BERNDT BRINGS HOME THE HARDWARE IN GRECO/BARIBEAULT SK43; GARSIDE CLAIMS MINI STOCK BOUNTY
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WATERFORD – It was the 3rd Annual Bill Greco/Terry Baribeault Memorial SK43 boasting a $2,500 to win main event. Dave
Baribeault kicked off the event and two of Greco’s former race cars paced the field to green. Josh Zentek made heavy contact with the turn 3 wall to kick off the event. Justin Gaydosh was overtaken by Anthony Flannery almost immediately when they went back green with Eric Berndt following through. Andrew Molleur made quick work of the field and found himself on their back bumpers until a lap 10 caution allowed for Timmy Jordan and Jon Puleo to work by Molleur. After a caution with 29 to go, Flannery got passed for the lead and found himself out of shape, but as he collected it Puleo had gone around. Flannery hit the ground running on the next restart but it didn’t last long as Berndt sailed into the lead with 24 to go. After getting pushed into the pits, Puleo returned and was notably cruising through the field. As laps ticked down and with Berndt safely in front of Flannery, Puleo went from last all the way into second by lap 40 with no time left to challenge for the lead. Berndt scored the big pay day and picked up his third win of the season.
Shawn Gaedeke inherited the pole for the Late Models on a lap 0 spin, but his time on top didn’t last long as Devin Deshaies made quick work of him around the outside. Ryan Morgan returned for the first time this season and was a force to be reckoned with moving into second by lap 5. Gaedeke would then fight it out with Joey LeMay for third and hold off a couple strong attempts at the spot while the field strung out. A solo spin with 8 to go set the race up for an exciting finish though. Morgan launched by Deshaies on the restart but an immediate caution took the lead away. Morgan had done it again a second time but Deshaies crossed over to fight for the lead back. After a side-by-side battle at the helm Deshaies and Morgan made contact but Morgan was able to power away as the laps ticked down. Morgan picked up the win in his first start of the season.
Jordan Hadley had the advantage over Ike Chima at the start of the Street Stocks, taking Aaron Plemons along with
him. Plemons stuck a nose underneath Hadley early but when the hole closed he went to work on the outside. The two stayed side by side for nearly the whole race until the cross-over moves began. This time it was 5 lead changes over the final few laps that looked like Hadley had it won until a dive bomb move from Plemons allotted him his 6th win of the season.
Jake Coutu followed Charles Beal out front in the Trucks over Tommy Silva but the battle for the lead wouldn’t be between them for long. Ryan Lineham worked from deep in the field making moves on the outside that seemed easy to the naked eye. He pulled into the lead on lap 6 and set his truck on cruise control. Everything seemed status quo until 4 to go when Lineham fell off the pace unable to make it to the infield and bringing out the yellow. With Beal back out front, he had a new challenge to go up against. Nicholas Uhrig Jr had also been working his way through the field under green, but now he had a shot at the lead. He hung wide over the final few laps and was able to clear Beal winning in just his third start in the division. He had also won in the Bandoleros in 2024.
Erica Canfield and Tim Dorr set the pace in the Mini Stocks but it didn’t last when a lap 2 caution racked the field up
before they could settle in. Dorr resumed control but Randy Churchill and Bill Sylvia were on the move. Sylvia took the lead and brought Chris Garside with him while Ray Christian III worked his way to the front. Garside spent most of the race in a side by side battle with Sylvia and even held on when a three-wide attempt by Christian failed. Garside recovered and picked Sylvia off with Christian, getting bump-drafted across the stripe to win his third of the season.
TJ Sansoucy and Cal Anderson led the Legend Cars to green but it didn’t take long for Wade Oemcke to attempt a 3-wide move for the top spot. However, the move would not pay off. Oemcke and Sansoucy would go around on lap 3 giving the lead to Anderson on the restart. Dylan Freeman took advantage of the track position and resumed the race at the point with Riley Paul in his tire tracks. A caution on lap 7 flew when Sansoucy’s bad night turned worse making hard contact with the wall in turn 2. On the restart, Paul had the edge over Freeman and while Brandon Martinez made his presence known, it wasn’t enough. Paul went on to win his third race in a row.
Jack Emerson shot out to an early lead in the Crown Vics from previous winners Gregg Prevost III and Jake Caprio
and ran for cover in the 20 lap feature. He took down his first career win in dominating fashion.
On a cloudy Wednesday evening, Ben Pollard scored his second 40-lap Super X-Car win of the season. Brandon Plemons and Ryder Aguiar returned to victory lane in the X-Cars and Bandoleros, and Jacob Burns scored his sixth win in a row in the Legend Cars.
Next Saturday, the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series takes to the shoreline oval for their annual stop for the Belltown Motors/Fowlers Auto Wrecking 100. They will be joined by the SK Modifieds®, SK Lights, Trucks, Mini Stocks, and Crown Vics. But before that we’ve got Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday on August 20th. To keep up with the Speedbowl, please visit our website at www.SpeedbowlCT.com, follow us at The New London-Waterford Speedbowl on Facebook, or @SpeedbowlCT on Instagram and X.
Unofficial Results (8/16/25)
SK Modifieds® (43 Laps): 1. 11CT-Eric Berndt[6]; 2. 7-Jonathan Puleo[9]; 3. 25-Anthony Flannery[4]; 4. 35-Andrew Molleur[8]; 5. 20-Max Zachem[10]; 6. 47-Timmy Jordan[5]; 7. 51B-Anthony Bello[14]; 8. 81-Todd Owen[11]; 9. 51-Rob Janovic Jr[7]; 10. 9CT-Joseph Ternullo[12]; 11. 27-Adam Gada[3]; 12. 39-Paul Varricchio[13]; 13. 94-Justin Gaydosh[2]; 14. 52-Anthony Forino[16]; 15. 70-Wade Gagner[15]; 16. 22RI-Carl Kivisto[17]; 17. 81X-Joshua Zentek[1]
Late Models (30 Laps): 1. 31CT-Ryan Morgan[6]; 2. 64-Devin Deshaies[3]; 3. 09-Shawn Gaedeke[1]; 4. 0-Joey LeMay[5]; 5. 8-Jaret Curtis[7]; 6. 19CT-Kyle Gero[8]; 7. 39-Douglas Curry[4]; 8. 0X-William Kuhn[9]; 9. 50RI-Michael Benevides[10]; 10. 78-Emma Monahan[2]; 11. 32-Paul Heard[11]
Street Stocks (25 Laps): 1. 67-Aaron Plemons[4]; 2. 12-Jordan Hadley[2]; 3. 56-Ike Chima[1]; 4. 74-Joseph Arena[5]; 5. 52-Al
Stone III[3]; 6. 3-Adam Coutu[6]; 7. 43-William Rheaume[7]; 8. (DNS) 62-Nicholas Reiff
Trucks (25 Laps): 1. 11RI-Nicholas Uhrig Jr[8]; 2. 30-Charles Beal[2]; 3. 99-Milania Shilosky[3]; 4. 29-Jaysin Beal[5]; 5. 07-Austin Long[10]; 6. 33-Jake Coutu[4]; 7. 16-Brad Caddick[7]; 8. 66-Tommy Silva[1]; 9. 30CT-Dylan Cabral[13]; 10. 54-Cameron Varricchio[9]; 11. 6X-Andrew Pellegrini[11]; 12. 00-Ryan Bannister[12]; 13. 19-Ryan Lineham[6]
Mini Stocks (25 Laps): 1. 83-Christopher Garside[7]; 2. 93-Ray Christian III[8]; 3. 88-Bill Sylvia[5]; 4. 53-Andrew Krzeminski[3]; 5. 05-Randy Churchill Jr[6]; 6. 25-Charles Canfield[4]; 7. 16-Tim Dorr[2]; 8. 28-Erica Canfield[1]; 9. 50-David Lee[10]; 10. 9-Rick LaFlesh[12]; 11. 81-Stacey Zentek[9]; 12. 23-Matt Pinson[11]; 13. 77-Carson Peters[14]; 14. 67-Tom Jones Jr[13]
Legend Cars (25 Laps): 1. 91-Riley Paul[6]; 2. 05-Dylan Freeman[5]; 3. 12RI-Brandon Martinez[7]; 4. 14Z-Zachary Martinez[8]; 5. 25-Jordan Churchill[4]; 6. 65-Wade Oemcke[3]; 7. 42-Cal Anderson[2]; 8. 19-Ryan Pomposelli[12]; 9. 8-Ethan Dion[10]; 10. 7X-Patrick Smith[11]; 11. 32-Kyle Rogers[14]; 12. 53-Hunter Cavallaro[13]; 13. 58-TJ Sansoucy[1]; 14. 91MA-Ethan Avellar[9]
Crown Vics (20 Laps): 1. 52-Jack Emerson[1]; 2. 24-Gregg Prevost III[3]; 3. 03-Jake Caprio[4]; 4. 12MA-John Dulac[6]; 5. 3-Nick Lecuyer[5]; 6. 67-Robert Jones[2]; 7. 21-Stephen Bolinger Jr[7]
Unofficial Results (8/13/25)
Super X-Cars (40 Laps): 1. 88-Ben Castro[10]; 2. 31-PJ Childs[6]; 3. 24-Sean Skinner[7]; 4. 02-Ryan Magliano[3]; 5. 64-Greg Moran Jr[5]; 6. 38-Norm Sears[9]; 7. 5-John Nunes[12]; 8. 10-Mitch Bombard[1]; 9. 82-John Nash[2]; 10. 12-David Ciastko[18]; 11. 20-Patrick Donnellan[19]; 12. 9-Peter Guarino Jr[16]; 13. 44-Nick Fraulino[11]; 14. 33-Ray Phillips[14]; 15. 58-Marc Shafer[8]; 16. 2-Caitlyn Desomma[13]; 17. 30-Pipper Beal[15]; 18. 7-James Trask[17]; 19. 85-Jon Porter[4]
X-Cars (25 Laps): 1. 91-Brandon Plemons[6]; 2. 9-Christian Herman[7]; 3. 90-Raymond Herman Sr[5]; 4. 11-Tim Burgess[3]; 5. 15-Logan Hartman[11]; 6. 01CT-Chuck McDonald[4]; 7. 31-Matthew Tumolo[8]; 8. 47-Grant Spaulding[2]; 9. 37-Brandon Etheridge[1]; 10. 97-Andrew Culley[9]; 11. 56X-Eric Williams Jr[10]
Legend Cars (25 Laps): 1. 13-Jacob Burns[7]; 2. 91-Riley Paul[6]; 3. 99RI-Richard Helger Jr[5]; 4. 15-Adam Forster[1]; 5. 04-Brody Wakefield[4]; 6. 99-Milania Shilosky[8]; 7. 8-Ethan Dion[2]; 8. 77-Dennis Pantani[11]; 9. 5-Aubry Wasko[3]; 10. 57-KJ Rocco[10]; 11. 91A-Ayla Martin[9]
Bandoleros (20 Laps): 1. 13X-Ryder Aguiar[3]; 2. 30-David Bernier[5]; 3. 10-Allyha Desomma[6]; 4. 19-Connor Doyon[4]; 5. 13-Luka Dib[1]; 6. 22-Brooke Meyer[9]; 7. 79-Nathan Zimmerman[8]; 8. 17-Elias Dib[2]; 9. 15-Mackenzie Cloutier[7]; 10. (DNS) 88-Ziva Desaulniers
(IMG-Images by TK Race Photo)
(DSC-Images by Michelle Green Photography)
