HESS JR, GENCO, HORTON, BLACK, SCOTT AND DIXON ALL HIT PAYDIRT, AS STATELINE RECORDS WEEK #7 OF THE SEASON!

June 18, 2023 | by Marc Hoegerl

Busti, NY (June 17, 2023) by Marc Hoegerl: Dave Hess Jr. would finally breakthrough for his first Stateline Super Late Model win of the season. Jason Genco would turn things around after a disastrous previous week’s outing to grab the win in the RUSH Crate Late Models. David Scott would go coast to coast in the UMP Modifieds. Jason Black would hit the jackpot again in the Pro Stocks. It was all Steve Dixon in the RUSH Pro Mods, and Chris Horton returned to his winning ways in the Challenger thriller.

First up would be the RUSH Crate Late Models. Wheelman Jason Genco definitely put the previous week behind him, grabbing the lead from race leader Andy Michael on lap 9, to cruise to his second Stateline RUSH Crate Late Model win of the season. Andy Michael would win the fierce battle for 2nd, Sinclairville, NY’s David Parker was 3rd, Khole Wanzer in one of his best runs of the season was 4th and Matt Sipes would end up 5th.

Next to take Hall of Famer Spanky Hall’s green flag, would be the stout field of UMP Modifieds. David Scott would use his front row starting position and fending off the challenges of Dave Hess Jr. to pick up his second Stateline UMP Modified feature of 23’. Dave Hess Jr. after starting 12th, would settle for 2nd, Dan Sasso brought home a podium run for 3rd, as Troy Johnson and Tim Peterson would round out the top 5.

June 3rd winner, Jason Black would finally muscle his way into the lead on lap 6, after a fierce battle with Matt Sampson and May 27th winner Jason Covey, to go on to pick up his second Stateline Pro Stock win of the season. Gary Fisher Jr, after starting 14th and smoking most of the race, would end up 2nd. Multi-champ, John Boardman, road home 3rd, Tanner Ramsey was 4th, and Sampson would round out your top 5.

Next to hit the surface would be the headlining ground pounding Super Late Models. Dave Hess Jr. who you could say was having a bit of a dry spell, would show he was not to be denied, going on to pick up his first Stateline Speedway Super Late Model win of the season. This would also be #44’s 39th career Super Late Model win at the Chautauqua County Speed Plant, making him 5th on the all-time winners list. Chub Frank would win a great battle for 2nd, by getting by Greg Oakes on the final lap to secure the bridesmaid spot. Oakes, Dutch Davies, and Kyle Bedell, in his best run of the season, would complete the top 5.

Steve Dixon has definitely opened some eyes this season in the RUSH Pro Mod Division. Dixon would show no mercy, going on to pick up his 3rd Stateline triumph of the season. Veteran Al Brewer would finish a distant 2nd, Tyler Oakes was 3rd, last week’s winner Zain Harvey, after starting 15th was 4th and Brendan Warner in one of his best outings to date, would ride home 5th.

In the nightcap, would be the always thrilling front wheel drive Challengers. A great battle would take place between the two flashy wheelmen of John Mease and Chris Horton. Mease would hold off a persistent Horton, until the final turns of the final lap, when Mease and Horton would split a lapped car between turns 3 & 4, with Horton grabbing his needed momentum down the front stretch to overtake race long leader Mease at the checkereds, for a thrilling second Stateline Challenger win of 2023. Following Horton across the line, would be Mease, Dylan Greene, previous week’s winner, Domingo Echevarria, and Holden Heineman.

RUSH CRATE LATE MODELS (21 Entries)

Heat 1: 1) Matt Sipes 2) Scott Gurdak 3) Ward Schell 4) Jason Genco 5) Steve Houser 6) Steve Blodgett 7) Rodney Houser
Heat 2: 1) Andy Michael 2) David Parker 3) Khole Wanzer 4) Randy Hall 5) Chad Clement 6) Rick Karash 7) Gary Youngs
Heat 3: 1) Darrin Waldron 2) DJ Krug 3) Kassie Norman 4) Drake McCray 5) Charlie Houser 6) Shawn Little 7) Hunter Proctor

Feature: 1) Genco 2) Michael 3) Parker 4) Wanzer 5) Sipes 6) Gurdak 7) Schell 8. Hall 9) Clement 10) Waldron 11) Blodgett 12) Houser 13) Proctor 14) DJ Krug 15) Norman 16) Youngs 17) R. Houser 18. Little 19) Karash 20) C. Houser 21) McCray

Lap Leaders: Parker (1-6), Michael (7,8), Genco (9-20)

UMP MODIFIEDS (16 Entries)

Heat 1: 1) David Scott 2) Butch Southwell 3) Troy Johnson 4) Dave Lanphere 5) Tim Peterson 6) Tom Kosinski 7) Bryon Johnson 8. James Irwin
Heat 2: 1) Dan Sasso 2) Dave Hess Jr. 3) Cale Crocker 4) Tim Rockwell 5) Chris McDonald 6) Chris Deponceau 7) Matt Haskins 8. Matt Kosinski

Feature: 1) Scott 2) Hess Jr. 3) Sasso 4) T. Johnson 5) Peterson 6) Southwell 7) Rockwell 8. Lanphere 9) McDonald 10) Haskins 11) Irwin 12) T. Kosinski 13) B. Johnson 14) Crocker 15) Deponceau 16) M. Kosinski

Lap Leaders: Scott (1-20)

PRO STOCKS (16 Entries)

Heat 1: 1) Matt Sampson 2) Jason Covey 3) Shane Applebee 4) Mikael Beaver 5) Joe Stajnrajh 6) Kole Stelmack 7) John Cline 8. Donald Blood
Heat 2: 1) John Boardman 2) Jason Black 3) Tanner Ramsey 4) Brent Marotto 5) Dale Sheets 6) Grant Richard 7) Gary Fisher Jr. 8. William Reeves

Feature: 1) Black 2) Fisher Jr. 3) Boardman 4) Ramsey 5) Sampson 6) Covey 7) Stajnrajh 8. S. Applebee 9) Beaver 10) Sheets 11) Marotto 12) Reeves 13) Stelmack 14) Richard 15) Cline 16) Blood

Lap Leaders: Sampson (1,2), Black (3-15)

SUPER LATE MODELS (23 Entries)

Heat 1: 1) Michael Smith 2) Dutch Davies 3) Kevin Smith 4) Khole Wanzer 5) Paul Schreckengost 6) Scott Dellahoy Jr.
Heat 2: 1) Greg Oakes 2) Dave Hess Jr. 3) Bob Dorman 4) Ryan Scott 5) Nicholas Eck 6) Justin Carlson
Heat 3: 1) Chub Frank 2) David Scott 3) Darrell Bossard 4) Andy Boozel 5) Bump Headman 6) Chevy Scott
Heat 4: 1) Kyle Bedell 2) Steve Kania 3) Jake Finnerty 4) Jason Genco 5) Anthony Marotto

Feature: 1) Hess Jr. 2) Frank 3) Oakes 4) Davies 5) Bedell 6) Kania 7) Bossard 8. M. Smith 9) D. Scott 10) Dorman 11) R. Scott 12) Finnerty 13) Boozel 14) Genco 15) Headman 16) Schreckengost 17) Dellahoy Jr. 18. Marotto 19) K. Smith 20) Eck 21) Carlson 22) C. Scott 23) Wanzer

Lap Leaders: Hess Jr. (1-25)

RUSH PRO MODS (18 Entries)

Heat 1: 1) Tyler Oakes 2) Derek Peterson 3) Nick Arnold 4) Chad Ramsey 5) Cody Rickard 6) William Silvis 7) Bryson Hill 8. Zain Harvey 9) Brendan Warner
Heat 2: 1) Steve Dixon 2) Al Brewer 3) Ian Degolier 4) Vaughn Nystrom 5) Brian Mohawk 6) John Cline 7) Tyler Sutton 8. Ryan Sanders

Feature: 1) Dixon 2) Brewer 3) Oakes 4) Harvey 5) Warner 6) Peterson 7) Mohawk 8. Arnold 9) Ramsey 10) Degolier 11) Rickard 12) Silvis 13) Hill 14) Nystrom 15) Sutton 16) Cline 17) Sanders

Lap Leaders: Dixon (1-20)

CHALLENGERS ( 21 Entries)

Heat 1: 1) Holden Heineman 2) Craig Karns 3) Rick Feely 4) Dan Bittinger 5) Brandon Marotto 6) Hailey Moore 7) Kasey Markham
Heat 2: 1) Dylan Greene 2) John Mease 3) Jess Harvey 4) Cassandra Goodwill 5) Chelsea Haskins 6) Tyler Pearson 7) Kayla York
Heat 3: 1) Chris Horton 2) Domingo Echevarria 3) Nicholas Reed 4) Tommy Labarbera 5) Dan Martell 6) Billi Jo Seamans 7) Jordan Richard

Feature: 1) Horton 2) Mease 3) Greene 4) Echevarria 5) Heineman 6) Feely 7) Karns 8. J. Harvey 9) Reed 10) Bittinger 11) Labarbera 12) Martell 13) Marotto 14) Goodwill 15) Pearson 16) Seamens 17) Haskins 18. Moore 19) York 20) Markham 21) Richard

Lap Leaders: Mease (1-11), Horton (12)