{"id":1075,"date":"2009-08-09T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T14:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-08-09T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T14:54:06","slug":"mike-rowe-and-russ-morse-pad-championship-point-leads-with-beech-ridge-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/mike-rowe-and-russ-morse-pad-championship-point-leads-with-beech-ridge-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Rowe and Russ Morse pad championship point leads with Beech Ridge wins."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scarborough,Maine-Mike Rowe and Russ Morse were on the same agenda Saturday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, to add to their season long championship points lead and both were successful.\u00a0 Joining them as winners on Saturday were Alby Ovitt and Brian Graffam.<\/p>\n<p>Keith McKinnon led the opening laps of the Pro Series 40 lap main event as Bub Bilodeau moved to the lead on lap 6.\u00a0 D.J. Shaw moved in to contend for the lead with Bilodeau on lap 11 and for the next 4 laps looked to make a move for the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw would go to the front on lap 15 as Mike Rowe moved to third position.\u00a0 The caution flag waved on lap 16 and on the restart Bilodeau went back into the lead with Rowe taking second place.\u00a0 Rowe made his bid for the lead at lap 24 and once in front he hit the check out line driving away.\u00a0\u00a0 Bilodeau and Shaw had a side by side battle for second position that went to the final lap before being secured by Bilodeau with Shaw third.\u00a0 Aaron Ricker and Keith McKinnon were fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Russ Morse entered the night with a 39 point lead in the Sport Series division and when he went home he expanded that lead significantly with a win.\u00a0 J.T. Thurlow led the first 2 laps until Kelsey Babb went to the front for the next 4 laps.\u00a0 Doug Wolf passed for the lead on lap 6 and stayed there to the caution flag on lap 13.\u00a0 Scott Dorr took over the lead when the green flag waved but Wolf went back out front at lap 20.<\/p>\n<p>Russ Morse made his winning move on lap 28 following another caution period and was never headed once in the lead position.\u00a0 Wolf would finish second with Don Morse third.\u00a0 Scott Dorr and Corey Bubar finished fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Alby Ovitt moved around Brian Caswell for the lead on lap 26 on his way to his third win of the season in the Wildcat division.\u00a0 Caswell led from lap 2 but could not hold off Ovitt late in the race and settled for second place.\u00a0 Matt Hodgdon was third followed by Matt Gain and Andy Ayers.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Graffam led all 20 laps and held off a last lap challenge from Shawn Brackett to win the Road Runner feature event.\u00a0 Brackett was second followed by Ray Letellier and Matt Dow.\u00a0 Mike Knox rounded out the top five finishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarborough,Maine-Mike Rowe and Russ Morse were on the same agenda Saturday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, to add to their season long championship points lead and both were successful.\u00a0 Joining them as winners on Saturday were Alby Ovitt and Brian Graffam. Keith McKinnon led the opening laps of the Pro Series 40 lap main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10],"tags":[15772,108,143],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge","category-maine","tag-beech-ridge","tag-mike-rowe","tag-russ-morse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}