Deery Brothers Summer Series
Boone Speedway
May 30, 2011
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Eckrich repeats Deery domination with Boone win

by Bill Martin
BOONE, Iowa (May 30) – Andy Eckrich has started to make a hobby of dominating Deery Brothers Summer Series features.

Eckrich led all 40 laps in winning the Memorial Day event at Boone Speedway. The $2,000 victory was his second straight in the silver anniversary IMCA Late Model tour and came on the heels of an equally impressive 50-lap, flag-to-flag run on May 17 at Marshalltown Speedway.

Defending champion Ray Guss Jr., winner of the three previous Deery events at Boone, was second in his best outing of 2011. Tom Darbyshire took over sole possession of the tour point lead with his third place finish.

Jeff Aikey and “B” feature winner Terry Neal rounded out Monday evening’s top five.

Eckrich went to the top groove, held onto the front spot following a series of early restarts and caught up with the back of the pack on lap 26. Darbyshire ran second most of the way before giving way to Guss with five laps to go.

Guss used lapped traffic to catch up but couldn’t get any closer than Eckrich’s back bumper.

The win was the career third for Eckrich, the 2010 Deery rookie of the year. The first repeat winner this season, he’ll look to continue his streaks of victories and consecutive laps led when the series resumes Tuesday, June 7 at Farley Speedway, where Eckrich scored his first win last August.

Mike Garland won the $250 Sunoco Race Fuels feature qualifier drawing.

The Smith brothers from Lake City swept the other sanctioned features, with Donavon winning the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car main, Devin topping the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks and Doug prevailing in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods.
Josh May was the dwarf car feature winner.

Feature results –
1. Andy Eckrich, Iowa City;
2. Ray Guss Jr., Milan, Ill.;
3. Tom Darbyshire, Morning Sun;
4. Jeff Aikey, Cedar Falls;
5. Terry Neal, Ely;
6. Mike Murphy Jr., Colona, Ill.;
7. Darrel DeFrance, Marshalltown;
8. Todd Cooney, Des Moines;
9. Tyler Bruening, Decorah;
10. Justin Reed, Quincy, Ill.;
11. T.J. Criss, Oskaloosa;
12. Colby Springsteen, Morning Sun;
13. Ryan Giles, West Des Moines;
14. Matt Strassheim, Burlington;
15. Kevin Sather, Urbandale;
16. Sam Halstead, New London;
17. Charlie McKenna, Clear Lake;
18. Nate Beuseling, Silvis, Ill.;
19. Luke Goedert, Guttenberg;
20. Josh Most, Red Oak;
21. Kyle Wahlert, Des Moines;
22. Brian Harris, Davenport;
23. Boone McLaughlin, Mediapolis;
24. Mike Garland, Morrison, Ill.

1st heat (top three) – Darbyshire; 2. Bruening; 3. Most; 4. Criss; 5. Justin Kay, Wheatland; 6. Beuseling; 7. Bryan Klein, Cedar Rapids; 8. Strassheim; 9. Todd Alexander, Milledgeville, Ill.; 10. Chad Simpson, Mount Vernon.
2nd heat – 1. DeFrance; 2. Guss; 3. Eckrich; 4. McKenna; 5. Harris; 6. Jay Johnson, West Burlington; 7. Murphy; 8. Matt Ryan, Davenport; 9. Eric Sanders, Moline, Ill.; 10. Jon Merfeld, Peosta.
3rd heat – 1. Reed; 2. Springsteen; 3. McLaughlin; 4. Billy Tuckwell, Spring Bay, Ill.; 5. Wahlert; 6. Sather; 7. Ben Nading, Ankeny; 8. Joe Zrostlik, Long Grove; 9. Dale Hackwell Jr., Washburn; 10. Chad Cooney, Des Moines.
4th heat – 1. Todd Cooney; 2. Giles; 3. Aikey; 4. Neal; 5. Goedert; 6. Al Johnson, Story City; 7. Halstead; 8. Jason Hahne, Webster City; 9. Garland; 10. Evan Nemitz, Kiron.
1st “B” feature (top four) – 1. Criss; 2. Murphy; 3. McKenna; 4. Harris; 5. Kay; 6. Ryan; 7. Beuseling; 8. Strassheim; 9. Klein; 10. Jay Johnson; 11. Merfeld; 12. Alexander; 13. Simpson; 14. Sanders.
2nd “B” feature – 1. Neal; 2. Sather; 3. Wahlert; 4. Goedert; 5. Garland; 6. Halstead; 7. Hahne; 8. Tuckwell; 9. Hackwell; 10. Zrostlik; 11. Chad Cooney; 12. Nading; 13. Nemitz; 14. Al Johnson.
Hard charger start – Garland. Provisionals – Beuseling, Halstead and Strassheim.