ANDERSON – For the second consecutive week the Modified race at Anderson Speedway remained undecided until the checkered flag waved.
Modoc’s Al Cowan recorded his first ever win, but had to survive a three-way battle for the victory with Dalton Conner and Josh Poore for the entire distance.
Cowan started on the front row following the qualifying inversion with Russell Miller along side.
Fast qualifier Tyler DeHart started seventh with Conner and Poore rolling off third and fourth.
Cowan took the lead at the start chased by Conner and Scotty Tomasik.
When Tomasik pulled out of the race it moved Poore to the third spot on lap 19.
The three leaders battled for position with Conner and Poore racing side by side behind Cowan.
On the final lap Cowan was able to hold off both Conner and Poore, who were running two wide coming off the fourth corner.
Cowan won by two-tenths of a second over Conner and Poore with Joe Beaver and Miller rounding out the top five.
“It was a lot of fun,” Cowan said in victory lane. “I could only see the once in awhile. I just tried to stay out of the way.
“It feels great,” he said of the win. “I had to work for it.”
Colin Grissom won the spring championship race for the Knapp Supply Ford Division after early leader Ron Phipps lost an engine on lap 26.
Grissom held off Noah Allison by three-tents of a second with John Robbins coming home in third in his first start in the division.
Caleb Burge came home fourth after starting 11th in the field with Nick Warner rounding out the top five.
Defending Marcum’s Welding Front Wheel Drive champion Josh Ebbert set fast time during qualifying and started from the pole for the spring championship event.
Ebbert opened a comfortable lead early in the race but saw it diminished when he had to deal with lapped traffic racing side by side.
That allowed Austin Pursley and Nick Warner to close, but once Ebbet cleared the lapped cars he again pulled away to record his second feature win of the year.
Pursley finished second with Warner, David Powell and Sean Booker rounding out the top five.
