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Michael Herrington scores 20th career O'Reilly SUPR Sprint Car victory while Todd Rogers tops Mississippi Modifieds!

Baton Rouge, Louisiana (May 7, 2005) – Michael Herrington claimed his 20^th career O’Reilly SUPR Sprint Car feature and his third win of the season at Baton Rouge Raceway Saturday night.  Herrington grabbed the lead at the start of the race and was not to be stopped as he outraced Shane Morgan and Terry Vidrine to take the win.  Herrington also regained position of the championship point lead with the victory edging by Vidrine 499 to 492 after four rounds of racing on the 2005 O’Reilly SUPR Sprint Car Series.

Herrington started the night off by winning his heat race and he just kept setting the pace up front.  He competition for the lead in the early stages was an old nemesis, 2002 O’Reilly SUPR Sprint Car Champion Butch David and David proved to be as fast as Herrington around the Baton Rouge Raceway oval but unfortunately for David, his recent string of bad luck continued when he exited early while running second.

Shane Morgan of Gulfport , Missisippi then took over second position but he was unable to run down Herrington, who by that time had built a sizeable lead over the remaining competition.  Morgan was in solid control of second as the checkers waved with Terry Vidrine kept the battle for the 2005 O’Reilly SUPR Sprint title close with another solid top three finish.  Vidrine has finished in the top three in each of the first four features with a victory, a second and a pair of third place finishes.

David Kountz finished fourth and continued a solid early season that finds the Mobile area in the top five in points despite missing the season opener.  Kountz finished ahead of Lincoln Gatwood of Laurel, Mississippi who also continues to impress in his rookie SUPR Sprint Car season.

Seavy Clemmons, Harold Henderson, Mark Roth, Cary Farmer and Billy Gunter rounded out the top 10.

21 O’Reilly SUPR Sprint Cars were on hand.  Terry Vidrine, Butch David and Michael Herrington won the heat races.

Official Results:

1.    Michael Herrington

2.    Shane Morgan

3.    Terry Vidrine

4.    David Kountz

5.    Lincoln Gatwood

6.    Seavy Clemons

7.    Harold Henderson

8.    Mark Roth

9.    Cary Farmer

10.  Billy Gunter

11.  Larry Todd

12.  Butch David

13.  Mark Tate

14.  Wendell Magnon

15.  Herman Carrier

16.  Rhett Butler

17.  Chris Buhler

18.  Adam Moneyhun

19.  Nick Gleber - dns

20.  Chris Wilken - dns

21. Paul Gleber – dns

31 MS Modifieds split into 4 heats. Roger Flynn, James Ward, Brook Strength, and Kevin Dupont all took heat wins. On the start of the feature they ran three wide for the lead Flynn, Dupont and Ward. Flynn got the lead followed by  Dupont and Ward. Mark Herbert spun on the front straightaway and brought out the yellow. Todd Rogers has worked his way to third, then battled Dupont for second.  Rogers sailed into the lead with Kevin Dupont right behind him in second. A five car pile up in four brought the yellow out again. Greg Hollingsworth tapped the side of Kevin Dupont as he took over second on the last lap. Dupont went in the pits smoking. Todd Rogers ran a good race and scored the win followed by Greg Hollingsworth, Billy Collett, Roger Flynn, and Brandon Butler.

Official Results:

Jason Jackson and Christian Rodeman took the street stock heat wins.  Rocky deGruy led every lap of the feature and took the win by several car lengths over Daniel Jessup, Jimmy Stephens, Jeremy Dubois and Mark Simeon.

Dustin Westmoreland and Wayne Ward shared the heat wins in the new Limited Modified class.  Westmoreland took the lead on the start . Yellow flew when Matt Holmes and Troy Cassano tangled. On The restart Westmoreland led followed by Wayne Ward. Westmoreland led every lap and took the win followed by Kevin Philips, Joe Simoneaux and Troy Cassano.

The night started off with Scott Womack and Eric McAllister side by side for the first pure stock heat win. Leonard Barilleaux and  Justin Bowman took the other heat wins. On the start of the feature Chris Crowe and Tudy Jackson ran wheel to wheel to turn two where Crowe took the lead. Bowman took over second then lost it in four an earned a trip to the rear on the restart. On the restart upfront was Crowe, Teal, and Romero.  Tracy Talbert while running fifth got onto the front wall.  On the restart this time upfront was Crowe, Jason Truax, and Eric McAllister. Scott Womack worked his way to second behind Crowe.  Crowe went on to lead every lap and score the win. Scott Womack took second, Justin Bowman after spinning and going to the rear, went from 20th to finish third. Eric McAllister took fourth and Jason Truax fifth.

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