EWSC Championship Night winners Matt Jackson, Kyle Marten, Eric Scribner, Mike Montie, & Mitch McGrath.

Champions Brian Gilles (Grand Nationals), McGrath (Baileigh Industrial Late Models), Tim Haddy (Professional Plating Inc 360’s), Cody Schroeder (Defaut Auto Sportmods), and Ralph Liegeois Jr. (Sport Fours)

Saturday, August 30th, Manitowoc WI. – Mother Nature tried her best to prevent EWSC Championship Night from happening, but a dedicated track crew along with a few volunteers from a Grand National team worked the track back into racing shape. The final Professional Plating Inc 360 Sprints Challenge Series Night with the sprintcars qualifying, and several points battles still undecided, it promised to be a great night of racing. We would like to thank Waldo Oil for being the trophy sponsor, and for all the work they do with local race drivers.

GRAND NATIONALS
The final Grand National feature of 2014 led off the nights main events, with 21 Kevin Lubach (Elkhart Lake), 8j Matt Jackson (Sheboygan), 7s Tim Simon (Fon du Lac), 98 Kevin Naidl (Reedsville), 10 Roger Lee (Wind Lake) and 69t Tim Thompson (Campbellsport) filling out the top 3 rows. Jackson ran out to the early lead, with Lubach and Lee in tow, but yellow flew on Lap 2 for 22 Daniel Dugan (Manitowoc) spinning out in Turn 2, while Simon pitted for repairs. Jackson led Lee, Lubach, and 42 Pat Marcott (Germantown). The green was short lived as Marcott spun on Lap 3, and after the yellow flag came out there was contact deeper in the field between 93 Daniel Schumacher and 37L Brad Lubach (Elkhart Lake), sending Lubach to the pits for a quick repair and back to the rear of the field, where Simon joined him as he returned after going a lap down. This time Jackson led Lee, K. Lubach, 34 Steven Weber (Plymouth) and Thompson back to green. While Jackson and Lee continued their battle for the lead, Schumacher and 37 Ryan Minster (Sheboygan) moved in to challenge for a spot in the top 5. At the mid point it was still Jackson, Lee, K. Lubach, Thompson, Weber, Schumacher, Minster, 7 Brian Gilles (Plymouth), Simon, and Naidl. Caution came out for the final time on Lap 12 as Schumacher spun on the backstretch with Minster getting a bit of contact and having to pit for repair, pitting also was the 27s of John “Hootie” Stanton (Beaver Dam) , done for the evening with fuel issues. Under green again, Lee put a huge move on Jackson, but Jackson continued to hold him off and crossed the line for the win. Lee, Thompson, Gilles, K. Lubach, Naidl, B. Lubach, Marcott, and 9 Seth Hoeffner (Manitowoc) followed him across, with Hoeffner picking up 8 positions for Hard Charger.

HEAT 1 – 1, Roger Lee. 2, Kevin Naidl. 3, Brian Gilles. 4, Nick Strobbe. 5, Daniel Schumacher. 6, Steven Weber. 7, Ben Konen. 8, Daniel Duggan. 9, Ryan Minster. 10, Erik Turner.
HEAT 2 – 1, Tim Thompson. 2, Kevin Lubach. 3, Matt Jackson. 4, Tim Simon. 5, Brad Lubach. 6, John Stanton. 7, Travis Moehring. 8, Justin Brown. 9, Seth Hoeffner.
A FEATURE – 1, Ryan Minster. 2, Travis Moehring. 3, Erik Turner. 4, Tim Simon. 5, Ben Konen. 6, Daniel Duggan. 7, John Stanton. 8, Justin Brown. 9, Matt Jackson. 10, Roger Lee. 11, Tim Thompson. 12, Brian Gilles. 13, Kevin Lubach. 14, Kevin Naidl. 15, Steven Weber. 16, Brad Lubach. 17, Nick Strobbe. 18, Seth Hoeffner. 19, Daniel Schumacher.

PROFESSIONAL PLATING INC. 360 SPRINTCARS
The Professional Plating Inc. 360 Sprints feature were pushed out by their crews and as the field assembled, 6k Kurt Davis (West Allis), 15m Justin Miller (Plymouth), 24 Scott Conger (Eagle), 12w Josh Walter (Sheboygan Falls), 21t TJ Luedke (Plymouth), 4 Paul Pokorski (West Bend) made up the first three rows of the main event. Once the sprints were lined up and took the green, Davis flew out front while Miller and Walter tried to chase him down. Kyle Marten (Sheboygan Falls) in the 99 started working through the field quickly and four laps in broke into the top 5. Caution flew on Lap 7 for debris on the track, and going back to green it was Davis, Miller, Walter, Marten, Pokorski, and 25 Danny Schlafer (Sussex). Two laps later both Marten and Schlafer pulled into 2nd & 3rd, while 26 Al Schlafer (Sussex) was slicing through traffic from his 17th starting position. Just before halfway, caution flew for Davis and 7y Mitchell Yurmanovich (Cascade) who got together in Turn 4, the 00 () also pitted and returned while Davis and 96 would be finished for the evening. The incident left the running order as Marten, D. Schlafer, Miller, Pokorski, Conger, Luedke, Walter, 2c Chris Clayton, and 21h Tim Haddy (Waupan). Danny made his way around Miller, and a few laps later so did Pokorski, pushing Miller back to 4th. The final yellow flag came out on Lap 24 as 08 John Krebsbach (Cascade) and 53a Spyder Akright (Sheboygan Falls) got together in Turn 4, with both drivers being done for the night. The lineup for the 6 lap dash to the finish showed Marten out front, with Danny Schlafer, Miller, Pokorski, Luedke, and Conger, and under green Pokorski and Miller continued to swap positions all the way to the finish. Marten held off Schlafer for the win, followed by Pokorski, Miller, Conger, Haddy, 30 Doug Wondra, Luedke, Yurmanovich, and Al Schlafer. Hard Charger to Marten and Al Schlafer picking up 7 spots each.

HEAT 1 – 1, Randy Sippel. 2, Kurt Davis. 3, Doug Wondra. 4, Kyle Marten. 5, Josh Walter. 6, Al Schlafer. 7, Dannon Tessmer.
HEAT 2 – 1, Danny Schlafer. 2, Mitchell Yurmanovich. 3, Kevin Seidler. 4, Paul Pokorski. 5, Scott Conger. 6, Samantha Portschy. 7, Josh Teunissen.
HEAT 3 – 1, Chris Clayton. 2, Spyder Akright. 3, Tim Haddy. 4, Travis Luedke. 5, Justin Miller. 6, John Krebsbach.
A FEATURE – 1, Kyle Marten. 2, Danny Schlafer. 3, Paul Pokorski. 4, Justin Miller. 5, Scott Conger. 6, Tim Haddy. 7, Doug Wondra. 8, Travis Luedke. 9, Mitchell Yurmanovich. 10, Al Schlafer. 11, Randy Sippel. 12, Chris Clayton. 13, Dannon Tessmer. 14, Samantha Portschy. 15, Kevin Seidler. 16, John Krebsbach. 17, Spyder Akright. 18, Josh Walter. 19, Josh Teunissen. 20, Kurt Davis.

DEFAUT AUTO SPORTMODS
The Defaut Auto Sportmod feature made its way to the track with 63b Jesse Brey (Two Rivers) on the pole, and 19w Cory Wegner (Neenah), 34 Cody Eickberg (Plymouth), 25 Travis Arenz (Sheboygan) and 22b Brandon Berth (Cascade) filling out the top 6. Brey ran out to the early lead, with Berth challenging Eickberg for 2nd. Yellow flew at Lap 4 for a spin by Jared Rautmann (Plymouth), who joined at the rear of the field for the restart. Brey led Berth, Eickberg, and 17x Eric Scribner (Kiel) back to green, but yellow came out again a lap later. This time it was a spin by 96 Brian Konitzer (Sheboygan) spinning unassisted in Turn 2, he also went to the rear for the restart. Brey led Berth and Eickberg back to the green again, but this time Scribner got a great start and charged around them both for 2nd. Caution flew once again after the midway point was reached, this time it was Arenz who spun in Turn 2, and rejoined at the rear. Scribner led the field back to green but that only lasted a lap as Konitzer spun again, this time in Turn 4, and his second unassisted spin put him in the pits, done for the evening. Scribner led Brey and 20 Cody Schroeder (Manitowoc) to the green, after Schroeder quietly worked his way through traffic to challenge Brey. With 5 laps remaining it was Scribner, Schroeder, Brey, Eickberg, Berth and 2k Rick Kretschmann (Sheboygan Falls). Rolling under checkers it was Scribner for the win, with Schroeder, Berth, Eickberg, Brey, Kretschmann, and Arenz. Scribner and Schroeder shared Hard Charger honors picking up 8 spots apiece.

HEAT 1 – 1, Cody Schroeder. 2, Brian Reif. 3, Brandon Berth. 4, Kelsy Hayes. 5, Cory Wegner. 6, Brian Konitzer. 7, Jason Schilling. 8, Jarred Rautmann.
HEAT 2 – 1, Eric Scribner. 2, Rick Kretschmann. 3, Cody Eickberg. 4, Travis Arenz. 5, Jesse Brey. 6, Bradley Ruh. 7, Justin Bauer.
A FEATURE – 1, Eric Scribner. 2, Cody Schroeder. 3, Brandon Berth. 4, Cody Eickberg. 5, Jesse Brey. 6, Rick Kretschmann. 7, Travis Arenz. 8, Brian Reif. 9, Kelsy Hayes. 10, Cory Wegner. 11, Bradley Ruh. 12, Jason Schilling. 13, Justin Bauer. 14, Jarred Rautmann. 15, Brian Konitzer.

SPORT FOURS
The front row of the Sport 4 feature showed the 43 of Scott Brendel on the pole, and 27f Tony Fletcher (Greenleaf), 55 Brian Chiminatti (Manitowoc) and 7p Cody Pankow (Lomira) showing the rest of the top 4. The 3g of Branden Goeser (Chilton) came through traffic to lead the first lap, but brought out a caution a moment later as the car broke coming off Turn 4, and would be finished for the night. Ben Meyerhofer (Menasha) in the 07m inherited the lead and was challenged immediately by 76 Mike Montie (Abrams) and 22jr Ralph Liegeois Jr (Oconto). Montie moved around Meyerhofer for the lead on Lap 3, while the 7m Chris Maas (Oakfield) moved into the top 5. Montie held off Meyerhofer for the win, with Liegeois, Maas, and Pankow rounding out the top 5.

HEAT 1 – 1, Ralph Liegeois Jr. 2, Branden Goeser. 3, Ben Meyerhofer. 4, Chris Maas. 5, Mike Montie. 6, Cody Pankow. 7, Brian Chiminatti. 8, Tony Fletcher. 9, Scott Brendel.
A FEATURE – 1, Mike Montie. 2, Ben Meyerhofer. 3, Ralph Liegeois Jr. 4, Chris Maas. 5, Cody Pankow. 6, Brian Chiminatti. 7, Tony Fletcher. 8, Scott Brendel. 9, Branden Goeser.

BAILEIGH INDUSTRIAL LATE MODELS
The Baileigh Industrial Late Model field was led to the track by polesitter d7 Diamond Jim Letizia (Milwaukee), 18 Nick Cochart (Casco), 7b Tim Buhler (Glenbeulah), 8 Bob Cullen (Chilton), 97 Justin Schmidt (Cleveland) and 6 Tony Peterson (Big Bend). Several drivers, including 19t Dave Thomas (Milwaukee), 38s Scott Haugstad (Plymouth), and 81 Troy Springborn (Shawano) had to scratch from the event due to various issues. Letizia ran out to the first lap lead, but Buhler made a fantastic move and took the point a lap later. Lap 4 produced the first caution of the event as the 7 of Joel Bennett died on the frontstretch and had to be pushed off. Buhler led the field back to green, only to be slowed a lap later as 57m Eric Michaels (Cleveland) spinning out in Turn 4. Buhler led 74m Mitch McGrath (Waukesha), Cullen, Letizia, and Justin Schmidt back to the green, only to be slowed down by caution on Lap 7 for a spin by Cullen. This time Buhler led the restart, but McGrath used the high line to get around him and capture the lead, while Jim Schmidt substituting in the 70 ran door to door with Justin in the 97. At halfway it was McGrath, Buhler, Justin Schmidt, Jim Schmidt and Jim Letizia. McGrath held on for the victory, and was followed across by Buhler, Jim Schmidt, Justin Schmidt, Peterson, and Cochart. McGrath picked up 8 spots, while Jim picked up 7.

HEAT 1 – 1, Schueffner Racing (Jim Schmidt). 2, Mitch McGrath. 3, Bob Cullen. 4, Tim Buhler. 5, James Letizia. 6, Eric Michaels.
HEAT 2 – 1, Turk Letizia. 2, Tony Peterson. 3, Justin Schmidt. 4, Nick Cochart. 5, Scott Haugstad. 6, Dave Thomas.
A FEATURE – 1, Mitch McGrath. 2, Tim Buhler. 3, Schueffner (Jim Schmidt). 4, Justin Schmidt. 5, Tony Peterson. 6, Nick Cochart. 7, Bob Cullen. 8, Turk Letizia. 9, James Letizia. 10, Eric Michaels. 11, Joel Bennett. 12, Dave Thomas (DNS). 13, Scott Haugstad (DNS).

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