SELINSGROVE — Not even a full moon could deny Pat Cannon the 2010 358 sprint car track title at Selinsgrove Speedway on Saturday night.

The 31-year-old from Etters scored his 10th win of the season and his 17th overall in Central Pennsylvania.

It was Cannon’s second track title; his first came in 2008.

“This is awesome,” he said as he was doused with champagne. “The car was awesome, it was a great year. The National Open, that was exciting and the race was exciting in its own sense.

“This is a great facility, great track, great place to come and race. We may miss one or two races next year, but hopefully, we’ll be standing back here in victory lane a few times as well.”

Cannon is also the 358 points leader at Williams Grove and the overall Central PA sprint car points leader. The last person to pull off winning the Selinsgrove and Williams Grove Speedway championships along with the overall Central PA title was the late Jim Nace.

Cannon turned an early 3.39 second deficit into a 3.9 second win as he took the lead on lap 10 from early pacesetter Cody Keller of Selinsgrove.

Cannon needed just four laps to erase the deficit as he moved under Keller on lap 10 on the low side between turns one and turn. The race was slowed by just one caution on lap 12.

Cannon took a 75-point lead over Blane Heimbach into the feature and with both drives winning their heats, they started along side each other in row five.

Cannon’s final margin was 125.

Logan Schuchart, who started 12th, move into second on the lap 12 restart and held onto the runner-up spot, his career-best at Selinsgrove. Blane Heimbach finished third.

Keller fell back to finish fourth with Mechanicsburg’s Derek Locke rounding out the top five. Sixth through 10th were Phil Walter, McClure; Nate Snyder, Halifax; T.J. Stutts, Liverpool; Colby Womer, Mount Pleasant Mills; and Jessica Anderson, Berwick.

Sprint car heats for the 26 cars on hand were won by Cannon, Locke and Heimbach. The consolation winner was Josh Beard.

Jason Smith of Williamsport took the lead on the backstretch on the opening lap of the third try at the start of the 15 lap pro stock feature. He held off Jason Schmidt for most of the race before Schmidt slowed to a stop with mechanical problems on lap 14.

Smith led the final lap to score his fourth win of the season, but it wasn’t enough as Richfield’s A.J. Hoffman, who was caught up in an early-lap tangle on the second try to get the race under way, rallied from the back of the pack to finish third to secure his first-ever pro stock track championship.

“It was a heck of a year and I’m really happy to put the car back in victory lane,” said Smith. “It was a lot of fun to race with A.J., for the title, and I am really happy for them.”

The final point differential between the two was 65 markers.

“It took a while, but we finally got here,” Hoffman said of the championship. “I thought we were in trouble there with the accident on the backstretch, but we got up through the field and did what we had to do. I knew I had to finish at least sixth to get the title.”

Pro stock heat winners were Stroup; Cody McFadden, Montoursville; and Nate Kerstetter. Liverpool.

Steve Campbell of Danville became the eighth different winner of the season in an exciting 25-lap late model feature. Campbell held off Jim Yoder of Selinsgrove in a green-white-checker finish.

“I was starting to wonder for myself if I was going to get back into victory lane,” Campbell said. “Tonight everything was real good. We learned something when we lost the lead in the heart race. I have to thank Roy and Tony Adams. To have such nice people to give you equipment like that, what can you say.

It was Campbell’s 43rd career win at the track, breaking a tie with Roy ‘Check’ Adams to move into sole possession of fourth place on the all-time win list.

Jeff Rine of Danville capped off his fourth straight and sixth overall track title with a fourth-place finish. He opened the season by setting a record with five straight wins. He ended the season with nine overall.  

Rine has 64 career wins, five behind Bobby Croop on the all-time win list.

Selinsgrove’s Jim Yoder was second with his son Dylan Yoder third. Kyle Rhoads of Sunbury was fifth.

Sixth through 10th were Eric Hons, Benton; Matt Cochran, Williamsport; Andy Haus, Hamburg; Mike  Walls, Hanover; and Troy Miller, Tower City.

Late model heats were won by Rine, Yoder and Walls. The consolation was won by Randy Burkeholder, Chambersburg,

Brad Mitch of McClure was disqualified for taking out points leader Ricky Bender on the final corner of the final lap of the roadrunner feature. The win went to Rob Pyle, Donaldson. The post-race celebration was marred by an unsportsman-like scene in victory lane from the Mitch crew.

“We just brought the car out as a back-up for Ricky and we never thought that what happened in turn four was going to take place,” Pyle said of his first win and seeing the leader taken out in front of him.

“I guess I was expecting that on the last lap,” Bender said of getting taking out. “We fought hard and came on strong in the end of the year. I have no hard feelings. We’ve had two years of bad lack and I guess the third time was the charm. I thought the steering broke, I didn’t know he was that ignorant of a driver.”

Roadrunner heats were won by Mitch, and Bob Bussey, Sunbury.