TEEN BECOMES TWO-TIME WINNER IN ORANGE SHOW WINTER FINALE

SAN BERNARDINO -- Jimmy Rouse Jr. became the only repeat winner in the Stock Cars USA class as the four-race Orange Show Speedway Winter Series concluded Sunday afternoon.

Rouse Jr., 14, of San Bernardino, made his debut in a full-sized stock car when the Winter Series opened Dec. 3 and got his initial win Dec. 17, when he also set fast time in qualifying and won a heat race. He repeated that effort Sunday by setting the pace in qualifying and winning his heat race before capturing the 25-lap main event on the quarter-mile paved oval. Rouse Jr. started back in the field and worked his way toward the front while Mark Johnson, Ron Davis and Blake Usilton took turns leading. Rouse Jr. got the lead on lap 16 and finished a comfortable distance ahead of regular season champion Harry Michaelian Jr. and his step-mother, Michelle Rouse.

Chad Schug of Oak Hills drove his 1937 Ford Coupe replica to a win in the 25-lap feature for Legends Cars, which was interrupted six times by yellow caution flags and once by a red flag. Schug took the lead from Riverside's Taylor Price on lap 11 and never trailed thereafter. He was challenged for the lead by Tom Landreth of Rancho Cucamonga on lap 21, but Landreth lost traction in Turn 4 and spun, yielding second to heat race winner Gary Schuerell of Murrieta.

Rick Walton of La Crescenta held off 2006 class champion Dean Caskey of Grand Terrace in a bumper car finish to win the 15-lap Mini StocKar main, 11-year-old Benjamin Mahan of Hesperia continued his domination of the Jr. Mini StocKar class, and Jack Madrid won the 15-lap Bandoleros feature.

The ASA Outlaws, a Figure 8 division that will race at the track in 2007, closed the program with a 15-lap exhibition race won by Tom Smith of Lakewood, a former Orange Show regular who won the Figure 8 title at Irwindale Speedway last season.

Stock car racing at Orange Show Speedway will resume March 3, when the regular season opens with the debut of the ASA Outlaws Figure 8 cars, ASA Late Models, ASA Stock Ponys, Legends Cars and a Demolition Derby.

ORANGE SHOW SPEEDWAY

WINTER SERIES ROUND 4

STOCK CARS USA

Main event (25 laps) -- 1. Jimmy Rouse Jr., San Bernardino, Chevrolet; 2. Harry Michaelian, El Camino Village, Dodge; 3. Michelle Rouse, San Bernardino, Chevrolet; 4. Blake Usilton, Corona, Chevrolet; 5. Dave Foster, Riverside, Chevrolet.

Heat race winners -- Sean Medina, Redlands, Chevrolet; Rouse Jr. Trophy dash winner -- Rouse. Fast qualifier -- Rouse Jr.

LEGENDS CARS

Main event (25 laps) -- 1. Chad Schug, Oak Hills, '37 Ford Coupe; 2. Gary Schuerell, Murrieta, '37 Ford Sedan; 3. Albert Flores Jr., La Quinta, '34 Ford Coupe; 4. Ryan O'Conner, Vista, '34 Ford Sedan; 5. Fred Chavez, Alpine, '34 Ford Coupe.

B main winner -- Dave Riggs, Lakeside, '34 Ford Coupe. Heat race winners -- Don Teller, Norwalk, '37 Ford Sedan; Schuerell; Matthew Hicks, Santee, '37 Chevrolet Sedan. Trophy dash winner -- Tom Landreth, Rancho Cucamonga, '34 Ford Coupe; Fast qualifier -- Hicks.

MINI STOCKCARS

Main event (15 laps) -- 1. Rick Walton, La Crescenta; 2. Dean Caskey, Grand Terrace; 3. Mike O'Hara, Canyon Country; 4. Steven Remly, Long Beach; 5. Pattie Caskey, Grand Terrace.

Heat race winner -- Mike O'Hara, Canyon Country. Trophy dash winner -- O'Hara. Fast qualifier -- O'Hara.

JR. MINI STOCKARS

Main event (15 laps) -- 1. Benjamin Mahan, Hesperia; 2. Toby Decker, Highland; 3. Tony Forfa IV, San Bernardino; 4. Marissa Henson, Oak Hills; 5. Ed Reid Jr., Moreno Valley.

Heat race winner -- Becker. Trophy dash winner -- Mahan. Fast qualifier -- Mahan.

BANDOLEROS

Main event (15 laps) -- 1. Jack Madrid, Duff Canyon; 2. Tyler Fabozzi, Anaheim; 3. Eric Sloan, Alta Loma; 4. Garrett Weimann.

Trophy dash winner -- Fabozzi. Fast qualifier -- Madrid.

ASA OUTLAWS (Figure 8s)

Exhibition only

Main event (15 laps) -- 1. Tom Smith, Lakewood; 2. Robby Studstill, Westchester; 3. Bud Smith, Orange; 4. Don Mathis; 5. Rusty Stewart, Long Beach.

Trophy dash winner -- Tom Smith.

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