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Doug Watson
BUDDS CREEK, Md. (May 15) - September of 2007 was the last time Great Mills Maryland's Daryl Hills sat in victory lane at Southern Maryland's Potomac speedway.
In scoring his first late model feature win of the season, Hills became the fifth different driver of the season to score a win at the fabled 3/8th-mile oval in five races run to date.
Daryl Hills and Dale Hollidge brought the field down to the initial waving of the green flag. Hills wasted little time as he darted into the race lead by the completion of the race's first circuit. Jamie Lathroum quickly hooked himself to Hills back bumper as the duo would race side by side until fourth-starting Booper Bare would take the runner-up spot from Lathroum on lap-12. From that point on Hills and Bare put on quite a crowd pleasing duel that lasted the remainder of the event, with Hills eventually taking the checkered flag for his 14th career Potomac late model feature win.
"I cant thank my mom and dad enough." Hills stated. "We've gone through a couple of motors this season and without them I wouldn't be able to race." Former track champion Booper Bare gave Hills all he could handle over the final 18-laps. " I=2 0knew Booper was back there." Hills said. "He's so good down here you never know what he's got up his sleeve and it feels pretty good to beat him. The way our luck has been lately I didn't think we'd ever be able to win again." Defending track champion David Williams rallied late to take third in the event, Jeff Pilkerton was fourth and Roland Mann, rebounded from an early race crash, to complete the top-five. Heats for the 15 cars on hand went to Hills and Lathroum.
In the 25-lap limited late model feature red-hot Kyle Lear drove from his 12th-starting spot to snare his second feature win of the season. Lear took the lead from Stevie Long on the 16th lap and would then survive a lap-24 caution to preserve the win. This would be Lear's fourth overall win of the season as he collected his career first late model win a Potomac two-weeks ago and has also scored a late model sportsman win at Hagerstown. Sommey Lacey scored second, Stevie Long faded to third, Ed Pope had a nice run taking fourth and two-time winner Tommy Wagner Jr. completed the top-five. Heats for the 16 cars in attendance went to Lear and Mike Latham.
In other action Kyle Nelson scored his second win of the season in the 16-lap street stock feature, James Marshall continued his torrid pace as he rolled to his third win of the season in the 20-lap modified event and John Latham tallied his fourth win in six races in the=2 015-lap hobby stock feature.
RESULTS
Late Models 30-laps 15 entries (lap leaders Daryl Hills 1-30)
1. Daryl Hills 2. Booper Bare 3. David Williams 4. Jeff Pilkerton 5. Roland Mann 6. Kyle Lear 7. Matt Quade 8. Ray Kable Jr. 9. Chris Cromer 10. Harold Dorsey Jr. 11. Deane Guy 12. Jamie Lathroum 13. Richard Hulson 14. Dale Hollidge 15. George Moreland (DNS)
Limited late Models 25-laps (Lap leaders Tommy Wagner Jr. 1, Stevie Long 2-15, Kyle Lear 16-25)
1. Kyle Lear 2. Sommey Lacey 3. Stevie Long 4. Ed Pope 5. Tommy Wagner Jr. 6. Dave Adams 7. Glenn Buckler 8. Gene Snow 9. Roy Skaggs 10. Chuck Cox 11. Brandon Long 12. PJ Hatcher 13. Mike Latham 14. Paul Cursey 15. Derrick Quade 16. Bob Breach (DNS)
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