Ingle/Osterholt is back on top (07/09/07)

Just when the rest of the teams in the field may have been seeing a glimmer of hope, Ingle/Osterholt put them back in the dark.

The Ingle Realty/Osterholt Motorsports team won every stage it competed in at Sunday's Jay County Go-Kart Challenge, the third of five events in the American Red Cross/FCC Go-Kart Grand Prix, at Jay County Fairgrounds. The big day nearly doubled the team's lead in the overall series standings.

Ingle/Osterholt dominated the feature for the second time in three races, winning by more than 10 seconds over second-place Vore's Welding and Steel and third-place Lennertz Conveyor System. It was the top qualifying team with a fastest lap of 18.7 seconds, and took the top spot in heat one by nearly 20 seconds.

Vore, which won the feature race at Maria Stein Country Fest in June, took the top spot in the semi-feature. Other heat winners were Lennertz and Taylor Building and Construction.

Ingle/Osterholt now has 119 points, 28 more than second-place Sanning Service Station. Buschur Refrigeration is third with 84.

McCombs lifts Thunder

DUNKIRK - Ian McCombs scored just one goal in his team's opener Saturday, but it was a big one.

McCombs came up with the game-winner in the fourth quarter to lift the Thunder to a 5-4 victory over the Lightning. In other games it was Tigers 10, Jaguars 7; Lions 3, Cheetahs 1; and Thunder 5, Twisters 0.

After Daniel Fugiett of the Lightning scored to tie the game in the fourth quarter, McCombs booted home the winning goal for the Thunder. He went on to score four goals in the Thunder's shutout of the Twisters.

Zaaron Lee and Hunter Miller each scored four times in the Tiger victory, and Lillian Rogers finished with two goals in the Lions' win over the Cheetahs.

Ian Miller (Jaguars) and Fugiett (Lightning) had six and four goals respectively in losing efforts.

Three of a kind

Portland Golf Club has played host to three aces by Portland residents recently, including the third career hole-in-one for Jason Knapke.

Bill Hampson, George Lopez, Orie Poole and Bill Bell witnessed Knapke's shot on the 190-yard, par-3 second hole. He hit the ace with a 3-iron.

Adam Gray, a Jay County High School junior, turned in his second career hole-in-one. He aced the 141-yard, par-3 eighth hole in front of witnesses Mike North and Rich Shultz.

Hampson had an ace of his own with the eighth hole playing at 137 yards. He used a 7-iron with Chris Snow and Curt Compton witnessing the shot.[[In-content Ad]]