Sheppard, Hearn, and Rain Win Big

Well, it was another tough weekend, as rain started off the weekend claiming the Lernerville Speedway opener. On Saturday, Hagerstown Speedway got their first race of the season in, as the Super Dirt Series and 358 modifieds invaded the beautiful 1/2 mile. In the small blocks, Brett Hearn snuck around Matt Sheppard late in the race to pick up the feature win and the guarenteed starting spot for the 100 lap small block feature at Octoberfest. Sheppard held on for second, Pat Ward, Stewart Friesen, and Rick Laubach rounded out the top 5. In the big blocks, Billy Decker snuck by Matt Sheppard on a late race restart and picked up the $6,000 win. Sheppard finished second in the big blocks as well, Michael Storms had a great run for 3rd, and rounding out the top 5 was Danny Johnson, and a solid run for Billy Dunn.

On Sunday, Big Diamond had their big block $4,000 to win feature called after the rain swept in. All qualifying was completed, so the feature has been rescheduled for this Friday as they have their first points race of the season. Here's the line-up for the feature...

1st 20 Brett Hearn

2nd 1c Craig Von Dohren

3rd 357 Ryan Godown

4th 5 Rick Laubach

5th 3 Mike Nicholas

6th 14 Jimmy Horton

7th 99L Larry Wight

8th 37x Tommy Scheetz

9th 4 Duane Howard

10th 9s Matt Sheppard

11th 91 Billy Decker

12th 11 Billy Pauch Jr.

13th 00 Doug Manmiller

14th 66 Jerry Higbie

15th 1 Stewart Friesen

16th L85 Ted Lamb

17th 41 Jeff Strunk

18th 10 Bobby Varin

19th 7 Colt Harris

20th 314 Ricky Yetter

21st J3 Dale Hartz

22nd 19 Brent Boyer

23rd 44 Frank Cozze

24th 976 Don Norris

25th 1L Bill Lowden

26th 78 Neil Huber

27th 118 Sean Merkel

28th 42p Pat Ward