Bachetti Rises to Take $2,500 Win, Lavoy Goes Back to Back

West Lebanon, NY: The Summer heat has finally arrived at the famed ½ mile dirt oval known as the Valley of Speed, and so did the red hot racing action. With big money on the line, Andy Bachetti rose to the head of the class to cash in on the big payday.

A full field of big block Modifieds took to the speedway for a special Bedell Race Engines $2,500 to Win 30 lap showdown. But that kind of money on the line, the casualties came early and often. Right out of the box, the front row of Steve Hough and Denny Soltis got the field to the first turns, but that’s as far as Hough would get!

As the field squeezed outta 2, Hough ran out of racing room and ended up in the wall, destroying his #34H and sending him pitside for the night. While all that was going on, the #20H of Brett Hearn suffered a terminal drivetrain issue that sidelined his dominance on the high banks for the night as well.

On the restart, the #11A of Kyle Armstrong and the #0 of Soltis rolled into turn one, but this time it was the #60 of Brian Berger who got tuned the wrong way into traffic, and blasted the boiler plate, ending his night for a solid finish.

Once the wrecking was finished, a race broke out, and it was Armstrong out in front of the field. But Andy Bachetti’s #34B powered his way to the top spot by lap 9, and checked out on the field. Eddie Marshall and Kolby Schroder parked their respective #98’s on top of each other in turn 3 to bring out the caution on lap #15.

But that was not going to keep the #34B of victory lane. As the checkers flew, Bachetti took the win, with a charging #57 of Donnie Corellis crossing the line 2^nd. J.R. Heffner rallied to finish 3^rd, followed by Kyle Sheldon, and Keith Flach to round out the top 5 finishers.

The Budget Sportsman feature event had the #14 of John Virgilio on the point at the green flag, then again at the checkers, as the sophomore driver led wire to wire to take his 1^st career win in the open wheel ranks!

Bobby Hackel IV charged to finish 2^nd in the closing laps, with Robbie Knipe, Whitey Slavin, and Chris George battling to round out the top 5.

In the LV Sportsman, 2 wrecks at the same time, one on the front stretch between the #55 of Brett Haas and the #25 of Frank Harper, and the other was the #34 of Paul Knox in turn 2, thinned the field a bit as Kim Lavoy took over the lead by lap 5, and never looked back.

Even a late race caution didn’t rattle the veteran driver, as Lavoy powered her #3 to the win to go back to back. Steve Meilleur had to settle for 2^nd, while Chad Pierce, Dylan Gibson, and Haas battled it out to complete the top 5.

In the Pro Stock division, it was Jon Routhier also leading wire to wire to take the 20 lap feature event. Jay Corbin closed the gap in the closing laps, but had to settle for 2^nd. Nick Hilt, Jason Casey, and Chad Jeseo crossed the line to finish 3^rd through 5^th.

In the Pure Stocks, Jason Meltz, Jeff Meltz and Phil Wood picked up the wins.

On the schedule for next Saturday is a special Buanno Trucking $3,000 to Win Maynard Forrette Memorial for the Modifieds, plus all weekly division including the 4 Cylinders! Then on June 2^nd, it’s KeyBank and Anderson Equipment night presenting the Steve Hough Motors 358 Modifieds.

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Doherty Brothers, Wohrle’s Food, Bedell Race Engines $2,500.00 to Win Modified Feature Results (30 Laps): 1)Andy Bachetti, 2)Donnie Corellis, 3)J.R. Heffner, 4)Kyle Sheldon, 5)Keith Flach, 6)Kenny Tremont Jr, 7)Jimmy Burns, 8)Wayne Jelley, 9)Mark Flach Jr, 10)Paul Gilardi, 11)Kyle Hoffman, 12)Matt Pupello, 13)Eddie Marshall, 14)Kyle Armstrong, 15)Dave McFeeters, 16)Brandon Pitcher, 17)J. C. Flach, 18)Denny Soltis, 19)Kolby Schroder, 20)Rich Salisbury, 21)Steve Hough, 22)Brian Berger, 23)Brett Hearn, 24)Mike Keeler

LV Sportsman Results (20 Laps): 1)Kim Lavoy, 2)Steve Meilleur, 3)Chad Pierce, 4)Dylan Gibson, 5)Brett Haas, 6)Sean Mandel, 7)Alan Houghtaling, 8)Darek Schibi, 9)Brian Sandstedt, 10)Willy Knight (B) 11)Frank Harper, 12)Paul Knox

Budget Sportsman (20 Laps): 1)John Virgilio, 2)Bobby Hackel IV, 3)Rob Knipe, 4)Whitey Slavin, 5)Chris George, 6)Scott Duso, 7)Jim Bemiss, 8)David Baronowski, 9)Brian Peterson, 10)Ray Hall Jr., 11)Jake Jelley, 12)Tim Hartman Jr, 13)Ryan Darcy, 14)Peter Carlotto, 15)Rob Maxon, 16)Brett Wright, 17)Robbie Speed, 18)Jay Lamountain, 19)Cody Ochs, 20)Jim Osgood, 21)Brandon Page, 22)Milo Campbell, 23)Zeb Catlin, 24)Nick Hotaling, 25)Tommy Johnson, 26)Chris Lysogorski, 27)Todd Lane, 28)Chris Lynch, 29)Greg Catlin

Pro Stock Results (20 Laps): 1)Jon Routhier, 2)Jay Corbin, 3)Nick Hilt, 4)Jason Casey, 5)Chad Jeseo, 6)Victor Hopkins, 7)Robbie Speed, 8)Paul LaRochelle, 9)Tom Harkins, 10)Milo Campbell, 11)Rick Duzlak, 12)John Santolin, 13)Jay Casey, 14)Brian Keough, 15)Chuck Towslee, 16)Mark Dupree, 17)Paul Engwer

Purestock #1 (8 Laps): 1)Jason Meltz, 2)Phil Sherman, 3)Scott Morris, 4)Joey Morey, 5)Bob Brown, 6)Shannon Popp, 7)Keri Vandenburg, 8)DeeDee Cross, 9)Michael Felter, 10)Matt Cross, 11)Wuggie Burdick, 12)Jim Groncki, 13)Shawn Perez, 14)Chris Bierce

Purestock #2 (8 Laps): 1)Jeff Meltz, 2)Daniel Sanchez, 3)Gary Vandenburg, 4)Doug Olds, 5)Larry Perez, 6)Joe Chenail, 7)Joe Walcott, 8)John Acker, 9)Harold Robitalle, 10)Gary O'Brien, 11)Keith Johannessen, 12)Karl Castagna, 13)Dan Cote, 14)Ed Bachand

Purestock #3 (12 Laps): 1)Phil Wood, 2)Al Relyea, 3)Lou Ganczar, 4)John Felarecki, 5)Chris Streeter, 6)James Hatch, 7)Ray Hall Sr, 8)Bob Palmer, 9)Ron Johnson, 10)Jeff Meltz Sr., 11)Steven LaRochelle, 12)Lynn Wesley, 13)Dave Stickles, 14)John Devine, 15)Lloyd Tomlin

Press release provided by Lebanon Valley Speedway