IT'S TIME TO RACE!!

March 28, 2005 FSCR Sam Cressman Claims Southern Sportsman win By Rick Anges Bradenton, Fl. - The 20 Turner Tree and Landscape Limited Late Models rolled onto the "High Banks" of DeSoto Super Speedway for qualifying for their 100 lap feature event and it was Steve Arnold who came out on top with a 14.94 second run. The die roll inverted the field 5 rows putting Glenn Morris and Johnny Casady on the front row. Morris took the early lead while the action heated up behind him. Lonny Miller was running second when Steve Arnold made the move on him, the two made contact sending Arnold into a spin. Miller tagged the tail of the field and Arnold reclaimed the spot. A red flag came out just after half way when a grinding crash brought the race to a halt. Steve Gill and Jordan Richardson were tangled together in turn one when Kyle Maynard, with no where to go plowed into the two. Although the crash was bad and the cars destroyed everyone was able to walk away. When the green flag dropped Steve Arnold made a move on Jessie Dutilly and roared to the lead and never looked back taking his first win of the young season. Jerry Artuso took a strong second, third was Dutilly, fourth was Glenn Morris and rounding out the top five was Johnny Casady. The Southern Sportsman Series saw 37 cars line up to qualify for the 28-car field. ’99 DeSoto pure stock champ James Knight took fast time for the 50 lap race. The racing was hot and heavy during the 50-lap event and when the smoke cleared it was Ed Kidd in the winner circle. The win was short lived as Kidd and 2nd place Pat Thomas were dqed in tech handing the win to Sam Cressman, second went to Kyle Tenbusch, third was Hal Vickery, fourth across was ’04 champ Aaron Williamson and in fifth Brian Teeters. Joe Gagen and Rich Wildrick had the near capacity crowd on their feet as the duo went after each other lap after lap. When the checkers fell it was Gagen edging out Wildrick by a bumper for his first win in the Cowboy Caddies, Wildrick second, third Roger Swinton, fourth Shannon Query, in fifth Tony Pace. Dean Butrum finally got the hook up and took his first win of the year in the mini-stock class, second went to Todd Freed Jr. on his old tires, third was " Gentleman" Jon Bailey, fourth was Timmy Troyer and in fifth Kip Bryant. Rick Hurley held off Duane Best for the pure stock win, Hurley who had challenged Lucas Cazemiro to bring his school grades up awarded the young man a "Pocket Rocket" for his accomplishments. Third place went to Richard McClough, fourth was Keith Thorbin and fifth Dave Cleary. OMBERS - BOMB 20L Pos Driver (Car) 1 DAVID DAVIS (6) 2 CODY GILDER (41) 3 JOHN STEWART (02) 4 RICK GERMONY (8) 5 JESSE ADAIR (43) 6 JAY KING (80X) 7 SUSAN BASS (78) 8 ZACHARY HAYWARD (55) 9 KENNY GIBSON (23) 10 DON SLACK (57) 11 KYLE REED (74) COWBOY CADILLAC - COWBOY CAD 20L Pos Driver (Car) 1 JOE GAGEN (1) 2 RICHARD WILDRICK (34) 3 ROGER SWINTON (88) 4 SHANNON QUERY (44) 5 TONY PACE (18) 6 KENNY GIBSON (48) 7 MATT WILDRICK (43) 8 ALLEN BRAGG (89) LIMITED LATE MODEL - LLM 100L Pos Driver (Car) 1 STEVE ARNOLD-Mllm (19) 2 JERRY ARTUSO (5X) 3 JESSE DUTILLY-Mllm (30) 4 GLENN MORRIS-Mllm (100) 5 JOHNNY CASADY-Mllm (3) 6 SCOTT WOODLAND (77) 7 TRAVIS COPE (26) 8 JEFF WOGOMAN-Mllm,aacs (01) 9 ANDY WHITTED-Mllm (9) 10 KEITH NEFF (69) 11 KEITH LILLEY-Mllm (8) 12 MARK PETERSON (73) 13 LONNY MILLER-Mllm (98) 14 CLIFF BIFARO (12) 15 AL FRADETTE-Mllm (36) 16 JORDAN RICHARDSON-Mllm (21) 17 STEVE GILL-Mllm (5) 18 JAMES CASADY-Mllm (7) 19 KYLE MAYNARD (27) 20 CODY SHAVER (8X) LIMITED LATE MODEL - QUALIFYING Pos Driver (Car) 1 STEVE ARNOLD-Mllm (19) 2 JEFF WOGOMAN-Mllm,aacs (01) 3 JERRY ARTUSO (5X) 4 TRAVIS COPE (26) 5 JESSE DUTILLY-Mllm (30) 6 KEITH LILLEY-Mllm (8) 7 LONNY MILLER-Mllm (98) 8 SCOTT WOODLAND (77) 9 GLENN MORRIS-Mllm (100) 10 JOHNNY CASADY-Mllm (3) 11 JORDAN RICHARDSON-Mllm (21) 12 AL FRADETTE-Mllm (36) 13 CLIFF BIFARO (12) 14 STEVE GILL-Mllm (5) 15 JAMES CASADY-Mllm (7) 16 ANDY WHITTED-Mllm (9) 17 KYLE MAYNARD (27) 18 MARK PETERSON (73) 19 CODY SHAVER (8X) 20 KEITH NEFF (69) MINI STOCKS - MS 15 OR LESS Pos Driver (Car) 1 DEAN BUTRUM (32) 2 TODD FREED, JR. (97) 3 JON BAILEY (14) 4 TIMMY TROYER (20) 5 MEREDITH BRYANT (92) 6 MIKE KERRIVAN (45) 7 MIKE GAYLE (23) 8 STEVEN GLOVER (8) 9 WENDY SHURTLEFF (55) 10 WILLIAM KIRBY (3) 11 TODD SCHNEIDER (77) 12 FRANK BYNUM (80) 13 BRUCE MOREHOUSE (13) DQ OWM 35 - OWM 35L 11 OR LESS Pos Driver (Car) 1 BOBBY BALDWIN-Mowm (4) 2 DENNIS WILSON (42) 3 JACK ARNOLD III (84) 4 RALPH BOWMAN (2) 5 KEVYN TERRY (13) 6 ANDREW ALDERMAN (83) 7 RONNIE CAMPBELL (112) DNS PURE STOCKS - PS 20L 19 OR LESS Pos Driver (Car) 1 RICK HURLEY (50) 2 DUANE BEST (67) 3 RICHARD McCLOUGH (20) 4 KEITH THORBIN (58) 5 DAVE CLEARY (7) 6 DARRIN ELLIS (71) 7 TIMM HUTTON (77X) 8 DAVEN QUERY (44) 9 DENNIS HESS (95) 10 EARL CHAMBERS (91) 11 TYLER LAU (1) 12 MARK ZSOLZAI (08) 13 ROY WILSHIRE (81) 14 ALLEN TYSON (5) 15 BRIAN HARBIN (62) 16 KEN SMITH (11) 17 CLIFF HUTTON (64) Have an opinion on this story? Post a message on our Message Board! news@karnac.org or send a letter to the editor!