Coming into Friday he had 3 wins in UARA competition and the veteran was coming off the biggest win of his career in the Dwight Huffman Memorial just six days earlier. In that race McCall qualified on the outside pole, then he started dead last to take a "come from the rear" challenge that doubled the $7,007.00 winners purse and three hours later came away with all of $14,014.

In the first Tri-County event this year, he was leading when he had electrical problems under caution, taking him out of contention. This night was clear sailing and now McCall is a 4-time winner in UARA competition for 2009 and doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon.

McCall had won the race a week ago in the his Pistone LTO house car, but this weekend he was once again behind the wheel of the #51 ... the "Pig Rig" Ford. As usual it was fast, putting it outside the front row, but that would be the lowest he would run all night. He couldn't beat Kyle Grissom, who has been strong at every event, only to have bad luck along the way, most of the time being a cut tire.

Veteran Jamey Caudill, Rookie Matthew Godley and newcomer Chris Lawson rounded out the top 5. Lawson has been a surprise of late, but don't be surprised to see him in victory lane before the year is finished and maybe even on the ultra-competitive UARA-STARS tour.

One driver to fail to even make the already short field was 14-year old, Rookie of the Year candidate, Dylan Presnell who had already missed a few races earlier this season due to his age. This time it hadn't nothing to do with age as the young driver was so far off the pace in practice that he simply couldn't drive the car. Presnell was using a set-up from Lee Faulk Racing and had tested at Tri-County the week before and run strong, but this time he was way off and the car according to crew chief, Wade Day was exactly the same.

Day and Presnell being paired together at the beginning of the season looked to be a dream team, but according to most of the team and Presnell himself it seems that problems with the chassis he's been running has been hindering their performance. Presnell and Day will certainly try to get things straightened out as they roll out a new car hopefully in time for the season's next race.

In the Spring race, it was Paddy Rodenbeck, Brandon McReynolds and Caudill who were the class of the field. Rodenbeck and McReynolds were out to lunch on this night, with McReynolds running into trouble early with and accident and Rodenbeck was just off the entire day. Caudill once again was good, but Kyle Grissom was a little better, even challenging McCall for the lead at numerous points in the first 100 laps as the top 3 distanced themselves from the rest of the field.

The early going was hampered by a few setbacks for some of the bigger names on the tour. McReynolds had been fast all day, but an incident with Matthew Godley on lap 12 made his day just that much longer. The Jr. Motorsports cars of Richard Boswell and Owen Kelly had much worse problems, as Boswell dropped out only 29 laps into the event with a broken rear end and Kelly had an ill-handling car, making pit stops every lap under caution. Kelly would get into some more trouble later in the event.

As the race wore on, Chris Lawson started to flex his muscle. He walked down the top 3 and seemed to be just "riding" there in 4th, waiting for the time to go. Behind them, Garrett Campbell and Lee Tissott had one of the best battles of the night, running no less than 30 laps side-by-side and making contact about every 3 of those.

As we get to 40 to go, Lawson really shows us how much he had been saving for the end. All race long, it looked as if McCall, Grissom and Caudill were the class of the field, they had been setting a torrid pace. Now, Lawson had slowly walked them down, but kept his distance for about the last 25 laps. On lap 111, he makes his move by Caudill for 3rd, then only 2 laps later, he's by Grissom for 2nd. All the while, McCall had jumped out to a 20 car-length lead, but as he approached Owen Kelly to lap him, McCall chose to ride behind him, the #73 of Kelly was all over the track, nearly wrecking every lap.

A caution on lap 123 was exactly what Lawson needed, but not really what Paddy Rodenbeck wanted. Paddy had been off all day and was running just outside of the top 10 for the restart, when, guess who, Owen Kelly lines up behind him on the restart. As they come back around into turn 3, Kelly pile drives into the rear of Rodenbeck, turning the young star around. It got even more exciting under caution, as Rodenbeck slammed on brakes in front of Kelly, bowing the entire front end of the #73 car into the air.

A restart with 16 to go and McCall assumes his regular spot, up front, but it didn't look like Lawson had anything for the "Pig Rig", but 4 laps later, here he comes to the inside. As the crowd comes to their feet, McCall and Lawson run side-by-side for the next 7 laps before McCall is able to squeeze ahead.

Matt McCall would go on to victory lane, but he now knows who Chris Lawson is, if he didn't before. And by the looks of the first few starts we have seen from him, the rest of the world is going to know about him very soon also. He is now another driver that is gunning to do one thing each week, the thing that almost assures victory..........finish in front of Matt McCall.

Behind McCall and Lawson was Grissom, who finally got to finish a race up front where he knew he deserved to be after what's been a long season of bad luck. Jamey Caudill finished a quiet fourth with Lee Tissot coming from the back of the pack to finish fifth after a hard fought nearly long race battle with Garrett Campbell, who finished sixth.

Coleman Pressley, Jamie Yelton, Brandon McReynolds and Owen Kelly completed the top ten finishers, but behind them was a handful of stories playing out. Michael Rouse was 11th, Scott Turlington drove a great race, but faded

late and finished 12th just ahead of Brennnan Poole, who had another terrible run, but Poole is keeping his head up after finding out that they had another bad tire.

Tire problems with the new tire for the UARA-STARS series this season seem to be a huge factor for a couple of drivers at every race, but unfortunately for Poole it has bit him several times. Poole's 13th place certainly wasn't indicative of how the team ran as they were in the top five in practice, but never could overcome the bad tire. John King, Paddy Rodenbeck, Matthew Godley, Brian Curry and Richard Boswell completed the 18-car starting field.