September 3, 2023 | By USRA

Hughes pockets $10k in Mize Memorial

Petty, TX —  The Rocket Raceway Park in Petty, Texas, saw 63 USRA Modified make their way through the gates of the 3/8-mile dirt oval Saturday for the 9th Annual Bryan Mize Memorial headlined by the American Racer USRA Modified Series powered by Day Motor Sports.

One of the competitors pulling into the pits was four-time USMTS National Champion Jason Hughes, pulling his familiar No. 12 Hughes Racing Chassis with a pickup and an open trailer.

With $9,000 posted for the winner, S&S Fishing & Rental stepped up to make it an even ten grand for the winner of the 40-lap main event.

Hughes wasted little time in the race, speeding from his position on the outside of the third row when the green flag waved to the lead in a little more than five laps.

Once he got around early leader Tyler Davis of Haysville, Kan., the 49-year-old racer from Watts, Okla., left no doubt as he sailed to an easy victory on an ultra-smooth, black and slick-from-top-to-bottom racing surface—just the way he likes it.

Not only did Hughes arrive with an open trailer but his wife, Julie, was his only companion as she rode shotgun and played the role of crew chief for the night.

“Hell, it’s too much work in the other truck,” Hughes said of his usual long, blue toter home and racecar hauler. “It’s just me and my wife tonight so we had to make it easier.

Hughes wasn’t easy on the competition though.

Three cautions kept his pursuers withing striking distance but with every green flag lap Hughes just pulled away as he flawlessly circled the center of the racetrack.

“It was as good a race. I’ve been down here in the spring a lot and it's rained; it’s been rough and I brought my son (Trevor) down here and it's smooth and I loved it. This place is awesome to race on.”

The margin of victory was 3.536 seconds as Rodney Sanders of Happy, Texas, settled for second-place for a second straight night.

“It’s a good day,” Hughes exclaimed. “We didn't leave the house until about 1 o’clock today and hopefully we’ll be back about 3 or 4 in the morning.”

Sanders, who started 11th, held off a hard-charging 12th-starting Tanner Mullens of Wichita, Kan., with Tyler Wolff of Fayetteville, Ark., and polesitter Dennie Gieber of Frankston completing the top five at the finish line.

Greenville gassers Bo Day and Colby Smith scored sixth- and seventh-place finishes while Davis wound up eighth in the final rundown.

Wagoner, Okla., racer Jared Russell passed seven competitors to nab the ninth spot and Wills Point’s Max Eddie Thomas went from 20th to 10th in the 40-lapper.

Four of the top-ten finishers started from the sixth row and back, including 23rd-starting Justin McCoy who passed 11 of his competitors to finish 12th and pick up the Dickson Transport Hard Charger Award.

Deatherage Opticians awarded certificates to the winners of each heat race and all three Day Motor Sports “B” Features. The nine recipients included Chase Allen, Gary Christian, Chris Henigan, Lance Mari, Mullens, Sanders, Smith, Kale Westover and Wolff.

The four-race weekend wraps up Sunday at the RPM Speedway in Crandall, Texas, for the Ronnie Sigman Memorial which carries a $4,800 top prize for the feature winner at the always-tight and always-thrilling 1/4-mile bullring.

In other Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series action on Saturday, Crandall’s Bryce Pritchett finally got his long-awaited Bryan Mize Memorial trophy with a win in the Medieval USRA Stock Car main event.

Meanwhile, the USRA Limited Mod feature went to Jimmy Day of Greenville, and Ector’s Rodney White came out on top in a thrilling feature for the Sunoco USRA Factory Stocks that saw him nip track champion Deaon Redmon of nearby Paris by three-one-thousandths of a second at the checkered flag.

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RESULTS

American Racer A Feature 1 (40 Laps): 1. 12-Jason Hughes[6]; 2. 20-Rodney Sanders[11]; 3. 02-Tanner Mullens[12]; 4. 4W-Tyler Wolff[3]; 5. 57-Dennie Gieber[1]; 6. 4-Bo Day[5]; 7. 01-Colby Smith[8]; 8. 65-Tyler Davis[2]; 9. 4R-Jared Russell[16]; 10. 82-Max Eddie Thomas[20]; 11. 58X-Gary Christian[14]; 12. 410-Justin McCoy[23]; 13. 19SB-Lance Mari[4]; 14. 2C-Chris Huckeba[24]; 15. 91-Joe Duvall[18]; 16. 15J-Mitchell Clement[17]; 17. 2B-Billy Brierton[10]; 18. 8-Jeremy Vaughn[22]; 19. 2G-Kenny Gaddis[26]; 20. 7-Sean Gaddis[25]; 21. 5X-Danny Veal[19]; 22. 25W-Kale Westover[15]; 23. 16-Chris Henigan[7]; 24. 130-Chase Allen[13]; 25. 47-Jack Sartain[21]; 26. 24M-Manuel Williams II[9]

Day Motor Sports B Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 130-Chase Allen[2]; 2. 4R-Jared Russell[1]; 3. 5X-Danny Veal[7]; 4. 8-Jeremy Vaughn[3]; 5. 18J-Jake Huckaby[5]; 6. 2SS-Mark Smith[12]; 7. 211-Chase Hatton[11]; 8. 29X-Lance Plant[6]; 9. 8C-Colby O'Neal[10]; 10. 747-Colton Eck[8]; 11. 13J-James McCreery[13]; 12. 32-DJ Shannon[15]; 13. 2G-Kenny Gaddis[17]; 14. 22-Casey Huggins[4]; 15. 11D-Cole Dennis[14]; 16. 64-Casey Fowler[9]; 17. 88-Nathan Smith[16]

Day Motor Sports B Feature 2 (15 Laps): 1. 58X-Gary Christian[1]; 2. 15J-Mitchell Clement[5]; 3. 82-Max Eddie Thomas[2]; 4. 410-Justin McCoy[10]; 5. 71-Chad Melton[8]; 6. D25-David Tanner[7]; 7. 11R-Ryan Veal[15]; 8. 11X-Wesley Veal[6]; 9. 17-Michael Maraschick[16]; 10. 16JR-Dustin Henigan[13]; 11. 24-Manuel Williams Sr[12]; 12. 18-Shannon Parker[14]; 13. 12T-Tyler Townsend[4]; 14. 56-Colton Horner[9]; 15. 28B-Wendall Bolden[3]; 16. 23T-Michael Talley[11]

Day Motor Sports B Feature 3 (15 Laps): 1. 25W-Kale Westover[2]; 2. 91-Joe Duvall[6]; 3. 47-Jack Sartain[4]; 4. 2C-Chris Huckeba[5]; 5. 718-Tommy Cannon[1]; 6. 12B-Bryan Gunwall[11]; 7. 7-Sean Gaddis[7]; 8. 15-Chase Wascom[10]; 9. 10B-Brandon Givens[15]; 10. 8X-Skip O'Neal[16]; 11. 2R-Michael Riskey[12]; 12. J17-Jake Gallardo[17]; 13. 78-Billy Jack Brutchin[14]; 14. 100-Lee Patton[8]; 15. 7X-Chris Dawson[13]; 16. 81G-Michael Grubbs[3]; 17. (DNS) 33X-Brad Pannell

Star 1 Roofing Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 19SB-Lance Mari[3]; 2. 12-Jason Hughes[7]; 3. 24M-Manuel Williams II[9]; 4. 12T-Tyler Townsend[5]; 5. 22-Casey Huggins[10]; 6. 100-Lee Patton[6]; 7. 56-Colton Horner[1]; 8. 24-Manuel Williams Sr[2]; 9. 11D-Cole Dennis[4]; 10. 8X-Skip O'Neal[8]; 11. (DNS) J17-Jake Gallardo

TNT Auto Parts Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 01-Colby Smith[2]; 2. 4-Bo Day[6]; 3. 28B-Wendall Bolden[4]; 4. 82-Max Eddie Thomas[9]; 5. 11X-Wesley Veal[1]; 6. D25-David Tanner[8]; 7. 747-Colton Eck[11]; 8. 23T-Michael Talley[10]; 9. 18-Shannon Parker[7]; 10. 11R-Ryan Veal[5]; 11. 2G-Kenny Gaddis[3]

Texas Locomotive Solutions Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 4W-Tyler Wolff[2]; 2. 4R-Jared Russell[4]; 3. 57-Dennie Gieber[10]; 4. 25W-Kale Westover[8]; 5. 2C-Chris Huckeba[6]; 6. 71-Chad Melton[1]; 7. 8C-Colby O'Neal[7]; 8. 12B-Bryan Gunwall[9]; 9. 7X-Chris Dawson[3]; 10. 10B-Brandon Givens[5]

ARMI Contractors Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 20-Rodney Sanders[1]; 2. 718-Tommy Cannon[3]; 3. 130-Chase Allen[6]; 4. 18J-Jake Huckaby[2]; 5. 5X-Danny Veal[4]; 6. 7-Sean Gaddis[8]; 7. 15-Chase Wascom[7]; 8. 211-Chase Hatton[10]; 9. 78-Billy Jack Brutchin[9]; 10. 17-Michael Maraschick[5]

Transmissions Unlimited Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 02-Tanner Mullens[1]; 2. 65-Tyler Davis[6]; 3. 81G-Michael Grubbs[2]; 4. 47-Jack Sartain[5]; 5. 15J-Mitchell Clement[7]; 6. 29X-Lance Plant[9]; 7. 33X-Brad Pannell[3]; 8. 2R-Michael Riskey[8]; 9. 13J-James McCreery[10]; 10. 32-DJ Shannon[4]

Duvall Electric Heat 6 (8 Laps): 1. 16-Chris Henigan[4]; 2. 58X-Gary Christian[3]; 3. 2B-Billy Brierton[9]; 4. 8-Jeremy Vaughn[8]; 5. 91-Joe Duvall[2]; 6. 64-Casey Fowler[6]; 7. 410-Justin McCoy[7]; 8. 2SS-Mark Smith[1]; 9. 16JR-Dustin Henigan[10]; 10. 88-Nathan Smith[5]

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J & G SERVICES ECO-MODS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 51H-Rickey Haney[1]; 2. 29R-Matthew Riskey[3]; 3. 20D-Drew Pattat[4]; 4. 29-Billie Potts[2]; 5. 17RL-Leon Hill[11]; 6. 81T-Shawn Williams[5]; 7. 20J-Tyler Malone[8]; 8. 22T-Tyler Muirhead[14]; 9. 23-Collin Hodges[15]; 10. 11-Jett Hefti[6]; 11. 5J-Nick Lent[10]; 12. 6P-Maguire Poole[13]; 13. 4D-Devon Bowles[9]; 14. 18-Cameron Buckaloo[12]; 15. 30-Donald Hopkins[17]; 16. 343-Jace Jarvis[16]; 17. 39-Keith Parnell[19]; 18. 44X-Ryan Farmer[23]; 19. 163-John Miller[22]; 20. 13R-Rhett Burton[18]; 21. 09-Trent Gibby[7]; 22. 70R-Euvell Grubbs[21]; 23. (DNS) 10T-Trystan Mcgee

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 6P-Maguire Poole[1]; 2. 22T-Tyler Muirhead[15]; 3. 23-Collin Hodges[4]; 4. 343-Jace Jarvis[2]; 5. 30-Donald Hopkins[3]; 6. 13R-Rhett Burton[5]; 7. 39-Keith Parnell[9]; 8. 44X-Ryan Farmer[14]; 9. 10T-Trystan Mcgee[8]; 10. 70R-Euvell Grubbs[6]; 11. 163-John Miller[10]; 12. (DNS) 72-Reggie Dotson; 13. (DNS) 25M-Kody Miller; 14. (DNS) 177-Chad Ross; 15. (DNS) 4-Gene Wade

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 51H-Rickey Haney[7]; 2. 4D-Devon Bowles[2]; 3. 09-Trent Gibby[8]; 4. 17RL-Leon Hill[5]; 5. 343-Jace Jarvis[6]; 6. 70R-Euvell Grubbs[3]; 7. 10T-Trystan Mcgee[9]; 8. 163-John Miller[1]; 9. 177-Chad Ross[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 81T-Shawn Williams[1]; 2. 20D-Drew Pattat[5]; 3. 20J-Tyler Malone[6]; 4. 18-Cameron Buckaloo[3]; 5. 6P-Maguire Poole[7]; 6. 23-Collin Hodges[8]; 7. 39-Keith Parnell[4]; 8. 44X-Ryan Farmer[9]; 9. 4-Gene Wade[2]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 29-Billie Potts[4]; 2. 29R-Matthew Riskey[6]; 3. 11-Jett Hefti[8]; 4. 5J-Nick Lent[5]; 5. 30-Donald Hopkins[1]; 6. 13R-Rhett Burton[7]; 7. 72-Reggie Dotson[2]; 8. 25M-Kody Miller[3]

BY-LINE SURVEYING USRA FACTORY STOCKS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 14-Rodney White[3]; 2. 38-Deaon Redmon[9]; 3. 17-Tommy Davis Jr[10]; 4. B21-Bryce Pritchett[2]; 5. 3M-Tristan McCullough[1]; 6. 21-Brian Holland[5]; 7. 4-Ty Abernathy[15]; 8. 2-Cody Dixon[4]; 9. 69X-Michael Smith[6]; 10. 2CC-Ross Malone II[13]; 11. 40-Michael Bowles[8]; 12. 28-James Proctor[19]; 13. 92T-Terrell Evans[14]; 14. 95B-Brandon Bettis[7]; 15. 7X-Daylon Briscoe[16]; 16. 5-Brett Arden[11]; 17. 0-Kyle Blanton[20]; 18. 29-Aaron Arden[12]; 19. 33D-Dustin Fodge[21]; 20. 10-Jared Brown[23]; 21. 21B-Brandon Stowell[17]; 22. 92C-Cody Hinkle[24]; 23. 2H-Marty Hicks[18]; 24. 73-Brent Ford[22]

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 2CC-Ross Malone II[3]; 2. 92T-Terrell Evans[2]; 3. 4-Ty Abernathy[5]; 4. 7X-Daylon Briscoe[11]; 5. 21B-Brandon Stowell[10]; 6. 2H-Marty Hicks[15]; 7. 28-James Proctor[8]; 8. 0-Kyle Blanton[7]; 9. 33D-Dustin Fodge[1]; 10. 73-Brent Ford[12]; 11. 10-Jared Brown[13]; 12. 92C-Cody Hinkle[16]; 13. 3-Colton Frazier[4]; 14. BG22-Braden Grubbs[14]; 15. 24B-Aaron Booth[17]; 16. (DNS) 20H-John Armstrong; 17. (DNS) 47F-Brad Ford; 18. (DNS) 57-Joey Freelen; 19. (DNS) 23-MATT HODGES

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 3M-Tristan McCullough[6]; 2. 95B-Brandon Bettis[4]; 3. 17-Tommy Davis Jr[3]; 4. 40-Michael Bowles[10]; 5. 92T-Terrell Evans[2]; 6. 4-Ty Abernathy[1]; 7. 28-James Proctor[8]; 8. 73-Brent Ford[7]; 9. 10-Jared Brown[11]; 10. 92C-Cody Hinkle[5]; 11. (DNS) 20H-John Armstrong

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 14-Rodney White[5]; 2. 38-Deaon Redmon[1]; 3. 69X-Michael Smith[8]; 4. 5-Brett Arden[3]; 5. 2CC-Ross Malone II[4]; 6. 3-Colton Frazier[7]; 7. 0-Kyle Blanton[9]; 8. 7X-Daylon Briscoe[2]; 9. BG22-Braden Grubbs[10]; 10. 24B-Aaron Booth[6]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. B21-Bryce Pritchett[5]; 2. 2-Cody Dixon[7]; 3. 21-Brian Holland[8]; 4. 29-Aaron Arden[4]; 5. 33D-Dustin Fodge[1]; 6. 23-MATT HODGES[2]; 7. 57-Joey Freelen[3]; 8. 21B-Brandon Stowell[10]; 9. 2H-Marty Hicks[6]; 10. (DNS) 47F-Brad Ford

COSTON & SONS READY MIX USRA LIMITED MODS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 23M-Jimmy Day[3]; 2. 88J3-Shane Hartline[1]; 3. 20D-Rowdy Day[4]; 4. 14X-Josh Landers[5]; 5. 49-Shannon Hartline[15]; 6. 56-Bailey Dosser[8]; 7. 510-Cody King[24]; 8. 72B-Austin Dotson[18]; 9. 22XX-Jason Gamez[10]; 10. 22-Gregory Muirhead[23]; 11. 29J-Jonathan Powers[13]; 12. L51-Nick Lent[6]; 13. 15W-Levi Wilkerson[9]; 14. 14-Jacob Watts[22]; 15. 14H-Barry Hornbeck[11]; 16. 25W-Hunter Welch[17]; 17. 100-Braden Howell[7]; 18. 1-Carson Bradley[16]; 19. 24-Scott Modl[21]; 20. 18-Tim Clonch[2]; 21. 68-Brandon Watson[20]; 22. 98-Andrew Fouse[19]; 23. (DQ) 24X-Marsh Landers[12]; 24. (DQ) 13P-Wyatt Payne[14]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 88J3-Shane Hartline[4]; 2. 56-Bailey Dosser[2]; 3. L51-Nick Lent[6]; 4. 14H-Barry Hornbeck[5]; 5. 24X-Marsh Landers[8]; 6. 1-Carson Bradley[7]; 7. 68-Brandon Watson[3]; 8. 14-Jacob Watts[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 14X-Josh Landers[1]; 2. 23M-Jimmy Day[5]; 3. 100-Braden Howell[6]; 4. 29J-Jonathan Powers[4]; 5. 13P-Wyatt Payne[3]; 6. 72B-Austin Dotson[2]; 7. 98-Andrew Fouse[8]; 8. 510-Cody King[7]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 18-Tim Clonch[2]; 2. 20D-Rowdy Day[5]; 3. 15W-Levi Wilkerson[1]; 4. 22XX-Jason Gamez[6]; 5. 49-Shannon Hartline[4]; 6. 25W-Hunter Welch[7]; 7. 24-Scott Modl[3]; 8. 22-Gregory Muirhead[8]

STEALTH THRU TUBING USRA STOCK CARS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. B21-Bryce Pritchett[2]; 2. 22-Gregory Muirhead[1]; 3. 58-Tyler Honeywell[6]; 4. 2R-Michael Riskey[5]; 5. 20D-Rowdy Day[16]; 6. 99A-Aaron Esparza[7]; 7. 24A-Chad Abernathy[3]; 8. 18-Tim Clonch[4]; 9. 13-John Michael Winters[8]; 10. 3-Matt Doescher[10]; 11. 15-Roger Stripland[14]; 12. 86C-Cody Cline[17]; 13. 9EB-Ben Necessary[15]; 14. 29-Michael Riskey Sr[13]; 15. 24-Jesse Freelen[9]; 16. 703-Treven Geter[11]; 17. 14-Rodney White[12]; 18. 892-Josh Whitehead[18]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. B21-Bryce Pritchett[4]; 2. 18-Tim Clonch[3]; 3. 2R-Michael Riskey[6]; 4. 99A-Aaron Esparza[1]; 5. 3-Matt Doescher[2]; 6. 703-Treven Geter[8]; 7. 15-Roger Stripland[7]; 8. 9EB-Ben Necessary[5]; 9. 892-Josh Whitehead[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 22-Gregory Muirhead[9]; 2. 58-Tyler Honeywell[1]; 3. 24A-Chad Abernathy[8]; 4. 13-John Michael Winters[3]; 5. 24-Jesse Freelen[6]; 6. 14-Rodney White[5]; 7. 29-Michael Riskey Sr[4]; 8. 20D-Rowdy Day[7]; 9. 86C-Cody Cline[2]