West
Lebanon, NY: Take a little bit of hot summer sun, throw in a
little dirt, mixed with some fireworks, and what you get is yet another exciting
night of racing action at the famed ½ mile dirt high banked oval known as the
Valley of Speed! Lebanon Valley Speedway, Berkshire Bank and
Armory Garage present the night's racing action to a packed house!
Last
Saturday night Eddie Marshall broke the strong hold of Brett Hearn and Andy
Bachetti in the Big Block Modified division. Would the same hold
true for this week, or would we see another repeat winner?
Steve
Hough and Kim Lavoy brought the all #34 front row to green for the 30 lap Big
Block Modified feature event. Hough’s #34 took control of the
field and held the top spot for quite a while. That is until a
pair of #42’s made their way to the front of the field.
Matt
Pupello in his #42P and Kyle Sheldon aboard his #42S ran down Hough and began to
challenge for the lead. But by lap 17, Sheldon made a daring move
going 3 wide into turn 1 to take the lead away, and pulled away from his
challengers.
Even a
late race charge by Brett Hearn could not deny Sheldon from the win.
At the checkers Sheldon scored his first win since 2006!
Hearn finished 2nd, followed by Pupello, Kenny Tremont Jr, and
Hough to round out the top 5.
The new
Small Block Modified division took to the high banks for their 24 lap feature
event next. Out front early was the #250 of Alan Houghtaling over
the #88JR of Olden Dwyer. But back in the pack, the #34 of Steve
Hough was making his way to the front of the class.
By lap
16, Hough darted past the #250, and on to the victory. A hard
charging Brett Haas had to settle for 2nd, followed by Houghtaling,
Chad Pierce and Kory Sandstedt.
The 20
Lap Pro Stock full-fendered feature saw plenty of racing action as well.
In the closing laps, the #78 of Paul LaRochelle held off a last lap
sprint to the checkers by the #8 of Jay Corbin to take the victory.
Corbin
had to settle for 2nd, Frank Twing, Jason Casey, and Jay Casey
completed the top 5 finishers.
In the
very popular Budget Sportsman 20 lap feature, Ricky Davis’ #43 held on to the
early lead over the 29 car field. But a series of early race
cautions kept the field close, and allowed the #74 of Chris Lynch to take over
the lead by lap 6.
Lynch’s
lead was also constant in jeopardy as the caution kept coming, keeping the field
right on his door step. That allowed the #1 of Tyler Dippel to get
past Lynch by lap 16 to take over the top. The cautions flew
again, but this time, Dippel was in control, and held on to take the
victory.
Lynch
had to settle for 2nd, Peter Carlotto battled his was to
3rd, with Alan Houghtaling and Matt Papa rounding out the top
5.
Earlier
in the night, the Purestock features hit the speedway with Richard Puff taking
Purestock #1. Dave Stickles scored the win in PS#2, and Daniel
Sanchez drove through the field to take the win in Purestock #3.
Next
Saturday night at the Valley of Speed, Freihofer’s Night, with Coor’s presenting
Biker Night. The Pro Stock Power Play Series will return along
with the Budget Sportsman and all other Weekly Divisions.
Then on
July 13th, it’s Rifenburg Construction presenting a $5,000 Big Block
Modified ‘King of the Track’ Feature, plus a Romano Speed $1,000 to win Small
Block Modified Feature plus all weekly divisions as well.
More
Racing, More Fun, More Lebanon Valley!
Berkshire Bank and Armory Garage Big Block Modified Feature (30 Laps):
1)Kyle Sheldon, 2)Brett Hearn, 3)Matt Pupello, 4)Kenny Tremont Jr, 5)Steve
Hough, 6)Donnie Corellis, 7)Jimmy Burns, 8)Andy Bachetti, 9)Brian Berger,
10)Kyle Armstrong, 11)Rob Pitcher, 12)Kolby Schroder, 13)Denny Soltis, 14)Mike
King, 15)Kim LaVoy, 16)Paul Gilardi, 17)John Ruchel, 18)Nick Hotaling, 19)Keith
Flach, 20)CG Morey, 21)Bobby Hackel, 22)Mark Flach Jr, 23)Kyle Hoffman, 24)J.R.
Heffner, DNS)Eddie Marshall
Small Block Modified Feature (24 Laps): 1)Steve Hough, 2)Brett
Haas, 3)Alan Houghtaling, 4)Chad Pierce, 5)Kory Sandstedt, 6)Ryan Darcy, 7)Shane
Jablonka, 8)Jason Harrington, 9)Steve Meilleur, 10)Chad Jeso,
11)Sean Mandell, 12)Olden Dwyer, 13)CG Morey, 14)Wayne Jelley,
15)Andy Bachetti
Budget Sportsman Feature (20 Laps): 1)Tyler Dippel, 2)Chris Lynch,
3)Peter Carlotto, 4)Alan Houghtaling, 5)Matt Pappa, 6)Cody Ochs, 7)Jack
Speshock, 8)Greg Catlin, 9)Rob Knipe, 10)Brian Peterson, 11)Brandon Page,
12)Jake Jelley, 13)Cody Hunt, 14)Joe Mottoshiski, 15)Ray Hall Jr., 16)Timothy
Davis 2nd, 17)Josh Gaylord, 18)Ricky Davis, 19)Michael Sabia, 20)Mike Verhagen,
21)Alissa Cody, 22)Tommy Johnson, 23)Whitey Slavin, 24)Brandon Lane, 25)John
Virgilio, 26)Scott Duso, 27)Robbie Speed, 28)Jason Papp, 29)Randall Sousie,
DNS)Rob Maxon, DNS)Todd Lane, DNS)Brandon Pitcher, DNS)Travis
Jablonka
Pro
Stock Feature (20 Laps): 1)Paul LaRochelle, 2)Jay Corbin, 3)Frank Twing,
4)Jason Casey, 5)Jay Casey, 6)Chuck Towslee, 7)Tom Harkins, 8)Robbie Speed,
9)Victor Hopkins, 10)Rick Dempsey, 11)Nick Hilt, 12)Jon Routhier, 13)Tom
O'Connor, 14)Paul Engwer, 15)Milo Campbell, 16)Brian Keough, 17)Chris Claus,
18)Jason Meltz, DNS)Mark Dupree, DNS)Tony DeRose
Purestock #1 (8 Laps): 1)Richard Puff, 2)Clifford Booth, 3)Dan
Olds, 4)Shawn Perez, 5)Lloyd Tomlin, 6)Dennis O'Connor JR, 7)Bob Brown, 8)Gil
Twing, 9)Raymond Mandel, 10)Joe Walcott, 11)Gary Vandenburg
Purestock #2 (8 Laps): 1)Dave Stickles, 2)Joe Cheneil, 3)Ron
Johnson, 4)Jim Groncki, 5)Keri Vandenburg, 6)Cody Mead, 7)Brian Walsh, 8)Scott
Morris, 9)Harold Robitaille, 10)Jeremy Closson, DQ)Lou Ganczar
Purestock #3 (12 Laps): 1)Daniel Sanchez, 2)James Hatch, 3)Jeff
Meltz, 4)Mike Eichstedt, 5)Ray Hall Sr, 6)Al Relyea, 7)Hunter Sanchez, 8)Ed
Hatch , 9)John Devine, 10)Dan Cote, 11)John Felarecki, 12)Jeff Meltz Sr.,
13)Jason Cooper, 14)Steven LaRochelle, 15)Tom Murphy, 16)Doug
Olds
TROY, NY- Mark Appel, who was taken with the first overall pick in the 2013 MLB Draft by the Astros, will make his professional debut with the Tri-City ValleyCats on July 5th against the Lowell Spinners. 
