Cleveland Speedway
March 16, 2013
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COBB/HUNTER TAKE STEEL-HEAD & CRATE RESPECTIVE VICTORIES @ CLEVELAND

by Steve Hixson
Cleveland, TN (3/16/2013) --- Ethan Hunter from Tiger, GA picked up an impressive victory Saturday night at Cleveland Speedway driving one of Brian Pritchard's "BiG ReD MACHINE" in the 25-lap Steel-head LLM feature. Hunter held off a lap 19 restart challenge by former track champion Lil John Ownbey for his first win of 2013 piloting the # 3 "Spangler Sheet Metal, Ron's Car Wash, Stealth Racing Carburators" into A-1 Towing Victory Lane. Last weekends winner Lamar Scoggins was 3rd followed by Bobby Mayse and Rick Hixson. The Crate LM's saw John Cobb of Louden, TN narrowly hold off Chris Wilson coming off of turn-4 to the checkered flag, when a back-marker car got in the way of the 20-lap feature. Wilson made a last ditch effort but came up a half a cars length short at the start/finish line. Kevin Gill, Jimmy Elliott and Brandon Williams finished 3rd thru 5th. Robbie Greene took an impressive win holding off 18yo. second generation racer Brandon Stanfield for the A-Hobby feature win. The "Nature Boy" Chris Beavers did his signature Ric Flair impersonation in victory lane atop his B-Hobby after the 20-lap feature concluded. Jon Brogdon won the Pony feature and Joe Cross made it a family affair beating heat winner brother Brad Cross in the FWD feature.

LLM Steelhead: Winner - Ethan Hunter (# 3) of Tiger, GA
2.John Ownbey, 3.Lamar Scoggins, 4.Bobby Mayse, 5.Rick Hixson, 6.Reuben Mayfield, 7.Tyler Adams, 8.Don Van Winkle, 9.Chris Powell, DNS: Michael Luna

Crate LM: Winner - John Cobb (# 40) of Loudon, TN
2. Chris Wilson, 3.Kevin Gill, 4.Jimmy Elliott, 5.Brandon Williams, 6.Bobby Doss, 7.Mark Truelove, 8.Scottie Hogan, 9.Brandon Gray, 10.A.J Carlissi, 11.Robert Ballard, 12.Ryan Tims, 13.Matt Murphy, 14.Brian Pritchard

A-Hobby: Winner - Robbie Greene (# 00) of Georgetown, TN
2.Brandon Stanfield, 3.Jody Hixson, 4.Glenn Seaton III, 5.Booger Brooks, 6.Josh Walker, 7.Jimmy Brown, 8.Steve Tate, 9.Robby Hixson, 10.Greg Greene, 11.Josh Beagan, 12.Eric Hughes, 13.Brandon Blankenship, 14.Lee Frederick, 15.Bobby Beavers, 16.Richard Dixon

B-Hobby: Winner - Chris Beavers (# 037) of Cleveland, TN
2.Ronnie Kerr, 3.Jason Brown, 4.Brandon Champion, 5.Joey Whitford, 6.Lee Harbin, 7.Jason Tate, 8.Lamar Hughes, 9.Jason Earwood, 10.Dallas Brooks, 11.Jim Gilbert

Pony: Winner - Jon Brogdon (# J39) of Polk, TN
2.Nathan Hair, 3.Dewayne Rodgers, 4.Jerry Beavers, 5.Shaun Tenpenny, 6.Danny Burnette

FWD: Winner - Joe Cross (# 5) of Cleveland, TN
2.Brad Cross, 3.E.J. Bailey, 4.James Salisbury, 5.Richard Hickman, 6.Tanner Dixon