Rocco Back to Back at Waterford
Waterford, CT — Keith Rocco forged ahead during several late race restarts in scoring his second consecutive SK Modified feature at the Waterford Speedbowl Saturday evening. Rocco passed early leader Jay Miller with 13 laps remaining and then battled with Jeff Pearl before finally pulling ahead during the final circuits. Following Pearl was Rob Janovic Jr., Ron Yuhas Jr. and Tyler Chadwick. In Late Model action, it was Bruce Thomas Jr. recording his third feature of the season. Thomas battled with Ron Yuhas Jr. during the last half of the event before finally getting the advantage as the two approached lapped traffic and Thomas was able to sneak-by on the inside. Following Yuhas was Tim Jordan, Vin Esposito, and Ed Reed Jr.
Other Feature winners were Walt Hovey Jr. (Sportsman), Randy Churchill (Mini Stock), Jason Palmer (Legends), and Randy Cabral (NEMA Midgets).
Walt Hovey Jr. won his first Sportsman feature of the season overtaking leader Brandon Plemons on lap-15. In the closing circuits Josh Galvin pressured the winner before tangling with Plemons and spinning out of the event. Plemons, Al Stone III, Chris “Moose” Douton, and Mark Cooper comprised the top-five. Coming from deep in the field, Randy Churchill passed Phil Evans on the final lap to win his third Mini Stock feature of the season. Evans was disqualified for purposely spinning Churchill at the conclusion of the event moving Ken Cassidy Jr. into second. Danny Field, Bill Leonard, and Jack Aquilina completed the top-five. Randy Cabral put in a dominating performance in winning his second NEMA event of 2008. Jay Palmer won his third Legends feature of 2008, and taking his second Legends Young Lions event of the season was thirteen year-old Joe Cipriano.
SK MODIFIED (35); 1. Keith Rocco, 2. Jeff Pearl, 3. Rob Janovic Jr., 4. Ron Yuhas Jr., 5. Tyler Chadwick, 6. Jay Miller, 7. Justin Gaydosh, 8. Doug Coby, 9. Jeff Malave, 10. Dennis Gada, 11. Don Fowler, 12. Glenn Griswold, 13. Frank Mucciacciaro Jr., 14. Jeff Paul, 15. Glenn Pressel III, 16. Pete Pavone Jr., 17. Mike Sweeney, 18. John Agor, 19. Bill Benoit, 20. Michael Sabia Jr., 21. Wendell Dailey, 22. Wade Mattesen, 23. Rich Hammann.
LATE MODEL (30); 1. Bruce Thomas Jr., 2. Ron Yuhas Jr., 3. Tim Jordan, 4. Vin Esposito, 5. Ed Reed Jr., 6. Rich Staskowski, 7. Jeff Smith, 8. Robert LeBlanc Jr., 9. Tom Metcalf, 10. Mark Hudson, 11. Chris Bottge, 12. Bob Andreozzi, 13. Dan Holben.
SPORTSMAN (20); 1. Waly Hovey Jr., 2. Brandon Plemons, 3. Al Stone III, 4. Chris “Moose” Douton, 5. Mark Cooper, 6. Jack Aquilina, 7. Ronnie Oldman Jr., 8. Dwayne Dorr, 9. Ed Lamb Jr., 10. Nate Appell, 11. John Puglisi, 12. Chuck Rogers, 13. Kevin Burr, 14. Joe Nogiec, 15. Jim Procaccini, 16. Josh Galvin.
MINI STOCK (20); 1. Randy Churchill, 2. Ken Cassidy Jr., 3. Danny Field, 4. Bill Leonard, 5. Jack Aquilina, 6. Kyle James, 7. Raymond Christian III, 8. Ian Brew, 9. Christina Cunliffe, 10. Jeff Miller, 11. Andrew Becker, 12. Jeff “Soup” Civardi, 13. Nick Pappacoda, 14. Sean Caron, 15. Lou Bellisle, 16. Mark Panaroni, 17. Mark Caise, 18. Glenn Estes, 19. Jack Wolfram, 20. Brad Caddick, 21. David Sylvia, 22. Chris Williams, 23. Ben Bargnesi, 24. Phil Evans.
LEGENDS (20); 1. Jay Palmer, 2. Art Moran Jr., 3. Shaun Buffington, 4. Michael Gervais Jr., 5. Carl Blandina, 6. Justin Rau, 7. Mark Esposito, 8. Adam Gada, 9. Ryan Morgan, 10. Ed Field, 11. Len Beebe Jr., 12. Dan Bisignano, 13. Max Zachem, 14. Art Moran III, 15. Kyle Rogers, 16. Dan McGouren, 17. Paul Forbes, 18. Tom Gray, 19. Joe Gada, 20. Joe Cipriano, 21. Justin Doss, 22. Dave Stanton, 23. Pete Portante.
NEMA MIDGETS (25); 1. Randy Cabral, 2. Bobby Santos III, 3. Joey Payne Jr., 4. Erica Santos, 5. Greg Stoehr, 6. Adam Cantor, 7. Wlliam Wall, 8. John Zych, 9. Mark Irving, 10. Chris Leonard, 11. Jeremy Frankowski, 12. Paul Scally, 13. Paul Luggelle, 14. Doug Cleveland, 15. Shawn Torrey, 16. Nokie Fornoro, 17. Kevin Park, 18. Kelly Fayrell, 19. Lee Bundy, 20. Mike Horn.
Sources:David Dykes/Waterford Speedbowl PR