ALTON, Va. – The 56th SCCA National Championship Runoffs came to a close on Sunday at Virginia Int’l Raceway, with eight more competitors collecting victories and championships.

Mark Boden headlined the list of winners on Sunday, with the Illinois driver taking top honors in the Touring 1 division after a last-lap pass.

It appeared the Touring 1 class was going to belong to Andrew Aquilante, who led 14 of 15 laps. However, on the final lap Aquilante’s car began to lose power and his massive lead of more than 30 seconds evaporated.

Boden caught Aquilante four turns before the finish line, taking the lead away and stealing the victory away from Aquilante, who costed to a second-place finish. The victory allowed Boden to earn a rare feat of earning first, second and third-place finishes across multiple events at VIR during the Runoffs.

Multi-time Trans-Am Series champion Ernie Francis Jr. captured his first Runoffs championship in the GT-1 class. Tony Ave started from the pole and led early before sliding off the track in fluid left on the track by another car, giving Francis the lead.

Ave quickly regained his footing and returned to the track, chasing down and passing Francis to regain the lead. After several more cars spun in the fluid, officials stopped the race to clean the track, setting up a three-lap dash to the finish.

When the race resumed Ave held serve with Francis in tow, but a mistake by Ave in the Hog Pen turn sent him off the track and opened the door for Francis to regain the lead again. This time Francis maintained his position, earning his first Runoffs crown.

Cooper MacNeil made the trip from Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta to Virginia Int’l Raceway worthwhile by earning his first Runoffs crown in the Touring 2 division. MacNeil drove the No. 3 WeatherTech Porsche 911 to a dominant victory.

Tray Ayres earned his second SCCA Runoffs title and his first in Prototype 2, leading runner-up finisher Lucian Pancea home by nearly four seconds at the checkered flag.

Eric Prill edged Charlie Campbell by a scant .096 seconds to claim the Runoffs crown in the F Production class. The race was one of the more exciting races of the day, with six lead changes being scored at the line with more taking place around the track.

Anthony Seaber took top honors in Formula Mazda competition, finishing more than 30 seconds ahead of runner-up Robert Noell in the pouring rain.

Jonathan Kotyk defended his Runoffs victory in the Formula F event, surviving a rain-soaked and shortened feature aboard his No. 8 K-Hill Mygale Honda.

John Phillips kicked off the day with a victory in the B-Spec class after surviving a race-long battle with David Daughtery, who fell off the pace late in the race. That handed Phillips the victory, his first championship in 29 attempts.

OSWEGO, N.Y. – Mat Williamson’s dream season continued Sunday during the finale of Super DIRT Week as the hard charging Canadian collected $50,000 for his score in the Billy Whittaker Cars 200 at Oswego Speedway.

Williamson, who earned a $100,000 victory earlier this year with a win in the anniversary race at Orange County Fair Speedway, made the run look easy.

He made his pit stop during a lap 56 caution period and then patiently waited for the cars in front of him to pit as well. By the time another of the 22 caution flags waved at halfway, he’d passed a few cars and enough other cars ahead of him had pitted to put him third.

He then rode patiently behind leader Tim Sears Jr and Max McLaughlin until another yellow waved on lap 117.  When the duo went pitside together, Williamson was the new leader with a relatively fresh Bicknell powered by a Billy the Kid engine and he was almost home free.

From that point, Williamson would shoot out to a turn lead after restarts and ride as his challengers dueled behind him. Ryan Godown ran second ahead of Mike Maresca and Erick Rudolph in the 120-lap range and that was the order when Mike Mahaney and Ryan Watt tangled in turn one on lap 134, causing Mahaney to jump out and angrily discuss the situation with Watt.

With order restored, the race continued to run in bits and spurts between cautions and with 50 laps to go it was Williamson, Godown, Chris Hile, Rudolph and Anthony Perrego in the top five. Then Perrego caught fire, got to second on lap 184 and began closing on Williamson.

With 10 to go, the leaders caught the tail of the field and Perrego got even closer.  He was right alongside Williamson on lap 195, but Rudolph pulled up on the frontstretch to draw the day’s 22nd yellow and Williamson escaped.

A return to green with five to go saw Williamson launch like a rocket and with two to go he had a turn lead again. At the same time, Perrego slowed, apparently low on fuel, and Tim Fuller, who had been picking cars off one by one in the late stages, was suddenly second.

Brett Hearn came across third ahead of Godown, Jimmy Phelps, late pitter Stewart Friesen, Chris Hile, fast timer Billy Decker, ageless Jimmy Horton and Marc Johnson.

“Wow, what a dream season,” exclaimed Williamson. “I really wanted this one.  Our strategy was perfect, we got the lead and we were still there at the end.

Fuller said he struggled all day and was surprised to finish second.

“I was fourth with two to go,” Fuller said. “We struggled all day, so who would have thought this would happen.  These pit stop races are tough for everyone but things worked out for us today.”

Hearn, whose amazing career is winding down, was as competitive as ever in the 200 and for a while, many thought he had a shot at the win.

“All those yellows killed our strategy,” said Hearn, long known as a master tactician.  “But we adjusted on the fly and pretty soon we were in the top five.  Amazing.”

The caution plagued event was mostly slowed by cars pulling up with a flat or single car spins, but a restart scramble on lap 121 left nine cars in a heap in turn three, with former winner Alan Johnson going over as others piled in. Fortunately, everyone emerged unscathed.

The finish:

Mat Williamson, Tim Fuller, Brett Hearn, Ryan Godown, Jimmy Phelps, Stewart Friesen, Chris Hile, Billy Decker, Jimmy Horton, Marc Johnson, Tom Sears Jr., Kenny Tremont Jr., Anthony Perrego, Peter Britten, Pat Ward, Justin Haers, Tim Sears Jr., Danny Johnson, Kyle Coffey, Dave Marcuccilli, Erick Rudolph, Duane Howard, Ryan Susice, Billy Dunn, Max McLaughlin, Jack Lehner, Demetrios Drellos, Mike Mahaney, Ryan Watt, Michael Maresca, Matt Sheppard, Alan Johnson, Rob Bellinger, Gary Lindberg, Paul St. Sauveur, Danny Varin, Dave Constantino, Jessey Mueller, Gary Tomkins, Larry Wight, Billy VanInwegen.

THOMPSON, Conn. — Doug Coby sealed his sixth NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championship on Sunday at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, completing a season that put the Milford, Conn., driver back on top after one year away from tasting glory.

The title was the sixth in the last eight years for the 40-year-old, and also helped him break a tie with Tony Hirschman with five series titles. Coby now only trails Mike Stefanik (seven) for the most Whelen Modified Tour titles in the modern era.

“It’s just hard to put into words,” Coby said. “We try to come out to have the best season of anybody, and win every race, everyone out there does. My team just finds a way to do it.”

Coby finished seventh in the Sunoco World Series 150 at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, but it was enough to win him the title by eight points. But it didn’t come without a bit of drama.

Coby started third, but during a red flag for a multiple-car crash on lap 12, received some crucial information over the radio — oddly enough, from a fellow competitor. Woody Pitkat told Coby’s team the left-rear tire looked low on air pressure, and he was right.

Coby pitted during the caution, changed the tire, and restarted deep in the field. It wasn’t long before he was back up inside the top 15, positioning himself where he needed to be to keep his points lead. By the end, seventh was enough to seal the deal.

Justin Bonsignore won the season-finale, his sixth victory of the season, which helped him close the gap to just eight in the championship standings. Even though he came up short of his second consecutive Whelen Modified Tour title, Bonsignore scored victories in three of four races at Thompson this season — extending his active drivers lead to 11 wins at the Connecticut oval.

“We spotted them way too many points in the beginning of the year. I’m really proud of our effort — we won a handful of races at the end of the year, and we didn’t get the championship, but we backed up our eight wins last year with six this year. Great car and a great pit stop (today).”

Ron Silk finished second, while Matt Swanson, Bobby Santos III and Woody Pitkat finished the top five. Eric Goodale was sixth, followed by Coby, Chase Dowling, Rob Summers and Timmy Solomito.

Behind the top two in the championship standings, Silk finished third, 62 points back, while Craig Lutz and Swanson finished the top five.

The finish:

Justin Bonsignore, Ron Silk, Matt Swanson, Bobby Santos III, Woody Pitkat, Eric Goodale, Doug Coby, Chase Dowling, Rob Summers, Timmy Solomito, Tommy Catalano, Craig Lutz, Kyle Soper, Sam Rameau, Kyle Bonsignore, J.B. Fortin, Blake Barney, Tom Rogers Jr., Dylan Slepian, Chuck Hossfeld, Andrew Molleur, Joey Mucciacciaro, Kyle Ellwood, Gary McDonald, John Beatty Jr., Wade Cole, Tyler Rypkema, J.R. Bertuccio, Melissa Fifield, Calvin Carroll, Kevin Shea, Chris Pasteryak, Andrew Krause, Timmy Catalano, Anthony Nocella, Patrick Emerling, Ken Heagy, Andy Jankowiak, Gary Putnam, Mark Bakaj.

BRASELTON, Ga. – To most on the outside, it seemed as if the No. 6 Acura Team Penske team faced a pretty easy task at the Motul Petit Le Mans in order to lay claim to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s driver and team titles in the Daytona Prototype international class.

All Juan Pablo Montoya, Dane Cameron and Simon Pagenaud had to do was bring the car home in eighth place or better on Saturday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta to accomplish the deed.

On Sunday morning, some 12 hours after finishing fourth in the 10-hour season finale to claim the title, they recounted the pressure they faced in doing so as they prepared for the evening’s WeatherTech Championship Night of Champions to honor title winners in all categories.

Montoya was especially animated as he talked about the final double stint he drove in the dark to the checkered flag.

“It was so freakin’ stressful,” he said. “Before I got in the car (for the last stint), they came to me and said, ‘Remember, it’s eighth place that we need to finish and we’ve got nearly 10 minutes’ advantage. Don’t screw it up.’ I’m like, ‘OK.’

“It’s hard because some laps you start pushing and you’re really comfortable pushing, but you know that by pushing you can get it completely wrong (and make a mistake),” Montoya added. “And then you back off and you start making mistakes and you go, ‘Oh, I need to go back to pushing, but don’t push too hard. Oh, this was really easy, I can do it quicker. No, don’t try it!’”

“It becomes a mental struggle,” chimed in teammate Cameron, who could only stand and watch in the team’s pit – a location he wasn’t used to from his two previous WeatherTech Championship titles.

“The last couple times I won (the championship), I was in the car so at least the time goes by a little bit quicker and you’re a little bit more in control,” Cameron said. “We were fairly comfortable when we got there (entering the race weekend), so it was literally just so many ways for it to go wrong. You’re just trying to dodge all the pitfalls during the day.”

Cameron added he enjoyed seeing the reaction of the No. 6 crew as Montoya crossed the finish line to seal the deal.

“It was really cool to see all the guys and how much it means to them, with the amount of effort they put in,” he said.

That sentiment was the same across all the class winners on Sunday morning. Like Montoya and Cameron did for Acura in DPi, Laurens Vanthoor and Earl Bamber delivered driver, team and manufacturer championships for Porsche in GT Le Mans.

“Not just the driver’s championship, that’s special, but what we did as a team,” Bamber said of the significance. “To get the manufacturer’s and the team championship, that’s special, especially because it wasn’t that we had the quickest car and we just sort of ran away in every single race.

“It was a hard team effort. Sometimes it was great and sometimes it was really tough. We just did a better job in the bad races to score the most points and you need a good team to do that.”

The same feeling carried over to GT Daytona champions Mario Farnbacher and Trent Hindman, co-drivers of the No. 86 Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian Acura NSX GT3 that took home driver and team titles. The duo said they were up until 5 a.m. celebrating with their team, a memory they’ll cherish for years.

Hindman said it still hasn’t fully hit him that he’s a WeatherTech Championship champion.

“I’m going to need more than a night to let it kind of sink in,” he said. “This is the culmination of many, many years of hard work by a lot of people. By my parents, by sponsors, by teams I’ve gotten to work with in the past, even back down to karting. It all kind of snowballs and builds and builds and builds and builds.

“I’m just grateful to have this opportunity to work with Mike Shank, with Mario, to work with an unbelievable crew at MSR and Acura and Honda Racing/HPD. We’ve all become more than friends and co-workers this year. That’s a very special bond that will never be broken with anybody who worked on this team and achieved this.”

SYDNEY, Nova Scotia – Laurie Cormier was declared the winner of the inaugural Thanksgiving Thunder Robby’s Tractor Trailer Services Late Model 100 Sunday afternoon at Sydney Speedway.

Cormier, who also qualified for the Big Weekend Bonus in the event, drove the No. 53 MetalCore Toyota to the win ahead of a field of 12 Late Model Sportsman to finish his season in victory lane.

Cormier ran second most of the event to Brady Creamer, but the No. 10 car did not pass post race technical inspection, giving the win to Cormier. Lynden MacDougall was second, followed by Ryan VanOirschot, Jeffrey Breen and Darren Price in the top five.

Creamer and Price won heat races to qualify for the Robby’s Tractor Trailer Services 100. The feature event saw seven caution periods and took 50 minutes to complete.

Tylor Hawes became the fifth different Colbourne Auto Group Legend winner in as many races by taking home the 35-lap finale on Sunday afternoon. Hawes drove from the back of the field with 15 laps to go to ultimately take the lead from Kody Quinn, who suffered an axel  issue in his car in the late laps. Dylan Dowe raced his way to second with Devin Wadden capping off his rookie season with a third place run in Sydney.

Quinn was the winner of the 30-lap PPM Incorporated Street Stock feature on Sunday. Quinn, who was driving for Brennan MacInnis, inherited the lead when Colton Beaver and James Matchett made contact while racing for the lead. Matchett would race back to second with Beaver third at the finish. John Halliday completed his run in a Street Stock car with a fourth place finish on Sunday.

Quinn also swept both Mini Stock features during the Thanksgiving Thunder event. Quinn won the first 30-lap feature over Josh Benac and Brian Axworthy. Alex Landry raced to his first podium finish in the second 30-lap feature with a second place run to Quinn. Benac finished third in the second feature for his second podium finish of afternoon.

Dylan Dowe took home his fourth Steve Lewis Auto Body Bandolero feature of the season. Dowe dominated the event and took home the checkered flag ahead of a spirited battle between Brooke Dowe, Emily Chisholm and Ayden Christensen.

Glen Cooke won his second straight Bomber feature with a win on Thanksgiving Thunder weekend. Cooke held off a hard charging Brian Northrup for the checkered flag in the 35-lap feature. Zack Langille finished a close third place finish.

CARY, N.C. – Jerry Kelly knew he needed to make as many birdies as he could Sunday in a sprint to the finish in the SAS Championship. He was so locked into the process that he didn't realize how many he made until he marked them down on his card.

Locked in a tight race, Kelly ran off five straight birdies to close out the front nine and then made an insurance birdie late that carried him to a 7-under 65 and a one-shot victory in the final regular-season event on the PGA Tour Champions.

"When the guys are so close and you're bunched up, it's make the next birdie," Kelly said. "And then somebody else makes a birdie and it's like, 'OK, I have to make another birdie. I have to make another birdie.' It kind of shocked me to see I was three, four shots clear."

Kelly made his lone bogey on the final hole when it only affected the margin. He won by one shot over David McKenzie, who shot 63.

Woody Austin and Doug Barron, who shared the lead going into the final round, each shot 71 and tied for third with David Toms (66). Barron fell back with a tee shot that went out-of-bounds on No. 6 and led to triple bogey. Austin played his final 13 holes in even par.

Kelly, who finished at 16-under 200, won for the third time this year on the PGA Tour Champions and takes plenty of momentum into the postseason. He went over $2 million in earnings for the year and remains No. 2 in the Charles Schwab Cup standings, though he cut into Scott McCarron's once big lead.

Kelly now is $221,430 behind McCarron, and points are double in the three Schwab Cup playoff events that start in two weeks.

"I'm very happy to be healthy, very happy to be playing well at this time," Kelly said.

Rod Pampling of Australia, who turned 50 last month and was playing his second event on the PGA Tour Champions, needed to finish in the top 10 to earn a ''wild card'' into the postseason. He birdied three straight holes and needed one more on the 18th to finish the tournament in the top 10, but his 15-foot putt was inches short.

The top 72 on the money list qualify for the postseason.

Sandy Lyle was holding down the 72nd spot until closing with a 75. Mike Goodes, who started the SAS Championship with a 75, rallied with rounds of 68-70 and tied for 28th, making enough money to finish No. 72 on the money list by $323 over Lyle.

HUMBLE, Texas – Sitting just three shots off the lead after Saturday’s third round of the Houston Open, Scott Harrington had a decision to make; so he called his wife, Jennifer, who was back home in Scottsdale, Arizona.

“We just kind of decided that she was going to stay home,” Harrington said.

A day later, Harrington again rang his wife, though this time he was standing on the range at the Golf Club of Houston, waiting to see if his 13-under score would be enough for at least a playoff.

It wasn’t.

Moments earlier, Harrington missed a 17-foot birdie putt at the last that would’ve gotten him to 14 under. Instead, it was Lanto Griffin – not Harrington – earning his first PGA Tour victory.

Harrington, who birdied four of his final six holes and closed in 5-under 67, three-putted the penultimate hole and soon settled for a share of second.

“I fell one short, but I've got nothing to hold my head about,” Harrington said. “This opens up a lot of things for me the rest of the year, that's for sure, and just for my career in general, just to know that for my first time in contention that I can play on this stage under these lights and pull off the shots when I need them.”

The 38-year-old Tour rookie is already used to pressure. Earlier this year, he finished second at the Portland Open to earn his card for the first time, ending a long journey that included Harrington stepping away from golf last year after Jennifer, his wife of eight years, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma for the second time.

“Our last two years have been pressure, and this is nothing,” Harrington said. “I felt like when I got my card in Portland at our last regular-season event, that final round, I said at the time that's going to be the most pressure I'll ever play under in my career. I don't care if I'm in a final group of a major, that round was the most pressure-filled round I'll ever have to play because I'm trying to achieve something that I've been working toward for so long that I had in front of me. … I went back to that round a lot today.”

Though Harrington didn’t win Sunday, he knows his past experiences have prepared him for the next time he has a chance. It’s also likely that when that time comes, he won’t need to call Jennifer. She’ll be there watching.

Lanto Griffin hung on for a one-shot victory over Scott Harrington and Mark Hubbard at the Houston Open for his first PGA Tour victory. Here's a look inside his bag.

DRIVER: Titleist 917D2 (10.5 degrees), with Mitsubishi Kuro Kage TiNi 70 TX shaft

FAIRWAY WOOD: Titleist TS2 (16.5 degrees), with Mitsubishi CK Pro Blue 70 TX shaft

IRONS: Titleist U510 (2), with Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 Tour 105 X shaft; T100 (4-9), with Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X shafts

WEDGES: Titleist Vokey Design SM7 (46, 50, 54, 60 degrees), with Nippon N.S. Pro Modus 3 Tour 120 X shafts

PUTTER: Sik Flo

BALL: Titleist Pro V1

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The New York Jets held on to get their first win of the season, 24-22 over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday at MetLife Stadium, energized by the return of quarterback Sam Darnold from his bout with mono.

Darnold passed for 338 yards and two touchdowns and gave the Jets (1-4) an NFL-caliber offense, something they lacked in his three-game absence, and provided hope as they prepare for a schedule that softens in November.

Playing with plastic protection over his previously enlarged spleen, Darnold orchestrated three touchdown drives in the first half, including a 92-yard scoring pass to Robby Anderson. Some context: The Jets had only two offensive touchdowns in the first four games, the last 2 1/2 with former third-stringer Luke Falk at quarterback.

Quarterback play matters in this league -- a lot. Darnold made coach Adam Gase look smart as the Jets jumped to 21-3 lead. He connected with seven different receivers, showing his ability to see the entire field -- something Falk failed to do. If he was rusty or out of shape from the long layoff, it didn't show.

A few days ago, offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains said, "Sam is not a magic wand." On Sunday, Darnold proved he was.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Arizona Cardinals rookie quarterback Kyler Murray took it upon himself to secure Sunday's win over the Atlanta Falcons.

He raced 5 yards on third-and-5 to a game-clinching first down with 1:45 left in the fourth quarter, as he barely got past the first-down marker on the Cardinals' sideline. He ran out of bounds right in front of Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury, who broke out a big smile after seeing where Murray's feet last touched in bounds.

The play was reviewed but upheld, ultimately giving Arizona a 34-33 win, its second this season.

"It was close," Kingsbury said. "I felt like the angle, it was going to be tough to overturn, but I know it was close. It was right there."

Murray wasn't sure whether the play would be overturned or not because of how long the officials took to review it, he said.

"Looking at it now, I probably should've stuck the ball out, but it's a good learning lesson for me," Murray said. "I will make sure I get it next time."

The play, which Kingsbury had taken from another team, was a quarterback keeper with two options: throw it to either the receiver in the flat or coming across the field, or keep it and run while staying in bounds and getting the first down. Murray's first look was the pass, if it was open. But it wasn't -- and it worked out exactly like left guard Justin Pugh had seen on film.

When Murray took off to his right, he began yelling and pointing for tight end Maxx Williams to start blocking.

"I heard him say 'start blocking,' so I turned and found the first guy I saw," Williams said. "I know what he's capable of doing, so [I was] hoping he got the first down."

The Cardinals practice that type of scramble-drill play "all the time," wide receiver Trent Sherfield said.

When the passing option wasn't open and Murray took off on his feet, his teammates didn't doubt Murray would get the win-sealing first down.

"I knew they were aggressive downhill, so if Kyler got the edge, I knew it was going to be a first down," Pugh said. "Maybe a little closer than I would have liked but, hey, we got the call, we won the game today."

Murray's run was an example of the No. 1 pick's ability to make plays with his feet. He threw for 340 yards and three touchdowns on 27-for-37 passing, but it was his feet that helped him stay out of trouble while also making plays.

It started in the first quarter, when Murray spun away from pressure and then scrambled some more only to set and fire an 18-yard completion to Larry Fitzgerald.

"He's a quick little thing," wide receiver Pharoh Cooper said. "He has all the talent in the world. Obviously, he's making the smart play. If there's nothing there, he has the talent to use his legs, and that's what's going to help him a lot, help us win some games."

Murray finished with 32 rushing yards on 11 carries, two fewer than the team-high 34 by both David Johnson and Chase Edmonds. He had two first downs and a run for 14 yards.

His ability to scramble, Sherfield said, frees up and creates plays out of dire situations -- such as his pass to Fitzgerald, another play Arizona works on daily in practice. With Murray's mobility, Sherfield said the receivers need to be more "definitive and decisive" with their cuts.

Pugh thinks Murray's ability to run evens the playing field, and Fitzgerald believes Murray has a great understanding of when to run and when not to, comparing Murray's decision-making to that of Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.

"That's his game, and he does a really nice job of protecting himself for the most part," Kingsbury said. "The times that he takes a little more physical hits, if you will, is when it's on called runs.

"I can tell he prefers doing it on his own, and when it's not there, he makes a play. That's part of his game."