Keeter Tops A-Mods At Springfield As Maggard Jr.Heads SportMods

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Springfield,Mo.-Despite early wekday rains,action went on Sat Night at the Quick-Quarter of the SpringfieldRaceway with 2 and 3 wide racing all evening long in the 5 classes with over 75 race teams in the pits.

The Budweiser A-Mods were back in action this week as Jon Yeoman and Jackie Dalton brought the field to the Green flag.Side by side as Yeoman took the early lead,but Dalton the defending track champion jumped the cushion in turn 4 bringing out a yellow and going to the rear of the field.
On the restart,Yeoman and opening night winner Erik Maggard went wheel to wheel with Maggard claiming the opening lap as Mitch Keeter quietly made a bold move to the low side and grabbed lap number 2 with Maggard staying close.The yellow waved on lap for Kyle Slagle bunching up the field.On the restart,Keeter last seasons runner-up in the standings jumped to a big lead as Dalton was coming through the pack.On lap 7 Dalton took the second spot away from Maggard and tried to catch the flying Keeter but Keeter was to strong tonight as he grabbed his first win of the season with Dalton,Maggard,Bobby Pearish and Marvin Forrest in the top 5.

The popualr SportMods went through 3 tough qualifying heats and a last chance race to set the field for their feature as point leader Sean Williams and Roy Maynard brought field down on the start.With 3 wide action on the opening lap,Andrew Smith in row 3 got sideways spinning and collected the cars of Shawn Strong,Mike Willoughby,Andy Beauchamp ending thier nights.On the restart Williams took the lead with Maynars,Brandon Maggard,Bobby Maggard Jr and Eric Tinderholt in tow.In turn 4 Williams jumped the cushion bringing out the yellow.On the restart with Maynard leading Brandon Maggard went to high groove as they came out of turn 4.Maggard grazed the wall sending him into a hard barrell roll and Maynard also caught damamge ending both their nights.This put Bobby Maggard Jr in the top spot and the former FactoryStock front runner wasted no time in pulling away from the field in grabbing his first win of the season with Wayne Graybeal charging hard to finish in the runner-up spot with JC Morton,Wes Long and B feature transfer driver Mike Hailman in the top 5.

The StreetStock feature had last seasons runner-up James Redus jump to the early lead with Nick Whitehead close behind.On lap 2 the caution flew as Randy High and Shawn Strong made contact sending Strong spinning and High to the rear also_On the restart Redus found Rex Freize glued to his bumper as defending champion Robert High had worked from 11th to third place and coming quickly.Rodney Yost and Rusty Forrest got tgether in turn 4 ending both their nights.On the restart,High pulled to the bottom of the track and wheel to wheel with leader Redus as they exited turn 4.By lap 7 High took the lead as Bobby Maggard Sr,Jack Hamer and Strong were coming throught the pack.High pulled away later in the feature to take the win with Redus,Strong,Maggard and Hamer in the top 5.

The Legend feature was all early season hard luck driver David Bauer as he took the lead on lap 1 with Jay Reynolds staying close behind.Current point leader Justin Comer and Park Jones were swapping spots back and forth with Comer trying several late attempts at Bauer but Bauer held them off to take the victory with Comer a very close second followed by a fast moving Dave comer,Rob Watson and Jones at the finish.

The MidWest Modz saw 14 year old and current point leader JC Newell lead all 12 laps of the feature withstanding several attempts from Roy Maynard to take the win but following inspection was Disqualified for tech reasons giving the victory to Maynard with Jeremy Manes,Kaleb Copher,Kelly Gough and David Lynch following.

No Racing on Sat May 29,but Action will return on Say Night June 5th as the popular USMTS modifieds visit the SpringfieldRaceway for their only scheduled visit of 2010.Top Modified drivers from 7-10 different states will be on hand along with action in the SportMods,Legends and StreetStocks with Racing to start at 7PM Sharp.

Results
Budweiser A-Mods
A Ft-Mitch Keeter-Webb City 2)Jackie Dalton-Carthage 3)Erik Maggard-Springfield 4)Bobby Pearish-Oronogo 5)Marvin Forrest-Shell Knob 6)Brian Green-Pierce City 7)John Yeoman-Granby 8)Kyle Slagle 9)Colson Kirk-Urbana 10)Tammy Mitchell-Pea Ridge,Ark. DNS-Jerry Lankton-Lampe, Darrell Jackson-Carthage,Darrell McWirther-Bentonville,Ark
1st Ht-1)Maggard 2)Slagle 3)McWirther 4)Mitchell 5)Lankton 6)Green 7)Jackson
2nd Ht-1)Dalton 2)Keeter 3)Yeoman 4)Forresst 5)Kirk 6)Pearish

SportMods
A Ft-1)Bobby Maggard Jr-Republic 2)Wayne Graybeal-Springfield 3)JC Morton-Springfield 4)Wes Long-Springfield 5)Mike Hailman-Reed Springs 6)Eric Tinderholt-Lampe 7)Jon Yeoman Jr-Granby 8)Gary Rodocker-Willard 9)Mike Watson-Springfield 10)Brad Moad-Springfield 11)Heath Loney-Sparta 12)Billy Dalton-Reeds 13)Sean Williams-Willard 14)Brandon Maggard-Republic 15)Roy Maynard-Alba 16)Andrew Smith-Willard 17)Shawn Strong-Republic 18)Andy Beauchamp-Springfield 19)Mike Willoughby-Springfield
B Ft(Top 4 To Adavance) 1)Hailman 2)Dallas Scott-Springfield 3)Loney 4)Moad 5)Burks 6)Nathan Evans-Springfield 7)Aaron Speck-Republic 8)Ryan Edde-Urbana 9)Mike Barnett-Springfield
1st Ht-1)Brandon Maggard 2)Maynard 3)Tinderholt 4)Rodocker 5)Strong 6)Willoughby 7)Speck 8)Barnett 9)Evans
2nd Ht-1)A.Smith 2)Williams 3)Morton 4)Long 5)Watson 6)Loney 7)Edde 8)Burke
3rd Ht-1)Maggard Jr 2)Graybeal 3)Yeoman Jr 4)Dalton 5)Beauchamp 6)Scott 7)Hailman 8)Moad

StreetStocks
A Ft-1)Robert High-Springfield 2)James Redus-Springfield 3)Shawn Strong-Republic 4)Bobby Maggard Sr-Springfield 5)Jack Hamer-Ava 6)Randy High-Springfield 7)Andrew Neil-Springfield 8)Rex Freize-Willard 9)Nick Whitehead-Nixa 10)Rusty Forrest-Ozark 11)Rodney Yost-Squires 12)Matt Keeth-Marshfield DNS-Dan Wood-Springfield Josh Rupp-Sparta
1st Ht-1)Strong 2)Maggard Sr 3)Redus 4)Wood 5)Randy High 6)Yost 7)Keeth
2nd Ht-1)Robert High 2)Whitehead 3)Forrest 4)Freize 5)Rupp 6)Neil 7)Hamer

Legends
A Ft-1)David Bauer-Webb City 2)Justin Comer-Joplin 3)Dave Comer-Joplin 4)Rob Watson-Billings 5)Park Jones-Joplin 6)Rodney Baird-Oldfield 7)Matt Gruenburg-Joplin 8)Brian Boucher-Joplin 9)Jay Reynolds-Springfield 10)Rick Nichols-Joplin 11)Paul Horton-Joplin 12)Tyler Horton-Joplin
1st Ht-1)Jones 2)Gruenburg 3)Baird 4)Boucher 5)T Horton 6)Nichols
2nd Ht-1)Bauer 2)Reynolds 3)Watson 4)J.Comer 5)D.Comer 6)P.Horton

MidWest Modz
A Ft-1)Roy Maynard-Alba 2)Jeremy Manes-Nixa 3)Kaleb Copher-Webb City 4)Kelly Gough-Joplin 5)David Lynch-Webb City 6)Shane Bias-Brighton 7)Mark Raymond-Branson 8)Terry Williams-Springfield 9)Tyler Chainey-Springfield DQ-JC Newell-Stoutland
1st Ht-1)Manes 2)Raymond 3)Chainey 4)Lynch
2nd Ht-1)Copher 2)Maynard 3)Williams 4)Bias 5)Gough
 




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