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Columbus, MS - Saturday night Columbus Speedway hosted the final night of Mississippi's biggest racing event, the Magnolia State 100 featuring $25,007-to-win Super Late Models and Magnolia State Championships for local divisions. 79 Super Late Models and upwards of 240 total race cars made the trek to "The Baddest Bullring in the South" to take part in the weekend's activities presented by Singleton Motorsports.
Super Late Model polesitter Michael England would draw for what would be a 4-car inversion for the main event, placing Chris Wall and Earl Pearson, Jr. on the front row. The early stages of the event saw Pearson and Wall battle furiously around a pair of cautions, swapping the lead on lap 2, lap 3, and lap 6 before Pearson settled in for a while as Neil Baggett and Shane Clanton battled side-by-side for third for several laps. The leaders moved into lapped traffic for the first time on lap 13, just before the third caution was drawn by Garrett Durrett with Pearson, Wall, Clanton, Baggett, and England in the top five.
Clanton took the heat off of Pearson on the restart by racing hard with Wall, taking over second place on lap 14 only to have Wall drive back by on the rim three laps later. Caution would fall once again on lap 21, leading to a heated race for the lead between Pearson and Wall before a fifth caution on lap 27 - the last yellow of the race for some time - settled the field with Pearson over Wall while Jack Sullivan vaulted into third place ahead of Baggett and Clanton.
Baggett, Sullivan, and Wall would go three-wide for second place behind Pearson up until Wall secured the spot again on about lap 30, with Baggett easing back into third. Baggett then went after Wall as England, Clanton, and Sullivan engaged in a tough three-way race in the rearview.
After shaking off Baggett, Wall would slowly reel in Pearson, catching the leader by lap 39 and making a successful pass for the lead on lap 41 just before the pair began to move into lapped traffic once again. Pearson would make a daredevil pass using the infield berm on lap 43 to retake the lead as Baggett moved back in on Wall, then claimed second place for his own on lap 45. Wall quickly rebounded, moving outside to regain second place on the next lap as England, who had gained 4th place, began to work on Baggett. Wendell Wallace joined the fight on lap 51 as Pearson led the way through traffic ahead of Wall.
Wall could be seen slowly reeling in Pearson each lap, getting within striking distance just before a lap 67 caution fell for David Breazeale with Pearson leading Wall, Baggett, England, and Clanton. Clanton would use the break in action to his advantage, as the restart brought the field back to him and it became apparent that he had begun to strengthen as the race wore on. Clanton jumped to second place on the start, fell back to third on the next lap, then moved back around Wall and made what would have been a pass on Pearson for the lead if not for the final caution of the event on lap 71.
Pearson would lead Clanton, Baggett, Wall, and England as the final green flag portion of the race began. Baggett would reclaim second place at the restart, but Clanton moved back into the spot on lap 74 using the rim. Pearson, who had run the hub for almost the entire race, moved to the top in an attempt to avoid another high-side pass for the lead, but Clanton adapted by dropping to the middle of the track. A pass attempt on lap 78 would fail and Clanton would be forced to dispatch Wall - now in thrid - before making another almsot-good-enough attempt on lap 80.
On lap 83, Clanton drove in under Pearson, performing a daring slidejob in turn two with Pearson driving right back under the new leader going into the backstretch. Clanton had been strong on the topside all night, and rocketed down the straight ahead of Pearson, taking the lead and stretching out in the final laps of the race.
Clanton, who has had several successful runs at The Bullring in the past, would go on to claim the $25,007 top prize as the winner of the 18th Magnolia State 100. Following across the line would be Pearson, Wall, England, and late-charger Clint Smith. Don O'Neal would lead Jon Gill, Baggett, Wallace, and Sullivan to complete the top ten.
In local division Magnolia State Championship action, TJ Herndon would take the Open Wheel Modified win in a fight for survival that saw its share of hard hits and tough spills as well as all-out racing. Herndon would cross the line ahead of Randy Todd, Johnathan Russell, Jimmy Brasfield, and Shay Knight. Josh Putnam would make a late charge in a smoothly-run, spectacular Late Mdoel Stock/Crate Late Model feature to take the checkers ahead of Logan Yates, Jeremy Glasgow, Jamie Tollison, and Justin Carter. Jeremy Robertson would take the Street Stock win over Kevin Monahan, Billy Tedford, Heath Beard, and Marvin Beard.
September 29 Results
MAGNOLIA STATE 100
SUPER LATE MODEL
1ST 25 SHANE CLANTON
2ND 44 EARL PEARSON, JR
3RD 71 CHRIS WALL
4TH 5E MICHAEL ENGLAND
5TH 44 CLINT SMITH
6TH 1 DON ONEAL
7TH I4 JON GILL
8TH 21 NEIL BAGGETT
9TH 88 WENDELL WALLACE
10TH 18 JACK SULLIVAN
11TH 54 DANE DACUS
12TH B17 BYRON MICHAELS
13TH 70 1/2 ANTHONY RUSHING
14TH 20 JIMMY OWENS
15TH 57J BUB MCCOOL
16TH 88 JIMMY CLIBURN
17TH 54 DAVID BREAZEALE
18TH 1C CHAD THRASH
19TH 888 JASON CLIBURN
20TH 41 BRAD NEAT
21ST 6 SCOTT SLAY
22ND 222 MIKE BOLAND
23RD 8 RONNY LEE HOLLINGSWORTH
24TH 121 ANTHONY BURROUGHS
25TH 58C GARRETT DURRETT
26TH 10 BRYAN BARBER
MODIFIED
1ST 1 T.J. HERNDON
2ND 44 RANDY TODD
3RD 06 JOHNATHAN RUSSELL
4TH 11 JIMMY BRASFIELD
5TH 3 SHAY KNIGHT
6TH 1S JEREMY SHAW
7TH 7 TODD GRAY
8TH K1 RANDY KING
9TH 31 BILLY COLLETT
10TH 77 RANDOL HARLOW
11TH 12 RUSTY DUNCAN
12TH 12 JUNIOR LEMMINGS
13TH 17 MATT PRICE
14TH X TRINITY WYERS
15TH 6 RUSTY COOPER
16TH 51 RODNEY WING
17TH 31 BLAKE KOENIGSBERGER
18TH 59 DAVID GRIFFIN
19TH 25 JAY BURCHFIELD
20TH 17 CHRIS MOORE
21ST 8 BROOKS STRENGTH
22ND 35 TONY GRAY
23RD 12 CHAD WINKLES
24TH 7W J.C. WALLER
LATE MODEL STOCK/CRATE LATE MODEL
1ST 212 JOSH PUTNAM
2ND 5 LOGAN YATES
3RD 7 JEREMY GLASGOW
4TH 327J JAMIE TOLLISON
5TH 33 JUSTIN CARTER
6TH 21 TONY HENRY
7TH 18 DAVID SEIBERS
8TH T4 CLIFF WILLIAMS
9TH 07 TALBERT GOLDMAN
10TH 00 TERRY KELLEY
11TH 6 TK KING
12TH 75 RAY PAUL
13TH 33C ERIC COOLEY
14TH K9 CHAD THRASH
15TH 27 LARRY MURPHY
16TH 18C RANDY KING
17TH 35 WILLIAM BELL
18TH 12 TIM DAVIS
19TH 7 MIKE SHIRLEY
20TH 8 BILLY TEDFORD
21ST 21 MICKEY TROSCLAIR, JR
22ND 21 JAMIE PICKARD
23RD M63 BRYANT MILAM
24TH 28H ROBBIE HARVEY
STREET STOCK
1ST 69 JEREMY ROBERTSON
2ND 83 KEVIN MONAHAN
3RD 82 BILLY TEDFORD
4TH D5 HEATH BEARD
5TH 3S MARVIN BEARD
6TH 3 BRENT MITCHELL
7TH 02 MARK THRASH
8TH 47 DANNY GABLE
9TH 06 BO HELTON
10TH 55 DON SMITH
11TH 4 ED FELKS
12TH Q32 QUITERIO AREVALOS
13TH 5 SCOTT FULGHAM
14TH 81 DUSTY ROBERTSON
15TH 02 BRYAN KILGORE
16TH 10Z DANNY JONES
17TH 03 GENE LESTER
18TH 11 JAMIE SUDDUTH
19TH 67 KEVIN MCWILLIAMS
20TH 74 SCOTTY VOWELL
21ST 88 1/2 SCOTT LEACH
22ND K24 TONY SILVESTRI
23RD 111 WAYNE MEDDERS
24TH 22 JOHN BEARD
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