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HARDY OUT DUELS ROBERSON FOR HUB CITY CRATE LM VICTORY. RUTHERFORD SEMI LATE STAR, REED SURPRISE PURE STOCK WINNER

Hagerstown MD, (9/14/24)- Kyle Hardy scored a thrilling victory in last Saturday’s 30-lap Crate Late Model feature during the tracks annual running of the Hub City Nationals.The win for Hardy, worth $2500, came aboard his iconic Rocket No.99 and would be his 5th career division feature score at Hagerstown.

Hardy and Logan Roberson shared the front row for the start of the event with Hardy surging into the race lead as the field boomed off turn number two. Hardy would lead until Roberson slid by to take the lead on the 16th lap with Hardy in tow. A slew of late race cautions would bunch the field multiple times as Hardy was able to regain the lead from Roberson on the 21st circuit. Over the final nine laps Hardy and Roberson ran neck and neck with Hardy squeaking out the win by a car length at the checkered flag. “We went with a soft tire and Logan was on hard tires so the cautions there at the end kind of helped us as it took him a few laps to get going.” Superb track conditions aided Hardy in his winning drive. “We were able to get a pretty good rhythm there towards the end, but I knew Logan would be coming and we were able to hold him off, it was a lot of fun racing with him.” Roberson’s race finish came to a matter of tire choice. “Those cautions they are at the end killed us.” Roberson stated post race. “It took me a few laps to get going with the hard tire, but will take second and move onto the next one.” Brian Booze took third, Tyler Hoy was fourth with 11th starting Brayden Anderson completing the top five. Heats for the 19 entries went to Ed Pope Jr and Jacob Whitt.

Crate Late Model (19 entries, 30 laps): 1. 99-Kyle Hardy[1]; 2. 17R-Logan Roberson[2]; 3. B2-Brian Booze[8]; 4. 71T-Tyler Hoy[4]; 5. 25-Brayden Anderson[16]; 6. 17-Jonathan DeHaven[7]; 7. 5-Levi Crowl[11]; 8. 11-Ed Pope III[6]; 9. 14-Codey Breeden[15]; 10. 36-Gregory Carrico[17]; 11. 31-Noah Brunell[9]; 12. 11K-Davin Kaiser[3]; 13. 11P-Steve Payne[14]; 14. 40S-Scott Sweeney Jr[13]; 15. 14C-Chuck Bowie[12]; 16. 33-Jacob Whitt[5]; 17. 462-Tommy Armel[19]; 18. 18-Chase Hardy[10]; 19. (DNS) 72-Trevor Collins

Dylan Rutherford score of the biggest win of his career in the 25-lap, $2500 to win, Semi Late main. Rutherford, who came from the rear of the field after an early race tangle, took the lead from 2024 track champion Steve Kent on the 6th lap to take the win by a wide margin over eventual runner-up Brady Neff. “This has been a long time coming.” A jubilant Rutherford stated in victory Lane. “After we went to the rear of the field I didn’t think we had a chance, but the track came to us and our car was really good and clean air.” 18th starting Rob Nichols was third, 21st starting Adam Breeden took fourth with Steve Kent rounding out the top five. Heats went to Bryan Kerns, Jamey Swank and Scotty Nelson with Cale Martin taking the B main win.

Semi Lates (27 entries, 25 Laps): 1. 11-Dylan Rutherford[8]; 2. 0330-Brady Neff[13]; 3. 7-Rob Nichols[18]; 4. 01X-Adam Breeden[21]; 5. 1C-Steve Kent[4]; 6. 21-Jason Stoner[1]; 7. 92-Walter Crouch[9]; 8. 21B-Brandon Lowery[19]; 9. 33-Scotty Nelson[6]; 10. 97-Trent Holmes[16]; 11. 3J-BJ Jenkins Jr[11]; 12. 54J-Jimmy Combs[14]; 13. 36C-Cale Martin[20]; 14. 31H-Greg Hainsey[15]; 15. 00-Ryan Bloom[17]; 16. 15-Rick Potter[10]; 17. 948-Joey Zambotti III[2]; 18. 83-Bryan Kerns[5]; 19. 88Z-Isaiah Miller[12]; 20. (DNS) 22-Jamey Swank; 21. (DQ) 65-Dillon Wilson[3]
DNQ - 4J-Bob Jay; 69-Dwayne Snyder; 26-Cody Jarvie; 48-Tony Hugueley; 68-Jacob Shoup; 7S-Brian Swiger

Keith Reed capped off his championship season with a win in the 24 lap, $2444 to win, Zack Reid Tribute Pure Stock feature. Jason Wilkins took the lead on the 11th lap from Evan Foust and drove off to a convincing win, however, his car did not survive a post race technical inspection, and the win was awarded to Reed who had moved into second on the 15th lap. The revised finish found Nathan Younker, Kristopher Hutton, Evan Foust and Blake Reed completing the top five. Heats went to Wilkins, Reed, Younker and Nick Fogle with Matt Ney taking the B main win.

Pure Stock (31 entries, 24 Laps): 1. 8-Keith Reed[8]; 2. 31-Nathaniel Younker[4]; 3. 06-Kristopher Hutton[7]; 4. 78-Evan Foust[1]; 5. 8R-Blake Reed[9]; 6. 41-Tom Caravello[5]; 7. 15T-Justin Hottle[13]; 8. 88-Nick Fogle[2]; 9. 66-Dalton Weyant[11]; 10. 62-Dylan Beavers[10]; 11. 42-Andrew Saffelle[12]; 12. 8B-Braydale Bauman[20]; 13. 57-William Ecton Jr[14]; 14. 3D-Denver Dishong[18]; 15. 5M-Matt Ney[21]; 16. 30-Cody Sumption[19]; 17. 32-Tyler Fisher[22]; 18. 47-Kevin Boyer[17]; 19. 13-Sam Hoffman[16]; 20. 12-David Thompson[23]; 21. 17L-Randy Linaburg[6]; 22. 32W-Robert Wilson[24]; 23. 03-Danny Walters[15]; 24. (DQ) 9-Jason Wilkins[3]

DNQ: 2X-Dave Friedrich; 67-William Ecton Sr; 25-Rodney (Hot Rod) Miner; 71-Carter Shank; 141-Sam Caravello; 7K-Michael Knight; 75P-Dustin Proctor

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