Ernest Fortune, applied early race pressure to Adkins and then hold off a late run by Brett Adkins for second. Blain Markey ran a strong fourth while Brad Hensel worked his way from 8th to fill out the top five. Points Leader Gary Hensel Jr. finished 12th to win the Championship unofficially by eight points over Steve Miller. Jordan James won the third heat as Michael Rose notched the last chance win.

Dillyn Wyer of Philo won his second Mini Wedge main in a row after taking the lead from Blake Morris on the second lap. Charity Bubeck finished second as Donovan Dickerson’s third place finish locked up the track championship for him. Hannah Rose finished fourth after hitting a retaining tire and doing a 360 spin on the first lap but never stopped. Jose Lillibridge ran fifth. Taylor Huggins and Phil Bubeck made contact on the back stretch on lap three that ended up with Huggins going nose first into the wall. She was transported to the hospital but was back at the track before the races were over with a couple of bruises. Morris and Wyer were the heat winners.

The Cruisers made their second appearance at Hilltop Speedway with Loudonville’s Tony Cline sweeping the night by winning the heat race and out front all the way in the feature aboard the Mid-Ohio Graphics and Loudonville Tire #67,

Powder Puff wins went to Tiffany Foss in the Mini Stocks, Vanessa Leyda in the Late Models, Jessica Freytag topped the Modifieds as Shanna Spearman won the Street Stocks and Carlie Brinker paced the Trucks.

Watch the website at www.hilltopspeeedway.org for info on the Week End on the Hill Mini Stock Nationals and Mini Wedge Nationals on October 1st and 2nd plus info on the banquet.

HILLTOP SPEEDWAY SUMMARY
Saturday, August 20, 2011

HOLMES TIRE LATE MODELS (20)
Heat 1 Doug Drown, Charlie Duncan, Jason Flory, JR Gentry, Jason Hinton, Brian Giaugue, Tom Baker
Heat 2 David Liles, Wayne Maffett Jr., Dave Hornikel, Larry Bellman, Travis Leyda, Brandon Leyda
Heat 3 Steve Prince, Norm Aronhalt, George Lee, Keith Tish, Kristin Flory, Kevin Wright,
Feature Drown, Duncan, Maffett Jr., Lee, Liles, J. Flory, K. Flory, Gentry, Prince, Aronhalt, Tish, T. Leyda, Bellman, Wright, B. Leyda, Hornikel, Hinton, Don Conley, Giaugue, Baker

TRI STATE MODIFIEDS (31)
Fast Qualifier Doug Drown 15.325
Dash Jimmy Smith, Robin Duston, Kevin Morehouse, Drown, Dan Davis, Rory Reed
Heat 1 Matt Samples, Rick Mardis, Nick Loney, Ty Samples, Vern Mardis, Eddie Wilson, Virgil Eaches, Darrick Hubbard, George Kinder
Heat 2 Norm Aronhalt, Beau Bradley, Larry Kugel, Robert Page, Sid Danals, Jeff Dovenbarger, Brandon Russell, Josh Cairati
Heat 3 Hilton Eppley, Eric Singhaus, Vic Hottinger, Kevin Davis, Tom King, Bob Schippers, Jeff Votaw, Melissa Haskins
L.C. #1 T. Samples, K. Davis, Danals, Votaw, Wilson, V. Mardis, Schippers, Eaches, King, Russell, Page, Hubbard, Dovenbarger, Haskins, Cairati (dns), Kinder (dns)
Feature Morehouse, Drown, Smith, D. Davis, Duston, Aronhalt, M. Samples, Kugel, R. Mardis, Bradley, Reed, Danals, Hottinger, T. Samples, Eppley, Loney, Singhaus, K. Davis

STREET STOCKS (17)
Heat 1 Brandon Gardner, Bob Daugherty, Jeff Votaw, Bob Chilcote, Joey Spearman, Kenny Daughriety Sr., Chris Gibbs, Jason Shairer, Robert Smith
Heat 2 John Wilson, Jeremy Dickerson, Kenny Daughriety Jr., Brandon Craver, Ron Lute, Charlie Dawson, Kodie Daughriety, Darrick Hudson
Feature Gardner, Daughriety Jr., Wilson, Daugherty, Chilcote, Spearman, Lute, Smith, Votaw, K. Daughriety, Dawson, Hudson, Craver, Daughriety Sr., Dickerson, Shairer, Gibbs (dns)

ATOM’S PEST CONTROL TRUCKS (14)
Heat 1 John Large, Jack Large, Steve Large, David Potts, Logan Brannon, Darrick Hubbard Jr., Gordon Zimmer
Heat 2 Kevin Potts, Mitch Caskey, Ken Duncan, Jerry Gardner, Brad Phillips, Mitch Ling, Cole Lillibridge
Feature Caskey, K. Potts, Gardner, D. Potts, Duncan, Jo. Large, Ja. Large, Lillibridge, S. Large, Phillips, Hubbard Jr., Brannon, Ling, Zimmer (dns)

GUERNE HEIGHTS DRIVE INN MINI STOCKS (26)
Heat 1 Ernest Fortune, Blain Markey, Nick Cox, Brad Hensel, Gary Hensel Jr., Desi McHenry, Kyle Moore, Tim Workman, Mitch Ling (dns)
Heat 2 Terry Adkins, Chris Priebe, Brett Adkins, Jesse Starner, Kevin Markey, Moose Workman, Tyler Evans, Justin Evans, #51 (dns)
Heat 3 Jordan James, Steve Miller, Dustin Daugherty, Matt Kemp, Jerry Adkins, Mike Rose, Zach Foss, Tyler Wiles
L.C. #1 Rose, Foss, Workman, J. Evans, Moore, McHenry, T. Evans, Workman (dns), Wiles (dns)
Feature T. Adkins, Fortune, B. Adkins, B Markey, B. Hensel, Miller, James, Priebe, Daugherty, Cox, Kemp, Hensel Jr., Workman, Rose, Foss, K. Markey, Starner, J. Adkins

MINI WEDGES (12)
Heat 1 Blake Morris, Tristen Lillibridge, Hannah Rose, Josey Lillibridge, Nick Large, Kyler Wolford
Heat 2 Dillyn Wyer, Charity Bubeck, Phil Bubeck, Kyler Kidd, Taylor Huggins, Donovan Dickerson
Feature Wyer, C. Bubeck, Dickerson, Rose, J. Lillibridge, T. Lillibridge, Large, Morris, P. Bubeck. Huggins, Kidd, Wolford (dns)

CRUISERS
Heat & Feature Tony Cline, Steve Foley, Pauly Hess, Chad Rosales