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More than 2,000 spectators enjoy action at RiverCity Speedway
3v Mike Weber
By
Special to The INDEPENDENT
Portland’s Dan Fox was the
standout performer Saturday
in the th ird event of the
Columbia County Racing As
sociation schedule, with over
120 cars entered in five class
es of racing and more than
2,000 fans, one of the largest
crow ds ever at R iverC ity
Speedway. Fox was a two-
time winner with his Exide Bat
teries Chevrolet Lumina as he
posted victories in the six-lap
heat race and 35-lap Sports-
man Main Event.
Four other Main Event win
ners included Terry Bacon,
Seaside, and Larry Follett, Al
bany. Bacon led from start to
finish in his Chevelle as he
captured the 30-lap Street
Stock feature. Follett won the
15-lap Modified Main with his
Rhodes Performance Chassis-
sponsored car. Tyler Ferrando,
Salem, won the Pro-4 Modified
25-lap fe a tu re and Brenda
Hurley, Castle Rock, Wash.,
won the W om en’s D ivision
Main Event.
Fox started fifth in the 15-
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car Sportsman Main and took
the lead on lap 17 after pass
ing frontrunner Leroy White.
Fox m aintained a sizeable
lead until a lap 22 caution flag
delayed his inevitable victory.
He won by a straig hta w ay
length over Dykstra’s Pinard’s
Auto Repair Lumina.
Bacon started third in the
14-car Street Stock Main and
q u ickly took the lead a fte r
passing fro n tru n n e rs Paul
Fortney and 17-year-old Corey
Cook. Following a lap-six cau
tion fla g , Bacon zoom ed
ahead and gained a big lead
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over Longview’s Jackie Olson
in the Silver Star Sports Bar
Camaro and Sam Morrison,
Scappoose. Without any yel
low flags for the remainder of
the race, Bacon maintained
the advantage and won by 10
car lengths over Olson. Morri
son, 1996 Street Stock division
runnerup, finished third in his
1977 Camaro. Current division
leader
Troy
S chreiner,
Longview, took fourth in his
C h ris ’ C hoice M eats-spon-
sored Oldsmobile Cutlass.
Dick Wright started on the
pole po sitio n of the 14-car
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Modified Feature and led the
first 10 go-arounds until Follett
passed him on lap 10. He
stayed up front for the last five
laps and won by five c a r
lengths over Wright and Jim
Murphy. In the Pro-4 Modified
M ain, F errando s ta rte d up
front and led from start to fin
ish with his Ferrando Plumbing
Mercury Capri four-cylinder
modified car. He was followed
closely at the finish line by his
bro the rs, Co, ju s t one car
length back, and Tim; their fa
ther, Tom, took fourth.
SUMMARY
Sportsman
Fast Tim e-Doug
Lockwood,
14.98
A Dash-Leroy White, Tim Gosch,
Lockwood, Dennis Minter.
B Dash-Jim Wheeler, Jess
Wrakestraw, Ken Cram, Cris Kos-
zorus.
C Dash-Butch Valdez, Troy
Rose, Sam Jeffers, Doug McVae.
Heat 1-Joe Frakes, Cram,
Wrakestraw, Doug Eldridge, Rex
Flatt.
Heat 2-Dave Walters, Mike John
son, Randy Allen, Sean Fitzgerald,
Bruce Liner.
Heat 3—Jeffers, Rose, Valdez,
White, McVae.
Heat 4-Dan Fox, Lonnie Dykstra,
Paul Liner, Jack Kauppila, Minter.
C
Main-Flatt,
Wrakestraw,
Frakes, Eldridge, Jeff Marson.
B Main-Johnson, Allen, Chris
Long, Flatt, Marson.
A Main-Fox, Dykstra, Don Jen
ner, Robert Jenner, Lockwood,
Gosch, Randy Dewey, Paul Liner,
Minter, White.
Street Stock
FastTime-Ron Greer, 15.43
A Dash-Troy Schreiner, Gary
Meyer, Greer, Matt Sayre.
B Dash-John Oyler, Kevin
Romines, Charles Carpenter, Douq
Janis.
C Dash-Greg Carson, Don Bai
ley, Larry Abraham, John Larson.
Heat 1-Wayne Jordan, Jeff Tim
mons, Carson, Cliff Winingham, Bob
Teschner.
Heat 2-Jeff Brink, Abraham,
Robert Jenner, Ken Trainer, Larson.
Heat 3-Tony Sibbett, Mike Ha
gen, Michelle Mears, Wade Stein,
Troy Duschka.
Heat 4-John Oyler, Romines,
Carpenter, Paul Fortney, Terry Ba
con.
Heat 5-G reg Jeffries, Brian
Vaughn, Doug Hurley, Schreiner,
Sayre.
C Main-Carson, Brink, Roger
Lorenzini, Abraham, Timmons.
B Main-Robert Jenner, Sibbett,
Stein, Duschka, Ricky Troutt.
A Main-Bacon, Jackie Olson,
Sam Morrison, Schreiner, Sayre,
Vaughn, Hurley, Greer, Corey Cook,
Meyer.
Modlfleds
Fast Time-Dennis Sturgell, 14.60
Dash-Larry Follett, Sturgell, Mel
Decker, Rod McCombs.
Heat 1-Dick Wright, Jim Murphy,
Harley Lewis, Chris Bryson.
Heat 2-B ud West, Decker,
Sturgell, Follett.
Main-Follet, Wright, Murphy, Don
West, Sturgell, Bud West, McCombs,
Decker, Lewis, Bryson.
Pro-4 Modifieds
FastTime-Tim Ferrando, 14.42
Dash-Stan Steeves, Tim Ferran
do, Co Ferrando, Terry Ferrando.
Heat 1—Howell Stice, Steve Keny
on, Keith VanDyne, Ruth Lazatt.
Heat 2-Tyler Ferrando, Steeves,
Dwight VanDyne, Terry Ferrando.
Main-Tyler Ferrando, Co Ferran
do, Tim Ferrando, Tom Ferrando,
Zack Ferrando, Dwight VanDyne, To-
bey Ferrando, Mike Joslin, Stice,
Kenyon.
Women’s Division
Fast Time-Nancy Carpenter
16.27
Dash-Jacki Fratto, Lu French,
Carpenter, Brenda Hurley.
Hea, 1-C rystal Hagen, Pam
Glanville, Traci Johnson, Nicole Rig
don.
Heat 2—Jeanette Gadotti, Hurley,
Geri Sherwin, French.
Main-Hurley, French, Hagen,
Johnson, Carpenter, Gadotti, Rigdon.