Harrison Scores Exciting Win at Fremont
Weaver victorious; Davis takes checkered at Fremont

      FREMONT, Ohio (July 10) - Mark Keegan was cruising toward his 57th career feature win at Fremont Saturday, but someone forgot to tell David Harrison. Keegan slipped off the top of turn four with two laps remaining, allowing Harrison to duck under for the lead and the win.

"I didn't think I had a chance...Mark has so many laps around Fremont and he was so good in lapped traffic," said Harrison beside his Ludwig Motorsports #10 carrying Crown Battery and Fremont Federal Credit Union sponsorship. "I had to keep my composure those last two laps because I knew Mark would fight back."

And fight back he did, showing Harrison the nose of his #X car as they entered turn three on the final lap. Harrison cruised around the top to score the win.

At the drop of the green for the 30-lap Schiets Motors Honda-Yamaha feature, Harrison jumped into the lead with Keegan in tow. They set a blistering pass, lapping cars by the fourth lap. Keegan snuck around Harrison on the ninth go-round.

The first caution flew on lap 10 for a John Ivy 360 spin. The man on the move was Bobby Clark who was up to third on lap 12 from his fifth starting spot. The caution bunched up the field on lap 15 for Andy James who hit the soft walls in turn two. That proved to help Keegan who was mired in lapped traffic, allowing Harrison to close. Keegan set sail on the restart and looked to have the feature in hand, picking his way through lapped traffic with the precision of a surgeon, setting up the late-race drama.

Harrison ducked under Keegan who slid off the top of turn four with two laps to go and held on for his second feature win of the season at "The Track That Action Built." Keegan finished second with eighth starting Mike Linder third.

Fremont's Paul Weaver drove his Diet Pepsi, Strawberry Hill Convenience Store #1w into the lead with a bonsai move through turns three and four on lap 15 and went on to score his second 305 sprint feature win of the season.

"I saw Mark Keegan and David Harrison up top and figured it was the fast way around....I don't think I got as high as them...I was leary of driving off the top," said Weaver. "I knew that 20x car (Brian Smith) would be coming again. I had my wife telling me I had a big lead on the back stretch and another person telling me to stand on it...I didn't know who to believe so I just drove it as hard as I could."

At the drop of the green for the 25-lap Schiets Motors A-Main, Bellevue's Keith Whaley jumped into the lead. He held the lead until lap 8 when Willie Keegan went around him to take the top spot. Keegan maintained the lead until Weaver executed his winning pass on lap 15.

At the checkered it was Weaver (who scored his seventh career Fremont victory), Smith, up from 11th, and Willie Keegan. However, a post-race inspection showed Keegan's car to have an illegal motor, and he was disqualified.

The Coors Light Dirt Truck feature came down to the last three feet, with Bobby Davis edging Steve Sabo by a bumper for the victory.

"Wow, that was exciting," said Davis of his last turn charge to the front. "We had some motor problems...it was stumbling a bit, but hey, we're in victory lane."

Fremont's all-time career feature win leader Art Ball jumped into the lead at the drop of the green for the 15-lap Schiets Motors feature. Ball lead until two-time track champion Steve Sabo ducked under him on lap 16 to take the lead. Sabo got pinned behind lapped traffic, allowing Davis, who started fifth, to close. As the two came down the front stretch for the checkered, Sabo went low under the lapped truck of Buffy Bordner, and Davis went high to score the win.

Sabo finished second, with Ball coming home third.

Fremont Speedway will be back in action Saturday, July 17 for Valleyview Health Care Center Night with the 410 sprints, 305 sprints and Coors Light Dirt Trucks in action. Gates open at 4:30 p.m. with racing at 7:30 p.m.

410 QUALIFYING (Track Record 11.732 - Lee Jacobs, May 3, 2003)
1. Andy James (72) 12.270; 2. John Ivy (20) 12.340; 3. Bobby Clark (8C)
12.350; 4. Mark Keegan (X) 12.420; 5. Eric Rankin (39) 12.440; 6. Andrew
Palker (57X) 12.460; 7. David Harrison (10) 12.590; 8. Mike Linder (3L)
12.610; 9. Matt Lucius (1A) 12.620; 10. Byron Reed (5R) 12.680; 11. Todd
Heller (14H) 12.690; 12. Rodney Duncan (53) 12.790; 13. Lee Jacobs (16)
12.880; 14. Craig Mintz (8S) 12.880; 15. Alvin Roepke (99) 12.900; 16.
Brandon Martin (11M) 12.920; 17. Troy Vaccaro (7T) 12.920; 18. Shane Helms
(40) 12.940; 19. Jon Finsel (F1) 12.940; 20. Ed Neumeister (11N) 12.980; 21.
Caleb Griffith (12) 13.180; 22. Tony Beaber (3T) 13.440; 23. Lary Riehl (55)

410 SUPER SPRINTS - 23 Cars
Heat 1 (Top 5 to A): 1.Lee Jacobs(16); 2.Brandon Martin(11M); 3.Byron
Reed(5R); 4.David Harrison(10); 5.Mark Keegan(X); 6.Andy James(72); 7.Tony
Beaber(3T); 8.Jon Finsel(F1)

Heat 2 (Top 5 to A): 1.John Ivy(20); 2.Troy Vaccaro(7T); 3.Mike Linder(3L);
4.Eric Rankin(39); 5.Todd Heller(14H); 6.Ed Neumeister(11N)

Heat 3 (Top 5 to A): 1.Alvin Roepke(99); 2.Shane Helms(40); 3.Bobby
Clark(8C); 4.Andrew Palker(57X); 5.Rodney Duncan(53); 6.Matt Lucius(1A);
7.Caleb Griffith(12)

A - Main  (30 Laps): 1.David Harrison(10)(start-1); 2.Mark
Keegan(X)(start-4); 3.Mike Linder(3L)(start-8); 4.Byron Reed(5R)(start-10);
5.Bobby Clark(8C)(start-5); 6.Lee Jacobs(16)(start-13); 7.John
Ivy(20)(start-6); 8.Andrew Palker(57X)(start-2); 9.Rodney
Duncan(53)(start-12); 10.Todd Heller(14H)(start-11); 11.Eric
Rankin(39)(start-3); 12.Alvin Roepke(99)(start-14); 13.Brandon
Martin(11M)(start-15); 14.Craig Mintz(8S)(start-22); 15.Troy
Vaccaro(7T)(start-16); 16.Matt Lucius(1A)(start-9); 17.Jon
Finsel(F1)(start-18); 18.Tony Beaber(3T)(start-21); 19.Caleb
Griffith(12)(start-20); 20.Andy James(72)(start-7); 21.Shane
Helms(40)(start-17); 22.Ed Neumeister(11N)(start-19)

305 SPRINTS - 44 Cars
Fremont Federal Credit Union Heat 1 (Top 4 to A): 1.Bryan Scott(92); 2.Bill
Kraylek(71); 3.Ryan Lowe(66L); 4.Jason Hill(25); 5.Barry Cole(8K); 6.Craig
Kays(9); 7.Jeff Daugherty(1M); 8.Kevin Lee(O2); 9.Scott Kraylek(5)

Riverside Machine & Tool Heat 2 (Top 4 to A): 1.Paul Weaver(1W); 2.Willie
Keegan(17); 3.Roger Shammo(10); 4.Mark Whaley(34); 5.Dan Hammond(22d);
6.Mark Pridemore(25P); 7.John Patynko(7P); 8.Rodney Hurst(97); 9.Bryan
Lehman(77); 10.Brian Rusch Jr.(54); 11.Ed Psurney(2V); 12.Phil Burroughs(18)

Foster Auto Body Heat 3 (Top 4 to A): 1.Scott Miller(3J); 2.Brian
Sebetto(72); 3.Brian Smith(20X); 4.Jamie Miller(4M); 5.Josh Hill(9H);
6.Dustin Keegan(17X); 7.Joe Laugherty(21J); 8.Chris Andrews(15C); 9.Mike
Riehl(81); 10.Frank Neill(88); 11.Mark Lang(65)

Real Geese Heat 4 (Top 4 to A): 1.Keith Whaley(37); 2.Andy Shammo(48S);
3.Bobby Foster(39); 4.Chad Laux(7L); 5.Jarrod Potter(28); 6.Scott
Mominee(O7); 7.Greg Summit(3X); 8.A.J. Sleek(15); 9.Stuart Brubaker(17B);
10.Vern Menkoff(23)

COMPUTER MAN 305 DASH: 1.Scott Miller(3J); 2.Paul Weaver(1W); 3.Bryan
Scott(92); 4.Keith Whaley(37)

1st - B - Main  (Top 2 to A): 1.Barry Cole(8K); 2.Craig Kays(9); 3.Kevin
Lee(O2); 4.Dan Hammond(22d); 5.Matt Ferrell(67M); 6.Mark Pridemore(25P);
7.Bryan Lehman(77); 8.Brian Rusch Jr.(54); 9.John Patynko(7P); 10.Rodney
Hurst(97); 11.Ed Psurney(2V)

2nd B - Main  (Top 2 to A): 1.Dustin Keegan(17X); 2.Josh Hill(9H); 3.Joe
Laugherty(21J); 4.Chris Andrews(15C); 5.Mike Riehl(81); 6.A.J. Sleek(15);
7.Jarrod Potter(28); 8.Vern Menkoff(23); 9.Stuart Brubaker(17B); 10.Frank
Neill(88); 11.Scott Mominee(O7); 12.Greg Summit(3X); 13.Mark Lang(65)

A - Main  (25 Laps): 1.Paul Weaver(1W)(start-6); 2.Brian Smith(20X)(start-11); 3.Bill Kraylek(71)(start-3); 4.Roger Shammo(10)(start-5); 5.Jamie Miller(4M)(start-15); 6.Scott Miller(3J)(start-10); 7.Brian Sebetto(72)(start-9); 8.Andy Shammo(48S)(start-8); 9.Bobby Foster(39)(start-12); 10.Keith Whaley(37)(start-1); 11.Bryan Scott(92)(start-4); 12.Chad Laux(7L)(start-16); 13.Barry Cole(8K)(start-17); 14.Mark Whaley(34)(start-14); 15.Josh Hill(9H)(start-20); 16.Dustin Keegan(17X)(start-18); 17.Craig Kays(9)(start-19); 18.Jason Hill(25)(start-13); 19.Ryan Lowe(66L)(start-7); 20. Willie Keegan(17)(start-2, disqualified for illegal motor).
 
 

COORS LIGHT DIRT TRUCKS - 40 Trucks
Heat 1 (Top 4 to A): 1.Steve Sabo(16); 2.Mark Warnick(69); 3.Steve
Rando(19R); 4.Andy Maynard(10A); 5.Ralph Willey(5W); 6.Dwight
Waltermier(39); 7.Jim McGrath(5); 8.David Severs(62); 9.Fred Guiher(21)

Heat 2 (Top 4 to A): 1.Paul Dymond(38); 2.Brian Arnold(33); 3.Art Howey
Jr.(8H); 4.Bob Dible(17); 5.Linda Sabo(6); 6.Brain Sorg(4X); 7.L.J.
Conners(X); 8.David Halbisen(44); 9.Paul Brown Jr.(14B)

Heat 3 (Top 4 to A): 1.Cory Ward(18W); 2.Steve Endicott(8); 3.Jim
Welty(10J); 4.Leroy Miller(49); 5.Bill Bruen(55B); 6.Ryan Bloom(21R);
7.Buffy Bordner(31); 8.Kent Long(82); 9.Scott Beard(14)

Heat 4 (Top 4 to A): 1.Bobby Davis(40); 2.Art Ball(O1); 3.Brian
Michael(47); 4.Todd Wickman(33T); 5.Dave Gibbs(30); 6.Craig Holland(7);
7.Todd Keegan(22); 8.Rick Potts(91); 9.Eric Davanna(37); 10.Rick Stewart(65)

1st B - Main  (Top 2 to A): 1.Ralph Willey(5W); 2.Jim McGrath(5); 3.Linda
Sabo(6); 4.Brain Sorg(4X); 5.L.J. Conners(X); 6.Dwight Waltermier(39);
7.David Halbisen(44); 8.David Severs(62); 9.Joe Hartlaub(1); 10.Fred
Guiher(21)

2nd B - Main  (Top 2 to A): 1.Buffy Bordner(31); 2.Craig Holland(7); 3.Rick
Stewart(65); 4.Eric Davanna(37); 5.Todd Keegan(22); 6.Kent Long(82); 7.Scott
Beard(14); 8.Dave Gibbs(30); 9.Ryan Bloom(21R); 10.Rick Potts(91); 11.Bill
Bruen(55B)

A - Main  (15 Laps): 1.Bobby Davis(40)(start-5); 2.Steve Sabo(16)(start-6);
3.Art Ball(O1)(start-1); 4.Brian Michael(47)(start-2); 5.Steve
Endicott(8)(start-7); 6.Andy Maynard(10A)(start-13); 7.Brian
Arnold(33)(start-4); 8.Jim Welty(10J)(start-10); 9.Bob Dible(17)(start-14);
10.Steve Rando(19R)(start-11); 11.Todd Wickman(33T)(start-16); 12.Ralph
Willey(5W)(start-17); 13.Mark Warnick(69)(start-12); 14.Jim
McGrath(5)(start-19); 15.Cory Ward(18W)(start-3); 16.Art Howey
Jr.(8H)(start-8); 17.Buffy Bordner(31)(start-18); 18.Leroy
Miller(49)(start-15); 19.Craig Holland(7)(start-20); 20.Paul
Dymond(38)(start-9)