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Tim Huddleston of Agoura Hills won the NASCAR Late Model race, his third of the year, and Andrew Myers saw his championship chances disappear Saturday night at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale.
Nick Joanides of Woodland Hills held on to his lead in the Late Model standings by finishing second to Huddleston. Joanides entered the race with a four-point lead over Huddleston and a 12-point lead over Myers. With the win, Huddleston trails Joanides by two points.
Myers, a driver from Newport Beach, was sent to the back of the field for colliding with pole sitter Lindsey King, then assessed a stop-and-go penalty for rough driving. Myers finished 16th.
King, a driver for Huddleston's High Point Racing team, was also sent to the back of the 25-car field for colliding with Myers, but she worked her way back to eighth place at the end.
King became the first woman to win a Late Model race at the track the last time the Late Models raced two weeks ago. She started on the front row, in second, and led every lap of the 40-lap race.
She was on the front row again for Saturday night's race, this time on the pole, and Joanides was the one who put her there.
Joanides set the fastest lap in qualifying. But the starting order was randomly determined and the first six cars were inverted, putting King on the pole and Joanides in sixth.
"She got one free pass tonight," Joanides said. "I've been too nice to her I guess."
In the race King won two weeks ago, Joanides finished second and tried to pass her on a couple of occasions. He said afterward it's probably a good thing he wasn't able to pass her because if he did, he would have been the most hated driver at the track.
Benny Moon, another driver for High Point Racing, made his final start at Irwindale. He will return to race for High Point Racing at Las Vegas and Tucson Raceway Park in Arizona. Beau Debard will be in the High Point Racing car for the next Late Model race at Irwindale. Ryan Kaplan, who is racing in USAC, will finish the season in Moon's car at Irwindale.

Connor Cantrell of Santa Clarita won his sixth NASCAR Super Trucks race of the year and cut into Pat Mintey Jr.'s lead in the standings on Saturday night at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale.
Cantrell took the lead from pole sitter Rod Johnson Jr. of Canyon Country on lap 11 and avoided a seven-car crash that brought out a caution on lap 34. Ryan Fortier and Uli Perez took the most damage in the wreck that collected among others Dana Higgins and Josh Barker.
Cantrell, who has won two straight and five of the past seven races in the Super Trucks division, trails Mintey, a driver from Quartz Hill, by four points.
"It's going to be close, four races to go," Cantrell said. "It's going to be really close."
Cantrell, the leader in wins in the NASCAR Super Trucks division at Irwindale, avoided disaster in practice Friday night at the track.
A hime joint broke on his truck and he nearly crashed into the turn one wall. He stopped short of the wall and his team was able to make repairs to get his truck ready for Saturday night's race.
"It's a five dollar part," said Cantrell, a senior at Valencia High School. "But it's a five dollar part that could have cost us thousands of dollars."

There will be an open casting call for the NBC game show "Deal or No Deal" at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night. Buy a ticket to the race, get a chance to try out for the show.
Plus, because rain washed out some of the races last weekend at Irwindale, the track will honor tickets purchased last Saturday night for this Saturday night's races.