Phillips Completes Capital Federal Savings Late Model Showdown Sweep
By Clint Brown

KANSAS CITY, KS (Sept. 30, 2006) - Terry Phillips captured the second night of the Capital Federal Savings Late Model Showdown and completed the weekend sweep in O’Reilly MLRA action. The win marked the tenth of the season for the Springfield, MO driver and his 81st overall with the series.

The caution flag immediately replaced the green as Jason Bodenhamer and Scott Drake came together on the font stretch. On the restart pole sitter Alan Vaughn powered to the front ahead of Brian Harris, Chris Simpson and John Anderson who battled for second.

Lap four saw Simpson take over the second spot as he moved past Harris only to hand the spot back on lap nine just behind Vaughn. Running the low line Simpson then powered past Vaughn to take over the top spot. Simpson held on as the yellow flag for Dave Eckrich’s flat tire waved on lap fourteen.

Phillips, who started the race in row ten, used the restart to vault into the top five and grabbed overtook Vaughn for third on lap eighteen as Simpson continued to run out front. Phillips chased down Harris and worked past on lap twenty four then worked off the bottom to take over the top spot from Simpson a lap later.

Phillips moved flawlessly through lapped traffic for the remainder of the event and crossed the line at the finish half a straightaway in front of second running Harris. Denny Eckrich moved up in the field to come home third with Vaughn and Kyle Berck rounding out the top five.

Another big field of 65 cars signed in for the night to compete in seven heat races which were won by Alan Vaughn, Trent Follmer, Chris Simpson, Ed Kosiski, Mike Smith, Al Purkey, and John Anderson taking the wins. Eric Pember, Kyle Berck, and John Hampel came home with the B Feature wins to advance to the feature event.

The Capital Federal Savings Late Model Showdown was co-sanctioned with the Polydome World Dirt Racing League.

Up next for the O’Reilly MLRA is the closing of the 2006 Thunder Tour with a two night stand at Bolivar Speedway USA on Friday and Saturday, October 6 & 7.

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Full Results
Capital Federal Savings Late Model Showdown Night #2
Lakeside Speedway
September 30, 2006

Heat 1
1) Alan Vaughn, 2) Chad Simpson, 3) Shad Bader, 4) Kurt Kile, 5) Dave Eckrich, 6) Bryant Goldsmith, 7) Randy Carder, 8) Rusty Miller, 9) PJ Haskins, 10) Brian Kenkel

Heat 2
1) Trent Follmer, 2) David Turner, 3) Jack Sullivan, 4) Will Vaught, 5) CJ Lyle, 6) John Kuchar, 7) Bill Koons, 8) Grant Junghans, 9) Terry Melton, 10) Jason Schobinger

Heat 3
1) Chris Simpson, 2) Kelly Boen, 3) Mark Voigt, 4) Brett LaFollette, 5) Karl Tipton, 6) Craig Preble, 7) Jason Utter, 8) Steve Foster, 9) Jeremy Payne

Heat 4
1) Ed Kosiski, 2) Eric Pember, 3) Scott Drake, 4) Bryan Collins, 5) Rob Moss, 6) Steve Kempt, 7) Mike Wiarda, 8) Josh Most, 9) Jimmy Dowell

Heat 5
1) Mike Smith, 2) Brian Harris, 3) Larry Clawson, 4) John Hampel, 5) David Barker, 6) Reid Millard, 7) Tony Gregg, 8) Todd Bell, 9) Joe Kosiski

Heat 6
1) Al Purkey, 2) Denny Eckrich, 3) Kyle Berck, 4) Terry Phillips, 5) Ryan McAnninch, 6) Dustin Mooneyham, 7) Al Humphrey, 8) Jeremy Grady, 9) Bill Goodwin

Heat 7
1) John Anderson, 2) Jason Bodenhamer, 3) Bone, 4) Kevin Kile, 5) Scotty Martin, 6) Mike Little, 7) Charley Reed, 8) Delbert Smith, 9) Sonny Findling

B Feature #1
1) Pember, 2) Phillips, 3) Moss, 4) Tipton, 5) Vaught, 6) Lyle, 7) Kempt, 8) Mooneyham, 9) Utter, 10) Junghans, 11) Schobinger, 12) Little, 13) Foster,
14) Grady, 15) Kevin Kile

B Feature #2
1) Berck, 2) Dave Eckrich, 3) Goldsmith, 4) Kurt Kile, 5) Kuchar, 6) Koons,
7) Barker, 8) Miller, 9) Carder, 10) Wiarda, 11) Goodwin, 12) Bell, 13) Bone, 14) Joe Kosiski, 15) Haskins, 16) Collins

B Feature #3
1) Hampel, 2) Badder, 3) LaFollette, 4) Voigt, 5) McAninch, 6) Martin, 7) Humphrey, 8) Milalrd, 9) Melton, 10) Gregg, 11) Most, 12) Preble, 13) Reed

Pole Dash
1) Vaughn, 2) Harris, 3) Follmer, 4) Anderson, 5) Chris Simpson, 6) Ed Kosiski, 7) Denny Eckrich, 8) Smith

A Feature
1) Phillips, 2) Chris Simpson, 3) Harris, 4) Denny Eckrich, 5) Vaughn, 6) Berck, 7) Anderson, 8) Purkey, 9) Chad Simpson, 10) Clawson, 11) Moss, 12) Ed Kosiski, 13) Utter, 14) Joe Kosiski, 15) Follmer, 16) Boen, 17) Turner,
18) Sullivan, 19) Dave Eckrich, 20) Pember, 21) Haskins, 22) Bodenhamer, 23) Delbert Smith, 24) Hampel, 25) Badder, 26) Drake