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McCreadie holds off Hearn for Albany Saratoga Win

May 18, 2012: Malta, NY ― When he came through the back gate on Friday night enroute to the pit area Tim McCreadie was happy to be back on Malta soil at Albany Saratoga Speedway. When McCreadie’s schedule allows he campaigns for Vinny Salerno’s successful race team and he looks forwards to his visits to the Lyle DeVore promoted oval.

McCreadie was still carrying that smile, even wider now, after securing the win in the 35 lap Modified feature event on Eastside Metals and Recycling night.

McCreadie entered the Four Star automobile from outside the seventh row and wasted little time getting to the front despite severe lap traffic throughout the event. He secured the lead on the 15th circuit and was flawless despite some challenges from Jeff Trombley and Brett Hearn.

“When you have a car that performs like that this is a fun place to race,” said McCreadie who secured a win during the speedway’s duel season opener in mid-April. Vinny has put a good car under me and we are two for three so we are doing pretty good.”

Hearn took Trombley in the late stages of the event for second place. Trombley, Matt DeLorenzo and Kenny Tremont rounded out the top five.

With the exception of Tremont it was the same guys, just scrambled, making the top five the previous week as well.

The Budget Sportsman feature was paying $1,000 to win in honor of the late Andrew Sherman so everybody wanted to get to the front but it was all Frank Hoard’s race. Hoard grabbed the lead from the start and never looked back.

Hoard was in control of the feature event the previous week when he got caught up in lap traffic so he wasn’t going to have the same thing happen again. Hoard had over a half a straightaway lead at intervals during the event.

Hoard was followed across the finish line by Jeremy Pitts, Jeff Rockefeller, Brian Gleason and Adam McAuliffe.

Pitts, an earlier qualifying event winner, was closing the gap on Hoard in the late stages of the event but time ran out.

Bits: Due to the continuous huge car count management has been trying to work with the Budget Sportsman division. They spoke with the drivers about having a ‘Rookie Budget Sportsman’ class but the drivers were not interested. An alternative solution was to have a qualifying event for drivers that haven’t qualified for a feature event yet. The race winner would move to the feature and the remaining drivers would partake in the two B-Main’s that were offered. Larry Niemiec won the event, advanced to the feature event and finished 23rd. One driver from each B-Main would also make up the starting lineup for the BS feature… Palmer’s Service Center added $500 to the Modified feature payoff… Ronnie Johnson was the fastest car in warm-ups earlier in the evening. Johnson, who holds the ninth place slot on AS’s all time win list, also won his qualifying event… Todd Ryan was back aboard a race car. Ryan ran around the rear of his qualifying event… Mike Minick took a wild ride after contact was made in front of the pack in the first BS B-Main and Minick had no place to go. Minick’s car suffered heavy damage… Tim McCreadie was sporting the fastest laps during the Modified warmup session just prior to the feature event…

Eastside Metals & Recycling Modified Results: (35 Laps) – 1) TIM MCCREADIE, 2) Brett Hearn, 3) Jeff Trombley, 4) Matt Delorenzo, 5) Ken Tremont Jr, 6) Ronnie Johnson, 7) Dustin Delaney, 8) Bob Savoie, 9) Mike Perrotte, 10) Matt Depew, 11) Jimmy Cottrell, 12) Neil Stratton, 13) Keith Flach, 14) Don Ronca, 15) Bodie Bellinger, 16) Jason Herrington, 17) Erik Nelson, 18) Donnie Corellis, 19) J.C. Flach, 20) Mark Kislowski, 21) Cass Bennett, 22) Marc Johnson, 23) Pep Corradi, 24) C.G. Morey, 25) Hector Stratton, 26) Chris Johnson, 27) Justin Barber, 28) Joe Williams, 29) Elmo Reckner, 30) Rich Ronca, 31) Chris Busta, 32) Todd Ryan
Modified Heats: 1) Elmo Reckner, 2) Jimmy Cottrell, 3) Ronnie Johnson

The Anthony Sherman $1,000 to Win Budget Sportsman A-Feature Results: (25 Laps) ― 1)
1) FRANK HOARD III, 2) Jeremy Pitts, 3) Jeff Rockefeller, 4) Brian Gleason, 5) Adam McAuliffe, 6) Robert Budlak, 7) Scott Duell, 8) D.J. Brundige, 9) Tim Hartman Jr, 10) Butch Wilcox, 11) Jon Miller, 12) Jack Gentile, 13) Derek McGrew, 14) Andy Durie, 15) Dan Boni, 16) Anthony Marro, 17) Mike Jeske, 18) Bobby Hackel IV, 19) Mike Tholin, 20) Jack Swinton, 21) Joey Budka, 22) Dan Santabarbara, 23) Larry Niemiec, 24) Luke Klob, 25) Bert Film, 26) Paul Dunham, 27) Leo Sousie, 28) Fred Proctor
Budget Sportsman B-Feature #1 Results: (15 Laps) – 1) FRED PROCTOR, 2) Mark Hughes, 3) Chuck Dickinson, 4) Matt Shadic, 5) Tom Proctor, 6) Elliott Lussier, 7) Skip Shippee, 8) Brett Wright, 9) Stan Lemiesz, 10) Mike Minick, 11) Jeremy Digert, 12) Jason Otty, 13) Jack Swinton, 14) Nelson Passino, 15) Shannon Donnelly, 16) Kenny Aanonsen Jr, DNS) Mike Ostrander, DNS) Ron Casey
Budget Sportsman B-Feature #2 Results: (15 Laps) – 1) ANTHONY MARRO, 2) Dave Baranowski, 3) Jim Eaton, 4) Chip Constantino, 5) Nick Lussier, 6) Jack Speshock, 7) Jim Osgood, 8) Jerry Campbell, 9) Chris Murray, 10) Mike Burdo, 11) Joe Orlando, 12) Lenny Peckham, 13) Mike Duclos, 14) Bobby Hackel IV, DNS) Cody Hunt
Budget Sportsman Heats: 1) Scott Duell, 2) Jeremy Pitts, 3) Robert Bublak, 4) D.J. Brundige, 5) Frank Hoard, 6) Larry Niemiec

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