Dave Hess Jr. closed out the 2022 campaign at Stateline Speedway with another win in the Super Late Models. Hess also finished as the SLM points champion for the second straight year. Submitted Photo

BUSTI — Fans and racers were once again blessed with beautiful weather, and another night of action-packed racing, to close out the 2022 campaign at Stateline Speedway.

John Mease picked up his second win of the season in the Challengers; William Reeves once again found victory lane in the Pro Stocks; Ryan Card finally found victory lane in the Sharp Mini Late Models; Dennis Lunger continued his dominance in the RUSH Pro Mods, bagging win No. 9 of the season; Dave Hess Jr. once again used some late-race heroics to pull off win No. 6 in the Super Lates; Troy Johnson won a thriller in the UMP Modifieds; and David Parker closed out the season by winning the RUSH Crate Late Models main.

The 2022 points champions were Dave Hess Jr., in the Super Late Models for the second consecutive season; Jason Genco, who was crowned the RUSH Crate Late Models; Greg Johnson, who claimed a tight points battle in the UMP Modifieds; Dennis Lunger, who coasted to another title in the RUSH Pro Mods; John Boardman, who showed that consistency pays off in the Pro Stocks; and veteran Chris Horton, who won the Challengers.

CHALLENGERS (21 Entrants)

Heat 1: 1) Chris Horton 2) Dan Bittinger 3) Bryce Anderson 4) Joe Foiti 5) Jess Harvey 6) Mark Winans 7) Jon Seekings

Heat 2: 1) Domingo Echevarria 2) Andrew Proper 3) Mark Lawrence 4) Brandon Huffman 5) Rachel Moller 6) Kasey Markham 7) Kayla York

Heat 3: 1) John Mease 2) Pete Volpe 3) Phil Powell 4) Bryson Hill 5) Tammy Watson 6) Tyler Peterson 7) David Moller

Feature: 1) Mease 2) Horton 3) Bittinger 4) Volpe 5) Echevarria 6) Proper 7) Lawrence 8- Hill 9) Huffman 10) Powell 11) Anderson 12) Seekings 13) R. Moller 14) Harvey 15) Pearson 16) Foti 17) Winans 18- D. Moller 19) Markham 20) York 21) Watson

Lap Leaders: Mease (1-12)

PRO STOCKS (19 Entrants)

Heat 1: 1) David Baker Jr. 2) Dave Shagla 3) William Reeves 4) Bill Applebee 5) Tanner Ramsey 6) Grant 7) Rickard

Heat 2: 1) Jason Covey 2) Shane Applebee 3) David Tower 4) Carl Marcy 5) Gary Fisher III 6) Dana Maybee

Heat 3: 1) Jason Black 2) Tyler Dynys 3) Joe Stajnrajh 4) John Boardman 5) Paul Nelson 6) Cody Rickard 7) Mikael Beaver

Feature: 1) Reeves 2) Covey 3) Black 4) Baker Jr. 5) Boardman 6) Shagla 7) B. Applebee 8- Ramsey 9) S. Applebee 10) Marcy 11) Richard 12) Fisher III 13) Rickard 14) Beaver 15) Maybee 16) Dynys 17) Stajnrajh 18- Tower 19) Nelson

Lap Leaders: Black (1-4), Reeves (5-15)

SHARP MINI LATE MODELS (9 Entrants)

Heat: 1) Chris Whyte 2) Treyton Whyte 3) Jack Black 4) Ryan Card 5) Kyle Coons 6) Holdyn Whitmire 7) Dale Haines 8- Ken Owens 9) Eric Hastings

Feature: 1) Card 2) Coons 3) Black 4) Owens 5) T. Whyte 6) Hastlings 7) Whitmire 8- Haines 9) C. Whyte

Lap Leaders: C. Whyte (1-9), Card (10-15)

RUSH PRO MODS (21 Entrants)

Heat 1: 1) Dennis Lunger 2) Nathan Hill 3) Tyler Sutton 4) Donald May Jr. 5) Dalton Bradley 6) Chad Ramsey 7) Ian Degolier

Heat 2: 1) Zain Harvey 2) Victor Earle Jr. 3) Nick Arnold 4) Stu Rickard 5) John Cline 6) Derek Peterson 7) Kirk Mohawk

Heat 3: 1) Chad Carlson 2) Tyler Oakes 3) Brian Mohawk 4) Brendan Warner 5) Vaughn Nystrom 6) Ryan Howard 7) Ryan Sanders

Feature: 1) Lunger 2) Oakes 3) Carlson 4) Earle Jr. 5) Hill 6) B. Mohawk 7) Arnold 8- Sutton 9) Ramsey 10) Nystrom 11) Degolier 12) Cline 13) Peterson 14) Bradley 15) Warner 16) Howard 17) K. Mohawk 18- May Jr. 19) Sanders 20) Rickard 21) Zain Harvey (DQ)

Lap Leaders: Oakes (1,2), Lunger (3-20)

SUPER LATE MODELS (18 Entrants)

Heat 1: 1) Wyatt Scott 2) Dutch Davies 3) Ryan Scott 4) Darrell Bossard 5) Garrett Mott 6) Anthony Marotto

Heat 2: 1) Jason Genco 2) Chub Frank 3) Jake Finnerty 4) Andy Boozel 5) Paul Schreckengost 6) Wendell Pinckney

Heat 3: 1) Dave Hess Jr. 2) Mike Knight 3) Bump Headman 4) Greg Oakes 5) Scott Dellahoy Jr. 6) Allen Haskins

Feature: 1) Hess Jr. 2) Knight 3) W. Scott 4) Frank 5) Genco 6) Bossard 7) Davies 8- Finnerty 9) R. Scott 10) Oakes 11) Headman 12) Boozel 13) Mott 14) Schreckengost 15) Dellahoy Jr. 16) Haskins 17) Marotto 18- Pinckney

Lap Leaders: Knight (1-16), Hess Jr. (17-25)

UMP MODIFIEDS (21 Entrants)

Heat 1: 1) Zach Johnson 2) Greg Johnson 3) Tim Peterson 4) Eric Reinwald 5) Tim Rockwell 6) Bryon Johnson 7) Joe Lanphere

Heat 2: 1) Troy Johnson 2) Al Brewer 3) Jim Diabo 4) Michael Eschrich 5) Andrew Beatman 6) Matt Haskins 7) Rick Sperry

Heat 3: 1) Butch Southwell 2) Dave Lanphere 3) Matt Kosinski 4) Dennis Asel 5) Kirk Bradley 6) Dan Sasso 7) Chris Deponceau

Feature: 1) T. Johnson 2) Z. Johnson 3) Peterson 4) Southwell 5) G. Johnson 6) Brewer 7) Rockwell 8- D. Lanphere 9) Diabo 10) Reinwald 11) Haskins 12) B. Johnson 13) J. Lanphere 14) Deponceau 15) Sasso 16) Kosinski 17) Bradley 18- Sperry 19) Eschrich 20) Asel 21) Beatman

Lap Leaders: G. Johnson (1-3), Z. Johnson (4-10) T. Johnson (11,12) Z. Johnson (13), T. Johnson (14,15), Z. Johnson (16), T. Johnson (17-20)

RUSH CRATE LATE MODELS (21 Entrants)

Heat 1: 1) Dennis Lunger 2) Matt Sipes 3) Ward Schell 4) Joe Long 5) Jimmy Johnson 6) John Haggerty 7) Mason Jaquay

Heat 2: 1) Jason Genco 2) Andy Michael 3) Will Pinckney 4) Scott Gurdak 5) Steve Houser 6) Robert Middleton 7) Kassandra Norman

Heat 3: 1) David Parker 2) Damian Bidwell 3) Randy Hall 4) Draven Kuzminski 5) Chad Clement 6) Steve Blodgett 7) Gary Youngs

Feature: 1) Parker 2) Genco 3) Bidwell 4) Sipes 5) Lunger 6) Gurdak 7) Schell 8- Hall 9) Long 10) Haggerty 11) Youngs 12) Clement 13) Michael 14) Jaquay 15) Houser 16) Kuzminski 17) Norman 18- Johnson 19) Pinckney 20) Middleton 21) Blodgett

Lap Leaders: Bidwell (1-5), Parker (6-20)