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| Hialeah Sportsman goes to Shelton | by Marty Little
HIALEAH, Fla. - Bobby Shelton survived a pair of tangles but kept the wheels pointed in the right direction long enough to win the 25 lap late model sportsman headliner Saturday night at Hialeah Speedway. Charlie Coyle was the first victim as he backed into the third turn wall on the opening lap and things got crazier from there. Shelton sustained some front body damage but never gave up in scoring his first win of the season. Danny Maddox, Alan Janney, Gary McGoron and Mike Lucas completed the top five.
After having problem in practice, Mike Kohut came back strong in claiming the 25 lap run for the street stocks. John Bentley led to lap 16 when Kohut put his Camaro in front and never looked back as he led Rick Lutz, Gary Padula, Ron Wilson and T.C. McElyea to the stripe.
Mini stock point leader Eddie Lowery scored win number six on the season as he gunned past Tommy Styer on lap 15 and guided his Toyota to the score. Styer recorded his best finish of the season in the runner-up slot ahead of Tim Jones, Kenny Strong and Bill Calder in the 25 lap contest.
So close on many occasions, Heather Lunsford put it all together and won her first cyclone feature of the season. Point leader Roger Bohannon shadowed for the last few laps but settled for second in the 25 lapper over Mike Powers, Bryan Cook and Don Morey.
Doug Capps easily outran the mini cup contingent ahead of Carlos Gonzalez and Chris Heilmann while Mark Bradley topped the figure 8 challengers of Roger Pfau and Darren Evans. Promoter Dennis Coyle announced the the track will be close on Nov. 24th but action will resume on Dec. 1 for the final three weeks of the season.
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