VonDohren, Follweiler, Brennan and Geesaman earn victories Friday Evening at Big Diamond Speedway.

The Lias Tire 358 Modified division ran their make up feature from the June 12th rainout event that was stopped on lap 4 when Mother Nature was not cooperative and hit the area with a thunderstorm. Craig VonDohren would bring the field to the restart along side of Justin Grim. VonDohren would jump out into the top spot and would have his hands full holding off Billy Pauch Jr. Behind them, it would be a battle between Justin Grim and John Willman, Willman would get passed Grim and brought along Rick Laubach with him, putting Laubach in 4th at the time. Duane Howard would get in on the action and begin to put pressure on both Laubach and Willman, but Laubach would end up overtaking Willman for the third spot with 2 laps to go. Willman would hold off the challenges of Duane Howard to finish in fourth and Howard would finish in the fifth spot. VonDohren would be able to keep Pauch behind him in order to score his first Modified win of the year at Big Diamond Speedway. The heats from the originally run event were won by Craig VonDohren, Colt Harris and Justin Grim. The GME Hard Charger for this event would be John Willman for going from 12th to 4th for a gain of 8 spots.

The field was reset after running their regularly scheduled heat races were run and after the handicapping was figured out, it would be Kyle Follweiler and Colt Harris that would bring the field to the green flag to start the 25 lap feature event. Meme DeSantis wanted the top spot and on lap 6 during the restart, DeSantis would become the driver to beat. Rick Laubach would challenge with DeSantis hoping to put enough pressure on the leader in order to open the door of opportunity to take over the lead, but DeSantis was strong and kept hitting his marks each lap to be the fastest driver around the racing surface. Follweiler was on the heels of the top two drivers and was ready to make a move, and had John Willman right behind him as well to deal with. Laubach would slow and bring out the yellow on lap 23, setting up the field for a double file restart that would put DeSantis and Follweiler side by side to battle it out for the win. The red flag would fly, for an incident that occurred off the track, with just one lap to go and would give Kyle one final chance at the top spot. When the drivers were given the command to refire their cars, DeSantis’s car would not fire, and he would need to be pushed of the track surface, giving the lead to Follweiler. John Willman would join Kyle Follweiler on the front row for the restart. Follweiler would bring home the win followed by Billy Pauch Jr., John Willman, Jared Umbenhauer and Colt Harris. The GME Hard Charger Award was earned by Billy Pauch Jr. for starting 13th and finishing 2nd for a gain of 11 spots and the TollTaker Hard Charger $50 Cash Award was earned by Jared Umbenhauer for starting 14th and finishing 4th for a gain of 10 positions. The heats were won by Scott Albert, Kyle Follweiler and Justin Grim.

The Savage 61 Roadrunners would be brought to the green flag by TJ Fitzpatrick and Elvin Brennan. Brennan would jump out in front of the field with TJ Fitzpatrick waiting and hoping for his chance to overcome Brennan and visit Victory Lane. Brennan would run the race in dominationg style, but Fitzpatrick was knocking at the back door the entire time. Behind the top two drivers, the battle for third was heating up as Jim Kost had his hands full with Chris Holland, Shon Elk and Devin Trexler all wanting to take that spot away from him. Chris Holland would take over 3rd place on the final lap, putting Kost and Trexler being him at the checkers. Brennan and Fitzpatrick continued their battle for the lead right down to the finish line, but Brennan would be able to hold off Fitzpatrick and earn another visit to Victory Lane. Chris Holland, Jim Kost and Devin Trexler. The heats were won by TJ Fitzpatrick and Kris Ney.

The USS Achey Sportsman were brought to the green by Mike Mammana and AJ Gerhart after their redraw set their starting line up. Mammana would waste no time jumping out into the front spot and pull away from the field. followed by the second place car AJ Gerhart. Brett Kressley would be charging his way through the field after his 9th place starting spot and by lap 14 he passed Doug Hendricks for the 3rd place spot and set his sites on the top cars. Lap 14 saw Kressley over take snd place from Gerhart and he started to work on reeling in Mammana. The two drivers would battle it out, but Mammana would be able to lead the entire event and hold off the hard charges, Brett Kressley in order to visit Victory Lane for the second week in a row.. Despite his hardest efforts, Kressley would have to settle the for the runner up position followed by AJ Gerhart, Doug Hendricks and Tim Fitpatrick. The heat events were won by Tim Fitzpatrick and Mike Mammana. The GME Hard Charger award would go to Brett Kressley for going from 9th place to 2nd for a gain of 7 positions. The Kim’s Glass Hard Luck award would go to Charles Fayash after he was unable to start the feature after mechanical issues in the heat sidelined him and he was unable to get the car to fire in order to come out and start the feature event.

The Slifko Fabrications Street Stock feature was led to the green by Dan Jensen and Chris Derr. Der would lead the first lap, then Jasen Geesaman would pass him and take over the top spot and pull away from the field. Der and Jimmy Combs would have a battle for the runner up spot and Combs would secure the position, only to quickly feel the challenges of Rich Bossinger who wanted his chance to have a run at the top spot. Bossinger and Geesaman would battle it out for the bulk of the feature, but in the end, Geesaman would cross the line first, followed by Bossinger. Rounding out the top 5 were Mike Radocha, Jeremy Becker and Sam Jensen. The heats were won by Jasen Geesaman and Rich Bossinger

Coming events:
July 17 - ARDC Midgets, USS Achey Sportsman, Savage 61 Roadrunners, Excel 600 Modifieds, Slifko Fabrications Street Stocks and the Kids Big Wheel Race.
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Full Results:
Lias Tire 358 Modified Feature Results (June 12 Rained Out Feature) - 1. Craig VonDohren 2. Billy Pauch Jr. 3. Rick Laubach 4. John Willman 5. Duane Howard 6. Jared Umbenhauer 7. Meme DeSantis 8. Justin Grim 9. Colt Harris 10. Shawn Fitzpatrick 11. Bobby Gunther Walsh 12. Kevin Beach Jr. 13. Paul Moyer 14. Kyle Follweiler 15. Scott Albert 16. Jimmy Bobbit Jr. 17. Joe Mooney 18. Mario Dinatale 19. Heath Metzger 20. Andy Burkhart
Lias Tire 358 Modified Feature Results - 1. Kyle Follweiler 2. Billy Pauch Jr. 3. John Willman 4. Jared Umbenhauer 5. Colt Harris 6. Andy Burkhart 7. Ray Swinehart 8. Craig VonDohren 9. Heath Metzger 10. Shawn Fitpatrick 11. Justin Grim 12. Meme DeSantis 13. Scott Albert 14. Kevin Beach Jr. 15. Rick Laubach 16. Kent Reinhart 17. Dane Howard 18. Bobby Gunther Walsh 19. Ron Haring Jr. 20. Paul Moyer 21. Jimmy Bobbit Jr. DNS - Joe Mooney
Savage 61 Roadrunners Feature Results - 1. Elvin Brennan 2. TJ Fitzpatrick 3. Chris Holland 4. Jim Kost 5. Devin Trexler 6. Tim Fitzpatrick 7. Shon Elk 8. Terry Kramer 9. Jesse Krasnitsky 10. Chris Natale 11. Kris Ney 12. Tim Spisak 13. Jon Schlauch 14. Kyle Wingle 15. Bryan Buchinski 16. TJ Kennedy 17. Andrew Fayash III DNS - Dave Long Jr.
USS Achey Sportsman Feature Results - 1. Mike Mammana 2. Brett Kressley 3. AJ Gerhart 4. Doug Hendricks 5. Tim Fitzpatrick 6. Mike Lisowski 7. Mike Glass 8. Billy Moyer Jr. 9. Wayne Witmer 10. JR Fulper 11. Glenn Rowan 12. Chad Putalvage 13. Josh Hertzog 14. Ed Mirochko 15. Matt Clay 16. Daryl Dissinger 17. Shawn Light 18. Charles Webber 19. Jeremy Hertzog 20. Richard Emel DNS - Charles Fayash
Slifko Fabrications Street Stock Feature Results - 1. Jasen Geesaman 2. Rich Bossinger 3. Mike Radocha 4. Jeremy Becker 5. Dan Jensen 6. Butch Heist 7. Chris Derr 8. Jimmy Combs 9. Mark Hutchison 10. Dave Kamp 11. Jim Somers 12. Matt Wilson DNS - Mark Berzowski