JACKSONVILLE, Ill. — Joe B. Miller made a last-lap pass to win Saturday night’s Morrow Brothers Ford MOWA Sprint Car Series feature at Jacksonville Speedway.
Sterling Cling and Joel Myers Jr led the field to the green flag with Cling getting the position at the start.
As the two entered into turn three, Myers slid across in front of Cling to overtake the point and began to pull away. Behind Myers, action picked up as Brayton Lynch muscled past Sterling Cling for the second position, while RIley Goodno and Gage Montgomery battled for fourth and fifth.
Miller, who started seventh, sat back and watched it all unfold in front of him, as he made a two-for-one move on lap ten to make his way into the top five.
Joel Myers began to work lapped traffic by the midway point, as 21st-starting Paul Nienhiser was doing everything in his power to move forward and made his way to 11th by lap 17. The battle for third turned into a three-car battle, where Gage Montgomery, Sterling Cling and Joe B. Miller traded sliders around the quarter-mile oval.
Miller worked his way up to third when a yellow slowed the field as Gage Montgomery spun at the bottom of turn two with seven laps remaining. A nearly five-second lead for Joel Myers was erased as the field stacked back up before returning to green.
At the restart, Myers jumped out at the point, while Brayton Lynch was beginning to get challenged by Joe B. Miller, who moved his way past Lynch’s on the 21st lap and immediately set his sights on the leader.
Myers continued to lead as the laps began to wind down. Catching the wall atop turn two on lap 23, Myers’ was able to regain composure and navigated around the top shelf of the speedway, once again with lapped traffic directly in front of him.
Myers’ entry to turn four as he approached the white flag, saw his No. 19 machine enter high and lose momentum and Joe B. Miller was right there to capitalize. Miller pulled alongside Myers down the backstretch and slid between two lapped cars as the top two raced back to the checkers. Miller narrowly edged ahead of Myers, who made contact with Austin Archdale and John Barnard, resulting in Archdale flipping past the flagstand as the checkered flag waved ending the 25-lap affair.
The finish:
- 51B- Joe B. Miller, 2. 19H-Joel Myers Jr, 3. 29-Brayton Lynch, 4. 34-Sterling Cling, 5. 22-Riley Goodno, 6. 9X-Paul Nienhiser, 7. 21W-Korey Weyant, 8. 6-Mario Clouser, 9. 3N-Jake Neuman, 10. 5H-Joey Moughan, 11. 21-Gunner Ramey, 12. 7A-Will Armitage, 13. 1JR-Steven Russell, 14. 52F-Logan Facuon, 15. 50K-Thomas Meseraull, 16. 31-Kameron Key, 17. 79-Gage Montgomery, 18. B8-John Barnard, 19. 28K-Korbin Keith, 20. 1-Trevin Littleton, 21. 2A-Austin Archdale, 22. 14N-Kevin Newton, 23. 4-Chase Richards, 24. 20G-Noah Gass