By Nathan Aldrich
SUSQUEHANNA, PA – Kevin Hartnett collected his third win of the season at Penn Can Speedway, putting on a show as Hartnett led by nearly half the speedway multiple times during the 30 lap feature. The win propelled Hartnett into the point lead with the speedway headed into Championship night and the top 6 separated by less than 100 points.
Brandon Fritsch and Travis Brockner led the way in a hectic opening lap for the Stafursky Paving Modifieds. Hartnett quickly worked his way to the front with Brad Szelewski following past Fritsch on the third lap. Brockner would keep Hartnett at bay until a lap 4 yellow for a Brad Shaffer spin. Hartnett grabbed the lead on the restart but the lap wouldn’t be scored as the caution came out once again.
Hartnett nailed the second restart, carrying a three car length lead down the backstretch while Szelewski and Brockner battled door to door for second. Their 5 lap battle ended with Szelewski grabbing second and Frank Yankowski moving past Brockner for third. Danny Creeden grabbed the fourth spot with 10 laps complete as Hartnett closed in on lapped traffic. Hartnett shredded through traffic, leading by half the track when Dennis Claperton spun in turn 2 with 20 laps on the board. Hartnett made his own area code in the closing laps, opening up a 7 second lead as he collected the checkered flags with Szekewski, Yankowski, Creeden and Darwin Greene Sr completing the top 5.
Stafursky Paving Modifieds
WINNER – 5 – KEVIN HARTNETT
2.) 14Z-Brad Szulewski 3.) 127-Frank Yankowski 4.) 16X-Danny Creeden 5.) 1-Darwin Greene Sr. 6.) 72-Nick Petrilak 7.) 117-Alex Stanton 8.) 484-Travis Brockner 9.) D9-Dennis Clapperton 10.) 23P-John Michael Phillips 11.) 014-Brad Schaffer 12.) 17-George Kostelansky 13.) 27K-Brett Tonkin 14.) 14A-Brian Franko 15.) 88A-Alan Komar 16.) 52B-Brandon Fritsch 17.) 73-Casey Plummer 18.) 119-Brian Malcolm 19.) S360-Mike Nagel Sr. DNS: 57-Dan Burman
Erik Hines Trucking LLC 602 Crate Sportsman
WINNER – 10K – KOLYN SCHANE
2.) 197-Mike Schane 3.) 711X-Allen Kellogg 4.) 3R-Ray Leonard 5.) 17D-Mike Loney 6.) 26-Brad Weaver 7.) 8-Ryan Hicks 8.) 7R-Tommy Groover 9.) 3D-Dave Leyshon 10.) 117-Adam Mudge 11.) M7-Mike Nagel Jr. 12.) 16-Ned Fitch 13.) 11-Brett Wooster 14.) 55-Marty Goodwin 15.) 5T-Charlie Towner 16.) 44-Jim O’Hara 17.) 14K-Alex Konopka 18.) 54T-Travis Rooney 19.) 72-Josh Fedo 20.) 88A-Amanda Scholtisek 21.) 711-Ralph Mele DQ: 1A-Matt Cole
A & E Tire and Auto Center 600cc Modifieds
WINNER – 12J – JOHN DINNINY
2.) 5-Chuck Lohmeyer 3.) 29-Brenton Miller 4.) 28-Brett Gray 5.) 217-Larry Furman 6.) 24X-Matt Cole 7.) 80-Tyler Smith 8.) 77X-Nolan Smith 9.) 30NN-Nate Oropallo 10.) 42-Tom Shiner 11.) 314-Kyle Percy 12.) 117-Jeffrey Martin 13.) 67-Tori Straway 14.) 124-Steven Cole 15.) 999-Madyson Beach 16.) 17-Jeff Baldwin 17.) 1JR-Darwin Greene Jr 18.) 134-Tracy Oliver 19.) 39-Sam Usborne 20.) 424G-Mollie Mroz 21.) 11-Brenton Payne
Factory Stock
WINNER – 919 – JORDAN TOWNER
2.) 28A-Adam Gilbert 3.) 28-Charlie Gilbert 4.) 7-Mahlon Shoemaker 5.) 35H-Justin Slezak 6.) 23S-Kyle Spoor 7.) 617-Eric Beach 8.) 74-John Picchio 9.) M1-Jeremy Williams 10.) 19-Darren Davies 11.) 37X-Rob Mivelotz 12.) 20JR-Dusty Decker 13.) 3-Jason Rhodes
Gary’s U-Pull It 4 Cylinders
WINNER – 5L – BRYANT BEACH
2.) 354-Andy Bolles 3.) 56-Jeff Sterling 4.) 8W-Rich Wagner 5.) 16-Kenny Underwood 6.) 77-Brian Salmini 7.) 21MJ-Mike Jenks 8.) 71-Rob Sterling 9.) G55-Dakota Fuller 10.) 21-Scott Beach 11.) 23-Collin Mills
