HEnry and smith bag jennerstown victories

JENNERSTOWN, PA (June 25,2005) … Bobby Henry reached a milestone and Mark Smith continued to dominate the Wheelers Brothers super late model action at Jennerstown Speedway Saturday evening, as they split the twin 30-lap NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series feature events.

Henry started on the pole of the 23-car field, jumped ahead of Kyle Martel at the drop of the green flag, and never looked back as he drove his Bob Bentz Jr. owned Monte Carlo to his first win of the season.

The victory also marked win number 100 for the Connellsville driver over a career that has spanned 24-years. Ironically, Henry also captured his first win at Jennerstown on the old dirt half-mile facility.

“I forgot all about the 100 wins, honestly… that’s pretty cool,” said Henry. “We started up front, and had a good car. We’ve been having problems with the power steering unit on this car, but we got that fixed. Hopefully, we’ll be here more often.”

Defending track champion Garry Wiltrout finished second, ahead of Smith, Martel and Mark Cottone. Barry Awtey, Mark Poole, Tommy Beck, Snooky Williams and Richard Mitchell rounded out the top-10.

Smith raced to his third triumph of the year in the second 30-lap contest and in the process moved into a tie for fourth place with Jeff Dunmyer on the all time Jennerstown asphalt win list with 30 victories.

The ‘Meyersdale Missile’started 11th , and charged through the pack to take over the lead from Tommy Beck on Lap 13. After surrendering the front spot briefly to Awtey on a 23^rd lap restart, Smith reassumed command for good one lap later.

“I don’t want to talk about that restart with Barry (Awtey)… I’m not real sure what was going on when he jumped me for the lead,” Smith said. “We were on the outside on the next restart, and I ran it into Turn 1 for all it was worth. This car works the best on the outside.”

Awtey hung on for the runner-up spot in front of Tommy Beck, Wiltrout, Poole, Cottone, Dave Houpt, Williams, Jayme Beck and Mitchell.

Altoona’s Mel Wilt led wire-to-wire in the 25-lap late model main to pick up his first win in 2005. Rookie Andrew Wylie was second, trailed by Dusty Rhoads, Rick Boyer and Dink Colarusso.

Friedens Roger Onstead was a first time winner in the 20-lap Advance Auto Parts street stock feature, outdistancing Josh Dunmyer, Rich Nicola, Bobby Young and Scott Bowman.

David Campbell returned to the winners circle in PA legacy competition over Jayme Bolkovac, P J Ehrlich, Chris Brink and Jack Causer.

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