Dover does it in Eagle Sprints, VanLaningham's visit pays off

By Jason Orth

Eagle, Neb. (July 8, 2006) - Rookie Jack Dover won his first point-paying Budweiser Championship Sprint division A feature Saturday night at Eagle Raceway with a bold move on race leader Josh Riggins with only two laps remaining. Mike Meyer inched his way closer to a record seventh track title with his fourth win in the Sobe NoFear IMCA Modified class. Jesse VanLaningham led a slew of Beatrice Speedway regulars who hi-tailed it to Eagle Raceway after a rainout at their home track and won the Stereo West Auto Toys Hobby Stock feature. Mark Schumacker led all 10 laps of the Stereo West Auto Toys Tuner A main for his first win at the 1/3-mile track.

The Sprint A started off with Josh Riggins taking the early lead from the front row while Tadd and Terry Holliman gave chase. Overnight rain gave racers a fast and heavy surface all night, and by lap 10 Riggins began to run down lap traffic. Behind him Jack Dover battled with Mike Boston and Larry Pinegar, II for fourth place. A yellow flag on lap 13 for third-place Terry Holliman gave Dover the chance to nab second from Tadd Holliman one lap after the restart, and he closed in rapidly on Riggins, who had built a six-length lead.

As both hugged the bottom groove, Dover stayed close until lap 23 when he shot between an opening between Riggins and the berm to take the lead going into turn one. As the field worked lapped traffic, Riggins made one more move on the outside coming out of turn four, but Dover held off the challenge and crossed a car length ahead. The win was Dover's second at Eagle in his inaugural season, the first victory coming in the June 8 Jim Eckley Memorial race. Following Riggins was Pinegar, Toby Chapman and Chad Humston.

Another Beatrice regular, Jordan Grabouski may have been better off staying at home as the first B-feature winner barrel rolled hard in turn three on the opening lap of the IMCA Modfied A feature. After the debris cleared, Norm Zigenbein took off from the front row, while Aaron Pella pursued. The two battled for the lead with Pella briefly taking over on lap five until he pushed to the wall coming out of turn four and fell to tsecond.

Meanwhile, Mike Meyer charged from the sixth row and took second place from Pella at the halfway point, then beat Zigenbein into turn one with eight laps remaining to take the lead. Chris Alcorn came out on top of a three-way battle for second and closed the gap on Meyer with four laps remaining. It wasn't enough to keep Meyer from his fourth victory of 2006. Alcorn, Rik Gropp, Zigenbein, and Doug Deterding rounded out the top five.

Don Hall, Jr. worked his way to the lead of the 15-lap A feature after coming out in front of a three-wide race down the backstretch on the opening lap. Hall contended with Brian Cudly after Cudly made his way past Rex Schreinder on lap four. Behind them Jesse VanLaningham raced from the middle of the pack to take third place with just four laps down, and a yellow flag for Kyle Vanover set the stage for an intense restart.

Hall held point until lap 10 when VanLaningham made his move on the outside of turn four to take the lead. Despite two yellow flag restarts with five laps to go, VanLaningham was able to pull out to a half-straightaway advantage at the checkered flag over Hall. Aaron Dewalt nipped Cudly at the line for third, Casey Meyer was fifth.

Mark Schumacker dominated each lap of the Tuner A feature, but Adrian Dover tried her best to sound the Dixie horn on her “General Lee” machine as she shot through the field in the closing laps. Schumacker won by a straightaway over Dover at the line ahead of Neil Pella, Barry Kinnersley and Jack Prall, III. However, Dover was penalized one spot for contact during the race and would be scored third.


Championship Sprints

B Feature
1) 18 Ryan Roberts
2) 4s Stuart Snyder
3) 2 Don Droud Jr.
4) 71 Tige Jensen
5) 19J Jay Jordan
6) 91 Brad Krutz
7) 17 Gage Dorr
8) 3G Bill Garrow
9) 71X Kellen Love
10) 29 Roger Sluka
11) 7L Rob Lipker

A Feature
1) 53 Jack Dover
2) 14 Josh Riggins
3) 13F Larry Pinegar, II
4) 84 Toby Chapman
5) 24B Chad Humston
6) 51 Mike Boston
7) 23R Tadd Holliman
8) 77 John Klabunde
9) 19J Jay Jordan
10) 71 Tige Jensen
11) 3 Jeff Griffis
12) 18 Ryan Roberts
13) 28 Ken Klabunde
14) 31 Mark Pace
15) 4s Stuart Snyder
16) 23 Terry Holliman
17) 14G Gene Ackland
18) 96KX Adam Gullion
19) 76 Jay Russell
20) 2 Don Droud Jr.


IMCA Modifieds

B Feature
1) 30 Jordan Grabouski
2) 24 Dan Bohlmeyer
3) 12X George Haney
4) 8 Larry Goertz
5) 21 Phil Penney
6) 72 Mike Lineberry
7) 4JR David Jewett Jr.
8) 27M Brian Murphy
9) 1J Jason Edwards
10) B9 Sean Burkland
11) 95R Lucas Robinson
12) 45m Brandon Johnson
13) 52 Sean Manning
14) 4d Pat Donovan

B Feature #2
1) 00 Tim Pickens
2) 5ST Dan Wayman
3) 19 Scott Anderson
4) 44 Tom Lenz
5) 42K Jan Korth
6) 1M Mike Anderson
7) Z34 Brent Schlake
8) 29 Jeff Mazza
9) 75J Jesse Robinson
10) 51 Cliff Turner
11) 21F Ryan Fuchser
12) 7b Chris Burk
13) 7 Bob Ruisinger
14) 96 Gary Saathoff

A Feature
1) 2M Mike Meyer
2) 3 Chris Alcorn
3) V45 Rik Gropp
4) 1z Norm Ziegenbein
5) 13 Doug Deterding
6) 10K Don McCown
7) 3A Aaron Pella
8) 5ST Dan Wayman
9) 4T Jerry Trejo
10) 00 Tim Pickens
11) 11X Steve Devitt
12) 24 Dan Bohlmeyer
13) 21T Tracy Harr
14) 24T Terry Hurt
15) 3W Stacey Wilhelm
16) 94 Dan Nelson
17) 11AA Ed Raines
18) 27 Clint Homan
19) 12X George Haney
20) 82/76 Brad Koehn


IMCA Hobby Stocks

B Feature
1) 34 Max Harder
2) 28B Rick Bradley
3) M70 Rick Munson
4) 2 Ryan Roschewski
5) 32 Trevor Kropp
6) 94 Mike Hansen
7) 4 Troy Mencke
8) 86 Justin Wulf
9) 9t Jim Musel
10) 7 Matt Fralin
11) T54 Thomas Creek
12) 8 Murray Haugen II
13) 9XX Monte Haugen
14) 21 Derick Noonan

A Feature
1) 72 Jesse VanLaningham
2) 92 Don Hall Jr.
3) 21x Aaron DeWalt
4) 57 Brian Cudly
5) 38C Casey Meyer
6) 9 Rex Schreiner
7) 28B Rick Bradley
8) 66 Justin Fritzson
9) 11 Gary Novak
10) 34 Max Harder
11) 14 Ron Novak
12) 53 Jeff Kros
13) 10 Brad Schreiner
14) M70 Rick Munson
15) 3K Jerry Keaton
16) 2 Ryan Roschewski
17) 19 Kyle Vanover
18) 3c Colby Johnson
19) 98 Daniel Jackson
20) 1x Rich Small


Tuners

A Feature
1) 12X Mark Schumacker
2) 01 Adrian Dover
3) 3N Neil Pella
4) 00 Barry Kinnersley
5) 44 Jack Prall III
6) 10J Doug Lyons
7) 2k Kyle Schamp
8) 1K Kevin Kuker
9) 62 Justin Busboom
10) 2 Dan Rhiley
11) 0r Amanda Rhiley
12) 09 Harm Rogman
13) 0k Maynard Kinnersley
14) 0 Rich White
15) 11 Doug Kress
16) 67 Jack Prall Jr.
17) B32 Brian Haller