“Hollywood” Todd Geist of Lehighton recaptured the glory of winning as he drove to his first Late Model win since April 16, 2005.

Geist, who started third, passed his son Cody on lap two for the lead and then had strong running Frankie Althouse all over him.

With four laps to go Althouse made a bid for the lead by going to the inside of Geist in turn one. However, Geist wasn’t about to let victory slip away and he slammed the door on Althouse. His closing of that door caused Althouse to spin from contention.

Geist’s night didn’t end there either. Up to second and third were point leader Todd Stehle and last week’s winner Joe Mooney who made an effort but Geist held his ground and took the long overdue win.

“It feels great to be back especially after the last few years of being pretty much junk,” said Geist, who notched his 29th career win and 30th overall at Mahoning.

“I had felt a couple of bumps behind me and I wasn’t sure who it was. When we went into (turn) one and I saw Frankie underneath me and I just slammed the door. I thought, ‘It’s been over five years and I wasn’t about to give this one away.’ I hated for him to spin and loose second spot because it could have been a good night for him also.”

Stehle continued his season streak of not finishing any lower than second.

Feature started 6th lead from lap3 till 19 then we lost a fuel pump and finished 4th