The INDEPENDENT, June 5, 2003
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Liner sets women’s record qualifying time at River City Speedway
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for stock car racing competitors the quarter mile clay oval track.
at River City Speedway with Last year, there wasn’t even
just one race completed out of one race cancelled at the Co
three events on the Columbia lumbia County Fairgrounds fa
County Racing Association cility and the next scheduled
May schedule. The May 3 sea event — weather permitting, is
son opener was cancelled be the Coyner’s Auto Body spon
cause of rain, which delayed sored race June 7.
the 2003 opener until May 10.
Despite
the
inclement
More ugly weather plagued weather, Lisa Liner of St. He
the Carousel Concessions lens had another notable ac
sponsored race Saturday as complishment as she set a new
rain forced the cancellation of women’s division track record
all main events. Qualifying, tro in qualifying (15.36 seconds)
phy dashes and heat races fin while driving the Liner Racing
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Pontiac Gran Prix owned u by
Scott Wells of Scappoose. Lin
er, 20, broke the previous mark
(15.60) that she set just a year
ago on May 25, 2002.
Liner, defending women's
champion, also competes in
the Longview Napa sportsman
class while driving the Heck
man
Trucking
sponsored
Chevrolet Malibu - and took
sixth place in the heat race. In
the wom en’s division, Liner
took second in the dash to Van
couver’s Jacki Graham and
was runnerup in the heat to
Hillsboro’s Kari Puncochar.
Kerry Smith of Scappoose also
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notched a heat race win.
Tricia Brittain of St. Helens,
Michael Holland of Portland
and Longview’s Troy Schreiner
won Sportsman heats. Long
view’s ’’Flying" Brian Vaughn
won the dash and Sandy’s
Randy Allen, the current divi
sion leader in the point stand
ings, also won a heat race.
St. Helens drivers Bernie Lu
jan and Bill Hoekstra recorded
mini-stock heat wins and two-
time series cham pion Joe
Cherington of Vancouver, won
the dash. In the street stock,
Gresham’s Mark Jones, Port
land’s Skip Pillow and Rob
Frederiksen of St. Helens, cap
tured heat wins and Vancou
ver’s Dennis Krohling won the
dash.
In the m odified division,
CCRA president Jeremy Marlin
of St. Helens, won the dash
and took third in the heat while
driving
the
R eser’s Fine
Foods/Superior Torque Con
verter sponsored car owned by
Sam Jeffers of Scappoose.
Heat race winners included de
fending series champion Matt
Sayre of Portland and Rainier’s
Ron Greer, along with Portland
drivers Jeremy Brookshire and
Brian Timmons.
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