PARAGOULD, Ark. – For the first time this year, Morgan Bagley parked his No. 14 in victory lane with the COMP Cams Super Dirt Series presented by Lucas Oil.
His maiden voyage to victory lane came on Friday night in his first trip to Crowley’s Ridge Raceway.
“We just kinda bided our time early there, starting back in the eighth position and before I knew it I was up to third and reeling in Timmy [Culp] and [Kyle] Beard. Those guys were having a heck of a battle, but then they got bottled up in lapped traffic, and I took advantage,” Bagley said. “Culp had to move off the bottom to work past a lapped car, and I was able to take advantage and get the lead. After that the track really started to clean up on the bottom, and I knew I just had to hit my marks.”
Wendell Wallace and Kyle Beard brought the field to the green flag for the 40-lap affair. Beard jumped out to the early lead with Wallace and third-starting Culp in tow.
The first of two cautions waved on lap five, and on the ensuing restart Culp shot past Wallace into the runner-up position. Over the next several laps Beard worked the cushion with Culp on the hub as the duo raced side-by-side for the top spot.
Lap 16 found Culp inching ahead to take control of the top spot and by the race’s midway point held a four-car length advantage. However, lapped traffic allowed Beard and eighth-starting Bagley to close in by lap 23. One lap later Beard and Culp again went side-by-side for the lead as they approached the flag stand. Beard would run out of racetrack and bounced off the front stretch wall, suffering damage that would ultimately later end his night early.
Bagley quickly shot into the second spot, and entering turn one Culp went high in lapped traffic, which allowed Bagley to pull even in his bid for the lead. As the field completed lap 26, Bagley snagged the top spot. Once out front he never looked back on his way to his first series win of the season. Culp, ninth-starting B.J. Robinson, Brian Rickman and Wendell Wallace completed the top-five finishers.
The finish:
Morgan Bagley, Timothy Culp, B.J. Robinson, Brian Rickman, Wendell Wallace, Tony Jackson Jr., Chad Thrash, Mason Oberkramer, Eric Cooley, Gavin Landers, Scott Crigler, Rick Rickman, Chris Jones, David Payne, Henry Gustavus Jr., Kyle Beard, Steven Crocker, Scott Tracer, Travis Ashley, Hunter Rasdon.