Story By: JIM BALENTINE / MICHAELS MERCER RACEWAY – MERCER, PA – Michaels Mercer Raceway presented by Sunbelt Rentals completed their 74th season with the 26th Annual Little Guy Nationals over this weekend.
Erick Rudolph won the double once again as on Friday he passed Garrett Krummert on lap 12 for the lead and Saturday dive bombing into turn one to take the lead from Rex King Jr. on lap 23 to take his 6th little guy win in 7 races.
In the IMCA racesaver 305 sprints on Friday Vivian Jones would take the lead on lap 8 after leader Aaron Mariano went high in turn 4 to win her 7th career 305 sprint feature and on Saturday Brett Brunkenhoefer would lead flag to flag to win his 1st ever feature after 15 years of trying.
After 9 feature events for the top shelf trucking 602 dirt/rush crate sportsman Eric Gabany would become the first repeat winner of the season on Friday night taking the lead on lap 4 and on Saturday 13 year old Logen Lockhart won his first career feature leading flag to flag to become the 9th different winner in 10 races.
Tim Callahan won his 24th and 25th Mercer kings forest products mini stock features by winning both nights leading 28 of 30 total laps.
Carson Hubbard made the long 3 hour tow a profitable once by winning the mod lite/dwarf car feature Friday night.
Garrett Calvert was declared the winner of Friday’s Economod feature after apparent winner Colton Longwell was disqualified for a non working rev limiter box.
Mason Lobb picked up the UMP modified feature Saturday night passing Andrew Beatman on lap 12 to take his 2nd win of 2025.
Zach Morrow dominated the 15 lap crate non wing sprint feature leading flag to flag on Saturday for his 3rd win of the season.
Veteran Andy Buckley would pick up his 35th career Mercer stockwin Saturday night winning $1000 in the Penn/Ohio pro stock feature passing Tim Bish on lap 5.
The crown Vic’s produced 2 new winners as Somerset Pa’s Jamey Swank won Friday and Warren Ohio’s Brandon Albert picked up the Saturday win.
The final event for the season will be the “Pork” Mathieson Memorial held on October 18, which includes an Enduro multiple demo derbies, and a race for the crown Vic’s.
Media Results for 10/3/2025 at Michaels Mercer Raceway – Mercer, PA
Racesaver 305 Sprints 10 Entries
A Feature 1 15 Laps | 00:03:54.382
1. 20M-Vivian Jones[3]; 2. 34M-Aaron Marano[1]; 3. 01-Timmy Bittner[6]; 4. 27K-Jeremy Kornbau[4]; 5. 47-Brett Brunkenhoefer[2]; 6. 82M-Dustin DeMattia[7]; 7. 25G-Nolan Groves[5]; 8. 25-Jarrett Rosencrance[8]; 9. 30-Jazlyn Boyles[9]; 10. (DNS) 72-Mike Mathieson
Small Block Modifieds 13 Entries
A Feature 1 25 Laps | 00:13:15.634
1. 25-Erick Rudolph[3]; 2. 5C-Ayden Cipriano[11]; 3. 29-Garrett Krummert[2]; 4. 20P-Mike Kinney[1]; 5. 28H-Jimmy Holden[9]; 6. 60-Tom Holden[4]; 7. 41-Tony Pangrazio[8]; 8. 74-Kevin Green[13]; 9. 2B-Ron Cartwright Jr[5]; 10. 56M-Jacob McElravy[12]; 11. 13-Rick Regalski Jr[6]; 12. 7G-Eric Grice[7]; 13. 18-Brandon Ritchey[10]
Mini Stocks King’s Forest Products 12 Entries
A Feature 1 15 Laps | 00:06:24.025
1. 54-Tim Callahan[5]; 2. 10S-Trevn Schaffer[7]; 3. 38-Randy Ealy[4]; 4. 40C-Joe Campbell[3]; 5. 29-Mike McCool[2]; 6. 777-David Seibert[10]; 7. 12-Carl Ealy[1]; 8. 9R-Ben Aley[6]; 9. 10JOK-Bill Fuchs[8]; 10. 79-John McCraken[9]; 11. (DNS) 99-Michael Aley; 12. (DNS) 68-MIke Shannon
DIRT 602 Crate Sportsman Top Shelf Trucking 29 Entries
A Feature 1 20 Laps | 00:16:35.924
1. 318-Eric Gabany[4]; 2. 165K-Karston King[6]; 3. 2-Kole Holden[7]; 4. 7 11-Todd English[5]; 5. 58-Logen Lockhart[11]; 6. 4-Jerry Schaffer[2]; 7. 29A-Anthony Antus[8]; 8. 41-Brian Schaffer[9]; 9. 14-Caden Petry[21]; 10. 404-Michael Kristyak[10]; 11. JD57-Jordan Ehrenberg[1]; 12. 02-Jeremy Beichner[17]; 13. 1R-Brandon Ritchey[20]; 14. 71-Gage Priester[14]; 15. 29-Cole Edwards[15]; 16. 57R-Jacob Rutana[16]; 17. 1-Jim Bryce[13]; 18. 1X-Ryan Riffe[3]; 19. 404S-Gary R Smoker[23]; 20. 12*-Troy Pinch[22]; 21. 12L-Patrick Lane[12]; 22. 10S-Trevn Schaffer[24]; 23. 89-David Myers[18]; 24. 46R-Doug Rutana[19]
DIRT 602 Crate Sportsman Top Shelf Trucking 29 Entries
A Feature 1 20 Laps | 00:16:35.924
1. 318-Eric Gabany[4]; 2. 165K-Karston King[6]; 3. 2-Kole Holden[7]; 4. 7 11-Todd English[5]; 5. 58-Logen Lockhart[11]; 6. 4-Jerry Schaffer[2]; 7. 29A-Anthony Antus[8]; 8. 41-Brian Schaffer[9]; 9. 14-Caden Petry[21]; 10. 404-Michael Kristyak[10]; 11. JD57-Jordan Ehrenberg[1]; 12. 02-Jeremy Beichner[17]; 13. 1R-Brandon Ritchey[20]; 14. 71-Gage Priester[14]; 15. 29-Cole Edwards[15]; 16. 57R-Jacob Rutana[16]; 17. 1-Jim Bryce[13]; 18. 1X-Ryan Riffe[3]; 19. 404S-Gary R Smoker[23]; 20. 12*-Troy Pinch[22]; 21. 12L-Patrick Lane[12]; 22. 10S-Trevn Schaffer[24]; 23. 89-David Myers[18]; 24. 46R-Doug Rutana[19]
DIRT 602 Crate Sportsman Top Shelf Trucking 29 Entries
A Feature 1 20 Laps | 00:16:35.924
1. 318-Eric Gabany[4]; 2. 165K-Karston King[6]; 3. 2-Kole Holden[7]; 4. 7 11-Todd English[5]; 5. 58-Logen Lockhart[11]; 6. 4-Jerry Schaffer[2]; 7. 29A-Anthony Antus[8]; 8. 41-Brian Schaffer[9]; 9. 14-Caden Petry[21]; 10. 404-Michael Kristyak[10]; 11. JD57-Jordan Ehrenberg[1]; 12. 02-Jeremy Beichner[17]; 13. 1R-Brandon Ritchey[20]; 14. 71-Gage Priester[14]; 15. 29-Cole Edwards[15]; 16. 57R-Jacob Rutana[16]; 17. 1-Jim Bryce[13]; 18. 1X-Ryan Riffe[3]; 19. 404S-Gary R Smoker[23]; 20. 12*-Troy Pinch[22]; 21. 12L-Patrick Lane[12]; 22. 10S-Trevn Schaffer[24]; 23. 89-David Myers[18]; 24. 46R-Doug Rutana[19]
DIRT 602 Crate Sportsman Top Shelf Trucking 29 Entries
A Feature 1 20 Laps | 00:16:35.924
1. 318-Eric Gabany[4]; 2. 165K-Karston King[6]; 3. 2-Kole Holden[7]; 4. 7 11-Todd English[5]; 5. 58-Logen Lockhart[11]; 6. 4-Jerry Schaffer[2]; 7. 29A-Anthony Antus[8]; 8. 41-Brian Schaffer[9]; 9. 14-Caden Petry[21]; 10. 404-Michael Kristyak[10]; 11. JD57-Jordan Ehrenberg[1]; 12. 02-Jeremy Beichner[17]; 13. 1R-Brandon Ritchey[20]; 14. 71-Gage Priester[14]; 15. 29-Cole Edwards[15]; 16. 57R-Jacob Rutana[16]; 17. 1-Jim Bryce[13]; 18. 1X-Ryan Riffe[3]; 19. 404S-Gary R Smoker[23]; 20. 12*-Troy Pinch[22]; 21. 12L-Patrick Lane[12]; 22. 10S-Trevn Schaffer[24]; 23. 89-David Myers[18]; 24. 46R-Doug Rutana[19]
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Results for 10/4/2025 at Michaels Mercer Raceway – Mercer, PA
Racesaver 305 Sprints 10 Entries
A Feature 1 15 Laps | 00:04:00.184
1. 47-Brett Brunkenhoefer[1]; 2. 01-Timmy Bittner[6]; 3. 27K-Jeremy Kornbau[4]; 4. 34M-Aaron Marano[3]; 5. 20M-Vivian Jones[7]; 6. 25G-Nolan Groves[2]; 7. 25-Jarrett Rosencrance[5]; 8. 82M-Roman Jones[10]; 9. 72-Mike Mathieson[9]; 10. 30-Jazlyn Boyles[8]
Small Block Modifieds 12 Entries
A Feature 1 25 Laps | 00:07:15.355
1. 25-Erick Rudolph[5]; 2. 165-Rex King Jr[6]; 3. 20P-Mike Kinney[2]; 4. 29-Garrett Krummert[7]; 5. 5C-Ayden Cipriano[12]; 6. 28H-Jimmy Holden[3]; 7. 18-Brandon Ritchey[9]; 8. 41-Tony Pangrazio[1]; 9. 74-Kevin Green[8]; 10. 60-Tom Holden[11]; 11. 56M-Jacob McElravy[10]; 12. (DNS) 2B-Ron Cartwright Jr
Mini Stocks King’s Forest Products 14 Entries
A Feature 1 15 Laps | 00:05:12.316
1. 54-Tim Callahan[2]; 2. 38-Randy Ealy[4]; 3. 10S-Trevn Schaffer[1]; 4. 9R-Ben Aley[8]; 5. 11B-Tim Bish[5]; 6. 12-Carl Ealy[9]; 7. 40C-Joe Campbell[3]; 8. 29-Mike McCool[14]; 9. 48-Jordan Wheeler[10]; 10. 234H-Billi Jo Huffman[6]; 11. 99-Michael Aley[12]; 12. 79-John McCraken[13]; 13. 14M-Sean Murphy[11]; 14. 10JOK-Bill Fuchs[7]
DIRT 602 Crate Sportsman Top Shelf Trucking 22 Entries
A Feature 1 20 Laps | 00:27:07.008
1. 58-Logen Lockhart[1]; 2. 2-Kole Holden[12]; 3. JD57-Jordan Ehrenberg[10]; 4. 14P-Caden Petry[11]; 5. 1R-Brandon Ritchey[16]; 6. 1-Jim Bryce[2]; 7. 71-Gage Priester[8]; 8. 165K-Karston King[5]; 9. 41-Brian Schaffer[17]; 10. 02-Jeremy Beichner[15]; 11. 51R-Thomas Rodgers[9]; 12. 29A-Anthony Antus[13]; 13. 10S-Trevn Schaffer[19]; 14. 70B-Nolan Burns[3]; 15. 12*-Troy Pinch[21]; 16. 318-Eric Gabany[4]; 17. 1X-Ryan Riffe[7]; 18. 89-David Myers[20]; 19. 29-Cole Edwards[22]; 20. 12L-Patrick Lane[6]; 21. 7 11-Todd English[14]; 22. 4-Jerry Schaffer[18]
Penn/Ohio Pro stocks 13 Entries
A Feature 1 20 Laps
1. 965-Andy Buckley[2]; 2. 17-Jackson Humanic[7]; 3. 11B-Tim Bish[1]; 4. 7W-Bobby Whitling[4]; 5. 777-John Boardman[8]; 6. 4-Brett Hutira[11]; 7. 61M-Charlie McMillen[9]; 8. 11Y-Nathan Yeaney[6]; 9. 23-Dave Collier[10]; 10. 44-Jordan Wheeler[5]; 11. 55C-Brandon Connor[3]; 12. (DNS) 24C-Dennis Curry; 13. (DNS) 3-Paul Davis
Non Wing Crate Sprints 8 Entries
A Feature 1 15 Laps | 00:06:06.199
1. 68-Zach Morrow[2]; 2. 21N-Samantha Priest[1]; 3. 7-Cooper Macormac[3]; 4. 1T-Ricky Tucker Jr[5]; 5. 23-Charlie Utsinger[4]; 6. 17M-CJ McClintock[6]; 7. 213-Lucas Roessner[7]; 8. 48T-Carlos Rosario[8]
DIRTcar UMP Modifieds 13 Entries
A Feature 1 20 Laps | 00:08:08.212
1. 1L-Mason Lobb[4]; 2. 5B-Andrew Beatman[8]; 3. 05-Greg Johnson[6]; 4. X3-Wyatt Scott[2]; 5. 92-Joel Watson[5]; 6. 40R-Clay Ruffo[7]; 7. 68-Andrew Hammond[3]; 8. 59X-Ryan Sanders[10]; 9. 1M-Gary Miller Jr[13]; 10. 1-Vinnie DePizzo[1]; 11. (DNS) 8-Jonathan Davis; 12. (DNS) 51-Jeremy Holbrook; 13. (DNS) 17W-James Irwin
Crown Vic 10 Entries
A Feature 1 12 Laps | 00:12:39.080
1. 30-Brandon Albert[1]; 2. 10-JC Hillegas[8]; 3. 54-Tim Callahan[5]; 4. 215-Doug Winning[6]; 5. 98-Quinten Beeman[3]; 6. 33V-Ronald Vasos[7]; 7. C12-Amelia Clay[9]; 8. 31-Bryan Fee[10]; 9. 26-Bradley Shaffer[4]; 10. 309-Jacob Moon[2]
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