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Kyle Ebersole First Sundance Modified Repeat Winner
By Gene Ostrowski
June 6, 2009
Along with the Garden State Vintage Stock Car Club, plenty of past
Evergreen racers and champions came out to Sundance Vacations
Speedway Saturday night to support the 2nd annual
Evergreen Raceway Reunion. Fans flocked to the speedway to witness
Kyle Ebersole overtake Andy Walko with a handful of laps remaining
to score his second Modified win of the year. Jerry Hildebrand, a
former Evergreen winner, drove his Late Model to victory lane for
the second time this season and Mike Moyer, Jr. notched his third
Factory Stock win of the year. Robin Johnston drove off to victory
in the TQ Midget main event.
Harry Buchman led a full field of Modifieds to the drop of the green
flag. He bolted into the race lead with Andy Walko in tow. Nick
Pecko ran third, followed by Lew Hallock and Todd Baer.
The first of several yellow flags waved when Eric Kocher made slight
contact with Allan Creveling in turn two. Buchman spun his tires on
the restart and Walko capitalized from it and took the race lead.
Baer slipped by Buchman and moved into second and Kyle Ebersole
raced into third.
Several drivers were involved in a lap nine tangle in turn three,
including Paul Frantz, Hallock and Mike Speeney. To avoid the
incident, Rusty Smith shot through the infield.
Not happy with running in third on the restart, Ebersole slipped by
Baer and set his sights on the leader.
Several quick caution flags were thrown for multiple incidents,
which caused officials to shorten the originally scheduled 40-lap
event to 30-laps.
Walko held off Ebersole throughout the restarts, yet Ebersole found
his way around the leader with eight laps remaining. He went on to
take the win, which is his second of the season and third of his
career.
“It’s great to be out here for the third time and be in victory lane
for the second time already”, said the Hummelstown, PA native. “My
dad put a great setup under this car and it works really well here,
I owe this to him”, he said.
Walko finished as the runner-up, followed by Bobby Jones. Smith and
Baer completed the top five.
Harry Buchman, Kyle Ebersole and Bobby Jones were heat race winners
and Wayne Szerencsits picked up the consi victory.
Will Schneider brought the Late Model field to the drop of the green
in the 30-lap feature but the yellow waved before a lap was complete
when Jennifer Kutz spun in turns one and two.
Paul Monkoski grabbed the race lead on the restart and Jerry
Hildebrand moved into second. Larry Fisher ran third with Joe
Hoffman close behind in fourth.
Schneider got out of shape in turn two on the second lap and
collected Hoffman, Zane Zeiner, Rob Koller and Phil DeFranco.
Several drivers hit the pits for service and rejoined the field.
Green flag racing resumed and Hildebrand overtook Monkoski for the
race lead. Tony Volpe moved into the second spot with Mike Sweeney
and Travis Fisher in tow.
Zeiner began to make his charge back towards the front and he
overtook Sweeney for third on lap 13. Five laps later he got by
Volpe for second.
Hildebrand, of Wapwallopen, PA, stayed up front and went on to take
his second victory of the season over Zeiner, Sweeney, Larry Fisher
and Dave Macomber.
Joe Hoffman and Justin Onderko were heat race victors.
A handful of Factory Stock drivers took to the speedway to do battle
for 20-laps. Kendal Faulk led the field to the drop of the green
flag and was quickly overtaken by Mike Moyer, Jr. when he went
three-wide.
Wayne Lowe drove into the second position shortly afterward, but was
forced to restart from the tail end of the field after he spun in
turn two after making contact with Jay Gould.
As Moyer began to check out from the pack, Jeff Ziembicki and Gould
raced for the runner-up spot like it was the last lap.
Moyer cruised to the win, which is his third in his fourth start
this season over Ziembicki, Gould, Lowe and Faulk.
After starting from the pole position, Paul Lotier, Jr. led the
first two laps of the 25-lap TQ Midget main event before Robin
Johnston overtook him.
With ten laps complete, Johnston continued to lead over Lotier,
followed by Matt Roselli, Zach Martini and Frank Fischer.
The red flag waved when Chris Deritis got out of shape and slammed
the turn two fence. The car gently rolled on its side and luckily
Deritis was not injured.
Green flag racing resumed and Johnston checked out from the drivers
battling in his mirror. He went on to take the victory, which is his
first this season, over Fischer, Matt Janisch, Lotier and Martini.
Robin Johnston and Lou Cicconi were heat race winners.
Modifieds
(30-laps) 1. KYLE EBERSOLE 2. Andy Walko 3. Bobby Jones 4. Rusty Smith
5. Todd Baer 6. Nick Pecko 7. Harry Buchman 8. Pete Brittain 9.
Allan Creveling 10. Wayne Szerencsits 11. Lewis Hallock 12. Barry
Callavini 13. Eric Kocher 14. Mike Speeney 15. Chris Ammon 16. Paul
Frantz 17.Billy Weichert 18. Scott Adams 19. Geary Rinehimer DNS:
Wayne Kocher DNQ: David Schneider, Frank Reakes, Jim Bojohnny
Late Models
(30-laps) 1. JERRY HILDEBRAND 2. Zane Zeiner 3. Mike Sweeney 4. Larry
Fisher 5. Dave Macomber 6. Tony Volpe 7. Joe Hoffman 8. Mitch Hawk
9. William Schneider 10. Kyle Harvell 11. Jennifer Kutz 12. Rob
Koller 13. Justin Onderko 14. Paul Monkoski 15. Travis Fisher 16.
Phil DeFranco
Factory Stocks
(20-laps) 1. MIKE MOYER, JR 2. Jeff Ziembicki 3. Jason Gould 4. Wayne
Lowe 5. Kendal Faulk 6. Mike O'Byrne
TQ Midgets
(25-laps) 1. ROBIN JOHNSTON 2. Frank Fischer 3. Matt Janisch 4. Paul
Lotier Jr 5. Zack Martini 6. Lou Cicconi 7. Tim Behmer 8. Dave
Williams 9. Ian Cummens 10. Matthew Roselli 11. Alison Cummens 12.
Jeff Kot 13. Austin Fehr 14. Kyle Gardner 15. Mark Janisch 16. Chris
Deritis
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Sundance Vacations Speedway is a 1/3 mile asphalt oval located in the beautiful
mountains of northeast Pennsylvania. The speedway hosts exciting stock
car racing every weekend from April to October, making it one of NEPA's
premier entertainment attractions.
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Sundance Vacations Speedway
Mill Mountain Road
St Johns, PA 18247
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(570) 788-7544
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