LAWTON, Okla. — After four straight rainouts the Ortco, Inc. United Sprint League presented by Same Day Auto Repair finally got a race in on Saturday and at Lawton Speedway and Ty Hulsey came away with a victory.
It was the fourth USL career victory for the 2020 series champion. His last win came one year ago at Creek County Speedway.
Hulsey jumped into the early lead from his inside second row starting position and went the distance in the 30-lapper. Pole sitter Cooper Sullivan gave chase until a lap 22 yellow flag. Ryan Padgett, who had been running fifth, moved into second on the restart.
When the checkered waved Padgett was only 0.184 seconds behind Hulsey. Sullivan held on to third, two-time defending champion Johnny Kent came from 8th to finish fourth, and Hulsey teammate Craig Carroll drove from 11th to round out the top five.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 24H-Ty Hulsey[3]; 2. 98-Ryan Padgett[5]; 3. 99-Cooper Sullivan[1]; 4. 55-Johnny Kent[8]; 5. 24C-Craig Carroll[11]; 6. 24-TJ Herrell[2]; 7. 5B-Brock Cottrell[7]; 8. 6-Tanner Conn[4]; 9. 8R-Ryker Pace[9]; 10. 79-Tim Kent[10]; 11. 50-Cody Whitworth[15]; 12. 6T-Cameron Hagin[13]; 13. 45-Tyler LaPointe[6]; 14. 36-Zack Smith[17]; 15. 69-Greg York[18]; 16. 07-Chris Clark[12]; 17. 6K-Brylee Kilmer[22]; 18. 29G-Gerald Smith[14]; 19. 19-Kody Kastner[19]; 20. 21P-Mike Ables[21]; 21. (DNF) 5F-Sandy Rushing[16]; 22. (DNF) 7D-David Baxter[20]
