5/22/09
Williams Grove Speedway
Mechanicsburg, PA
Keystone Cup Night #3
31 cars
Alan Cole (7th car out to time) set quick time on the famous ½ mile at 16.777 seconds. Keith Kauffman (30th car out) was second quick, followed by Stevie Smith (19th), Fred Rahmer (10th), Donnie Kreitz Jr. (13th), Doug Dodson (12th), Jim Siegel (11th), Brian Leppo (22nd), Mark Smith (20th) and Todd Shaffer (8th).
Heat one (started): 1. Lance Dewease 30c (1) 2. Shaffer 88 (3) 3. Rahmer 51 (5) 4. Dave Ely 75 (2) 5. Siegel 59 (4) 6. Cole 35 (6) / 7. Kevin Nouse 6 (9) 8. Steve Buckwalter 17B (7) 9. Cory Haas 11c (11) 10. Michael Heckman 8H (8) 11. Bob Bennett 3 (10)
Dewease led flag to flag in the 10-lapper going away. Rahmer was the man on the move, using the low side to work by Siegel and Ely. Bennett exited early.
Heat two (started): 1. Doug Esh 39 (1) 2. Greg Hodnett 22 (2) 3. Mike Erdley 11 (3) 4. Cody Darrah 89 (7) 5. Brian Montieth 21 (10) 6. Kauffman 7 (6) / 7. AJ Michael 45 (8) 8. Aaron Ott 25 (9) 9. Leppo 71 (4) 10. Kreitz Jr. 69K (5)
Esh led the duration. Kauffman spun out of the third row before a lap could be completed. Michael had a good jump outside him in the third row, and Darrah screamed by as well. Leppo and Kreitz were running third and fourth on lap eight, when disaster struck. Leppo went up in smoke, and Kreitz had nowhere to go. Both cars were done, and Leppo was a scratch for the night. Ott spun out of a transfer on the white flag lap, setting up a white/checker finish. Esh led Hodnett, Erdley, Darrah, Michael and Montieth back to green flag racing. Both Montieth and Kauffman were able to get by Michael on the last lap to grab transfers.
Heat three (started): 1. Pat Cannon 17 (1) 2. M. Smith 7m (4) 3. S. Smith 1 (6) 4. Alan Krimes 87 (3) 5. Rick Lafferty 0 (7) 6. Justin Henderson 22z (10) / 7. Niki Young 98 (8) 8. Adam Wilt 15 (9) 9. Dodson 43 (5) 10. Chris Meleason 8m (2)
Cannon led the duration. The race was for the final transfer, between Meleason and Henderson. Henderson was able to slide in front of the 8m with three to go.
B main (started): 1. Kreitz Jr. (1) 2. Buckwalter (2) 3. Nouse (6) 4. Ott (9) 5. Meleason (3) 6. Wilt (8) / 7. Haas (10) 8. Young (7) 9. Heckman (5) 10. Michael (4) DNS – Dodson, Leppo, Bennett
Kreitz led the 10-lap distance. Ott and Meleason battled in a good race for fourth. Contact between Wilt and Haas in a battle for the final transfer benefited Wilt.
A main (started): 1. S. Smith (2) 2. Esh (14) 3. M. Smith (6) 4. Rahmer (1) 5. Montieth (20) 6. Erdley (8) 7. Hodnett (12) 8. Shaffer (7) 9. Siegel (5) 10. Darrah (17) 11. Cole (4) 12. Dewease (13) 13. Krimes (10) 14. Kreitz Jr. (9) 15. Cannon (15) 16. Buckwalter (16) 17. Ely (11) 18. Henderson (21) 19. Wilt (24) 20. Ott (22) 21. Kauffman (3) 22. Nouse (19) 23. Meleason (23) 24. Lafferty (18)
Rahmer led the first of 30 laps, but S. Smith surged by him on the second go-around and would never be headed. Kauffman spun on lap three, bringing a caution. S. Smith led Rahmer, Cole, M. Smith and Siegel back to green flag racing. Esh and Montieth were on the move thereafter. By the halfway point, Esh was in second, and Montieth was fifth, where they would finish. On lap 18, Esh slid into Wilt while lapping him. The result was the last caution of the event. S. Smith led Esh, Rahmer, M. Smith and Montieth back to the green flag. The only change in position was M. Smith's pass of Rahmer on the final lap. The two joined hard-charger Montieth in a close finish for the trio. S. Smith was paid $5,000 for his second Keystone Cup win in a row.