“We added a few new crew guys and they have been awesome,” stated the winner. “You can’t put a dollar value on team effort and the team you have around you. You are only as good as the people that surround you. Right now, I think we are pretty tough to beat. We are either winning or battling for wins in the last six or seven races.”

Schatz, the two-time defending series champion lined up fifth for the 40-lap contest and was battling his teammate Kraig Kinser early in the race, before Kinser spun while running fourth. On the ensuing restart, Schatz got around Joey Saldana for third. After shadowing Chad Kemenah for a number of laps, Schatz was able to get around him for second with 11 laps to go.

“We changed a few things and actually got ourselves in a good position,” said Schatz. “It was very untypical of my race car to get slower as the race went on. It doesn’t normally doesn’t do that. We did a few things tonight and learned some things and that’s a bonus.”

Jason Meyers started seventh and finished third in the GLR Investments KPC, to earn his 30th Top-Five finish of the season. He battled Jac Haudenschild early in the race before setting his sights on Joey Saldana. He was able to snag third from Kemenah with just two laps to go.

“It was definitely a good run,” said Meyers. “Anytime you start seventh and come up through there at a place that was not necessarily tough to pass, but hard to make up ground on anyone, is a good night. You could get two and three-wide, but it was tough to complete the pass. It was a great race tonight. They did a heck of a job with the race track and it was a great race for the fans.”

Craig Dollansky started 11th in the Snap-on Tools Maxim and worked his way into the Top-Five to earn a fourth-place finish. He got around Terry McCarl on the opening laps before passing Jason Sides on the second go-around. He got around Kemenah with just two laps remaining to take fourth.

“We started out pretty well and then the car got a little loose on me,” said Dollansky. “Even though we were loose, we got stronger as the race went on and to come from 11th is a good run. It would have been nice to have had a few more laps, but to come home fourth from where we started was a good run for the Larry Woodward team.”