Lance Dewease was the big winner in the Jack Gunn Memorial Triple 20s for 410 sprint cars on Friday night at Williams Grove Speedway, but his car owner, Al Hamilton, and arch rival Fred Rahmer reached some milestones during the course of the evening.
Rahmer started on the pole in the first feature, beat Keith Kauffman into the first turn and never looked back as he won his 50th career feature at Williams Grove. And in the second race Rahmer got by Todd Hestor in the late laps and went on to win his second of the night and fourth in his last five outings at the Mechanicsburg clay oval.
In the third event Hestor was again out front but Lance Dewease was a man on a mission and he got the lead on the ninth lap and went on to win. It was his 54th win at Williams Grove. The win was car owner Al Hamilton's 81st which tied him with Bob Weikert as the all time leading winning car owners.
Dewease picked up some big bucks with $5,000 for the win in the third feature. Overall, based on money won, Dewease was tops with $6500 won followed by Rahmer with $6100 won.
This Friday night Williams Grove Speedway goes with a 200-lap Enduro at  8p.m. There will be no sprint car racing. There will be sprint car racing on Friday, September 13th with 410 sprints and 358 sprints in a doubleheader show. Again racing starts at 7:45 p.m.
    UNTIL THE START OF THIS SEASON, Mifflintown's Shawn Stidfole had retired from sprint car racing. " I sold everything I had to Joe Diehl," said Stidfole. "When I heard Clinton County was running Sprints this year, I bought the cars back from Joe Diehl so I could race here." He was rewarded with a victory in the sprint car feature at Clinton County Speedway in Lock Haven in Friday night. It was his second career win.
Dion LaSalle won the 20-lap feature for the Small Block Modifieds. It was their first event of the season. Jake Shady earned the top spot in the Super Stocks while Gus Chapman won the Four Cylinder feature and John Hefferon won the Daredevil feature.
The sprint car championship will be decided this Friday with Darryl Stimeling leading the standings by just 26 points in the final sprint car event of the season. Also featured will be the super stocks, four cylinders, daredevils and 4-cylinder Enduro competition. No starting time was given for the Friday night racing action.
    HEAVY RAIN forced the cancellation of the Friday night action at East Windsor, NJ Speedway and then management, after saying they would run this Friday, decided to close down for the season. It caught racers and fans by surprise.
The plan had been to run through until the end of September. However East Windsor Speedway is known for changing plans.
Kenny Brightbill has been declared the champion in the Modifieds. He won two races at East Windsor Speedway this season. And it was Richie Pratt Jr. getting the championship in the Sportsman while Al Cheney III, winner of six features, is the Street Stock champion.
Don Jones said he is already looking forward to next season. However there are a lot of people who think next season may never come. A lot of new homes in the area just may force the racing facility out of business. Time will tell.
    BIG DIAMOND RACEWAY in Minersville, PA has added a couple of shows to their schedule of events. This Friday night the NASCAR Modifieds will run in two 25-lap features and there will be racing for the Sportsman and Roadrunners. Racing starts at 7:45 p.m.
The Sportsman will be featured in an open competition event on Sunday, September 29th, 2 p.m. with 50-laps being the distance. The roadrunners get a 20 lap feature and there will be powder puff events for the ladies in modifieds, sportsman and roadrunners.
The Coalcracker 100 was rained out this past Sunday and rescheduled for Monday, Labor Day, at 5:30 p.m. It was too late to be included in our column with results.
    ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT LINCOLN SPEEDWAY in Abbottstown, PA Greg Hodnett was able to lay claim to being the best Central Pennsylvania sprint car racer. He beat Fred Rahmer, the track champion, and Lance Dewease in the 8th Annual Bobby Abel Memorial for the Super Sprints on Saturday night.
Hodnett, who travels East from Memphis, TN on a regular basis, won his 17th feature of the season.
"This was an excellent race," said Hodnett after exiting his winning Bob Stewart-owned/Cars by Dealers No. 12 sprinter in victory lane. "Fred was all over me there for a long time, and I kind of moved up in into his lane. I thought he was running the top in (turns) one and two, so I moved up down there. Then I thought he was doing the same down in three and four, because I was running the bottom…so I moved up down there. Then he showed me his nose down on the bottom again! I thought 'Man, this guy is all over me!" I didn't know what to do!"
"Fred wanted this one bad," said Hodnett, "He actually mentioned that he wants to get this 10 wins here at Lincoln because he's done it every year. But we're going to do everything we can to keep him from it."
Second generation racer Alan Krimes added his name to the winners list by claiming his first career 358 sprint car win at Lincoln on Saturday night. Cory Haas got a fourth place finish and that was enough to give him the track championship in 358 sprints.