{"id":277,"date":"2008-10-12T23:44:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T23:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=277"},"modified":"2008-10-12T23:44:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T23:44:45","slug":"mckeage-riverside-winner-morse-is-the-series-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2008\/10\/mckeage-riverside-winner-morse-is-the-series-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mckeage Riverside winner, Morse is the Series Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Naples ME. Dan Mckeage scored his third PASS Pluffybilt Racing Tractors Sportsman feature win of 2008 in Saturday&rsquo;s 75 lap season finale at Groveton New Hampshire&rsquo;s Riverside Speedway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Mckeage topped Terry Merrill to claim the checkers; Bobby Nadeau finished third with Steve Bennett Sr. and Duane Seekins rounding out the top five.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Richie Morse soldiered on to a ninth place finish despite getting caught up in several incidents that left his number 34 looking more like a PASS Modified than a Sportsman ride. Despite his tough day at the races, Morse claimed the&nbsp; Sportsman Series title over Steve Bennett Sr. by eighteen points, 315-297. Terry Merrill was third in the final standings with 274 markers.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Mckeage and Morse were the qualifying race winners.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Morse will celebrate his PASS Pluffybilt Sportsman Series Championship on Saturday November 15th when all four PASS North divisions are honored at the 2008 PASS Banquet of Champions. at Verrillo&#39;s Convention Center on Riverside Street in Westbrook, Maine. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Get all the details on this gala season ending event at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racewithpass.com\/\">www.racewithpass.com<\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proallstarsseries.com\/\">www.proallstarsseries.com<\/a> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Unofficial Results &ndash; PASS Pluffybilt Racing Tractors Sportsman Series 75 lap feature &#8211; Riverside Speedway &ndash; Groveton NH &ndash; 10\/11\/2008<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>1.&nbsp;&nbsp; 38&nbsp; Dan Mckeage, Gorham, ME 2.&nbsp;&nbsp; 36&nbsp; Terry Merrill, Saco, ME 3.&nbsp;&nbsp; 35&nbsp; Bobby Nadeau, Hollis, ME 4.&nbsp;&nbsp; 22&nbsp; Steve Bennett, Buckfeild, ME 5.&nbsp;&nbsp; 19 Duane Seekins&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stockton Springs, ME 6.&nbsp;&nbsp; 9&nbsp;&nbsp; Mike Davis, Tamworth NH 7.&nbsp;&nbsp; 68&nbsp; Jonathan Ledger&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Groveton, NH 8.&nbsp;&nbsp; 60&nbsp; Kyle Hart, Fryeburg ME 9.&nbsp;&nbsp; 34&nbsp; Richie Morse, Waterford, ME<br \/>10.&nbsp; 9x Jeremy Davis, Tamworth NH 11.&nbsp; 01 Sammy Gooden, Whitefield NH 12.&nbsp; 69&nbsp; Neil Evans Jr., Epping NH 13.&nbsp;&nbsp; 1&nbsp;&nbsp; Kenny Marier, Littleton NH<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Top Ten &ndash; 2008 PASS Sportsman Series point standings (final)<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>1) #34&nbsp; Richie Morse&nbsp; 315 (2008 PASS Sportsman Champion) 2)&nbsp; #22 Steve&nbsp; Bennett Sr. 297 3) #36 Terry&nbsp; Merrill&nbsp; 274 4) #38 Dan Mckeage 254 5) #68 Jonathan&nbsp; Ledger&nbsp; 221 6) #7 Shane&nbsp; Tatro&nbsp; 219 7) #60 Kyle Hart 206 8) #19 Duanne Seekins&nbsp; 201 9) #35 Bobby Nadeau 189 10) #69 Neil Evans Jr. 161&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naples ME. Dan Mckeage scored his third PASS Pluffybilt Racing Tractors Sportsman feature win of 2008 in Saturday&rsquo;s 75 lap season finale at Groveton New Hampshire&rsquo;s Riverside Speedway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}