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WISSOTA-area racers shut out of feature action, as Moran makes his way to victory lane

From Series Reports

OCALA, FL (February 4) – Devin Moran continued his winning ways with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, capturing the 30-lap $7,000 Winter Nationals main event on Tuesday night at Ocala Speedway. Moran took the lead on lap 24 from Brandon Overton, who led the first 23 laps, as the Dresden, Ohio driver secured his 17th career series victory.

Overton, who fell back to third on a restart with five laps remaining, managed to get around Jonathan Davenport with two laps left. He then closed in on Moran at the end, finishing just .0264 seconds behind. Davenport secured the final spot on the podium in third. The rest of the top five consisted of Carson Ferguson and Hudson O’Neal.

In Lucas Oil victory lane for the second time in his career at Ocala and the second consecutive time this season, Moran recalls his early-week successes in previous years at East Bay.

“Just like for the Winternationals at East Bay, I felt I was really good the first night, so bringing that over to Bubba’s place is awesome, and taking his money is great too. As I mentioned earlier tonight, I thought the track would be pretty good, and it did seem good. Turns out, one and two finally started to come in once it slowed down. He (Overton) finally caught lapped traffic, which threw him off a bit. I’ve watched a lot of film and seen how to take different lines here to gain speed. I tried them all and finally found one that worked. It was really cool to get the first win of the week here. I wish it was a points night, but that’s alright. We’ll take the money and get ready for the rest of the week.”

Overton, who started on the pole, led unchallenged for the first 20 laps of the race until traffic started to play a part as a long stretch of green flag racing allowed Moran and Davenport to make it a three-way battle for the top spot.

Davenport created an exciting three-car battle before the caution flag waved with 25 laps completed. He briefly took second place when Overton slipped up the track on the restart, but Overton managed to pass him again on the final lap.

Completing the top 10 were Tyler Erb, Max Blair, Wil Herrington, Tim McCreadie, and Jimmy Owens.

WISSOTA-region drivers on hand for competition included Chad Mahder, Dan Ebert, Blair Nothdurft, and Michael Leach. No one was able to advance out of heat race or B feature action.

SUMMARY

Lucas Oil Late Models:

LOLMDS A-Main (30 Laps): 1. 99-Devin Moran[2]; 2. 76-Brandon Overton[1]; 3. 49-Jonathan Davenport[7]; 4. 93-Carson Ferguson[3]; 5. 71-Hudson O'Neal[5]; 6. 1T-Tyler Erb[9]; 7. 111-Max Blair[8]; 8. 15K-Wil Herrington[12]; 9. 9-Tim McCreadie[6]; 10. 20-Jimmy Owens[15]; 11. 40B-Kyle Bronson[20]; 12. 22*-Drake Troutman[10]; 13. 8-Dillon McCowan[13]; 14. 58-Garrett Alberson[16]; 15. 5-Mark Whitener[17]; 16. 28B-Carson Brown[14]; 17. 17SS-Brenden Smith[22]; 18. 7-Ross Robinson[23]; 19. 1-Brandon Sheppard[18]; 20. 81J-Jack Riggs[19]; 21. 18D-Daulton Wilson[11]; 22. 3S-Brian Shirley[4]; 23. 6-Clay Harris[24]; 24. 19M-Spencer Hughes[21]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 76-Brandon Overton[1]; 2. 71-Hudson O'Neal[4]; 3. 1T-Tyler Erb[2]; 4. 8-Dillon McCowan[5]; 5. 19M-Spencer Hughes[8]; 6. 81J-Jack Riggs[7]; 7. 76N-Blair Nothdurft[6]; 8. C4-Freddie Carpenter[9]; 9. 57-Matt Tifft[10]; 10. 09-Michael Leach[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 93-Carson Ferguson[1]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport[2]; 3. 18D-Daulton Wilson[3]; 4. 20-Jimmy Owens[4]; 5. 5-Mark Whitener[6]; 6. 7-Ross Robinson[5]; 7. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[8]; 8. 43-Derrick Stewart[9]; 9. 79-Donald McIntosh[7]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 99-Devin Moran[1]; 2. 9-Tim McCreadie[3]; 3. 22*-Drake Troutman[2]; 4. 28B-Carson Brown[4]; 5. 1-Brandon Sheppard[5]; 6. 40B-Kyle Bronson[6]; 7. 6-Clay Harris[7]; 8. 60-Dan Ebert[8]; 9. 17Z-Seth Zacharias[9]; 10. 24-Tyler Wyant[10]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 3S-Brian Shirley[1]; 2. 111-Max Blair[2]; 3. 15K-Wil Herrington[4]; 4. 58-Garrett Alberson[5]; 5. 17SS-Brenden Smith[3]; 6. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[6]; 7. 81-Jason Riggs[7]; 8. 93L-Cory Lawler[8]; 9. 55C-Chad Mahder[9]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 5-Mark Whitener[2]; 2. 81J-Jack Riggs[3]; 3. 19M-Spencer Hughes[1]; 4. 7-Ross Robinson[4]; 5. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[6]; 6. C4-Freddie Carpenter[7]; 7. 79-Donald McIntosh[10]; 8. 57-Matt Tifft[9]; 9. 09-Michael Leach[11]; 10. 76N-Blair Nothdurft[5]; 11. 43-Derrick Stewart[8]

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 1-Brandon Sheppard[1]; 2. 40B-Kyle Bronson[3]; 3. 17SS-Brenden Smith[2]; 4. 6-Clay Harris[5]; 5. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[4]; 6. 60-Dan Ebert[7]; 7. 81-Jason Riggs[6]; 8. 17Z-Seth Zacharias[9]; 9. 55C-Chad Mahder[10]; 10. 93L-Cory Lawler[8]; 11. 24-Tyler Wyant[11]