By: Ron Burt
Football Scoreboard
Starting Friday at 9:30PM and 11PM the Ohio Sports Blitz Facebook page will be giving local area football scores live. If you miss the broadcast, you can replay it anytime. This year we will be giving scores from over 20 Ohio high school football conferences, the state top 10 football teams and scores from the national top 10. If you’re a die-hard high school football fan this is the scoreboard you want, as your team battles to get in the playoffs. Bookmark the Ohio Sports Blitz now so you won’t miss your team’s scores. www.facebook.com/ohiosportsblitz/.
Larson Gets the Repeat
The 63rd Knoxville Nationals are now in the record books for sprint car fans, drivers, owners and teams. 2024 didn’t disappoint. Three countries represented and 4 nights of great racing. Championship Saturday was dominated by “Yung Money” Kyle Larson, he led all 50 laps. He won the pole and the $2,000.00 for his effort and then the feature that put $190,000.00 in his pocket. This doesn’t count the totals for other weekly wins leading up to Saturdays feature win. This was Larson’s 3rd Knoxville Nationals win and his second in a row. Finishing behind the victor was 2nd Gio Scelzi, 3rd Corey Day, 4th Carson Macedo, and 5th Anthony Macri. The top 4 finishers are California drivers and Macri is from Pennsylvania. Sheldon Haudenschild, from Wooster, OH one of our area fan favorites finished 9th and was the only Ohio driver to start the 24 car feature.
Westfall Wins at Home
One of the hottest drivers in USAC Sprints and Midgets, is Matt Westfall. The Ohio native is busy with full racing schedules and it’s rare he gets home to race. Last week he was able to race at Waynesfield Raceway Park with the B.O.S.S. Sprint Series and he thrilled the hometown fans with a big charge to grab the win. Shawn Westerfeld took 2nd and Rylan Gray 3rd. The IMCA Ohio RaceSaver Sprint series made their second stop of the season at Waynesfield Saturday night and brought with them a strong field, which in turn presented an exciting main event. At the checkers, it was Rod Henning picking up the victory!
Sprint Car fans are in for a treat at Waynesfield, August 24th. The legendary Nickles Brothers Sprint car has been on display throughout the summer in Knoxville at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum, but it has been brought back home. The team is frantically working to get an engine installed so it can be the pace car at the Nickles Bros. Memorial at Waynesfield Raceway Park, with the legend, Jac Haudenschild behind the wheel!
Swanson Set’s Track Record
Last Saturday night Silver Crown driver Kody Swanson’s night went from good to excellent. At historic Jennerstown Speedway, he set an automatic new track record to win the pole for the first USAC Silver Crown race ever held at Jennerstown Speedway. Driving the Mission Foods No. 77, the seven-time series champion led all 100 laps of the feature to extend his record for the driver with the most USAC Silver Crown victories in history to 44. Swanson lapped through sixth place, taking the checkered flag a whopping 3.907 seconds before Dakoda Armstrong, the runner-up, did the same. It was Swanson’s fourth win of the year, and it extended both Swanson and Doran Binks Racing’s lead in the point standings. Following Swanson, Armstrong, and Seavey at the checkered were Taylor Ferns in fourth and Bobby Santos III in fifth. C.J. Leary, Justin Grant, Nathan Byrd, Kyle Steffens and Trey Osborne rounded out the top 10. It was the 15th different track where Swanson has won a USAC Silver Crown race, another record.
