{"id":1721,"date":"2009-08-09T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2009-08-09T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T10:55:47","slug":"mike-rowe-and-russ-morse-pad-championship-point-leads-with-beech-ridge-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/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.&nbsp; Joining them as winners on Saturday were Alby Ovitt and Brian Graffam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>Keith McKinnon led the opening laps of the Pro Series 40 lap main event as Bub Bilodeau moved to the lead on lap 6.&nbsp; 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> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Shaw would go to the front on lap 15 as Mike Rowe moved to third position.&nbsp; The caution flag waved on lap 16 and on the restart Bilodeau went back into the lead with Rowe taking second place.&nbsp; Rowe made his bid for the lead at lap 24 and once in front he hit the check out line driving away.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Aaron Ricker and Keith McKinnon were fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp;<\/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.&nbsp; J.T. Thurlow led the first 2 laps until Kelsey Babb went to the front for the next 4 laps.&nbsp; Doug Wolf passed for the lead on lap 6 and stayed there to the caution flag on lap 13.&nbsp; Scott Dorr took over the lead when the green flag waved but Wolf went back out front at lap 20.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp;<\/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.&nbsp; Wolf would finish second with Don Morse third.&nbsp; Scott Dorr and Corey Bubar finished fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp;<\/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.&nbsp; Caswell led from lap 2 but could not hold off Ovitt late in the race and settled for second place.&nbsp; Matt Hodgdon was third followed by Matt Gain and Andy Ayers.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp;<\/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.&nbsp; Brackett was second followed by Ray Letellier and Matt Dow.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Joining them as winners on Saturday were Alby Ovitt and Brian Graffam. &nbsp;<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beech-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}