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MARKHAM STORMS TO LAKEVILLE TRIPLE CROWN III VICTORY

 Showing why he is one of the best young drivers not only in Ohio but in the country, Ashland's Ryan Markham started 16th and in sixteen laps had taken over the lead and captured the third crown of Lakeville Speedway's Triple Crown series to pocket the $6,000 winners share of the purse in the rain-shortened feature. Brandon Smith beat Kris Patterson into the first turn to take the lead and set the pace until Markham caught him. The opening 19 circuits were caution filled with a Blaine Aber spin on the first lap. A broken tie rod put Patterson out of contention on lap 3 as Jackie Boggs also went pitside at that point. Kevin Weaver, the winner of the second triple crown race, spun on lap 5 to bring out the yellow and then on lap 11, a flat tire on Steve White's ride brought it out again.  J.R. Gentry bounced of the back stretch guardrail on lap 19 for another caution. All the cautions helped Markham and his Met's Auto Supply, The Sign Shop, & Linder's Sports Bar #5m as he was able to keep the tires cool as he had moved into 5th place at the ten lap mark and on the restart of the lap 11 caution powered his way past Steve Lucas and Keith Berner for second. He and Smith went side by side for two laps before Markham took over for good.
 The light rain started on lap 22 but did not effect the track until the 30 lap mark which was to be the halfway point. At that point, the rain started falling harder and the race was checkered at lap 35. Blaine Aber recovered from his first lap spin to take second while Keith Berner came from his 12th starting position to finish third. Fourth place went to Rob House as he moved up from starting 15th. Bob Eicholtz dropped from starting place of third to round out the top five. Johnny Moore and Steve Lucas chalked up wins in the last chance races. The Jones Oil / Turbo Blue and New Concept Racing Products event saw Smith, Boggs, Aber, and Jeff Esbenshade post the heat wins. Skip Watterman, the winner of the first triple crown race , had a short night as his #13 was forced into the retaining tires in front of the pole that got hit twice last week. There was no contact with the pole but Watterman's car was severly bent.
 Number 11 was the number to be in the support classes as Mike Finger of Wooster led flag to flag in the Rick Moore Motors Cruiser feature and Dan Hensel broke the stranglehold of the Adkins family in the 4-Cylinder Cruisers in his debut in that class.
 The Hall's Auto Sales Street Stock 'A' main was rained out as next Friday night all the classes but the 4-Cylinder Cruisers will run double features at Lakeville Speedway.

LAKEVILLE SPEEDWAY RESULTS
AMERICAN PAYROLL ADVANCE LATE MODELS
Heat   1  BRANDON SMITH, KRIS PATTERSON, RICK BOND, ROB HOUSE
Heat   2  JACKIE BOGGS, BOB EICHOLTZ, MIKE JOHNSON, JOHNNY MOORE
Heat   3  BLAINE ABER, JEFF ABRAMS, RICK MOORE, BENTLEY SHAW
Heat   4  JEFF ESBENSHADE, KEVIN WEAVER, KEITH BERNER, STEVE LUCAS
Consi A  R. MOORE, HOUSE, WHITE, UHLER, DUNCAN, MIDDAUGH, GARDINER, CONLEY, WATTERMAN
Consi B  LUCAS, MARKHAM, GENTRY, BANAL, M. ABER, SHAW, CUSHING

Feature   MARKHAM, B.ABER, BERNER, HOUSE, EICHOLTZ, BOND, UHLER, R. MOORE, GENTRY, LUCAS, SMITH, ESBENSHADE, BOGGS, WEAVER, BANAL, JOHNSON, WHITE, CUSHING, PATTERSON, ABRAMS, J. MOORE

RICK MOORE MOTORS CRUISERS
Feature   FINGER, SMITH, Cr. FRY, Ch. FRY, HENSEL SR., SHANK, DURIEUX, HEDRICK, MAST, B. FRY, BRENNEMAN, SHERWIN, R. NORRIS, HIGDON JR., TRUSSELL, DAWSON, J. NORRIS, POORMAN, NANCE

4-CYLINDER CRUISERS
Feature   HENSEL, ROSE, LEMMON, HARMON, ARMS, CUSHING JR., McVICKER, J. GERHART, SHANK, D. GERHART, MEDLEY, COOPER, KANZIG, SHOPBELL, HENNEY, MURRAY, WHITEHOUSE, GUSHARD, HOLCOMB, J. ADKINS, Mi. ADKINS, Ma. ADKINS, STEELE

HALL'S AUTO SALES STREET STOCK 'A'
Heat Winners  TY MYERS & PIKE OLSEN
Feature   Rained out  Will be raced next week