| Wild Night Of Racing At East Bay | By Bill Green, From Behind The MIC!
One hundred and two cars filled the pits for the Saturday Night action with five of the core divisions on the schedule and the fun filled Bike Races at intermission.
Dale Kelley took the Open Wheel Modified race at East Bay Raceway Park
Open Wheeled Modifieds opened the evening with two heats won by Austin Sanders and Jeff Mathews. The feature event had Dakota Stephens on pole, with Chad Hadlick outside. After a tough start and several caution causing restarts in the first 3 laps, the field settled down into some great racing as some of the key points players came from deep in the field before is was over.
Winning his second feature in a row “The Deputy” Dale Kelley showed the way. He was followed by points leader Jeff Mathews second, Scotty Williams third, Dakota Stephens fourth and “The Mayor of Mudville” Roger Crouse fifth.
Limited Late Models were up second and did not disappoint as Tim Gay and Jeremy Simpson took the heat wins. Giving Tim Gay the opportunity to complete the sweep, winning the feature event over Roger Crouse second, Bob Peterson third, Jason Pope fourth and Forrest Gough fifth. The points battle tightened slightly as Crouse finished in front of points leader Gough in both the heat and feature, but not far enough to take over the lead.
 It took three heats for the Late Models to set their line-up for the feature. Heat winners included Dorsey Strickland, Ryan Mitchell and Ted Erskine. The feature winner came from 11th starting spot in the form of Jackie Nosbisch, Jr. That tightened the LM points run very little, but tightened it some none the less, as points leader David Schmauss finished third behind second place runner, Phillip Cobb. “The Sheriff” K.D. Kelley took forth with Steve Miller rounding out the top five.
Street Stocks brought 18 cars to the evening’s events, with Time Spencer, Sr. and Steve O’Lone taking heat wins. Spencer would challenge early for the feature win, but major contact with the turn-4 wall ended his evening early. Point’s leader Charlie Paris, Jr. used a double file restart to go from 4th to 1st in one lap and never looked back as he cruised to win number 11 on the season. Second went to Danny Hill, after Buck Skinner made a bad decision to go low under lap traffic off turn-4 coming to the checkered and fell out of the top-5. Jeff “Buckshot” Meixner stayed in touch, point wise finishing third. Fourth went to Buck Woodhouse, with Dave Floyd finishing fifth.
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Four-cylinder Bombers are still having fun as Robert Kissam and Randy Tyler took the heat wins. The feature winner was “Colonel” Miller, followed by Frank Miller for the one, two finish. Third went to Kever Raulerson, fourth was Kyle Eash and Howie Woods completed the top-5.
Next week East Bay Raceway Park is closed for the Thanksgiving weekend and will return the following week with December 1st with Crate Late Models, Open Wheeled Modifieds, Street Stocks, Outlaw 4’s and 4-Cyl Bombers. Mark your calendars for the CRATE LATE MODEL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP weekend Friday & Saturday, December 7th & 8th to finish the regular stock car season at the clay-by-the-bay.
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