Stiles, Hudson, Tifft, Curry Jr., McMillen, and Hadden Collect Opening Night Wins At Hummingbird
For Immediate Release
Saturday, May 10, 2025
By: Steven Curry - Race Reporter
 
Reynoldsville- After a rainout of Opening Night last week, it was finally time to kick off the 2025 season at Hummingbird Speedway on Saturday night. The opening of the 2025 season marked the beginning of the tenure of Tim Winters as track announcer. Tim brings 40 consecutive years of motorsports announcing experience to the Bird. Due to the rainout last week, there were double trophies presented to all of the feature winners courtesy of Race-1 Motor Speedway and Ardery's Automotive Repair. Feature winners on Opening Night included: the #54S of Mitch Stiles in the D. Fenton Fabrications & Mechanical Pure Stocks, the #23 of B.J. Hudson in the Gio's BBQ Semi Late Models, the #57 of Matt Tifft in the Srock Contracting Super Late Models, the #24C of Dennis Curry Jr. in the Ken Schaffer Excavating Pro Stocks, the #50 of Bob McMillen in the Economods, and the #3H of Shawn Hadden in the Brooks Services Four-Cylinders. The win for Tifft was his first career dirt Super Late Model win, while the win for Curry Jr. came in his first race back in a Pro Stock since September of 2008.
 
Speedway Notes: 61 cars were in attendance for Opening Night. That breaks down to: 16 Pure Stocks, 6 Semi Late Models, 8 Super Late Models, 10 Pro Stocks, 7 Economods, and 14 Four-Cylinders. There will be no racing this coming weekend, May 17th, due to the World of Outlaws show at Marion Center. Racing will return on Memorial Day weekend, May 24th, for Armed Services Night with a regular 6-Division Program on the card. Trophies on May 24th will be sponsored by TJ's Painting. More information regarding the Memorial Day weekend's racing action and future events will be posted to the track Facebook page and website, so keep it tuned there for the latest. Gates open at 4:00 with racing beginning at 7:00. The Sub Hub Kids Club gets underway every Saturday night at 6pm by the pit gate entrance. It is a great place to take your kids to do some fun kids club activities as well as meet some drivers prior to racing getting started. For more information, call the track office at (814) 653-8400 or visit the tracks’ website at www.hummingbirdspeedway.com. 
 
 
Results:
 
D. Fenton Fabrications & Mechanical Pure Stocks
1st) #54S Mitch Stiles
2nd) #50 Ashley Kilhoffer
3rd) #55X Andy Frey
4th) #24 Lester Hudson
5th) #56K Renae Meyer
6th) #14C Cody Cassler
7th) #15S Greg Snell
8th) #34 Tim Steis
9th) #13 Greg Kiehl
10th) #150 Kurt Corah
11th) #18 Devin Dickey
12th) #83 Dalton Gustafson
13th) #55 Austin Fenton
14th) #37B Caleb Bloom
15th) #46 Dustin Challingsworth
DNS) #88 Josh Fields
 
Gio's BBQ Semi Late Models
1st) #23 B.J. Hudson
2nd) #44 Dan Smeal
3rd) #18 Rich Runyan Jr.
4th) #96R Tyler Rougeux
5th) #15 Andy VanCuren
6th) #3xAA Doug Surra
 
Srock Contracting Super Late Models
1st) #57 Matt Tifft
2nd) #55 Dennis Fenton
3rd) #14R Clay Ruffo
4th) #983 Zack Gustafson
5th) #56 Dylan Fenton
6th) #13X Kenny Schaffer
7th) #10R Raven Fuller
DNS) #H22 Eric Hohol
 
Ken Schaffer Excavating Pro Stocks
1st) #24C Dennis Curry Jr.
2nd) #37A Jim Bloom
3rd) #1M Gary Miller Jr.
4th) #84S Josh Seippel
5th) #77 Nathan Brady
6th) #44 Jim Challingsworth
7th) #152 Kyle Corah
8th) #43 Pernell Beimel
9th) #28 Fuzzy Fields
10th) #2 Cregen Brady
 
Economods
1st) #50 Bob McMillen
2nd) #1C Chris Myers
3rd) #29L Johnny Lindenpitz
4th) #299 Shane Smith
5th) #131 Cory Wolfe
6th) #113 Ben Ecelberger
DNS) #6 Dave Shagla
 
Brooks Services Four-Cylinders
1st) #3H Shawn Hadden
2nd) #4T1 Allen Robison
3rd) #13S Chaz Smith
4th) #79A Devon Trayer
5th) #23 Brett Hanley
6th) #45 Andrew Thompson
7th) #916 Sam Regitz
8th) #8F Sam Fye
9th) #778 Duane Hinderliter
10th) #13 Greg Kiehl
11th) #44B Bruce Long
12th) #11 Jim Boyer
DNS) #79 Avery Robinson
DNS) #29L K.C. Dunkle