Churchill and Hudson Take Tradition Trophies

CORNING, IA (Sept 22) - Scuba Steve Churchill took home the winner's check and trophy from the 9th annual KMA Radio 960 Tradition at the Adams County Speedway in Corning on Saturday, September 22nd. Churchill was perfect on the night winning both his heat race and the Miller Dash for Cash to determine the starting order of the feature event. He elected to take the three hundred dollar dash purse and start sixth in the feature.

Pole sitter Rick Germar of Red Oak led the twenty-four car field to the green flag to start the main event but quickly surrendered the lead to Lorimor's Greg Miller. Miller dominated the first half of the race losing the lead to Jeremy Swanson as Swanson claimed the $250 Houck Supply bonus.

At the midpoint inversion the leader Swanson had to invert to sixth place, surrendering the lead to IMCA powerhouse Mike Nichols from Harlan. Nichols held the lead for only one circuit of the big half mile before Churchill slipped by for the lead. The remainder of the race Red Oak's Ron Ballinger kept the pressure on the leader running nose to tail and door to door for the lead. While according to the transponder based scoring Ballinger turned in the fast lap of the race but he was unable to get around Churchill for the checkered flag.

Following Churchill and Ballinger at the finish were Swanson, Nichols, ACS Pro-Street champion Mike Garner, Greg Miller, Polk City's Steve Jackson, Breda's Brian Blessington, Tim Bengard from Exira and Corning's own Joe Zadina.

In the Stalker Chevrolet hobby stocks ACS points champion Matt Hudson showed the crowd that his championship was no fluke as he took his seventh checkered flag of the year. Hudson won his heat but finished second to Wall Lake's Andy Boeckman in the Budweiser Dash. Boeckman elected to pocket the cash and start sixth in the feature event, putting Hudson beside him in row three of the starting grid.

Corning's Kevin Yearington sat on the pole and lead at the end of the first lap, but a dominating Boeckman came to the front on the second lap and held a comfortable lead through the lap twelve midpoint inversion. At the inversion Boeckman had to drop back to the number eight slot giving the lead to a lucky Brad Derry from New Market. While Hudson restarted in seventh position next to Boeckman, it was Hudson making a charge to the front while Boeckman struggled to an eventual eleventh place finish.

Derry ran up front for five laps, turning over the lead to Hudson on lap eighteen. Creston's Ryan Vicker, a regular at ACS in both hobby stock and late model classes, moved to Hudson's rear bumper by lap twenty and kept the pressure on, but ended crossing the finish line just thirty-six hundredths of a second behind Hudson. Making up the rest of the top ten were Derry, Red Oak's Brad Bergren, Rob Allison from Des Moines, Shannon Anderson from Atlantic, Clearfield's Cody Werner, Clarinda's Jeremy Auten, Yearington, and ACS points runner up Jesse Sobbing of Glenwood.

In the RJ Plumbing hornets Omaha's Jason Miller spanked the field by winning both of the six lap feature events. Miller came from an eighth starting position to win the first feature and started last in the second feature before passing the entire field for the win. Miller was followed by Villisca's Eddie Sockrider, Neola's Dustin Benning, Elliott's Mike Smith, St. Joseph's Andrew Holmes and Corning drivers Jake Camden, Ronnie Camden, Josh Camden and Darwin Shires.



Hobby stock

Heat 1 – Jim Lampe, Ryan Vicker, Glenn Orr

Heat 2 –Shannon Anderson, Steve Churchill, Daniel Hislabeck

Heat 3 – Brad Bergren, Jesse Sobbing, Russell Sulgrove

Heat 4 – Andy Boeckman, Rick Ritchie, Les Helvie

Heat 5 – Kevin Yearington, Matt Williamson, Brad Derry

Heat 6 – Matt Hudson, Jim Tull, Rob Allison

B Feature 1 – Cody Werner, Kurt Hansen, Steve Adams

B Feature 2 – Bill Bonnett, Jeremy Auten, Jerod Weston

Dash – Boeckman, Hudson, Bergren, Anderson, Lampe, Yearington

Tradition Feature – Hudson, Vicker, Derry, Bergren, Allison, Anderson, Werner, Yearington, Sobbing, Boeckman, Hansen, Orr, Ritchie, Weston, Hilsabeck, Adams, Williamson, Sulgrove, Helvie, Churchill, Tull, Lampe, Bonnett



Pro street / Street stock

Heat 1 – Les Helvie, AJ Miller, Ballinger

Heat 2 – Steve Jackson, Jeremy Swanson, Tim Bengard

Heat 3 – Mike Nichols, Tony Hardisty, Mike Garner

Heat 4 – Greg Miller, Joe Zadina, Dug Seidl

Heat 5 – Steve Churchill, Craig Garner, Jeff Orr

Heat 6 – Rick Germar, Ed Hamilton, Dwayne Pelzer

B Feature 1 – Brian Blessington, Mike McCurdy, David Schafroth

B Feature 2 – Bryan Tregdon, Ricky Christiansen, AJ Johnson

Dash – Churchill, Nichols, G. Miller, Jackson, Germar, Helvie

Tradition Feature – Churchill, Ballinger, Swanson, Nichols, M. Garner, G. Miller, Jackson, Blessington, Bengard, Zadina, Hardisty, Germar, Seidl, Johnson, Pelzer, Christensen, McCurdy, Hamilton, C. Garner, Orr, Tregdon, Ty Hill, Schafroth, AJ Miller