BOSWELL, Ind. — Jerry Coons, Jr. celebrated USAC’s first Indiana Sprint Week visit to Kamp Motor Speedway by winning the first Sprint Week feature of his career. 
Coons passed Dave Darland for the lead shortly before the halfway point in the USAC National Sprint Car Series event. Darland held on for second, with Jon Stanbrough, Jesse Hockett and Mat Neely following. 
“The car was a rocket,” Coons said. “It was a lot of fun to drive. I never made an adjustment all through the feature. I was just dialed in from the drop of the green to the checkered.”
Sharing the front row, Hockett and Darland battled for the lead, with Hockett pacing the first lap, but Darland took over as they passed the flag stand. He built a 12-car-length advantage until Kevin Swindell spun, allowing second-running Coons to close on his bumper.
Although Darland again built a 20-car-length advantage after the restart, Coons quickly reeled him in and passed him on lap 13. While Coons built a straightaway lead as they worked past slower cars, Stanbrough and Hockett were waging a thrilling wheel-to-wheel duel for third.
While it was Coons’s first victory of the year, it was the second Sprint Week triumph for the Hoffman’s Kroger/Tide/Pringle Mopar/F-5, as Daron Clayton drove it to victory at Gas City a week earlier. 
“I just kind of made a game plan lining up for the feature,” Coons explained. “I saw the top looked decent and we could run up there. I figured Dave Darland would have the same plan, because he likes the top. I just stuck to that plan.”
The summary:
Qualifications: 1. Neil Shepherd, Shepherd 4n, 13.149; 2. Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., Stewart 21, 13.210; 3. Jerry Coons, Jr., Dynamics 69, 13.267; 4. Mat Neely, Neely 17n, 13.597; 5. Dave Darland, Pace 44, 13.629; 6. Jesse Hockett, VKCC 75, 13.662; 7. Chris Windom, Windom 17, 13.681; 8. Jon Stanbrough, Fox 53, 13.687; 9. Brady Bacon, Kahne 99, 13.691; 10. Daron Clayton, Walker/Guiducci 11d, 13.729; 11. Darren Hagen, Kunz 67, 13.730; 12. Mike Spencer, Kunz 67k, 13.766; 13. Dustin Morgan, Walker/Guiducci 11, 13.774; 14. Cory Kruseman, Kruseman 21t, 13.811; 15. Brady Short, 2B Racing 2b, 13.892; 16. Shane Cottle, Edison 10e, 13.895; 17. Levi Jones, Stewart 20, 13.899; 18. Jeff Bland, Bland 21x, 13.941; 19. Jimmy Light, Light 23, 13.958; 20. Hunter Schuerenberg, R & B 10t, 13.981; 21. Scotty Weir, Crossno 38, 13.993; 22. Kevin Swindell, Kahne 9, 14.048; 23. Dakoda Armstrong, C & A 7a, 14.050; 24. Robert Ballou, MPHG 81, 14.125; 25. Kevin Thomas, Jr., Thomas 9k, 14.129; 26. Casey Shuman, Hoyer 24, 14.131; 27. Critter Malone, Baldwin 5x, 14.131; 28. Steve Ott, Ott 0t, 14.133; 29. Geoff Dodge, Morgan 7m, 14.133; 30. J.J. Yeley, Yeley 2j, 14.144; 31. Russ Gamester, Gamester 46, 14.152; 32. Shane Hollingsworth, R & B 10, 14.262; 33. Danny Williams, Jr., Melchi 6m, 14.292; 34. Brett Burdette, Burdette 17b, 14.295; 35. Chris Urish, Urish 77u, 14.309; 36. Cole Whitt, CW 29w, 14.342; 37. Damion Gardner, Leffler 71, 14.383; 38. John Memmer, Memmer 4m, 14.456; 39. Bret Mellenberndt, Mellenberndt 97, 14.496; 40. Michael Trimble, Kruseman 21k, 14.739; 41. Kyle Wissmiller, Wissmiller 2k, no time.
Non-qualifiers Race (10 laps): Burdette, Urish, Whitt, Gardner, Williams, Memmer, Mellenberndt, Trimble.
First Heat (10 laps): Bacon, Darland, Shepherd, Jones, Weir, Morgan, Burdette, Dodge, Thomas.
Second Heat (10 laps): Stenhouse, Swindell, Hockett, Kruseman, Bland, Shuman, Clayton, Urish, Yeley.
Third Heat (10 laps): Malone, Whitt, Hagen, Coons, Windom, Short, Light, Gamester, Armstrong.
Fourth Heat (10 laps): Stanbrough, Ballou, Hollingsworth, Schuerenberg, Neely, Spencer, Gardner, Ott, Cottle.
Semi (12 laps): Neely, Clayton, Short, Spencer, Windom, Morgan, Shuman, Bland, Weir, Light, Ott, Dodge, Gardner, Burdette, Armstrong, Gamester, Urish, Thomas, Cottle, Yeley.
Feature (30 laps): Coons, Darland, Stanbrough, Hockett, Neely, Stenhouse, Shepherd, Clayton, Bacon, Short, Spencer, Ballou, Jones, Windom, Hagen, Swindell, Whitt, Morgan, Schuerenberg, Hollingsworth, Weir, Kruseman, Gardner, Trimble, Malone.