HERMON – The outside groove was the fast one at Hermon’s Speedway 95 Saturday night.

But Stockton Springs’ Duane Seekins certainly didn’t mind the bottom one.

After taking the lead by passing Carmel’s Don Alexander Jr. on the outside of lap 21, Seekins used the bottom groove to hold off challengers on four restarts over a seven-lap span and win the 35-lap Pro Stock feature by four car-lengths over Corinna’s Paul White.

“We had a good transmission and the car was pulling good tonight,” said the 48-year-old Seekins who won his third Pro Stock race of the season to go with two others in the Limited Class.

“We had a terrible year last year so we regrouped this winter and, so far, we’re doing pretty good,” said Seekins, who started third. “We got the car set up for the inside. That’s the only place you’re going to go by anybody. We worked hard on it.”

White did a nice job recovering from a lap-19 wreck with Alexander Jr. that put him to the back of the 12-car field.

“That was all my fault. I hated for that to happen to Donnie. I didn’t mean to make contact with him,” said White. “Then I wore my tires out coming back through the field. I was lucky to get second, I guess. I kept spinning my tires on the restarts and Duane was real tough on the bottom.”

Rounding out the top five were Kris Huff or Orrington, Lee’s Erik Worster, who now lives in Bangor, and Hermon’s Jason Thayer.

There were six cautions in all.

In the Sport Four 35-lap feature, the second in the Dysart’s three-race series, Greenville’s Colin Arey took the lead on a lap-21 restart from Winter Harbor’s Justin Trombley and held off Trombley by less than a car-length to take the checkered flag.

“If we had two more laps, I probably would have had him. But that’s the way it goes,” said Trombley. “The outside line was faster than the bottom and [Arey] had the preferred groove.”

“I was lucky to hold him off. His car was faster than mine,” said Arey, who claimed his first win of the season. “It’s a one-lane racetrack. The outside lane is faster. My car was pretty good. It was sticking real well.”

Darrin Durrell of Newburgh was third among the 19 cars that started the race. Colin Arey II, Colin’s son, was fourth and Dixmont’s Lewis Batchelder was fifth.

In the Limiteds, pole-sitter Ricky Morse of St. Albans led all the way in his brother’s car and was never seriously challenged as he beat Thomaston’s Rodney Brooks by 25 car-lengths.

“I’ve been trying to help my brother [Ray-Allen Morse] quite a lot. He’s trying to learn and it’s hard to learn when you aren’t getting the breaks. I’ve raced it the last three weeks and he’s getting it back next week,” said Morse whose win was his first of the year.

Ricky Morse credited sons Josh, his crew chief, and Pat with playing important roles in masterminding the car’s setup. Pat works for Petty Enterprises.

Ricky Morse’s motor blew in a race earlier this season “and I don’t have a lot of money to get it back together.”

Scott Modery of Hermon was third, Greg Morse of St. Albans was fourth and Brent Parritt of Steuben was fifth.

In the Super Streets, Dixmont’s Shane Tatro collected his third victory as he took the lead on lap eight and held off several challenges from Bradley’s Deane Smart to triumph by two car-lengths.

“It has been a long couple of years. I was in Iraq last year and couldn’t race and I came home with a vengeance. I want to race and do well,” said the 24-year-old Tatro. “The car was real good. We had a little trouble in practice. We blew two tires. We overcame that. We have a borrowed tire on there right now. I was happy to see it go caution-free because the bottom groove wasn’t that good and, if there was one, he [Smart] probably would have gotten me on the high line.”

“We loosened the car up just a little too much,” said Smart.

Dixmont’s Joe Legere, Franklin’s Justin Brenton and Hermon’s Kris Watson rounded out the top five.

Pole-sitter Derek Pearson led all the way and won his second Strictly Street feature by 20 car-lengths over Frankfort’s Bobby Seger Jr. with Pearson’s 16-year-old brother Jordan, coming home third. Joe Allen Sr. of Levant and Garrit McKee of Dixmont were fourth and fifth, respectively.

In the Mini-Trucks class, just three of the six trucks finished with Hermon’s Phil Richardson leading all the way for a 15 truck-length victory over Kenduskeag’s Clarence McCullough. Levant’s Joe DeLorenzo was third and Marvin Williams of Old Town wound up fourth.