Heffner Takes Hagerstown Win

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Kenny Heffner celebrates wafter capturing the River Valley Builders PA Sprint Series feature win at Hagerstown Speedway, his seventh career PASS victory. (Photo by Frank Buhrman)

By Frank Buhrman

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (May 17, 2025) — Kenny Heffner wasn’t going to let this one get away. Last month at Selinsgrove Speedway, the Watsontown veteran led a good part of the feature only to be passed by Doug Dodson for the win. At Hagerstown Speedway Saturday, there were challenges, but the driver of Cale Reigle’s no. 97 mount wasn’t going to be denied his seventh career trip to the River Valley Builders PA Sprint Series victory lane.

The co-sanctioned event with the Virginia Sprint Series and Laurel Highlands Sprint Series also happened to be the middle race in the three-event BrokersRealty.com Speed Weekend for the RaceSaver IMCA Sprints, which put Heffner in a good position to claim the $750 bonus to the top team in points after Sunday’s final event at BAPS Motor Speedway.

It was Heffner’s front-row challenger, Mike Koehler, who grabbed the initial lead in the 25-lap feature, but only after an earlier start attempt was called off after eighth-starting Mike Melair got into the second turn wall, spun, and collected Mid-Atlantic Sprint Series regular Kenny Laureno, who wound up rolling over. Both drivers were uninjured, but the cars were done.

Koehler led the first five laps before Heffner got by, but he was experiencing problems that would lead to his stopping in turn one and bringing out the second caution on lap six.  That put Drew Young on Heffner’s tail, and he gave it his all but couldn’t catch the leader, even with a couple more restarts before the checkered flag.

Behind those two, battles raged for the other top five positions, with mechanical ills and more on-track mishaps changing the players several times. In the end, Kolby Weaver moved into third.

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