6.13.20 Pennsylvania Sprint Series Results
By: Frank Buhrman
Johnny Scarborough made the 450-mile trip from Bomoseen, Vermont pay off Saturday night with a victory in the 25-lap PA Sprint Series IMCA/RaceSaver Sprint feature at Path Valley Motor Speedway.
The veteran of multiple forms of racing took the lead on lap 11 when misfortune struck Jake Frye. Scarborough scored a convincing win over last Saturday’s Selinsgrove winner Garrett Bard, Dylan Proctor, Larry McVay and John Walp.
The Scarborough Motorsports/Precision Hyd. & Oils/R&B Powdercoating #61 had started the race on the outside front row. This was his sixth career PASS victory, but his first at Path Valley (where he had won earlier in micro sprints).
“We drew the number two pill, and that was good,” Scarborough said in victory lane, referring to track conditions. “We were a second-place race car . . . he (Frye) got taken out. I knew that if I just ran the top on the cushion we’d be pretty good here. Hats off to the Path Valley people for a great race track.”
The 17-year-old Frye, who was born well after the 50-year-old Scarborough had begun his racing career, was holding a three-second lead and possibly looking at his first PASS win when he clipped the spinning car of Doug Dodson and broke his left front radius rod, leaving the #56 to be towed to the pits, done for the night.
That gave Scarborough the opening he needed, and the veteran handled the slick quarter-mile track with skill to take an uncontested victory.
Season-opening winner Christian Rumsey finished sixth, followed by Kruz Kepner, Kyle Keen, Landon Price and Dave Grube.
McVay and Kepner won the heat races for the 19-car field.
Path Valley Motor Speedway Results from June 13, 2020
HEAT 1 – 1. 83-Larry McVay; 2. 95-Garrett Bard; 3. 5-John Walp; 4. 61-Johnny Scarborough; 5. 20-Doug Dodson; 6. 52-Jeffrey Weaver; 7. 4C-Cody Hackenberry; 8. 21-Andrew Boyer; 9. 7-“Cowboy” Jim Kennedy; 10. 6X-Brad Mellott (DNF).
HEAT 2 – 1. 19-Kruz Kepner; 2. 92-Dylan Proctor; 3. 56-Jake Frye; 4. 17K-Kyle Keen; 5. 1R-Christian Rumsey; 6. 69-Landon Price; 7. 69X-Eric Mathiot; 8. 19X-Tyler Cochran (DNF); 10. 3D-Dave Grube (DNF).
FEATURE – 1. 61-Johnny Scarborough; 2. 95-Garrett Bard; 3. 92-Dylan Proctor; 4. 83-Larry McVay; 5. 5-John Walp; 6. 1R-Christian Rumsey; 7. 19-Kruz Kepner; 8. 17X-Kyle Keen; 9. 69-Landon Price; 10. 3D-Dave Grube; 11. 20-Doug Dodson; 12. 52-Jeffrey Weaver; 13. 19X-Tyler Cochran; 14. 7-“Cowboy” Jim Kennedy; 15. 21-Andrew Boyer; 16. 4C-Cody Hackenberry; 17. 56-Jake Frye; 18. 69X-Eric Mathiot. DNS – 6X-Brad Mellott.