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MORAN MOTORS TO STARS WIN #8 AT K-C!!!
By Bret Emrick and Scott Wolfe
Chillicothe (Alma),OH 8-15-99
Donnie Moran of Dresden,OH scored his eighth STARS National DirtCar Racing League sanctioned victory of the season Saturday at K-C Raceway near Chillicothe,OH pocketing $8,000 for his win in the "Southern Hills 50".Jim Nier took advantage of Chad Kemenah’s last lap miscue to claim his second sprint car feature win, a win worth $2,000, while "Fast Eddie" Valette claimed the Ohio Valley Dwarf Car special event.

Starting seventh aboard the McCullough Industries/Eddie's Sunoco/MasterSbilt Chassis/Fisher Motorsports Engines No. 99 Moran Racing Pontiac Grand Prix, the three-time STARS champion shot past race long
leader Chub Frank on a lap 43 restart and held off Frank by less than one second to score the win. Tenth starting Mike Balzano wound up third with ninth starting Steve Shaver fourth and thirteenth starting Gary Stuhler fifth. Completing the top ten were fourteenth starting Steve Casebolt Jr., John Mason, R.J. Conley, Delmas Conley (the last car on the lead lap) and Rod Conley.
Frank powered into the lead from his outside front row berth after one lap with pole sitter Skip Watterman, Delmas Conley, R.J. Conley and Rod Conley trailing. Frank opened up a three car length advantage over Watterman by lap two with D. Conley taking the runner-up spot on lap 3. R.J. Conley
shuffled past Watterman on lap 4 and two laps later Moran worked his way past Rod Conley for fifth. Moran grabbed fourth from Watterman on lap 8 with Frank catching lapped traffic on lap 10. Frank ran uncontested for the next few laps as Moran continued his charge to the front taking third from
R.J. Conley on lap 13 and then second from Delmas Conley on lap 15. One lap later Shaver broke into the top five with Balzano shooting to fourth on lap 18. Frank continued his charge through the backmarkers keeping a nearly one second lead on Moran. On lap 20 Balzano worked his way to third as Shaver
grabbed fourth. Stuhler then grabbed fifth on lap 23 as Frank ran alone for the next 20 laps. With only seven laps remaining the races only caution flew on lap 43 when Jerry Rice slammed the frontchute wall dropping him from the action and putting Moran right on the back bumper of Frank for the restart. On the restart Moran went to the low groove with Frank going to the top of the track as they entered turn one. Moran kept himself glued to the bottom racing into the lead on lap 44 opening a two car length lead on
Frank. Moran kept himself in the lower groove over the remaining laps taking the checkered flag as Frank raced off of turn four.
The $32,000 event drew 35 drivers to the high-banked 3/8ths mile track with Mike Wilson Jr. setting quick time at 14.008 seconds. BORLA EXHAUST heat race wins fell to Moran (SCOTT PERFORMANCE WIRE heat race bonus winner), Steve Lucas, Mason and Shaver. Watterman copped the ISKY RACING CAMS dash while Aaron Scott pocketed the PRO SHOCKS "B" Main.Chad Kemenah of Fremont, Ohio had the field covered for the "Southern Hills 25" sprint car portion of Saturday’s program, covering the field green-to-checkered in literally uncontested fashion for 24 and a half laps. Kemenah tried a little too hard to thread the needle between two lapped cars and jumped the thin cushion off the backchute in turn number two after leading from the onset.

Kemenah and 16-year-old Jonathan Stevens of Chillicothe paced the field for the event with Kemenah taking a huge lead. A lot of action took place back in the pack as Jim Nier, Mark Keegan, and Alvin Roepke battled with Stevens for the runner-up slot .

When the checkered flag had fallen Alvin Roepke won the battle for second as he led Keegan and Scott Miller across the line. That trio had started 10th, 11th, and 12th respectively to score top five finishes. Stevens was fifth, followed by Butch Schroeder, Ron Myers, Boston Reid, Ed Neumeister, and Hud Horton.

Ed Valette took over the lead from Jason Glick with three laps to go to claim the companion dwarf car feature over Tracy Fritter, Jason Glick, Kelly Moore, Karl Jones, Mark Bernard, Mike Hickman, Pete Stackhouse, Bill Hostellar, and Mike Recter.

STARS National DirtCar Racing League Race Report (for 8-15-99)
Race No. 26-1999 Season-"Southern Hills 50"
K-C Raceway-Chillicothe (Alma),OH-3/8ths Mile Oval
$32,000 Purse-$8,000 To Win-50 Lap Feature
(Showing Finish Pos.,Start Pos.,Car #,Driver,Laps,Purse,Reason Out)
1. (7) #99 Donnie Moran 50 $8,000 Running
2. (2) #1* Chub Frank 50 $4,080 Running
3. (10) #E1 Mike Balzano 50 $2,500 Running
4. (9) #30 Steve Shaver 50 $1,500 Running
5. (13) #19 Gary Stuhler 50 $1,400 Running
6. (14) #C9 Steve Casebolt Jr. 50 $1,300 Running
7. (8) #72 John Mason 50 $1,200 Running
8. (4) #71C R.J. Conley 50 $1,150 Running
9. (3) #71 Delmas Conley 50 $1,060 Running
10. (5) #71R Rod Conley 49 $940 Running
11. (1) #13 Skip Watterman 49 $900 Running
12. (17) #33 Aaron Scott 49 $750 Running
13. (11) #96F Keith Berner 49 $600 Running
14. (21) #11 Clint Smith 49 $600 Running
15. (18) #10 Larry Bond 49 $550 Running
16. (15) #99H Jeff Houser 49 $450 Running
17. (12) #32L Greg Lucas 49 $400 Running
18. (24) #80 Bryan Durig 48 $450 Running
19. (22) #49 Brian Ruhlman 48 $450 Running

20. (19) #W7 Thomas Ware 48 $450 Running
21. (16) #1B Jerry Rice 43 $400 Accident
22. (6) #5 Steve Lucas 20 $435 Handling
23. (23) #07 Mike Wilson Jr. 15 $400 Engine
24. (20) #9 Bud Frazier 12 $450 Handling

TIME OF RACE: 20 Mins.
YELLOW FLAGS: One-Laps 43
RED FLAGS: None
LAP LEADERS: Two-Frank 1-43;Moran 44-50

Sprint and Dwarf car run-down only

By Scott Wolfe

Chillicothe, Ohio-Jim Nier took advantage of Chad Kemenah’s last lap miscue Saturday at K-C Raceway near Chillicothe,OH to claim his second sprint car feature win, a win worth $2,000, while "Fast Eddie" Valette claimed the Ohio Valley Dwarf Car special event.Donnie Moran of Dresden,OH scored his eighth STARS National DirtCar Racing League sanctioned victory of the season pocketing $8,000 for his win in the "Southern Hills 50".

Chad Kemenah of Fremont, Ohio had the field covered for the "Southern Hills 25" sprint car portion of Saturday’s program, covering the field green-to-checkered in literally uncontested fashion for 24 and a half laps. Kemenah tried a little too hard to thread the needle between two lapped cars and jumped the thin cushion off the backchute in turn number two after leading from the onset.

Summary: Super Sprints

Heat One-Mark Keegan, Scott Miller, Jim Nier, Mike Bowling

Heat two-Chad Kemenah, Hud Horton, Roger Mossbarger, Eddie Slone

Heat three-Jason Dukes, Al Roepke, Jonathan Stevens, Butch Schroeder

Heat four-Boston Reid, Ron Myers, Aaron Scott, Dewey Cassell

B-Main-Ed Neumeister, Nick Naber, Brian Benson, Lonnie Darst, Craig McGuire

Feature-Nier, Roepke, Keegan, Miller, Stevens, Butch Schroeder, Ron Myers, Boston Reid, Ed Neumeister, and Hud Horton.

Dwarf cars:

Heat One-Ed Vallette, Greg Watson, Max Evans, Tom Rannoee Heat Two-Robert Stackpole, Tracy Fritter, Mark Jamison, Bill Hostetler, Heat Three-Jason Glick, Jason Eddy, Karl Jones, Ian Harris

Feature-Ed Vallette, Tracy Fritter, Jason Glick, Kelly Moore, Karl Jones, Mark Bernard, Mike Hickman, Pete Stackhouse, Bill Hostellar, and Mike Recter.