{"id":20737,"date":"2016-06-22T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T12:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=20737"},"modified":"2016-06-22T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T12:50:35","slug":"early-point-battles-remain-tight-entering-hometown-heroes-night-at-devils-bowl-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/early-point-battles-remain-tight-entering-hometown-heroes-night-at-devils-bowl-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Point Battles Remain Tight Entering Hometown Heroes Night at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/devilsbowl_newlogo_horizontal_color-300x62.jpg\" alt=\"Devils Bowl\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20405\" \/><strong>Early Point Battles Remain Tight Entering Hometown Heroes Night at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway<br \/>\nFirst responders and military to receive free admission on Saturday, June 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WEST HAVEN, Vt. \u2013 The stock car racing season is only one-quarter of the way complete on the Asphalt Track at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway, but the championship battles are already heating up.  As the annual \u201cHometown Heroes\u201d Night presented by Rutland Regional Medical Center and Whelen Engineering approaches on Saturday, June 25 at 6:00 p.m., all four divisions of the weekly NASCAR Whelen All-American Series are gearing up for exciting title races throughout the summer.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Bond Auto Parts Sportsman Modified division is led by Jason Durgan of Morrisonville, N.Y., who \u2013 at just 11 points \u2013 has the largest lead in any title race.  Durgan leads defending champion Vince Quenneville Jr., 213-202.  Durgan has yet to win a race, but has two runner-up finishes and two thirds to his credit.  Former champion Ron Proctor is third just one point behind Quenneville.<\/p>\n<p>Defending Central Vermont Motorcycles Late Model champion Josh Masterson of Bristol, Vt., leads his division\u2019s standings with three races in the books.  Despite being undefeated and having won all three races, Masterson\u2019s lead is only nine points on Robert Bryant Jr., 165-156, with Seth Bridge just 20 points back in third.<\/p>\n<p>Scott FitzGerald of West Rutland, Vt., leads the way in the Rosen &#038; Berger Auto Recyclers Renegade division.  FitzGerald and Jim McKiernan each have a pair of wins and are separated by 10 points, 223-213.  With four podium finishes in as many races, Matt Monaghan ranks third at 199 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Portland Glass Mini Stock race is airtight and finds rookie Zach Wood of Georgia, Vt., in the lead by two points \u2013 just a single on-track position \u2013 over Brad Bertrand, 203-201.  Wood has two wins, while Bertrand\u2019s first career win came last week.  Wood\u2019s teammate and fellow rookie Eric Messier is third, nine points out of the lead, with Garrett Given and defending champion C.J. LaVair tied in fourth place only 15 points from Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Rutland Regional Medical Center and Whelen Engineering present the annual \u201cHometown Heroes\u201d Night on Saturday, June 25 with free admission for all law enforcement, firefighters, rescue personnel, corrections officers, and active or retired military in uniform or with proper identification.  Regular admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and students, and free for kids age 12 and under.  Gates open at 4:00 p.m., with racing at 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Point Battles Remain Tight Entering Hometown Heroes Night at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway First responders and military to receive free admission on Saturday, June 25 WEST HAVEN, Vt. \u2013 The stock car racing season is only one-quarter of the way complete on the Asphalt Track at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway, but the championship battles are already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[201,1,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devils-bowl","category-uncategorized","category-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20737","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=20737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}