McIntyre And Shaffer Open Williams Grove Season With Wins
3/28/14
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mechanicsburg –
Gerard McIntyre Jr. held off the furious charges of Stevie Smith and Brian
Montieth to win the 2014 season opener for sprint cars at Williams Grove
Speedway on Friday night.
In the 358 sprint main it was frontrow starter Adrian
Shaffer who wired the field for the 20-lap victory.
Cory Haas held sway from the start in the 410 sprint
feature over McIntyre with Greg Hodnett running third.
The pace was slowed on the second
circuit for a stopped Doug Esh on the backstretch and Haas had the field
firmly under his control when action resumed.
Hodnett was really coming after McIntyre for second with
repeated attempts in the turns when he came up lame, with failed brakes with
11 laps in the book.
On the restart Haas looked good-to-go but his run at the
front would only last for another lap as engine woes forced him to stop on
the frontstretch, turning the helm over to McIntyre.
The final 13 circuits would go
nonstop with all eyes turning to 14th starter Brian Montieth who
was up to fifth by the time Haas lost his engine.
Montieth pounced on Rick Lafferty for
fourth on the restart and then got by Ryan Smith for third with 14 down.
The front trio remained comfortable
distances apart until the five to go point when the rear of the field came
into play just ahead of leader McIntyre.
Both Montieth and Smith swarmed all
over one another during the late going while the pair as a whole drilled
down on McIntyre only to cross the finish line under a blanket with the
winner, all three drivers separated by no more than .948 seconds.
Ryan Smith crossed the line in fourth with Lafferty fifth.
Sixth through 10th went to
Trey Starks, Robbie Stillwaggon, Kyle Reinhardt, Chad Layton and Don Kreitz
Jr.
Heats for the 30-car field went to
Lafferty, Stillwaggon and McIntyre with the consolation going to Dave Ely.
Adrian Shaffer led all 20 laps of the
358 sprint main for his eighth career victory in the division at the track.
Chandler Leiby wrestled his way up to
second by the halfway point but there was no closing on Shaffer at the
front.
Kevin Nouse dueled with Brad
McClelland early to advance into third for the finish.
McClelland was fourth with Jay Galloway finishing fifth.
Sixth through 10th went to
Kody Lehman, Brock Zearfoss, Brie Hershey, Duane Watson and Matt Campbell.
Heats went to Shaffer and Leiby.
March 28, 2014 Feature
Finishes:
410 sprints, 25 laps: 1.
1) 16 Gerard
McIntyre Jr. 2) 51 Stevie Smith 3) 21 Brian Montieth 4) 94 Ryan
Smith 5) 0 Rick Lafferty |
6) 55 Trey
Starks 7) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 8) 21 Kyle Reinhardt 9) 7 Chad
Layton 10) 69K Don Kreitz Jr. |
11) 20s Derek
Sell 12) 5 Justin Barger 13) 1 Lucas Wolfe 14) 48 Danny Dietrich 15)
65 Dave Ely 16) 15 |
Adam Wilt 17) 75
Nicole Bower 18) 11c Cory Haas 19) 27 Greg Hodnett 20) Austin Hogue
21) M1
|
Mark Smith 22)
17B Steve Buckwalter 23) 8H Doug Esh 24) 87 Alan Krimes |
|
DNQ: 29 Ryan Wilson, 44 Rodney Westhafer, 93
Glenndon Forsythe, 3 Pat Cannon, 19m Brent Marks, |
3z Brock Zearfoss |
358
sprints, 20 laps: |
1) 27s Adrian Shaffer 2) 119 Chandler Leiby
3) 4R Kevin Nouse 4) 6R Brad McClelland 5) 27 Jay |
Galloway 6) 47K Kody Lehman 7) 1w Brock
Zearfoss 8) 97 Brie Hershey 9) 3w Duane Watson 10) 16 |
Matt Campbell 11) 35 Tyler Esh 12) 64K Kyle
Purks 13) 11 Leah Starner 14) 21 Scott Fisher |