LAKE ODESSA, Mich. — A dominant run for Sam Hafertepe Jr. to close the two-day appearance in Michigan, the three-time and defending champion of the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network was untouchable at I-96 Speedway.

Hafertepe won Saturday’s 30-lap feature by 6.105 seconds.

“The car was great. I’m very fortunate to have car owners like Miles and Pam and to have the crew we have, they make it where I can just focus on driving the car,” said Hafertepe. “Last night, I wasn’t taking any prisoners but tonight I calmed down and just focused on the racing. Both nights, this crew gave us a great track to race on. They did a hell of a job.”

Trailing the A-Rock Materials No. 95 of Matt Covington into the first two turns, that would be the only time Hafertepe rolled second as the run into turns three and four netted the race lead. Caution on lap two for a three-car incident that involved Bogucki, Price, and Scheid in the second turn, the green lights blinked on for two more laps before Alex Hill and Ryan Coniam came together off the fourth turn.

Moving past Matt Covington on the opening lap restart, Phil Gressman was on Hafertepe as the field went back to green but would not be able to keep pace as Hafertepe started to pull away. Leaving Gressman to himself, the pair were chased by Ryan Ruhl.

Coming under fire on lap 14, the No. 16 was not able to keep Blake Hahn at bay as the Sage Fruit, Co. No. 52 shot to the show position on lap 15. Chasing down Phil Gressman as the pair picked through traffic, Hahn pulled to the back bumper of the No. 7c, but would not get the chance to pass as the caution flew on lap 24.

Erasing a 5.869-second lead, Hafertepe amassed several lapped cars between himself and Gressman. Lapping up to ninth place before the caution, the restart was a walk in the park.

Holding off Hahn in the closing laps, Gressman grabbed second with Hahn holding onto third. Ruhl ended up fourth with Covington slipping to fifth.

The finish:

Feature (30 Laps): 1. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr., [2]; 2. 7C-Phil Gressman, [4]; 3. 52-Blake Hahn, [7]; 4. 16-Ryan Ruhl, [3]; 5. 95-Matt Covington, [1]; 6. 17W-Harli White, [5]; 7. 5J-Jamie Ball, [10]; 8. 47X-Dylan Westbrook, [8]; 9. 85-Dustin Daggett, [6]; 10. 11-Roger Crockett, [9]; 11. 14-Jordon Mallett, [12]; 12. 28-Scott Bogucki, [16]; 13. 49T-Gregg Dalman, [21]; 14. 27-Brad Lamberson, [14]; 15. 77-Andrew Scheid, [20]; 16. 16W-Garrett Saunders, [22]; 17. (DNF) 10S-Jay Steinbach, [13]; 18. (DNF) 16C-Zane Devault, [11]; 19. (DNF) 24D-Danny Sams III, [19]; 20. (DNF) 46-Ryan Coniam, [18]; 21. (DNF) 77X-Alex Hill, [17]; 22. (DNF) 21P-Robbie Price, [15]; 23. (DNF) J2-John Carney II, [23]

ORRVILLE, Ohio — If the standard length of a World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series feature  was only 45 laps, Saturday night’s 50-lap race at Wayne County Speedway would have ended on a different note.

Series champions Brandon Sheppard and Darrell Lanigan put on what could potentially be remembered as one of the most exciting features of the season in an incredible display of lap-after-lap, no-holds-barred battling for over 25 laps.

Lanigan pounded the cushion on the top, with Sheppard showing a wheel down low almost every lap until he made the winning move on lap 46 by going underneath Lanigan, who was forced out of his high groove by lapped traffic.

Amidst all the fireworks in the last 10 laps with the leaders, rookie sensation Ricky Weiss burst onto the scene with seven laps to go after a late-race charge, getting around Doug Drown with 11 circuits remaining and closing within five car lengths of the battle between Sheppard and Lanigan by lap 43.

With three laps to go, Weiss had completely closed the gap and made the pass out of turn four underneath Lanigan to take second. With time running out and a slew of lapped traffic ahead of him, Weiss took aim at the Rocket1 Racing machine.

But his last-lap dive into turn three was unsuccessful and Sheppard hung on for the win – his seventh of the year with the Outlaws and third in-a-row at Wayne County Speedway.

“I knew my car was fast on the top, so if I could just get in open track, I could roll pretty good,” Sheppard said. “Everybody was just all over the place and we were racing hard. A fun, clean race, for sure.”

Sheppard spent a lot of effort digging on Lanigan down low until he saw daylight on the high side. When Lanigan saw the signal sticks telling him to move back up to the top, Sheppard went back to the bottom. But after several unsuccessful pass attempts down low and the laps winding down, Sheppard began feeling the heat from Weiss’ No. 7 behind him. And that’s when he knew it was now or never.

“I moved to the top in [turns] three and four and caught [Lanigan], and then his crew guys moved him up to the top, which was what they should have done,” Sheppard said. “Finally, we were getting into lapped traffic and I saw Ricky show me a nose on the bottom and I knew it was either time to go or get passed.”

Sheppard got a great run coming out of turn two on lap 46 and drag-raced Lanigan down the backstretch. It looked as though Lanigan’s momentum on the high side would carry him through once more, as it had on every other pass attempt. But Larry Bellman Jr. was already riding the line and impeded Lanigan’s path just enough to allow Sheppard to get the momentum advantage and squeak by underneath.

“The lapped cars were just right where I needed to be and I wasn’t good enough around the bottom to go down there and get up beside them,” Lanigan said. “Brandon’s car was better on the bottom.”

After the lead changed hands, Weiss said he eventually saw an opportunity to grab the lead on the low side, but lapped traffic made him think better of it as well. Blake Spencer was already down on the bottom as the leaders were moving through, and Weiss chose to be conservative over making a bonzai move.

“I just didn’t want to stick my nose in there and maybe hit a tire or slam into his [Spencer’s] door,” Weiss said. “I thought maybe we could get in the right place at the right time and pick off the lead, but I played it safe and went around him on the outside.”

The finish:

Morton Buildings Feature (50 Laps) – 1. 1-Brandon Sheppard [3][$10,000]; 2. 7-Ricky Weiss [4][$5,000]; 3. 29-Darrell Lanigan [2][$3,000]; 4. 28-Dennis Erb [1][$2,500]; 5. 12-Doug Drown [9][$2,000]; 6. 97-Cade Dillard [5][$1,700]; 7. 25-Shane Clanton [11][$1,400]; 8. 44-Chris Madden [12][$1,300]; 9. 1x-Chub Frank [7][$1,200]; 10. 18-Chase Junghans [19][$1,100]; 11. B1-Brent Larson [23][$1,050]; 12. 99B-Boom Briggs [6][$1,000]; 13. 6-Blake Spencer [22][$950]; 14. 59-Larry Bellman [16][$900]; 15. 9-Devin Moran [8][$850]; 16. 59m-Shane McLoughlin [24][$800]; 17. 5m-Ryan Markham [20][$770]; 18. C9-Steve Casebolt [15][$750]; 19. 18c-Mitchell Caskey [21][$730]; 20. 79-Brad Malcuit [13][$700]; 21. 44h-Dave Hess [14][$700]; 22. 14g-J.R. Gentry [17][$700]; 23. 36-Matt Irey [10][$700]; 24. 17-Charlie Duncan [18][$700]; Hard Charger: B1-Brent Larson[+12]

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — The battle for the Morgan Cup at Williams Grove Speedway Saturday night was a title match of epic proportions between the World of Outlaws and Pennsylvania Posse.

In the end, Pennsylvania veteran Lance Dewease, who started on the pole, held off 10-time World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series champion Donny Schatz to win the 30-lap Morgan Cup.

Driving Don Kreitz Jr.’s No. 69k, it was Dewease’s second WoO victory in four days and the 17^thof his career.

Schatz got the first punch, jumping to the lead at the start of the race. From there, Schatz set a pace Dewease couldn’t match.

“The pace we were trying to run, we were going to be hard on tires at that whole 30 laps,” Dewease said about Schatz’s early run. “But hell, I wasn’t too easy with them.”

Schatz’s early lead didn’t last long, though. On lap two, Logan Schuchart stopped on the frontstretch due to an ignition box issue. The caution allowed the two front runners a quick rest to gauge their early run.

When the green flag waved, Schatz jumped back to the lead. Dewease kept pace with him, though.

“I was shocked how good I hung with him there on the bottom,” Dewease said. “I thought we’d be alright if I could get by him (Schatz). He knows how to get around here when it’s slick.”

Like Dewease predicted, once he got in six consecutive laps, his car took off. While Schatz rode the high side, Dewease found enough grip on the bottom to wear out Schatz’s lead. By that time the two leaders entered lap traffic, which proved to be an advantage for Dewease.

Schatz struggled to navigate around lap traffic, allowing Dewease to plan the attack he needed on lap 17 to take the lead.

“It just came down to getting through lap traffic,” Schatz said. “I got to the 70 car and I didn’t push the issue, to go across the race car and go in front of him and I didn’t do it. It got me in a funk for a few laps and Lance got by. I got myself back going, but it was too late.”

Dewease then cruised to his second win in four days, after winning Wednesday’s night race at Lincoln Speedway.

“This rivalry is pretty intense,” Dewease said. “It goes back a long way. We’re some of the few areas that can consistently win against these (Outlaws) guys. We were very fortunate to get it done tonight and keep the cup for another year. Beating Donny is always special because he gets around this place so good.”

While Schatz accepted his defeat, having to settle for second, he laid down a further challenge for the PA Posse fans.

“I hear all of that Posse chant, and I love that,” Schatz said. “Come August, I’m pretty sure he’s (Dewease) going to win the money to go to the Knoxville Nationals, so there’s going to be no damn reason every person in this place isn’t at the Knoxville Nationals watching it.”

While Schatz and Dewease put on a show at the front of the field, California-native Giovanni Scelzi was the show of the race behind them.

Scelzi won the C Main, transferring to the rear of the 12-car Last Chance Showdown, where he finished fourth. He then romped from 24^thto finish seventh in the feature.

“Just qualified bad, and when you do that it puts you behind the eight-ball,” Scelzi said. “We just kept trucking in the Feature and kept going and going and going. I wish we had a yellow. I think we had something to get back in the top-five.”

Scelzi won his first Series victory at Williams Grove last year, becoming the youngest World of Outlaws winner at 16 years old.

“I just seem to have some natural speed,” Scelzi said, “I don’t know where it comes from. Seems to be a place I’m comfortable at.”

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Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany will leave the club this summer, having secured an historic domestic treble, to become player-manager of Belgian club Anderlecht.

Kompany, 33, is City's longest-serving player, having joined in August 2008, but his contract runs out at the end of the season -- and though ESPN FC had been told that there was a willingness from both the club and the player to agree a new deal, he revealed he would be leaving after the FA Cup final win over Watford.

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Kompany has been blighted with injury problems in recent years but started five of City's last six Premier League matches to help them win the title, including scoring a stunning winner against Leicester in the penultimate game.

"As overwhelming as it is, the time has come for me to go," he said in a post on Facebook. "And what a season to bow out. I feel nothing but gratefulness. I am grateful to all those who supported me on a special journey, at a very special club. I remember the first day, as clear as I see the last. I remember the boundless kindness I received from the people of Manchester.

"I will never forget how all Man City supporters remained loyal to me in good times and especially bad times. Against the odds you have always backed me and inspired me to never give up.

"Sheikh Mansour changed my life and that of all the City fans around the world, for that I am forever grateful. A blue nation has arisen and challenged the established order of things, I find that awesome.

"I cherish the counsel and leadership of a good human being, Khaldoon Al Mubarak. Man City could not be in better hands."

In a second post later on Sunday, Kompany revealed his next move: "For the next 3 years, I will take up the role of Player-Manager of RSC Anderlecht ... I have decided to take up the challenge at RSC Anderlecht. Player-Manager. I want to share my knowledge with the next purple generations. With that, I will also put a bit of Manchester in the heart of Belgium."

Paying tribute to Kompany, chairman Al Mubarak added on the club website: "There have been many important contributors to Manchester City's renaissance, but arguably none are more important than Vincent Kompany. "He defines the essence of the club. For a decade he has been the lifeblood, the soul, and beating heart of a supremely talented squad.

"A booming voice in the dressing room yet a quiet and measured ambassador off it, Vincent can be as proud of himself as we are of him. "I am not sure he expected to lift the Premier League trophy on four occasions during his captaincy but he will be remembered and revered whenever this period of unprecedented City success is spoken about by future generations.

"His leadership, intelligence and determination have seen him adapt brilliantly to playing under four different managers and overcome some debilitating injuries. He is a special character who has answered every demand the club has made of him.

"We now look forward to celebrating his testimonial match in September so that we can properly celebrate his City contribution. He will always be part of the City family."

Kompany spent 11 years at Man City, he played in 360 games and scored 20 goals. During that time he won four Premier League titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups and two Community Shields.

Chris Wondolowski's pursuit of Landon Donovan's record for the most goals in MLS regular-season history (145) proved to be a metaphor for his entire career.

You knew the San Jose Earthquakes forward was there, you could sense his presence. But then your thoughts drifted elsewhere, dazzled perhaps by the record-breaking exploits of Atlanta United's Josef Martinez or Zlatan Ibrahimovic's latest golazo for the LA Galaxy. At which point, Wondolowski would remind you just how great he has been.

So it proved on Saturday afternoon against the Chicago Fire, as Wondolowski scored four times -- the first four-goal game of his career -- to break Donovan's record. He did it with a bit of stealth and plenty of guile, remaining what he has been throughout his career: MLS' phantom menace.

First, in the 21st minute, Wondolowski latched onto Shea Salinas' low, driven cross to stab home at the far post to equal Donovan's mark of 145. Twenty seven minutes later, he moved past Donovan and into sole position atop the MLS goal-scoring summit, first on the scene to pounce on an error from Fire goalkeeper David Ousted in vintage Wondo fashion. With the record now his, he wasted no time adding to it, scoring in quick succession in both the 74th and 76th minutes to bring his total to 148.

Talk to those who played with Wondolowski and against him and there is immense respect for what he has achieved. But even as he plays in his 16th season, through 338 league games and now a record 148 regular-season goals, there is also a touch of bewilderment. He isn't speedy like former Seattle Sounders forward Obafemi Martins nor is he powerful in the air like the Colorado Rapids' Kei Kamara. He has made a career out of lulling opponents to sleep, then punishing them.

Houston Dynamo defender A.J. DeLaGarza said it best: "When you're marking Wondolowski, he's still open."

So, how is it that a player with little in the way of obvious physical gifts has been able to so flummox opposition defenses? Like most forwards, Wondolowski is fiercely competitive. The desire to score goals is always there.

"Every single time he scores, he celebrates it like it's his first one," said Sporting Kansas City's Graham Zusi. "And he is just continuously hungry for goals."

But the key component to Wondolowski's game is continual movement that never allows him to be marked easily. It was this trait that former Chelsea defender John Terry described as "fantastic" after playing against Wondolowski in the 2012 MLS All-Star Game, a match in which the Quakes forward scored.

"Wondolowski's movement was always about finding a different space, finding an angle," said ESPN analyst and former Seattle Sounders goalkeeper Kasey Keller. "A defender gets caught ball-watching and he's not there anymore."

What has made Wondolowski's movement so special is that there's a "when" to accompany the "what," revealing an attuned soccer brain.

"I think the thing that really was and has been the cornerstone of his career is the timing of his runs in the box," said former Real Salt Lake and Portland Timbers defender Nat Borchers about Wondolowski. "It was more that he was going to out-think you, that was the frustrating thing."

Seattle midfielder Cristian Roldan added with a smile, "[Wondolowski] is always aware of where the space is and always on your back shoulder. He's a pest and sometimes it's really frustrating playing against him."

To be clear, there are athletic aspects to Wondolowski's skill set. He remains a player, even at age 36, who is plenty mobile in terms of getting around the field. He also possesses the kind of short burst to get away from defenders, which helps him to turn tight spaces in the box into bigger ones.

"I think people look at Wondo, there's something -- I don't want to say unathletic -- very untraditional about the way he moves on a soccer field," said RSL GM Craig Waibel, who played with and against Wondolowski in San Jose and Houston. "He's so fluid that I think it was deceptive."

His endurance also borders on the legendary. Waibel recalled how when the two were with the Dynamo, Wondolowski would follow up a practice in Houston's sapping humidity with another 20 minutes of finishing work with then-assistant John Spencer. He would recover in plenty of time to do it again the next day. That dedication paid off on the field -- both in terms of stamina and finishing; 42.3 percent of his shots have hit the target in the past seven seasons, as compared with the league average of 35.4 percent -- and was noticed by opponents such as Sporting Kansas City defender Matt Besler.

"You may be able to keep up with Wondolowski for the first half or the first 60 minutes, but over the course of the 90 minutes, I'd be interested to know when he scored goals in games and when his percentage of goals has come in the last 15 or 20 minutes," he said. "I'd say a big factor in that is just his willingness to run throughout the game. He really wears down opposing defenders."

Besler's instincts are correct. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, broken into 15-minute intervals, Wondolowski scored a higher percentage of his goals in the second half of games during his career than the league average.

From minute 46 to 60, Wondolowski scored 17.5 percent of his goals, as compared to 16.8 percent for MLS leaguewide. From minute 61 to 75, the percentages were 21.0 percent to 17.1 percent for MLS. From minute 76 to 90, Wondolowski scored 23.1 percent of his goals, as compared to the league average of 22.4 percent.

Wondolowski is also the ultimate optimist and opportunist. There is simply no such thing as a low-percentage chance.

"As a forward, you talk about certain things; always finishing your run, just in case the ball misses everybody and goes all the way through to the back post," Besler said. "Or you follow up the shot just in case the goalkeeper saves it for a rebound.

"Wondo is the only guy that I've played against that does that 100 percent of the time. If there's a shot, I'll put my house on it that Wondo is going to be there following it up. And nine times out of 10, the goalkeeper saves it and nobody recognizes it. But the one time that the goalkeeper doesn't save it or there's a deflection or whatever happens, he's in that spot. And 10 times out of 10, he makes that run just in case.

So, after all of these years and all of these goals, Wondolowski has now made history. Yet there is still a sense that he is a tad underappreciated, at least outside the San Francisco Bay Area. Sure, he won the MVP in 2012, the same season he became what was then MLS' single-season joint-record scorer, and was a Best XI selection for three straight seasons starting in 2010. But his miss against Belgium in the round of 16 of the 2014 World Cup still weighs heavy, even as Wondolowski soldiered on in its aftermath. The fact that the Quakes have made the playoffs just three times since he returned to San Jose in 2009 hasn't helped, either. Then there is his style of play.

"His game is hard to describe," Besler said. "That's probably why he's still somehow underrated. But to me, scoring goals is a skill; it's just like passing or shooting or running or dribbling. He has this instinct to score, and I don't think enough people rate that and view that as a skill. Some people might look at it and just assume it's hard work or at times luck or whatever reason it is. But in my mind, it's a skill, and he has mastered being able to sniff out a goal. He has this unique ability to figure out where the ball is going to drop before anybody else."

Longevity and consistency can result in someone being taken for granted. The Quakes forward has reached double-digit goals nine seasons in a row -- a remarkable stretch. Then there is his personality. While Wondolowski will let out a trademark roar when he scores, the rest of the time he operates in an understated way. And as bigger names such as Ibrahimovic have joined the league, Wondolowski has been eclipsed.

"People will put asterisks by it," said Waibel about Wondolowski breaking the record. "It's because he's not the big, flashy, camera-hungry guy, he's not the self-promoting goal scorer. ... He's almost an antithesis of what goal scorers are in terms of personality."

But numbers matter most of all, and on that count, Wondolowski is now standing alone atop the MLS goal-scoring heap with 148.