Corellis Charges to Victory; Harkin and Cruz Get Their First

Saturday June 10, 2006 - By: Rodney Rescott

West Lebanon, NY:  Clear skies and a alight breeze brought out the racing faithful, as Lebanon Valley Speedway got in a full card of racing without the rain interrupting!  Anderson Equipment, Taconic DSL and Pit Stop Automotive presented the program of all classes including a PureStock Dash presented by Boomer's Performance.

The modifieds took to the speedway for their 30 lap feature event of the night.  And not a fan was seated as the action was hot and heavy early in the event.  Paul Gilardi and Lorne Browe brought the field to green, but Gilardi couldn't negotiate the first turn bringing out the first of several cautions throughout the 30 laps feature.  Once the green dropped again, it was Lorne Browe's #14 taking the helm with Russ Reckner in hot pursuit.  With that battle for the top spot in the spotlight, all eyes were watching the charge from deep in the field.

The charge to the front was headed by the Mighty Matt Quinn, with Donnie Corellis, Andy Bachetti, and Kenny Tremont mirroring each other as they made their way through the field to the front of the class.  The Browe Paving #14 just couldn't shake Reckner's #34R throughout the first half of the event, but their battle became overshadowed with the 4 horseman making their presents known.  By half way, you could through a blanket over the top 5 all vying for that top spot.

But Reckner's night came to an unexpected end as Quinn's #20 lost its breaks entering turn 3.  The collision caused both cars to retire early from the event with just 7 laps remaining.  That put the Wild Child, Andy Bachetti right on the bumper of Browe.  As the green flew once more, the battle ensued, but Bachetti just couldn't get a good run past the #14 to complete the pass.  This gave Corellis the opportunity he was waiting for, as he made a dramatic outside to inside slide for life entering the treacherous turn 3, and threaded the needle.  At the exit of the fourth turn, it was all the #21 Rifenberg Construction PMC until the checkers fell.

Corellis captured his first for '06, followed by Bachetti, Kenny Tremont, Lorne Browe, and Guy Sheldon rounded out the top 5.

The Sportsman Division was also on tap for their regular 20 lap event.  With nearly a caution free event, the 5th place starter, Ed Harkins made his way to the front to capture his first of the season as well.  Harkins #19 was
followed by Don Miller, Alan Houghtaling, K.C. Goewey, and Frankie Harper completing the top 5.

The Pro Stocks saw Chris Crews' struggles all year finally get him into victory lane.  Following Crews across the line was Mike Middleton, Rob Langevin, Robbie Speed and Paul LaRochelle.  The Limited Pro Stocks was
captured by George Miles, his 3rd of the year.

The Pure Stock division was also on tap with over 50 cars in attendance.  Randy Myers captured his first victory for 2006 in Pure Stock#1.  Dave Steibel captured his 2nd of the year in Pure Stock#2.  Pure Stock#3 saw the legendary Pete Wiegand capture his 3rd win of 2006, his 45th of his career!  Pure Stock#4 saw Brian Houghtaling capture his first of the year as well.

The Boomer's Performance pure Stock Clash was also captured by the #78p of Pete Wiegand.

DMC Racing Products, and Dougherty Brothers Construction bring the return of the Benjamin Moore Paints 358 Super Series, along with DMC presenting a special $500.00 to win ProStock "Bubba Tanner Classic" 23 lap feature next Saturday night June 17th.

For more information, including tickets for up coming events like the return of the World of Outlaws July 23rd, the USHRA Monster Truck Summer Nationals July 10th, 11th, and 12th, and the Eve of Destruction next week June 20th; visit our website www.LebanonValley.com.  Or call the speedway offices at
(518) 794-9606 or (518) 794-9965 during normal business hours.

Saturday June 10, 2006 - Anderson Equipment, Pitstop Automotive

Modified Results (30 Laps) - 1 Donnie Corellis, 2 Andy Bachetti, 3 Kenny Tremont, 4 Lorne Browe, 5 Guy Sheldon, 6 J. R. Heffner, 7 Tim Dwyer, 8 Eddie Marshall, 9 Wayne Jelley, 10 Mike King, 11 John Hewitt, 12 Steve Hough, 13 Brian Berger, 14 Ron Dwyer, 15 Hector Stratton, 16 Keith Flach, 17 Denny Soltis, 18 Russ Reckner, 19 Matt Quinn, 20 Jeff Watson, 21 John Alberti, 22 Dave Leckonby, 23 Mark Flach Jr, 24 John Ruchel, 25 Paul Gilardi, 26 Mark Pullen

Sportsman Results (20 Laps) - 1 Ed Harkin, 2 Don Miller, 3 Alan Houghtaling, 4 KC Goewey, 5 Frank Harper, 6 Carmon Carnibucci, 7 Jeff Watson, 8 Danny Sanchez, 9 Kory Sandstedt, 10 Chris Kokosa, 11 Chris Tryon, 12 Ryan Larkin, 13 Kyle Hoffman, 14 Brian Sandstedt, 15 Neil Stratton, 16 Art Collins, 17 Bob Bouchard, 18 Marc Johnson, 19 Kevin Lynch, 20 Danny Burl, 21 Wayne Keyes, 22 Joe Mabb Jr, 23 Walt McKay, 24 Chad Pierce, 25 Earl Thitchener

Pro Stock Results (20 Laps) - 1 Chris Crews, 2 Mike Middleton, 3 Rob Langevin, 4 Robbie Speed, 5 Paul LaRochelle, 6 Jim Langenback, 7 Rob Yetman, 8 Jason Casey, 9 Kevin Arnold, 10 Victor Hopkins, 11 Hugh Page, 12 Don Carlson, 13 Kyle Hosier, 14 Lori Cary, 15 Jon Routhier, 16 Larry Megan, 17 Mike Stebbins, 18 Chris Claus, 19 Jay Corbin

Limited Pro Stock Results (10 Laps) - 1 George Miles Jr, 2 Nick Hilt, 3 Brian Keough, 4 Justin Herron, 5 Frankie Twing, 6 Jim Keough, 7 Gary Ashley, 8 John Santolin, 9 Mike Fachini, 10 Dirk LaPierre

Pure Stock #1 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Randy Meyers, 2 Shannon McDermott, 3 Jay Kreutziger Jr, 4 Dave Houser, 5 Rich Douglass, 6 Chris Keller, 7 Lynn Wesley, 8 Carl Castagna, 9 Dan Olds, 10 Wayne Mahar, 11 Orv Humes, 12 Ron Hoyt Jr, 13 David Bink

Pure Stock #2 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Dave Streibel, 2 John Chapman, 3 Joe Chenail, 4 Larry Ball, 5 Gary VanDenberg, 6 Ed Hatch, 7 Joe Walcott, 8 Richard Rogers, 9 John Hubbard, 10 Jerry Helms Jr, 11 Steve Hatch, 12 Doug Olds, 13 Marcus Tifft, 14 Paul Engwer

Pure Stock #3 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Pete Wiegand, 2 Matt Humes, 3 Bob Palmer, 4 Al Relyea, 5 Phil Wood, 6 Chrissy Hilt, 7 Kevin Winters, 8 Tom Harkins, 9 Mike Eichstedt, 10 Jesse Murphy, 11 Ray Hall Sr, 12 Todd Pelkey, 13 Lou Ganczar, 14 Jeff Kreutziger

Pure Stock #4 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Brian Houghtaling, 2 Chris Murphy, 3 Steve Kahler Jr, 4 Richard Puff, 5 Duane Quenneville, 6 Tim Sayers, 7 Nick Regis, 8 Rob Gilpatrick, 9 John Quiqley, 10 Mike Acker, 11 Henry Houser, 12 Jim Fachini