Posted by Rob Staley on October 21, 2007, 8:01 pm
Board Administrator

Rougemont, NC ~ Terry Dease gave one away on Saturday evening at Orange County Speedway(OCS), when he jumped the late race restart in the first of two 100-lap Late Model Stock Car features. Dease was dominant early, but a late race restart coming within the last 30 laps cost him a victory on championship night at OCS. Dease was black flagged for jumping the restart and handed the eventual victory to South Boston's, Stacy Puryear. Puryear held the lead until the finish and grabbed the victory. Puryear was followed to the line by David Triplett, Jr., Jonathan Bailey, Lee Caruthers and Kenny Forbes. Matt Lofton saw a second place finish go out the window when he was tagged from behind and spun when fluids were dumped on the track according to his crew chief, Justin Snow. Snow claimed that the track should have done a better job of calling the caution before the spin took place and thus avoiding the incident and securing a top five finish for his driver. Lofton looked to be back on track in race number two when he jumped out front early and lead until around lap 45 when 15 year-old, Kenny Forbes took the position. Forbes ran a strong race to the finish and took home the victory over Bruce Anderson, Terry Dease, David Triplett, Jr. and Stacy Puryear. Anderson showed some real strength in race two when he started near the rear of the ten car field and got by Dease late for the position to take second. In an interesting turn of events to have such a short field(only ten cars), the top three for both races were made up of six different drivers. I'd be willing to bet that there isn't many tracks that would have a different set of top three drivers from every event all season. Great racing at Orange County Speedway overall despite the short car count which was brought on in my opinion of guys getting ready for the SoBo 300 this week. Missing in action this week was Andrew Perry, Ronald Hill, Jonathan Cash, Justin Johnson and Jon Denning. If the 300-lapper in two weeks is nearly as good a racing as the twin 100's were last night we will be in for a great treat on November 3rd. Thanks to Orange County Speedway for their accomadations yesterday evening and we'll bring you more from Orange County in the OCS 300 on November 3rd.