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Matt Tanner won Wednesday's Empire Super Sprints feature. (Paul Arch photo)

ESS Speedweek Opener Goes To Tanner

LAFARGEVILLE, N.Y. — The Lucas Oil Empire Super Sprints kicked off their annual Speedweek with Matt Tanner in victory lane Wednesday at Can-Am Speedway.

Tanner started outside the front row and claimed the 25-lap main event ahead of second-generation driver Jordan Poirier, who started fourth.

Paule Colagiovanni finished third, with Davie Franek and Shawn Donath completing the top five.

Thursday night’s ESS Speedweek race at Thunder Mountain Speedway can be seen on SPEED SPORT affiliate, DirtTrackDigest.tv.

The finish:

Feature (25 laps): 1. #90-Matt Tanner[2]; 2. #28-Jordan Poirier[4]; 3. #10C-Paulie Colagiovanni[8]; 4. #28F-Davie Franek[7]; 5. #53-Shawn Donath[6]; 6. #01-Danny Varin[3]; 7. #41R-Dalton Rombough[13]; 8. #3-Denny Peebles[5]; 9. 36-Matt Billings[12]; 10. #17-Sammy Reakes IV[17]; 11. #10K-Kelly Hebing[11]; 12. #10-Jeff Cook[15]; 13. #23-Tyler Cartier[18]; 14. #11J-Chris Jones[14]; 15. #88C-Chad Miller[1]; 16. #33-Lacey Hanson[19]; 17. #13-Keith Granholm[20]; 18. #7C-Dylan Swiernik[9]; 19. #87-Jason Barney[10]; 20. #14B-Brett Wright[21]; 21. #91-Scott Holcomb[16]