Aaron Ricker finally knocks down the door to Beech Ridge victory lane.
By Dan Walker
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway release
Scarborough,Maine- Following 3 straight second place finishes, Saturday night Aaron Ricker was to be denied no more as the young driver scored his first Pro Series win at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. The headline division of the NASCAR All American Series fielded 20 cars on Saturday night with Ricker starting from position 16. Tyler King led the opening 3 laps before yielding to Steve Carrier following a lap 4 caution flag. Carrier would stay out front until lap 10 when Joey Doiron slipped into the lead using the inside line. While all of this was going on, Ricker had moved through traffic to be third by lap 17. On lap 19, Ricker dismissed Carrier for second place and set his sights on Doiron. Ricker got to the inside of Doiron on lap 24 and for the next six laps the 2 leaders dueled side by side. Ricker was finally able to wrestle the lead away on lap 32 and led the final 8 laps for his first career victory. Doiron was second and Dan McKeage third. Trevor Sanborn and Tyler King were fourth and fifth.
Bobby Nadeau took down the win following 35 laps of Sports Series competition on Saturday night. Andy Field took the lead at the wave of the green flag with Laura McKeage riding in second position. Nadeau moved to take over second at lap 10 but kept coming and on the same lap took a look to the inside of Field. Nadeau and Field swapped the lead over the next 12 laps in a side by side race for the lead. Nadeau eventually was able to get fully to the front and stayed there to the checkered flag. Dalton Gagnon finished second with Field third. Charlie Sanborn and Dave Langlais were fourth and fifth. Chris Warming scored his first win of the season in the 30 lap Wildcat main event. Buddy Minott led from the pole position with Cole Watson in hot pursuit. Watson went to the front on lap 4 with Warming moving to second position. Mike Ramsey fought his way into contention trying the inside of Watson with no success. Ramsey made another bid for the lead on lap 16 and this time he was able to complete the pass of Watson as Warming moved back to second. Warming elected to stay in the outside groove and began to work over the lead car of Ramsey until lap 25 when warming took over the top spot. Nicholas Cusack moved to second place at lap 27 and with just 3 laps to go started to challenge Warming for the lead. Warming was able to hang on for the win as Cusack settled for second place and Ramsey finishing third. Watson was fourth and Brian Caswell fifth. Ryan Phillips scored a very exciting Road Runner victory on Saturday night leading only the final few feet of the race as for the second consecutive week the winner was not determined until the finish line. Nicole Timmons led the first lap before Tasha Dyer too over on the second trip around the oval. Dyer appeared to be headed for the win but Shawn Brackett and Ryan Phillips cleared traffic at lap 10 and closed in on the leader. Dyer, Brackett and Phillips were in a single line with 2 laps to go when Phillips set to the outside and pulled even with Brackett as the took the 2 laps to go flags. Phillips hung outside and started to pull even with the lead car of Dyer as they took the white flag for the final lap. Phillips kept coming and he and Dyer were even on the back stretch. Coming to the finish line, Phillips won the race by about 3 feet over Dyer who was second and Brackett who was right on her bumper. Dave Turner was third and Ed Connolly fifth.
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