Heffner and Dwyer Return to Victory Lane at the Valley of Speed

West Lebanon, NY: Blue skies and lots of sun and warmth settled on the mighty high banks at Lebanon Valley Speedway. That brought the fans out in full force to watch the most exciting action on dirt! Madsen Overhead Doors and Bonded Concrete presented the night with the return of the Steve Hough Motors 358 Modifieds.

But out first was the marquee feature event as the mighty big block Modifieds took to the high banks for their 30 lap feature event. Veteran racer Denny Soltis powered his #0 out to the early lead, but sophomore driver Jimmy Burns powered his #101 out front by lap 2 and checked out on the field!

With a dozen laps in the books, Burns has a commanding lead on the field as he tried to put the lights out on the competition, but the caution flag flew on lap 13 erasing the lead and his chance to secure his first win.

On the next restart, Matt Pupello charged out front to steal the lead, but the #74 of J.R. Heffner was doing some charging of his own from his 6^th row starting spot all the way to the runner up spot on lap 14.

By lap 15, Heffner was out front, and the field could do nothing but watch. As the race went green for the remaining 15 circuits on the Kokosa Oil Lap Counter, Heffner scored the win at the checkers for his first of the season.

Brett Hearn worked his way through the field to finish 2^nd followed by Pupello, Burns, and Mark Flach Jr.

That wasn’t the end of the racing excitement as the night was just beginning. The Steve Hough Motors 358 Modifieds returned the Valley of Speed for their 24 lap feature event. At the head of the class was the #171 of Tommy Faxon as he brought the field to green. The Mighty Matt Quinn’s #20Q charged to the lead by lap 3 and held on for several laps until the caution flew on lap 11 for the smoking #21L of John Lutes Jr.

On the restart though, the other #20 took the top spot, which was the #20H of Brett Hearn, darting out to a comfy lead, but that lead was also erased by a late race caution on lap 22 for the #171 of Faxon who made contact with the turn 3 fence.

On the restart, Andy Bachetti got a run down the front stretch and dove under Hearn’s #20H in turn 1 and stuck the ‘slide for life’ and powered away on the final 2 laps to steal the win! Hearn had to settle for 2^nd with Quinn, Wayne Jelley, and Steve Hough rounding out the top 5.

In the LV Sportsman 20 lap feature event, Olden Dwyer led nearly wire to wire to hold off Brian Sandstedt for his 2^nd career win. Sandstedt had to settle for 2^nd with Alan Houghtaling, Frank Harper and Darek Schibi completing the top 5.

In the Pro Stock Echo Series 25 lap feature, Ricky Duzlak and Jay Casey were out front early, but it was Jason Casey who had the strong car of the night taking over the lead by lap 5, and holding on for the win.

Chad Jeseo battled for the lead down the stretch, but had to settle for 2^nd. Robbie Speed, Jay Corbin and Jay Casey battled it out to finish 3^rd through 5^th.

Dave Stickles dominated Purestock #1 while Doug Olds stole the win in Purestock #2. A wild Purestock #3 had Al Relyea scoring the win to close out the nights features.

Next Saturday Night is the Doherty Brothers Construction and Wohrle’s Food Night with a special $2,500 to Win Bedell Racing Engines Modified Feature Event! All weekly divisions will be on tap, including another round of Budget Sportsman!

For more information, tickets, the full 2012 schedule of events, or directions; visit our website at www.LebanonValley.com and click on “Speedway”, or you can friend us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter @LVSpeedway.

Madsen Overhead Doors, Bonded Concrete Big Block Modified Results (30 Laps): 1)J.R. Heffner, 2)Brett Hearn, 3)Matt Pupello, 4)Jimmy Burns, 5)Mark Flach Jr, 6)Donnie Corellis, 7)Eddie Marshall, 8)Brian Berger, 9)Keith Flach, 10)Kyle Armstrong, 11)Kolby Schroder, 12)Kenny Tremont Jr, 13)Kyle Sheldon, 14)Paul Gilardi, 15)Rob Pitcher, 16)Wayne Jelley, 17)Denny Soltis, 18)J. C. Flach, 19)Mike Keeler, 20)Mike King, 21)Dave McFeeters, 22)Brandon Pitcher, 23)Steve Hough, 24)Andy Bachetti

Steve Hough Motors 358 Modified Results (24 Laps): 1)Andy Bachetti, 2)Brett Hearn, 3)Matt Quinn, 4)Wayne Jelley, 5)Steve Hough, 6)Bobby Hackel IV, 7)Marc Johnson, 8)Kim Herrick, 9)Jason Harrington, 10)Tom Faxon, 11)JR Heffner, 12)Baronowski David SR, 13)John Lutes JR, 14)Cory Sandstedt, 15)Cass Bennett, DNQ)Rich Salisbury, DNQ)Jeff Kelley

LV Sportsman Results (20 Laps): 1)Olden Dwyer, 2)Brian Sandstedt, 3)Alan Houghtaling, 4)Frank Harper, 5)Darek Schibi, 6)Kim Herrick, 7)Chad Pierce, 8)Brett Haas, 9)Steve Meilleur, 10)Cullen Howe, 11)Sean Mandel, 12)Wayne Keyes, 13)Brandon Piastka, 14)Dylan Gibson, 15)Paul Knox, 16)Ryan Darcy

Pro Stock Echo Series Results (25 Laps): 1)Jason Casey, 2)Chad Jeseo, 3)Robbie Speed, 4)Jay Corbin, 5)Jay Casey, 6)Jon Routhier, 7)Victor Hopkins, 8)Paul LaRochelle, 9)Nick Hilt, 10)Tom Harkins, 11)Rick Duzlak, 12)Brian Keough, 13)Chuck Towslee, 14)Mark Dupree, 15)Frank Twing

Purestock 1 Results (8 Laps): 1 Dave Stickles, 2 Jeff Meltz Sr., 3 Ed Bachand, 4 Daniel Sanchez, 5 Jim Groncki, 6 John Acker, 7 Joe Walcott, 8 Luke Valli, 9 Dennis O'Connor, 10 DeeDee Cross, 11 Karl Castagna, 12 Gary O'Brien, 13 Michael Felter, 14 Tim Niles, 15 Keri Vandenburg, 16 Sammy Lane

Purestock 2 Results (8 Laps): 1)Doug Olds, 2)Tim Sayers, 3)Lynn Wesley, 4)Larry Perez, 5)Steven LaRochelle, 6)Jeremy Closson, 7)Joe Chenail, 8)Pete Wiegand, 9)Harold Robitalle, 10)Matt Cross, 11)Gary Vandenburg, 12)Shannon Popp, 13)Keith Johannessen, 14)Clint Bonner, 15)Shawn Perez, 16)Scott Morris, DNS)Terry McNamara

Purestock 3 Results (12 Laps): 1 Al Relyea, 2 Bob Palmer, 3 Ray Hall Sr, 4 John Felarecki, 5 Chris Streeter, 6 Phil Wood, 7 Phil Sherman, 8 Ron Johnson, 9 Lloyd Tomlin, 10 Bob Brown, 11 Lou Ganczar, 12 James Hatch, 13 John Devine, 14 Jason Meltz, 15 Dan Cote

Press release provided by Lebanon Speedway