ODESSA, MO. ? Top qualifying with a 16.898, Jeff Klem once again had the opportunity to set his fate with a roll of the inversion die. Again he rolled a 3, thus inverting the top 3 rows. This put John O’Neal on the front row pacing the field for the start of the first of he twin 50’s.

He would go wire-to-wire – surviving four cautions and a bump-drafting Jeff Klem. Upon receiving the trophy he then rolled the inversion die and also rolled a 3.

This put Kent Crane and David Stover on the first row. A lap-five crash took out the first through fourth-place runners: Crane, Klem, Bowyer, and Stover. O’Neal inherited the lead with Scotty Martin behind him.

With an early race push, Martin would never mount a successful challenge and O’Neal would go on to win his third for the season.

Randy Ainsworth and Ray Oliver tangled early in the Modified feature, sending them both head on into the back stretch wall. Though the crash was extremely violent, both drivers emerged shaken and bruised but not seriously hurt. Rod Cordon would lead all 25 laps, going three-for-four in the win column.

The Super Truck feature introduced us to Nate Bunnell’s new machine. His blue and white Ford is lightnin’ fast and had no problem capturing his second win of 2002. Nate became only the second driver to win a feature in three classes at I-70. He now has two Super Truck wins, one Modified win and 12 Sportsman Late Model/Charger wins.

In a night filled with threes, in made sense that Damon Clevenger would win his third feature. Erich Hamdorf and point leader Dave Wilson gave good chase, but simply ran out of laps in their effort to keep the defending champion from victory lane.

Keeping with the evening’s coincidence of threes, Randy Price three-peated his way to victory lane, aided by an two cautions that bunched the field.