The driver known as “Joey Pole” won from the pole again Saturday night at Oxford Plains Speedway, but it wasn’t as easy as that makes it sound. Joey Polewarczyk Jr. emerged from a heated battle with Brad Babb, then held off Dillon Moltz to win the Dave’s Small Engine Repair/Ventrac 150. It is the fourth […]
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Local Racing Roundup: Joey Doiron (PASS), Nick Sweet (ACT) win at International 500
Joey Doiron of Berwick dominated the Pro All Stars Series portion of the International 500 at Airborne Raceway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., leading 149 of 200 laps en route to the win Sunday afternoon. The race ended just in time for Doiron, who had a left front tire going down on the final lap. He held […]
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Local Racing Roundup: David Oliver breaks through in PASS at Beech Ridge
David Oliver of Standish scored his first career Pro All Stars Series North win in familiar territory Saturday night, winning the Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge 150 at his home track, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Oliver exchanged the lead with Kelly Moore before reclaiming it for good on lap 42. The final 124 laps unfolded without […]
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Local racing roundup: Tim Brackett first to repeat at OPS
The streak is over. After a run of seven different winners to start the Super Late Model season at Oxford Plains Speedway, multi-time track champion and current point leader Tim Brackett of Buckfield became the first to make a repeat visit to victory lane Friday night. Brackett took advantage of his fourth starting position to […]
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Local Racing Roundup: Joey Doiron wins Beech Ridge 125
Joey Doiron took advantage of a restart with five laps to go Saturday night, winning the final battle of a race-long duel with Trevor Sanborn to claim the checkers in the 125-lap main event for the NASCAR Pro Series at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Doiron, one of the top competitors in Pro All Stars Series […]
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Local racing roundup: Knight fever at Oxford
And then there were seven. Shawn Knight extended the streak of different Super Late Model winners without a repeat victor Saturday night, overtaking Alan Wilson six circuits from the finish to win the 50-lap main event for the Budweiser Championship Series at Oxford Plains Speedway. Wilson was poised for the first double-dip of the season […]
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Local auto racing: Scott Farrington sixth different winner in six OPS races
The no-repeat streak stayed alive in Oxford Plains Speedway’s top division Saturday night. Scott Farrington of Minot rebounded from a wreck and a last-place finish a week ago to win the 50-lap Super Late Model feature. He is the sixth different winner in as many events this season. Farrington made his winning move underneath reigning […]
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Auto racing: Alexander making good progress at Wiscasset
While several drivers in their 20s and 30s are working to make a name for themselves in the premier Super Late Model or Pro Stock class, one teenage prodigy from the mid-coast is turning heads while making significant progress of his own. Fifteen-year-old Ellsworth native Wyatt Alexander is in his first full season in the […]
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Local Racing: Big night for Brackett, Hewins, King, Farrington
In a battle of third-generation drivers whose last names are synonymous with Oxford Plains Speedway, reigning champion T.J. Brackett took over from Gunnar Rowe late in the race Saturday night and held on for his first Super Late Model win of the season. Brackett swiped the lead from Rowe after the Leavitt Area High School […]
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High school baseball: Oak Hill Raiders topple Wiscasset Wolverines in extra innings
WISCASSET — It has been a tumultuous week for the Wiscasset High School baseball team. First, former head coach Mike Bowles left the team, replaced by Ryan Michaud as the Wolverines prepared for their final regular season Mountain Valley Conference contest against Oak Hill. Then, the rain came, and for two days Michaud ran his […]