By Nathan Aldrich
SUSQUEHANNA, PA –Danny Creeden invaded the Penn Can Speedway for the second week in a row, moving up one spot to collect the checkered flags Friday night for his first win of the season. With a second place finish last week Creeden is off to a hot start at the Can.
Alex Stanton and Creeden would lead the way as a strong field of modifieds charged off of turn 4. Stanton jolted out to the early lead but Creeden was strong from the start, completing the pass with two laps in the books. By lap 4 Creeden had already found lapped traffic, leading to a yellow as Brad Schaffer took a spin. The yellow would erase a half straight away lead for Creeden, and give him a new dancing partner in Steve Davis. Creeden would pick the inside, leading the way as Danny Tyler and Brad Szulewski battled hard. The pair would stay door to door for the next handful of laps, contesting the 7th spot until a lap 7 yellow slowed the pace once again.
Yellows would be the story as the race approached halfway with a handful coming between laps 7 and 16. With the field switching to single file and 16 laps complete, Creeden began to open up a gap, putting a full straight between himself and Davis, who held a solid advantage over third place running Alan Rudalavage. Creeden would slip past Doug Polhamus on lap 22 and catch the tail of the field in the waning laps but his advantage never shrank. Davis, Rudalavage, Stanton and Tyler rounded out the top 5.
This week will be the final draw/redraw week for Penn Can with the return of the Dirt Modified Nostalgia Tour. May 26th will start handicapping and see the return of the 604 crate late models to Penn Can. You can find them on facebook at The Penn Can Speedway!
Stafursky Paving Modifieds
WINNER – 16X – DANNY CREEDEN
2.) 5D-Steve Davis 3.) 145-Alan Rudalavage 4.) 117-Alex Stanton 5.) 97T-Danny Tyler 6.) 280-Justin Holland 7.) 5-Kevin Hartnett 8.) 22-Alex Tonkin 9.) 1-Darwin Greene Sr. 10.) 72-Nick Petrilak 11.) 23JR-John Michael Phillips 73-Casey Plummer 12.) 27K-Brett Tonkin 13.) 484-Travis Brockner 14.) 555-Leo Fotopoulos 17-George Kostelansky 15.) KP1-Doug Polhamus 16.) 014-Brad Shaffer 17.) 84Y-Brian Franko 18.) 88-Alan Komar 19.) 119-Brian Malcolm 20.) 14Z-Brad Szulewski 21.) 85-Dan Vauter 22.) 52B-Brandon Fritsch
Erik Hines Trucking LLC 602 Crate Sportsman
WINNER – 197 – MIKE SCHANE
2.) 1A-Brad Weaver 3.) 16-Ned Fitch 4.) 3R-Ray Leonard 5.) 7UP-Gary Smith 6.) 14K-Alex Konopka 7.) 10K-Kolyn Schane 8.) 61-Dave Rosa 9.) 117-Adam Mudge 10.) 00-Brad Burman 11.) 70J-Joe Novak 12.) 55-Marc Goodwin 13.) M7-Mike Nagel Jr 14.) 11-Brett Wooster 15.) 72-Josh Fedo 16.) 88S-Michael Samony 17.) 32-Eddie Kudrako 18.) 44-Jim O’Hara 19.) 7R-Tommy Groover
Factory Stock
WINNER – 617 – ERIC BEACH
2.) 28-Charlie Gilbert 3.) 83T-Rich Sharpsteen 4.) 9J-Jordan Towner 5.) 35H-Justin Slezak 6.) 28X-Adam Gilbert 7.) 919-Nick Stark 8.) 23S-Kyle Spoor 9.) 74-John Picchio 10.) 10-Kevin Welch 11.) 23B-Brad Chilson 12.) 19-Darren Davies DNS: 1X-Daniel Stevens
A&E Tire and Auto Service Center 600cc Modifieds
WINNER – 28 – BRETT GRAY
2.) 29D-Doug Newbigging 3.) 424-Devon Sieban 4.) 5-Chuck Lohmeyer 5.) 566-Ryan David Kadaronak11-Brenton Payne 6.) 1JR-Darwin Green Jr 7.) 30NN-Nate Oropallo 999-Ethan Johnson 8.) 117-Jeffrey Martin 9.) 29-Bretton Miller 10.) 217-Larry Furman 11.) 1-Jared Green 607-Jack Sherwood 12.) 53Jr-Aiden Miller 13.) 17-Jeff Baldwin 14.) 67-Tori Straway 15.) 1*-Allen Bibalo DNS: 999-Madyson Beach, 21-Scott Beach, 12J-John Dinniny
Gary’s U-Pull It 4 Cylinders
WINNER – 23 – COLLIN MILLS
2.) 5L-Bryant Beach 3.) 107-Tim Vandermark 4.) 354-Andy Bolles 5.) 77-Brian Salmini 6.) 56-Jeff Sterling 7.) 21MJ-Scott Beach 8.) G55-Dakota Fuller 9.) 27RW-Mike Abbott 10.) 22-Davd Benson 11.) 8W-Rich Wagner 12.) 5-Josh Wilder 13.) .45-Thomas Tomcyk DQ: 24Y-Chris Yob
Limited Sportsman
WINNER – 56 – DEVON GREEN
2.) 5T-Charlie Towner 3.) 88A-Amanda Scholtisek 4.) 225-Derrick Schaffer
