Lincoln (IL) All Stars/POWRi D2 Midgets Results and Stories

All Stars 4-wide salute at Lincoln Speedway 5/20/16
 
Lincoln Speedway
Lincoln, IL
 
All Stars
POWRi D2 Midgets
 
32 All Stars
29 D2 Midgets
 
All Stars
 
Parker Price-Miller (9th car out to time) set quick time on the ¼-mile at 11.330 seconds.  Sheldon Haudenschild (4th car out) was second quick, followed by Andrew Palker (8th), Cap Henry (2nd), Joey Moughan (32nd), Chad Kemenah (24th), Dale Blaney (26th), Caleb Armstrong (17th), Caleb Helms (28th) and Danny Holtgraver (20th).  Though Jo. Moughan was fifth quick, he was a late arrival, so the best he could start in his heat was fifth, one spot out of the invert.  The 32 cars were divided into four heat groups.  Paul Nienhiser was a scratch for the night after hot laps.
 
Heat one (started): 1. Henry 21 (2) 2. Palker 57x (3) 3. S. Haudenschild 93 (4) 4. AJ Bruns 44 (5) 5. Cory Bruns 42 (1) / 6. Trey Datweiler 23D (6) DNS – Dustin Homan 10, Paul Nienhiser 9
 
Heats were ten laps in distance, taking the top two eligible for the Dash, and the top five to the feature.  Henry took the early lead while Palker battled and C. Bruns battled for second.  S. Haud grabbed third on lap three.  AJ Bruns passed his brother for fourth on lap five.
 
Heat two (started): 1. Joe B. Miller 51B (2) 2. Lee Jacobs 81 (3) 3. Jordan Goldesberry 65 (5) 4. Price-Miller 2 (4) 5. Chris Urish 77u (1) / 6. Bradley Howard 49H (8) 7. Andy Baugh 6B (7) 8. Logan Faucon 52F (6)
 
Miller led Urish and Jacobs early on.  Jacobs shot by Urish for second on lap two.  Goldesberry used the low side to shoot by Price-Miller for fourth on lap six.  Faucon spun with seven laps in the books.  Miller led Jacobs, Urish, Goldesberry and Price-Miller back to green.  Faucon flipped on the restart.  He was uninjured.  Goldesberry shot to third when the race resumed.
 
Heat three (started): 1. Kemenah 10H (4) 2. Holtgraver 70 (2) 3. Jerrod Hull 12 (1) 4. Bret Tripplett 22 (5) 5. Hunter Mackison 95 (7) / 6. Armstrong 7c (3) 7. Jim Moughan Jr. 1m (6) 8. Jeremy Standridge 10s (8)
 
Standridge spun on the first try at green.  Unfortunately for Hull, he had driven away into the lead and that was negated by a complete restart.  Holtgraver took the lead on the next try ahead of Hull and Kemenah, with Tripplett moving up to fourth.  Kemenah shot under Hull for second on lap five, while Mackison snagged the final transfer from Armstrong on the last lap.  Kemenah continued his strong run by taking the lead from Holtgraver with two to go.
 
Heat four (started): 1. Kraig Kinser 11K (6) 2. Blaney 1 (4) 3. Kory Crabtree 60 (7) 4. Helms 40 (3) 5. TJ Michael 8m (1) / 6. Kody Kinser 4K (8) 7. Jo. Moughan 29 (5) 8. Hunter Schuerenberg 20N (2)
 
Schuerenberg flipped in turn two when the green fell.  That negated a move by Jo. Moughan all the way up into second.  Blaney moved up outside row one and led early over Michael and a charging Kr. Kinser.  Kr. Kinser grabbed seocn on the second lap and passed Blaney on lap four, pulling away on the low side for the win.  Crabtree came from row four to grab third on the white flag lap.

Sheldon Haudenschild Dash (started): 1. Price-Miller (2) 2. S. Haudenschild (4) 3. Kemenah (6) 4. Jacobs (1) 5. Holtgraver (5) 6. Palker (7) 7. Henry (3) 8. Blaney (8)

Price-Miller led the 8-lap distance, but had company in the form of Jacobs early on.  S. Haudenschild pressured Jacobs, and took second at the halfway point.  Kemenah was strong after starting sixth, and used the low side to move into third on the last lap.
 
B main (started): 1. Armstrong (1) 2. Datweiler (4) 3. Moughan Jr. (2) 4. Ko. Kinser (5) / 5. Jo. Moughan (3) 6. Howard (8) 7. Baugh (7) 8. Standridge (6) 9. Homan (9) DNS – Schuerenberg, Faucon, Nienhiser
 
Armstrong led throughout the 12-lapper.  Datweiler passed Moughan Jr. on lap two for second.  Jo. Moughan made a couple of passes at Ko. Kinser for the final transfer late, but fell short.
 
A main (started): 1. S. Haudenschild (2) 2. Price-Miller (1) 3. Holtgraver (5) 4. Kemenah (3) 5. Hull (12) 6. Blaney (8) 7. Henry (7) 8. Tripplett (15) 9. Kr. Kinser (10) 10. Armstrong (21) 11. Miller (9) 12. Moughan Jr. (23) 13. Crabtree (13) 14. Helms (16) 15. Urish (18) 16. Jacobs (4) 17. Goldesberry (11) 18. Michael (20) 19. C. Bruns (17) 20. Palker (6) 21. AJ Bruns (14) 22. Datweiler (22) 23. Mackison (19) 24. Ko. Kinser (24)
 
Price-Miller led Kemenah and S. Haud early in the 35-lapper.  S. Haud was able cruise by Kemenah and take over second in a side by side battle on lap two.  Palker spun and collected AJ Buns on lap 12, bringing the first caution.  Price-Miller led S. Haud, Kemenah, Holtgraver and Hull up from twelfth, back to green.  Four laps later C. Bruns spun bringing another yellow.  The top five remained the same on the restart, but this time, as rubber took over the track, S. Haud took a little higher line and slung by Price-Miller to lead lap 17.  Holtgraver used the same move to get by Kemenah for third.  C. Bruns spun a second time on lap 19, and went pitside.  The lead five would stay the same the rest of the way.  On lap 21, Jacobs had a big run on Henry and got into the back of the 21.  Jacobs spun, collecting Helms and Goldesberry.  Michael retired at the same time.  Helms was the only car to continue.  Urish hit the inside berm, did a 360 and pulled off under green after the restart.  S. Haud picked up the $5,000 win, his second in a row with the All Stars in their first ever visit to Lincoln.  Armstrong was the hard-charger, moving up eleven spots.

Andy Baugh POWRi D2 Midgets
 
Heat one (started): 1. Andy Baugh 6B (4) 2. Aaron Schuck 1 (7) 3. Austin Archdale 2 (2) 4. Mitchell Davis 7x (5) 5. Johnny Murdock 0M (8) 6. Scott Koerner 24 (6) 7. Max Pozsgai 10c (9) 8. Shane Morgan 15m (3) 9. Jordan Caskey 3 (1) DNS – Gedd Ross 51R
 
Archdale led early in the 8-lapper.  A. Baugh moved into second on lap three and took the lead two laps later.  Schuck shot into second after a lap five restart for a stopped Morgan.
 
Heat two (started): 1. Patrick Bruns 10B (2) 2. Tyler Vantoll 30T (5) 3. Adam Taylor 7 (6) 4. Dave Baugh 7B (3) 5. Chase McDermand 40 (8) 6. Pete Palazzolo 70 (9) 7. Bob Shreffler 21 (7) 8. Brandon Smith 11 (4) 9. Jack Routson 10R (1) DNS – Brent Burrows 51
 
Bruns led the distance.  Routson brought out the only caution with a spin on lap two.  Shreffler flipped on the restart, but restarted.  Bruns held the lead ahead of Vantoll.  Taylor moved into third on the restart for Shreffler.
 
Heat three (started): 1. Hunter Lane 0A (3) 2. Travis Pence 01 (2) 3. Beau Burnett 92 (4) 4. Craig Dori 38 (5) 5. John Springer 3s (6) 6. Doug Oseske 0 (1) 7. Mike Cusack C7 (7) DNS – Dennis Warren 13, Joe Rinne 0B
 
Pence led early before the Milo, Iowa invader Lane shot by on lap three in the non-stop event.
 
A main (started): 1. A. Baugh (2) 2. Vantoll (5) 3. Archdale (10) 4. Davis (12) 5. D. Baugh (14) 6. Taylor (6) 7. Ross (26) 8. Pozsgai (17) 9. Shreffler (21) 10. Pence (7) 11. Caskey (24) 12. Burrows (27) 13. Orseske (20) 14. Lane (1) 15. Murdock (13) 16. Smith (23) 17. Routson (25) 18. Burnett (9) 19. McDermand (11) 20. Springer (16) 21. Palazzolo (15) 22. Koerner (19) 23. Morgan (22) 24. Cusack (18) 25. Schuck (4) 26. Dori (8) 27. Bruns (3) DNS – Warren, Rinne
 
When a group of cars came together in the first corner of the 20-lapper, it set the tone for a marathon.  A. Baugh led the duration of the race despite a number of cautions throughout.  Archdale took second from Taylor on the second lap.  Lane spun while running fifth on lap five and collected Schuck, who went pitside.  On a restart with five laps down for Cusack, A. Baugh led Archdale, Taylor, Davis and Vantoll.  Vantoll moved up to third after an additional caution for Murdock, who spun and collected Morgan, who went off on the hook.  Davis spun off the track while running fourth on lap seven.  He would come back to eventually reclaim the spot.  On lap 12, Palazzolo brought a caution.  It was a stroke of luck for Ross, who had surged from the tail to sixth and spun right after the caution came out.  Two more white flag cautions stood between A. Baugh and his win, but he persevered.  Meanwhile behind him, Vantoll took second on the last lap, while Davis came from sixth to fourth.