Springfield Raceway
November 3, 2012
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Stovall Puts Names On Phillips Memorial Winners List At Springfield Raceway



by Ronnie Williams
Springfield, Mo.-  The "Quick-Quarter" of the Springfield Raceway was back in action Saturday night as the 11th annual Home Pro Larry Phillips Memorial was held with 160 race teams checking-in to help pay honor to the Springfield Legendary Stock Car drivers as 2012 MARS Series Champion Jesse Stovall found the extreme high groove early and withstood a lap 33 caution to grab the victory over a late surge by Terry Phillips and Jack Sullivan.
 
33 Super Late Models checked into the pits fighting for the 20 car starting field as the redraw found Shane Essary and Justin Zeitner on the front row. Essary felt a vibration on the pace laps and fell to the rear placing 2011 MARS Champion and March Madness winner Brad Looney to move to the pole. On the start, it was Looney who took the opening lead as Zeitner, high point drivers Dustin Mooneyham along with Stovall and Tony Jackson Jr. following closely. Looney was setting the super fast pace as Jackson and Stovall began a charge to the front while 2011 Turkey Classic winner Jack Sullivan was riding a solid top 5 run. Stovall caught Looney on lap 10 as the traditional Springfield action was on with wheel to wheel action. On lap 12, Stovall grabbed the lead only to see Looney take it back 1 lap later as Jackson Jr. was riding the lower groove and gaining on the lead duo. Back in the pack 14th starter Terry Phillips was making a strong bid to gain spots. As Stovall and Looney kept the capacity crowd on their feet, lap 22 would be Looney's downfall as he scrapped the frontstretch wall and slowed the pace. Looney retired from action as Stovall would find Jackson Jr. and Sullivan on his bumper for the restart. When the green waved, Stovall shot ahead but Jackson and Sullivan started to reel him in as Phillips was working the traffic and coming quick. With Stovall staying extremely high on the track, Sullivan made his way around Jackson and began to close the gap as Phillips was now in the top 5. Back in the mid pack range, 13th starter Brandon McCormick and Kyle Beard were coming forward. Stovall seemed to have the win in hand until lap 33 when Jackson running in the top 5 slowed off the pace and came to a stop in turn 3. This set-up a 2 lap shootout as Sullivan picked the top groove on the restart while Phillips was able to go inside. When the green flew, Stovall wasted no time in pulling away as Phillips and Sullivan were wheel to wheel. With the white waving, Phillips a 4 time LP Memorial Champion cleared Sullivan but not enough time to catch the high flying Stovall. Following Stovall to the line were Phillips, Sullivan, Nebraska's Meitner and Mooneyham in the top 5 while Beard, McCormick, Justin Wells, Jeff Floyd and Bryon Allison completed the top 10. 13 of the 20 starters completed the lead lap. For Stovall it was his second Late Model Springfield win this season as the "Undertaker" had captured the Summer Meltdown event earlier this season.
 
Results-Larry Phillips Memorial Presented By Home Pro of Joplin
 
Late Models
A-Main - 1) Jesse Stovall (5) 2) Terry Phillips (14) 3) Jack Sullivan (6) 4) Justin Zeitner (2) 5) Dustin Mooneyham (4) 6) Kyle Beard (17) 7) Brandon McCormick (13) 8) Justin Wells (11) 9) Jeff Floyd (18) 10) Bryon Allison (15) 11) Brandon Morton (9) 12) Mike Hammerle (20) 13) DeWayne Kiefer (19) 14) Cole Wells (8) 15) Patrick Johnson (12) 16) Jacob Magee (16) 17) Tony Jackson Jr. (7) 18) Brad Looney (3) 19) Alan Vaughn (10) 20) Shane Essay (1)
B-Main #1: 1) McCormick 2) Allison 3) Beard 4) Kiefer 5) Eric Turner 6) Gary Stolba 7) Leslie Essary 8) Dustin Walker 9) Ken Essary 10) Don Cloyd 11) Daniel Jessen 
B-Main #2: 1) Phillips 2) McGee 3) Floyd 4) Hammerle 5) Jeff Roth 6) Jon Driskell 7) Jake Williams 8) Randy Roth 9) Jeremy Morrs DNS-Steve Johnson
Heat #1: 1) Sullivan 2) Morton 3) J Wells 4) Phillips 5) Kiefer 6) L Essary 7) Cloyd 8) S Johnson 9) Morris
Heat #2: 1) Jackson Jr 2) S Essary 3) C Wells 4) P Johnson 5) J Roth 6) Floyd 7) Hammerle 8) K Essary
Heat #3: 1) Looney 2) Stovall 3) McCormick 4) Allison 5) Turner 6) Beard 7) Walker 8) R Roth
Heat #4: 1) Mooneyham 2) Vaughn 3) Zeitner 4) Magee 5) J Williams 6) Driskell 7) Stolba 8) Jessen 
 
USRA Modifieds
A-Main: 1) Bobby Pearish 2) Jason Pursley 3) Terry Schultz 4) Jackie Dalton 5) Terry Kirk 6) Robbie Bryant 7) Mitch Keeter 8) Logan Martin 9) John Yeoman 10) Jerry Lankton 11) Rusty Griffaw 12) Shawn Nations 13) Brian Green 14) Nick Whitehead 15) Joey Smith 16) Jeff James 17) Kyle Slagle 18) Rob Muilenburg 19) Randy Henson 20) Andy Aust

USRA B Modifieds
A-Main: 1) Jon Yeoman Jr. 2) Rex Merritt 3) Kaleb Copher 4) Rusty Forrest 5) JC Morton 6) Michael Maggard 7) JD Kelley 8) Bobby Maggard Jr 9) Logan Martin 10) Trevor Drake 11) Shawn Strong 12) Gary Clark 13) Jeff Frohwitter 14) Darrin Crisler 15) Don Luna 16) Bobby Ratterree 17) Mike Watson 18) Robert Baltzell 19) Mike Striegel DNS-Taylor Duggins
 
Legends
A-Main: 1) Jay Reynolds 2) Dave Comer 3) Caleb McDugle 4) James McDugle 5) Wesley Smith 6) Wayne Johnston 7) Calvin Garner 8) Rex Merritt 9) Bill Cottrill 10) Brandi Morrison 11) Matt Gruenburg 12) Jim Body 13) Paul Horton 14) Phil Burkybile 15) Terry Williams 16) Billy Cottrill 17) Justin Comer 18) Brian Boucher 19) Nick Whitehead 20) Kylan Garner
 
Midwest Modz
A-Main: 1)Taylor Moore 2) Sam Petty 3) Joey Wiles 4) Ty Jackson 5) Nathan Gold 6) Ken Walker 7) Jamie Petty 8) Mike Cooper 9) Elijah Keepper 10) Terry Williams 11) Richard Sparks 12) Candy Lake 13) Jake Owens 14) Jordan Green 15) Dallas Scott 16) Aaron Scroggins DNS-Gary Krebs
 
Pure Stocks
A-Main: 1) Shane Bias 2) Ronnie Lingo 3) Jack Hamer 4) Elizabeth Jolley 5) Mac Asbell 6) Danny Vasquez 7) John Shaver 8) Scott Lampe 9) Clinton Collins 10) Buddy Cadwell 11) Austin Johnson 12) Clayton Powell 13) Luke Mason DQ-Austin Powell, Tyler Schoen-Pulling Vacuum
 
Street Stocks
A-Main: 1) Bryan Tillman 2) Karla Lampe 3) Jim Reid 4) Issac Keepper 5) Wayne Morris 6) Shawn Schmidt 7) Joe Girardi 8) Daniel Harris 9) Kim Kaasa 10) Dale Roper Jr 11) Daniel Deason