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2B I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com Wednesday, October 23,2019 FROM 1B NASCAR second place looking to win the race outright before another caution, due to a Bubba Wallace accident, reset the field for a two-lap overtime run. Elliott maintained his second-place position for what appeared to be the final restart of the day while Keselowski dropped to thirteenth after a brief pit-stop under the yellow flag. One lap later, mere seconds before Hamlin crossed the start-finish line to make it an official race, a third caution flag flew, caused by Keselowski get ting loose into the side of Daniel Saurez. Once again, the field quickly shuffled in and out of pit row and hit the track for another two-lap overtime ran. This time Elliot, needing four points to advance, started third while Keselowski fell to thirteenth. Under the green flag, Elliott surged into second place and nearly chased down Hamlin for the win, crossing the line only .218 sec onds behind the No. 11 FedEx Toyota. Keselowski, needing to do nothing but hold his posi tion, made an ill-fated move to the outside and got caught three-wide, losing six positions for a nineteenth-place fin ish that ended his playoff hopes in a stunning conclusion to the season. “We didn’t make it. I pushed as hard as I knew how and didn’t quite do good enough on the last restart and that was it,” Keselowski said. “We clawed as hard as we could and there were times it looked like we were going to be fine and times it didn’t. In the end it didn’t work out.” For Elliott’s crew chief Alan Gustafason, the last sec ond playoff berth was almost shocking after a difficult trio of races in the Round of 12. Now the No. 9 team looks ahead to Martinsville where Gustafason guided Jeff Gordon to victory lane in 2015 to make the Championship 4. “It’s never easy,” Gustafson said. “Dover was tough. That was probably in my career one of the more difficult things to go through. You come off the high of winning at the Roval and we worked really hard to accrue a good amount of bonus points.” “Just looking forward to getting there and going at it. We’ve been kind of finicky, kind of hit or miss. ... I’m excited to go there, but I need to go to work on it now to make sure all the I’s are dotted, and all the T’s are crossed.” Along with Elliott and Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick all advanced to the Round of 8 based on their perfor mance in Kansas. Kyle Larson and Blaney round out the field by virtue of their wins at Dover and Talladega, respectively. William Byron, Clint Bowyer, Alex Bowman and Keselowski were the four drivers eliminated. The third round of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series gets underway on Oct. 27 at the Martinsville Speedway in Virginia with the First Data 500. The race is scheduled to begin at 3 RM. Eastern Standard Time. College Football Roundup TOP-25 SCOREBOARD No. 1 Alabama 35 No. 14 Boise State 25 Tennessee 13 BYU 28 No. 2 LSU 36 No. 15 Texas 50 Mississippi St 13 Kansas 48 No. 3 Clemson 45 No. 16 Michigan 21 Louisville 10 Penn State 28 No. 4 Ohio State 52 No. 17 Arizona State 3 Northwestern 3 Utah 21 No. 5 Oklahoma 52 No. 18 Baylor 45 West Virginia 14 Oklahoma State 27 No. 6 Wisconsin 23 No. 19 SMU 45 Illinois 24 Temple 21 No. 7 Penn State 28 No. 20 Minnesota 42 Michigan 21 Rutgers 7 No. 8 Notre Dame BYE No. 21 Cincinnati 24 Tulsa 13 No. 9 Florida 38 No. 22 Missouri 14 South Carolina 27 Vanderbilt 21 No. 10 Georgia 21 No. 23 Iowa 26 Kentucky 0 Purdue 20 No. 11 Auburn BYE No. 24 Appalachian St. 52 UL Monroe 7 No. 12 Oregon 35 No. 25 Washington 31 Washington 31 Oregon 35 No. 13 Utah 21 Arizona State 3 By Bob Christian bchristian@dawsonnews.com Bringing to life the old adage “on any given Saturday, any team can win,” week eight of the col lege football season gave us a trio of unimaginable upsets, two with massive conference and playoff implications and the third possibly indicating the future of two once marquis programs. 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The loss guarantees Wisconsin tumbles in the polls and takes the luster off of next week’s match-up with the Buckeyes. Furthermore, it puts the Badgers behind the still undefeated Minnesota Gophers in the Big 10 East, casting doubt on every level of Wisconsin’s post-season hope. While no one has been looking, the Missouri Tigers have quietly been positioning themselves as a dark-horse candidate to capture the SEC East. After Georgia’s loss to South Carolina the possibility loomed large in Nashville against the Vanderbilt Commodores. Possibly too large, as the 17 point favored Tigers were held to a season low 14 points, never leading in the game and ultimately losing by a score of 21 - 14. The Commodores’ victo ry gave new life to both the Georgia and Florida runs for the SEC East title as they prepare to face each other in “The world’s larg est three-day outdoor cock tail party” in Jacksonville on Oct. 26. For the Tigers, the loss makes their road to the title that much more dif ficult as they now must beat both the Bulldogs and the Gators to have any shot at the conference title. Finally, wrapping up the trifecta of victorious under dogs, Georgia Tech rallied on the road to stun the heavily favored Miami Hurricanes in overtime by a final score of 28-21. The victory, only their second of the season, marked the first ACC win for newly installed head coach Geoff Collins. CHARLESTON EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURE March 16-18, 2020 3 day/2 night Join us as we savor the sights, sounds, & flavors of Charleston! 3 day/2 Night - All Inclusive Trip Starting at $785 PP DO* Repeat Customers receive a gift! 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