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East Bay Enters Thanksgiving Break After A Wild Night
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.
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.
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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