WAINWRIGHT, Okla. -- The Outlaw Motor Speedway near Muskogee, Okla., welcomed back the USMTS National Tour for the 3rd Annual Creek Nation Casino Spring Fling Friday night with 53 entries checked in at the high-banked 3/8-mile clay oval.
Kelly Shryock of Fertile, Iowa, earned his third Pole Award of the season by being the top qualifier during the five heat races, then redrew the third starting position for the 30-lap “A” Main.
With 165 career wins, there are only a handful of tracks on the campaign trail that the nine-time USMTS National Champion has not tasted victory at. “The Outlaw” is one of them.
That looked like it might change as Shryock bolted to the front from his second row starting spot at the drop of the green flag and led the other 27 starters for the first 27 laps of the main event.
But with three laps to go, eighth-starting Johnny Scott powered his way
around the veteran to grab the lead and went on to capture his fourth career
USMTS victory.
The win was worth $2,000 to the 21-year-old from Las Cruces, N.M., and vaulted him into the points lead after two races in the Southwest Region.
Shryock held on to take home the runner-up paycheck for the third time this season while Dustin Boney of Platte City, Mo., put himself on the podium with a third-place finish.
Marshalltown, Iowa’s Ryan Gustin came from the 12th starting spot to finish fourth and Jon Tesch of Watertown, S.D., wound up fifth after starting 13th. Gustin continues to lead the Mo-Kan Region points after recording his sixth top-5 finish in six starts.
Rodney Sanders came from 16th to take sixth, polesitter Shane Hebert secured a seventh-place showing, Bobby Malchus came home in eighth, Chris Spieker nabbed ninth to score his third straight top-10 finish and Zack VanderBeek rounded out the top-10 finishers.
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