TERRE HAUTE — Steady rain on Saturday forced a postponement to July 25 for the Indiana Union Construction Industry Classic featuring the O’Reilly All-Star Circuit of Champions winged sprint car series at the Action Track.
All times will be the same for the July 25 date. Ticket office will open at 3 p.m., gates at 4 and hot laps beginning at approximately 6.
The O’Reilly All-Star Circuit of Champions sprint series ran its scheduled race at K-C Raceway in Chilicothe, Ohio on Friday night.
Track promoter Jim Nier assumed the lead on lap eight and won his first CofC feature race. Rounding out the top five were Dale Blaney, Brandon Wimmer, Tim Shaffer and Jimmy Stinson.
Shaffer continues to lead the driver points standings with 4,281 points, followed by Blaney (4,036), Greg Wilson (3,878) and Stevie Smith (3,257).
The next scheduled event at the Action Track is July 15, featuring the USAC National Sprint Cars in the First Financial Bank Indiana Sprint Week presented by 500 Express.
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In other auto racing:
• Santos, East win — At Toledo, Ohio, Bobby East and Bobby Santos III were feature winners Friday in U. S. Auto Club racing at Toledo Speedway.
Santos led all the way in taking the 50-lap midget main, winning his fourth race in less than a month.
Brad Kuhn was seventh and has a 20-point lead over Jerry Coons Jr. in the midget totals.
East led the final six turns to win the sprint feature. Jacob Wilson led the first 44 laps and was second.
Friday’s results
Midgets
Fast qualifier — Brad Sweet
Heat winners — Chad Boat, Darren Hagen, Cole Whitt
Feature — Bobby Santos III, Sweet, Jerry Coons Jr., Bobby East, Tracy Hines, Whitt, Brad Kuhn, Hagen, Boat, Mariou Clouser III
USAC midget point leaders — Kuhn 748, Coons 728, Hagen 700, Sweet 684, Hines 657
Sprints
Fast qualifier — Whitt
Heat winners — Levi Jones, Damion Gardner
Feature — East, Jacob Wilson, Hagen, Coons, Shane Hmiel, Whitt, Santos, Dakoda Armstrong, Hines, Gardner
USAC sprint point leaders — Jones 791, Darland 777, Whitt 749, Coons 741, Hines 660
• Holtsclaw posts win — At Bloomington, Danny Holtsclaw won one of the features in Friday’s racing at Bloomington Speedway.
Holtsclaw took the lead late to win his first sprint feature of the season at the track. Other winners were Jack Frye in super stocks and Kent Robinson in UMP modifieds.
Friday’s results
Sprint cars
Heat winners — Ricky Williams, Ethan Barrow, Jeff Bland Jr., Brady Short, Tony Reid (B-main)
Feature — Danny Holtsclaw, Bland, Eric Smith, Short, Coleman Gulick, Barrow, Williams, Kenny Niflis, Casey Shuman, Bub Cummings
Super stocks
Heat winners — Troy Clark, Jack Frye, Clayton Perry, Lee Hobbs (B-main)
Feature — Frye, Greg Amick, Brad Cummings, Clark, Rick Hines, Perry, Steve Hollars, Earl Plessinger, Travis Howe, Tom Ault
UMP modifieds
Heat winners — Josh Eads, Kent Robinson, Matt Bex, Jacoby Hines (B-main)
Feature — Robinson, John DeMoss, Eads, Clint DeMoss, Michael Purtlebaugh, Richie Lex, Hines, Phil Van Sant, Danny Harris, John Passmore
Baseball
• Post 346 juniors win — At Effingham, Ill., the Wayne Newton Post 346 junior legion team opened with an 11-6 come from behind win vs. Mahomet, Ill. Post 1015 in the opening game of the Effingham Post 120 Fourth of July Tournament on Friday.
WN Post 346 010 015 4 — 11 10 1
Mahomet Post 1015 010 302 0 — 6 11 0
Ryan Bose (W) and Garrett Peabody; Bosinbeck (L), Lawson (6), Williams (6), and Brucker.
Highlights — For Post 346, Scotty West was 3 for 5 with a double, triple and 4 RBI’s; Dalton Sexton was 3 for 5; Peabody was 2 for 4; Bose got the complete game win.
Next — Wayne Newton Post 346 juniors (20-5) continued play in the rain impaired tournament.
Golf
• Fourth of July event — At Country Club of Terre Haute, the following are results of the 2009 4th of July Tournament on Saturday:
First place (-17) — Don Ireland, Jim Donohue, Tom Lee, Sam Lee
Second place (-16) — Bill Burdine, Bob Kennedy, John Newlin, Don Fread
Third place (-15, three-way tie) — Gary Hosking, Rustin Laswell, Justin Woodruff, Jim Nidlinger; Steve Schrohe, Howard Wooden, Mike Goeller, Ed Morgan; Jim Winning, Dave Williams, Don Schroeder, Rob Finzel
Skill awards — Kennedy (3), Burdine (7), Steve Holliday (10), Jess Holler (13), Jim Burdick (16)
Flag Tournament winner — Jeff Lewellyn
• Welker fifth, Goss sixth — At Plymouth, Rachel Welker (Girls 15) placed fifth with rounds of 81-79, while Thomas Goss (Boys 16) placed sixth with 75-77 in the Pepsi Junior Golf Tour Age Group Championship at the Indiana National Golf Club at Swan Lake Resort on Thursday and Friday.
Other Terre Haute participants were Adam LaGrange (Boys 13) and Zach Hoskings (Boys 17).
• Ace for Clayton — At Hulman Links, Jerry Clayton had a hole-in-one on the 143-yard No. 16 hole using a nine-iron on Saturday.
Witnessing the ace was Steve Pfotenhauer.
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