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For Hooters Pro Cup Results go to:
Barkhouser Late Models
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April 1:Aaron's 250
Clay
Rogers posts victory in USAR Hooters ProCup Series race Saturday night at
South Boston Speedway SOUTH
BOSTON, VA. — South Boston Speedway hosted the season-opening event for
the USAR Hooters ProCup Series Northern Division competitors Saturday
night. It may have
been the first Northern Division event of the season, however, Clay Rogers
of Mooresville, N.C., the lone Southern Division competitor in the 32-car
field, stole the show in the Aaron's 250 presented by Lance Kelly Designs. "I
didn't want to make anyone mad," Rogers joked after collecting the
win. "But, hey, I'm working on percentages." Rogers led
early in the race and, more importantly, he led late in the race and he
was the frontrunner when the checkered flag fell. Rogers swiped the top
spot from Lonnie Rush, Jr. of Mooresville, N.C. on the 157th
circuit and maintained the lead position the remainder of the way. Benny Gordon
of DuBois, Pa. started from the pole position for the race and wound up
collecting a runner-up finish. Woody Howard of Chesapeake, Va. started
third and finished third in the race and was followed in the top five by
Jeff Agnew of Copper Hill, Va. in the fourth slot and Eric Sartin of
Kermit, West Va. in fifth place. "Benny
[Gordon] and I have a friendly rivalry," Rogers said, adding that
Gordon was one of the main reasons that he opted to compete in the Aaron's
250. The appearance by Rogers at South Boston was his first since the 2002
season. "I've
always liked this race track," Rogers said. "The track has
widened out and it makes it real fun to race here now. It is neat to be
able to race at a track with multiple grooves." Rogers took
the lead position from Gordon on the first circuit and held it until
Gordon regained the spot on lap 35. Four
circuits later, Rogers surged back past Gordon and kept the lead until he
and a host of other lead-lap cars pitted on lap 104 during the seventh of
14 caution periods for the night. When the
yellow flag flew for the ninth time on lap 133, Rogers had moved into the
top five. He was up to fourth place eight laps later when the evening's 10th
caution flag flew, setting the stage for him to climb into position to
swipe the lead on lap 157. Shelby
Howard of Greenwood, Ind. began the event in the 23rd starting
position and roared through the field to gain a sixth-place run. L.W.
Miller of Mooresville, N.C. secured a seventh-place run for the evening
after beginning from the 28th spot in the field, and was
followed in the top 10 by Gary St. Amant of Delaware, Ohio in eighth
place. Corbett started the race in the 29th position, while
Miller began from the 28th spot. Richard
Landreth of Pine Hall, N.C. was ninth for the race, while Eric Corbett of
Clearspring, Md. Rounded out the top 10 competitors. Morris
surges past Denning in closing stages to score victory in Late Model Stock
Car Division event Phillip
Morris of Ruckersville, Va. powered into the lead with just over 30-laps
remaining in the 110-lap race for the Barkhouser Late Model Stock Car
Division Saturday night and held on the rest of the way to post a win. Morris held
off Jon Denning of Springfield, N.J. following a pair of late-race
cautions, which extended the event to 116-laps, to post the victory.
Denning, the winner of the season-opening Late Model Stock Car event the
previous week, motored to a runner-up finish and maintained his lead at
the top of the division's point standings. Jonathan
Cash of Oxford, N.C., who was the runner-up in the field last week,
managed a third-place finish to stay hot on the heels of Denning in the
division title chase. He was followed in the top five by Adam Barker of
Hurt, Va. in fourth place and David Quackenbush of Lorton, Va. in the
fifth slot. Owen Miller
of Emporia, Va. recorded a sixth-place run for the evening, while Drew
Herring of Benson, N.C. was seventh and Jeramie Donley of Winston-Salem,
N.C. was eighth. Nick Smith
of Hampton, Va. posted a ninth-place run for the night, while Ronald Hill
of Rougemont, N.C. rounded out the top 10 drivers in the event. Morris
appeared headed to a fairly easy victory in the late stages of the race
before he made contact with the lapped car of Jonathan Bailey of
Keysville, Va. to bring out the fourth of five caution-flag periods during
the race. The caution
flag waved one final time and set up a two-lap shootout to the checkered
flag when Hill and Cliff Daniels of Smithfield, Va. got together coming
out of turn four.
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