Page 2B THETHE TOWNS TOWNS COUNTY COUNTY HERALD HERALD October October 21, 202021, 2020 Towns County Sports Towns County’s Leader In Sports ooolgofk[gmflq`]jYd\f]lÛÝÛ<¤eYad‘Ûl[`]jYd\³oaf\klj]Yef]l Middle School Indians close out NASCAR 2020 season with 40-0 victory at Lakeview By Gerald Hodges/the Racing Reporter Logano Wins, Makes Championship Round KANSAS CITY, KS - Joey Logano and battled each other hard for the last 40 laps of Sunday’s 267 lap Cup Series race at Kansas City, but at the checkered flag, it was Logano by less than a third of a second over Harvick. Logano’s win automatically guarantees him a spot in Round Four for the series championship. “You gotta want it to win races like this, and we wanted it bad,” said Logano. “The last pit stop put us in the lead and I knew it was my race to win or lose. It was important to win this one, because it gives us a great advantage.” Even though Harvick led the most laps (85), he had to set- tle for runner-up, but still main- tains the points lead by virtue of his nine wins. “We lost the lead on the last restart,” said Harvick. “I moved all over the race track, but Joey is a good blocker and he had a fast race car today.” Joey Logano Wins, Makes Championship Round was third, Ryan Sieg, 4. Justin Haley, 5. cess on the race track. followed by , , 6. Josh Williams, “Look, in the end it’s the , , Ryan 7. Brett Moffitt, 8. Michael An- same in every sport. You have Blaney, William Byron, Martin nett, 9. Brandon Jones, 10. Jus- to be successful at what you’re Truex Jr., and Christopher Bell. tin Allgaier. doing.” Chase Elliott (Stage 1) The eight playoff driv- Meanwhile, and (Stage 2) ers: 1. Briscoe-3120, 2. Allgai- has asked NASCAR to reinstate divided the stage wins to add er-3068, 3. B. Jones-3066, 4. him. Larson appeared on Fri- one playoff point each to their Cindric-3059, 5. Haley-3057, 6. day’s CBS This Morning show season-long totals, but each ran Chastain-3047, 7. Sieg-30142, to discuss his suspension. into their own pitfalls. Elliott 8. Gragson-3026. NASCAR says Larson started from the Pole and led 48 MOFFITT TAKES applied for reinstatement earlier laps but battled radio communi- KANSAS TRUCK RACE this week. He has not been rein- cations issues through most of Here are the results of stated yet as NASCAR contin- the event. Saturday’s Truck Series race: ues the internal discussions on Hamlin pitted on Lap 180 1. Brett Moffitt, 2. Sheldon reinstatement as well as discus- after scraping the Turn 4 retain- Creed, 3. Austin Hill, 4. Grant sions with Larson. ing wall, losing one lap and fall- Enfinger, 5. , 6. Racing Joke: A former ing to 29th place before he ral- , 7. Timothy Pe- race car driver had fallen on hard lied to finish 15th. ters, 8. , 9. Derek times. His farm was about to be had engine Kraus, 10. . foreclosed on and he decided to problems late in the race. The eight playoff drivers: rob a bank. He was caught a few Busch entered the race 1. Creed-3083, 2. Hill-3076, 3. days later and sent to prison. He eighth among the remaining Smith-3064, 4. Moffitt-3060, 5. received a letter from his wife championship-eligible drivers. Enfinger-3057, 6. Crafton-3049, that said: “Here you are in jail He reported on Lap 193 that his 7. Rhodes-3031, 8. Ankrum- smoking cigarettes from the car was losing power. Just a few 3008. State, eating their food and hav- laps later, the engine expired in Note: The 2020 NASCAR ing a good time. I’m at home a plume of smoke, and Busch Playoffs will be reduced to four alone, so who’s going to plow drove to the garage after just drivers in each series after the the fields so that I can plant the 197 laps. Nov. 1 race at Martinsville. potatoes?” “Yeah, usually there’s no The highest finishing driver at He wrote her back say- warning,” Busch said of the en- Homestead on Nov. 8 will win ing, “Don’t plow the field; that’s gine failure. “Everything is so the series title. where I buried the money.” buttoned up these days in the PERFORMANCE She wrote a note back and engine department. I haven’t IS WHAT IT TAKES said, “Someone must be reading seen an engine problem in In an interview with Jim your mail. The sheriff and his years. No fault of anybody at Utter of Motorsports.COM, men came out yesterday and Hendrick engines. We’re run- Kevin Harvick said that if you plowed every inch of the field. ning hard here.” plan on staying in NASCAR What should I do now?” Busch was officially you must perform. He wrote back and said, scored in 38th place for the “Performance on the race “Now plant the potatoes.” race and fell to 73 points below track is really the bread and but- Weekend Racing: All the playoff cut line. He is in a ter of what we do and no matter three of NASCAR’s major se- must-win situation in order to if you have a funny personality ries will be at the 1.5-mile Tex- advance to the Championship 4 or you have a famous last name as Motor Speedway just outside at . it doesn’t matter,” said Harvick. Ft. Worth, Tex. The eight playoff drivers: “In the end, Danica Pat- Sat., Oct. 24; Xfinity Se- 1. Harvick-4115, 2. Hamlin- rick is probably the best ex- ries race; Starting time: 4:30 4094, 3. Keselowski-4082, 4. ample that I can think of that, is PM ET; TV: NBCSN. Elliott-4074, 5. Logano-4064, just the fact of having the results Sun., Oct. 25; Truck Se- 6. Bowman-4055, 7. Truex- on the race track.” ries race; Starting time: 12 PM 4051, 8. Kurt Busch-4009. Patrick, who moved to ET; TV: FoxSports1. BRISCOE GRABS WIN- fulltime NASCAR racing in Sun., Oct. 25; Cup Series NING TICKET AT KANSAS 2013 from IndyCar, brought a race; Starting time: 3:30 PM won Sat- ton of headlines and her pas- ET; TV: NBCSN. urday’s Xfinity Series race to sionate fan base to the sport. Racing Trivia Question: secure himself a spot in the final However, her perfor- Which series does Christopher Playoff Round. mance on the track never lived Bell drive in? The driver of the No. 98 up to the hype. When she left Last Week’s Question: Stewart Haas Ford dominated NASCAR following the 2018 How many Cup teams does the 200-lap race around the 1.5- , she had seven field mile oval. Briscoe led four times top-10 finishes in 191 starts and this year? Answer. Two, the for a race-high 159 laps and never finished better than 24th No. 6 driven by Ryan Newman swept both stages before taking in the series standings. and the No. 17 piloted by Chris his series-leading ninth victory Harvick, 44, said confi- Buescher. of 2020. Briscoe is just the fifth dence with his No. 4 Stewart- Gerald Hodges is a syndi- driver to earn nine or more wins Haas Racing team and its confi- cated NASCAR writer and au- in a single Xfinity Series season dence in him continues to propel thor. His books may be viewed and he has the most wins of any their successful relationship. and ordered online at Amazon. Ford driver in any Xfinity Series “I think every week com. You may contact him by e- season – a mark previously held we’ve put a lot of pressure on mail at: [email protected]. by . ourselves to figure out why we “I am super happy to be didn’t run like we did or why we locked into the Championship 4 ran like we did in order to try Learn to at Phoenix,” Briscoe said. “It’s to continue that trend forward,” play Pickleball going to be a lot less stressful Harvick continued. “I like what the next two weeks and will al- I do. Learn to play Pickleball: low the team to focus on prepar- “I like my team more Beginner’s Lessons every Sat- ing our cars instead of worrying than anything and that’s really urday, 10 AM (weather permit- about points. This is the car we the driving factor in what makes ting). No charge and all equip- ment provided. Courts are The TCMS Indians closed out 2020 with an impressive 40-0 rout at Lakeview Academy last Thursday, had at Vegas and I want to take all of this go around is having Oct. 15. 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