Appel started on the pole for the featured Late Model Selects in the Orange Blossom 247 and dominated early, leading the first 39 laps and 69 of the first 74 around the three-eighths-mile speedway.

Appel appeared to have the race all but wrapped up until Ricky Jones and Terry Dease bumped and went off Turn 2 on the white flag lap. Joey Throckmorton, who had started beside Appel on the front row and had dogged him all night, again came alongside Appel during the pell mell, green-white-checkered finish. Appel slipped just low enough out of Turn 4 to give Throckmorton room to the outside in a drag race to the checkered flag.

Throckmorton finished two-thousandths of one second ahead of Appel for the victory. Brian Cole was third, notching his second consecutive top-three finish. Brandon Baker and Andrew Perry rounded out the top five.

"I can't even breathe," Throckmorton said after his first win of the season. "Kyle had the best car, he should have won ... but we'll take it."

In the second Limited Sportsman race of the season at OCS, 2010 Grand Stock champion Keith Edwards beat out Daniel Schadt over the final eights, and pole-sitter Dennis Sargent ended up third.

In the Pure Stock division, teammates Matt Grimes and Les Aliff continued their 1-2 domination. Pole-sitter Aliff passed Grimes for good in the see-saw race with three laps to go, and Grimes ended up second. Mike Conner earned his second third-place finish of the young season.

Cory Purnell won the first Southern Ground Pounders event at OCS this season, outlasting Mark Tatum in the crash-filled race. Cory Agee was third.

In Street Stocks, Gary Ledbetter would hold off a late attack by Chris Gray to win his first race of 2011.

In Super Mini-Truck action, Chris Henderson fought off Toney Henderson and Quain Moore.

In a Legends double-header, Ryan Shattuck won the first race, and Jake Spillers took the second.

The Bandolero division also featured a twin bill, where Tate Fogleman won both.

Racing returns July 9 to Rougemont's Orange County Speedway with a lineup that includes the Late Model Select division for 75 laps, as well as the Limited Sportsman, Pure Stock, Street Stock, Super Mini-Trucks, Southern Ground Pounders, Legends and Bandoleros.