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Preece scored a second John Blewett III North-South
Shootout Modified victory Sunday at Caraway
Speedway, putting a strong start to the driver's
partnership with his Ed Partridge-owned race team.
Preece, who also won the 2012 edition of the
North-South Shootout, made his debut in the No. 6
Modified that he will pilot in 2015 on the NASCAR
Whelen Modified Tour in strong fashion, pulling away
from five-time Shootout winner Matt Hirschman for
the 125-lap victory in Sophia, North Carolina.
"This means we are going to be strong right out of
the gate for sure," said Preece in victory lane.
"I'm just really happy. It's great to be a part of
this."
Preece started on the outside pole, only being
bested in Friday's qualifying by Hirschman. Preece,
of Berlin, Connecticut, got a little bit loose out
of turn four on his second qualifying lap, which
cost him some time.
But that didn't affect Preece too much as he quickly
made his way by Hirschman to take the lead before
the 125-lap race was even five laps old.
Preece led until lap 65 when Andy Seuss got
underneath him entering turn three. Seuss set up
Preece off turn two and completed the pass by diving
to the bottom of the Caraway banking in the
following corner.
Seuss remained the leader until Hirschman got by on
a restart on lap 83, and then "Big Money" Matt
started to show his strength.
Preece took the lead back from Hirschman on a
restart with 27 laps to go. He started to pull away
from Hirschman, but with seven laps to go Hirschman
started to close back in. Hirschman gave the bumper
to Preece on a couple of occasions, but Preece was
able to hold him off to score the win.
Hirschman was strong on restarts all day long, but
just not when it mattered most.
"This one is on me," said Hirschman. "I cost us a
win. I was the leader of the race and I cost us a
win on the restart. I had all great restarts the
rest of the race until then. I just tried for too
much there and didn't get it into gear at the point
I needed to and cost us the chance to win."
Preece said he was aware that Hirschman might be
trying to make one last run on him, but he knew what
he had to do to hold him off.
"I knew all I had to do was keep my line and keep
going straight and just keep digging," said Preece.
"Now I just want to stay strong and I want to be
ready when we go up (north) for the first three
races and to New Smyrna Speedway and everything."
Preece and Hirschman have combined to win every
North-South Shootout dating back to 2010.
Ron Silk, Jason Myers and Derek Ramstrom were the
top five.
Ryan Moore took down the win in the 150-lap feature
for the PASS Super Late Models South in a thrilling
late-race duel with Christopher Bell on North-South
Shootout Sunday. Bell was working his way through
lapped traffic when he made contact with his Kyle
Busch Motorsports teammate, Karl Weber, going into
turn one with five laps to go. Moore was about 10
car lengths behind of Bell at the time of the
contact, but quickly made his way to the back of
Bell's black No. 52 machine.
Moore and Bell battled side by side for three laps
before they made hard contact in turn three on the
final lap. Bell started to spin as Moore drove away
to take the checkered flag. Bell held on to finish
second with Jody Measamer taking third.
Chris Lamb took the win in the 35-lap feature for
the USAC Southeast Midgets and Bradley McCaskill
dominated the 100-lap Southeast Limited Late Model
feature to put a cap on the 12th Annual North-South
Shootout.
For more information on the 12th Annual John Blewett
III North-South Shootout at Caraway Speedway, visit
www.carawayspeedway.com.
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Official Results - 12th Annual North-South Shootout
November 2, 2014
Caraway Speedway, Sophia, North Carolina
Tour-Type Modifieds (125 laps)
Pos. No. Driver
1. 6 Ryan Preece
2. 60 Matt Hirschman
3. 15 Ron Silk
4. 4 Jason Myers
5. 35 Derek Ramstrom
6. 22 Chuck Hossfeld
7. 5ct Chris Pasteryak
8. 09 Andy Seuss
9. 79 Spencer Davis
10. 77 Gary Putnam
11. 21 Tony Hanbury
12. 3 Daren Scherer
13. 1 Burt Myers
14. 21 Tommy Neal
15. 9 Tommy Barrett, Jr.
PASS South Super Late Models (150 laps)
Pos. No. Driver
1. 74 Ryan Moore
2. 52 Christopher Bell
3. 98 Jody Measamer
4. 4n Ben Rowe
5. 7r Derek Ramstrom
6. 129 Spencer Davis
7. 5s Dalton Sargeant
8. 28 Jared Irvan
9. 4 Brandon Lynn
10. 66 Zane Smith
11. 7 Tyler Church
12. 33 Brendon Bock
13. 71 Jimmy Doyle
14. 57 Cole Timm
15. 45 Kodie Connor
16. 6 Brandon Setzer
17. 8f Tate Fogleman
18. 7k Ted Mickelson
19. 51 Karl Weber
20. 8x David Garbo, Jr.
21. 62 Brandon Ward
22. 2 Trevor Noles
23. 1 Tyler Dippel
24. 104 Kevin Powell
25. 18 Bill Catania
26. 09 Randy Gentry
DNS 23 Spencer Gallagher
USAC Midgets (35 laps)
Pos. No. Driver
1. 9 Chris Lamb
2. 6x Steven Intravia
3. 5 Nikki Carroll
4. 6 Jessica Bean
5. 14 Scott Hunter
6. 21 Blaine Leydig
7. 12c Kyle Craker
8. 12 Tyler Courier
9. 1 Nick Davidson
10. 00 Jake Nelke
11. 80 Mike Ward
12. 24 Calvin Carroll
Southeast Limited Late Models (100 laps)
Pos. No. Driver
1. 7 Bradley McCaskill
2. 56 Buddy Allred
3. 16 Mack Little III
4. 7w Dylan Ward
5. 14 Brandon Cox
6. 50 Boo Boo Dalton
7. 2 Christian Eckes
8. 51 Ryan Shattuck
9. 00 Josh Lowder
10. 54 Scott Hall
11. 21 Jimmy Wallace
12. 51c Chris Chapman
13. 61 Justin Hicks
14. 23 Danny Willis
15. 22 Jason Tutterow |
