Boston Tops Sprints Again as Meyer Regains Point Lead

By Jason Orth

Eagle, Neb., (August 5, 2006) – Mike Boston won his sixth regular season Budweiser Championship Sprint A feature, the first time a sprint driver has won more than five races in a season since Billy Alley won five en route to his 2002 title. Mike Meyer won for the fifth time this year and got a break after Chris Alcorn couldn’t make repairs in time to return to action to retake the SoBe No Fear IMCA Modified point lead he lost just a week ago. Derick Noonan picked up his first Stereo West Auto Toys Hobby stock victory, controlling the entire 15-lap races while Doug Lyons won for the first time in the Stereo West Auto Toys Tuner division.

Boston, who also won the first of twin Eckley Memorial A features for seven total wins, ran down Rob Lipker and Kellen Love shortly after a red flag for a nasty two car flip involving Jay Jordan and Terry Holliman. Jordan’s car rolled down the front stretch, with Holliman jumping the rolling sprinter and coming down hard in turn one. Both drivers left the track on their own power, though Holliman complained of pain in his knee and ribs.

After taking the lead on lap eight, Boston dominated the rest of the race, while Lipker gave chase. In the closing laps, Boston took it easy through heavy lap traffic allowing Lipker to close to within three car lengths, but that’s as close as he would get. Boston took the checkers, followed by Lipker, a strong running Jeff Griffis, Jay Russell and the rookie Love.

Mike Meyer inherited the lead from Tracy Harr after Harr suffered a flat tire just before the midway point of the 20-lap IMCA Modified A feature in a quest to regain his point lead. Chris Alcorn, who clawed his way to the top ten after running the B feature came to a stop in an unrelated incident on the same lap and brought out the yellow flag. But, he was unable to make repairs in time for the restart and finished sixteenth.

Stacey Wilhelm made a late race charge for the lead but ran out of laps, finishing second behind Meyer. Doug Deterding has been a fixture in the top five this year, making another smooth run to third place. Raines followed in fourth, Sean Burklund was fifth.

Derick Noonan held point despite pressure from Dan Jackson and Jerry Keaton in the 15-lap Hobby Stock A feature. Noonan didn’t get fazed as he ran consistently clean laps and controlled the fast groove to take his first win at Eagle Raceway. Jackson followed in second, Keaton third. Rich Small finished fourth with Don Hall Jr. finishing the top five.

Doug Lyons ran down Tuner A feature leader Amanda Rhiley after the yellow flew for Adrian Dover as smoked poured out of her car. Kevin Kuker tried several times to make it around Lyons for the win, but couldn’t quite complete the pass and finished second. Rhiley came home third with Justin Busboom fourth and Amanda’s father, Dan strengthening his point lead with a fifth place finish.

Eagle Raceway takes Friday and Saturday off to host Monster Jam Summer Heat monster trucks and returns to racing on August 19 with Fan Appreciation night featuring five dollar adult admission.



Championship Sprints

A Feature
1) 51 Mike Boston
2) 7L Rob Lipker
3) 3 Jeff Griffis
4) 76 Jay Russell
5) 71X Kellen Love
6) 77 John Klabunde
7) 53 Jack Dover
8) 18 Ryan Roberts
9) 96KX Adam Gullion
10) 45 Jeff Lowery
11) 4c Dean Chadd
12) 28 Ken Klabunde
13) 23R Tadd Holliman
14) 24J Jeffrey Reiman
15) 96.1 Michael Oliver
16) 71 Tige Jensen
17) 9j Mark Schmidt
18) 17B Jason Becker
19) 29 Roger Sluka
20) 17 Gage Dorr
21) 19J Jay Jordan
22) 23 Terry Holliman

Show up
1) 52 Curtis Franks


IMCA Modifieds

B Feature
1) 3 Chris Alcorn
2) 21 Phil Penney
3) 00 Tim Pickens
4) 21J Jeremy Leiting
5) 24x Darren Hosick
6) 4JR David Jewett Jr.
7) 52 Sean Manning
8) 27M Brian Murphy
9) 75J Jesse Robinson
10) 51 Cliff Turner

B Feature #2
1) 8 Larry Goertz
2) 27 Clint Homan
3) 12X George Haney
4) 82/76 Brad Koehn
5) 19 Scott Anderson
6) 20m Mark Leiting
7) 4d Pat Donovan
8) 95R Lucas Robinson
9) 21F Ryan Fuchser
10) 1z Norm Ziegenbein
11) 4T Jerry Trejo

A Feature
1) 2M Mike Meyer
2) 3W Stacey Wilhelm
3) 13 Doug Deterding
4) 11AA Ed Raines
5) B9 Sean Burkland
6) 27 Clint Homan
7) 5ST Dan Wayman
8) 8 Larry Goertz
9) 8A Dusty Anderson
10) 21 Phil Penney
11) 10K Don McCown
12) 7 Bob Ruisinger
13) 42K Jan Korth
14) 44 Tom Lenz
15) 21T Tracy Harr
16) 3 Chris Alcorn
17) 11X Steve Devitt
18) 24T Terry Hurt
19) V45 Rik Gropp
20) 3A Aaron Pella


IMCA Hobby Stocks

A Feature
1) 21 Derick Noonan
2) 98 Daniel Jackson
3) 3K Jerry Keaton
4) 1x Rich Small
5) 92 Don Hall Jr.
6) 53 Jeff Kros
7) 86 Justin Wulf
8) 57 Brian Cudly
9) 94 Mike Hansen
10) 1R RJ Macku
11) 28B Rick Bradley
12) 9t Jim Musel
13) M70 Rick Munson
14) 21H Shane Hiatt
15) 9 Rex Schreiner
16) 32 Trevor Kropp
17) 95 Max Sharpe
18) 67 Jason Halagarda
19) 4 Troy Mencke
20) 10 Brad Schreiner
21) 3c Colby Johnson
22) 42 Rob Brown
23) 14 Ron Novak


Tuners (Hornets)

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