Fabrizius, Balthazor, Blackwill repeat at Hays
By Mike Hughes

HAYS, KS (Aug. 20, 2006) - Excellent track conditions made for some exciting feature racing Sunday evening, August 20, at Rolling Plains Motor Speedway in Hays.

Colby’s John Fabrizius won his second IMCA Modified feature of the season. Ryan Goheen led the first 2 laps before Fabrizius took the lead. R. Alan Dix then chased Fabrizius and passed him for the lead on lap 16, only to have Fabrizius retake the lead on lap 19. As the entire field took the white flag, Jeremy Zorn spun in turn 1 to bring out a caution. After the field was realigned, track officials deemed the finish official as all the cars had taken the white flag, therefore the checkers waved while under caution. Dix finished second, followed by Kevin Hoeme, Goheen, and Corey Lagroon. Heat race winners were Ronnie Hill, Fabrizius and Dix.

Jason Rogers of Selden took the lead at the halfway mark of the 15-lap IMCA Stock Car feature from Travis Sherfick, and held off a determined Josh Hudson and Sherfick to score the victory. Cory Struckhoff and Jason Schoenberger finished fourth and fifth. Rogers and Tyler Hahn won the two heat races.

Stockton’s Adam Balthazor won his second IMCA Hobby Stock feature in a row at the 3/8-mile oval. Balthazor passed leader Mark Normandin on lap 2 and led the remaining 10 laps in the caution-free race. Jerry Hudson finished second, with B.J. Dauer, heat one winner Brian Conness, and Dustin McClurg rounding out the top five. Balthazor won the other heat race.

Point leader Jeremy Blackwill of Gem continued his domination in the Bomber class as he scored his fourth victory of the season in five outings for the division. After a caution flag on lap 12, it was a one-lap shootout to the checkers with Blackwill holding off Kyle Rohleder to the finish line. Bobby Denning, Josh Latka and Todd Lutters completed the top five. Heat race victors were Blackwill and Rohleder.

The Econos returned to the track and Matt Kraus of Ransom took the lead at the halfway mark of the 10-lap feature from heat race winner Reed Bernbeck and drove on to the checkers. Bernbeck finished second, followed by Josh Crombie.

Racing returns to Rolling Plains Motor Speedway Saturday night, September 2. The NCRA 360 Sprint Car Series will invade the 3/8-mile oval, and will be joined by the IMCA-sanctioned Modifieds, Stock Cars and Hobby Stocks. Race time is 7:00 p.m.



RESULTS

Econos
Heat: 1. Reed Bernbeck, 2. Matt Kraus, 3. Josh Crombie, Weston Kraus.

Feature: 1. M. Kraus, 2. Bernbeck, 3. Crombie, 4. Jay Simpson, 5. W. Kraus, 6. Corey Lutters, 7. Dennis Craven.

Bombers
Heat 1: 1. Kyle Rohleder, 2. Clinton Hockersmith, 3. Bobby Denning, 4. Todd Lutters.

Heat 2: 1. Jeremy Blackwill, 2. Galen Waggoner, 3. Josh Latka, 4. Dwight Allenbaugh.

Feature: 1. Blackwill, 2. Rohleder, 3. Denning, 4. Latka, 5. Lutters, 6. Don Strecker, 7. Allenbaugh, 8. Hockersmith (DNF), 9. Jim Dirks (DNF), DQ – Waggoner.

IMCA Hobby Stocks
Heat 1: 1. Brian Conness, 2. Gene Sneath, 3. Phil Hinger, 4. Jay Hrabe.

Heat 2: 1. Adam Balthazor, 2. Dustin McClurg, 3. B.J. Dauer, 4. Jerry Hudson.

Feature: 1. Balthazor, 2. Hudson, 3. Dauer, 4. Conness, 5. McClurg, 6. Sneath, 7. Mark Normandin, 8. Hrabe, 9. P. Hinger, 10. Laura Hinger.

IMCA Stock Cars
Heat 1: 1. Tyler Hahn, 2. Josh Hudson, 3. Cory Struckhoff, 4. Travis Sherfick.

Heat 2: 1. Jason Rogers, 2. Jay Hachmeister, 3. Terry Cunningham, 4. J.R. McCreery.

Feature: 1. Rogers, 2. Hudson, 3. Sherfick, 4. Struckhoff, 5. Jason Schoenberger, 6. Willie Wynn, 7. McCreery, 8. Cunningham, 9. Hahn, 10. Jason Davis, 11. Hachmeister, 12. Craig Werth (DNF).

IMCA Modifieds
Heat 1: 1. Ronnie Hill, 2. Mike Petersilie, 3. Jason Schoenberger, 4. A.J. Scott.

Heat 2: 1. John Fabrizius, 2. Ryan Goheen, 3. Corey Lagroon, 4. Kevin Hoeme.

Heat 3: 1. R. Alan Dix, 2. John Fose, 3. Wes O’Bannon, 4. Marty Clark.

Feature: 1. Fabrizius, 2. Dix, 3. Hoeme, 4. Goheen, 5. Lagroon, 6. Hill, 7. Jerry Phillips, 8. Randy Wilson, 9. Petersilie, 10. Schoenberger, 11. Rick Schwab, 12. Clark, 13. Scott, 14. Fose, 15. Randy Washburn, 16. O’Bannon, 17. Kenny Schmidt, 18. Jeremy Zorn, 19. Jerry Teel (DNF), 20. John Lashell (DNF).