Sentinel photo by MIKE GOSS Eventual winner Devon Borden (23) passes leader Garrett Bard to take the 410 sprint car feature lead at Port Royal Speedway on Saturday.

PORT ROYAL — Devon Borden was a man on a mission Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway.

Coming off a rough Pennsylvania Speedweek, Borden rebounded with a dominating performance in the 25-lap sprint car feature. Borden, a native of Raymond, Wash., earned $5,000 for his third Port Royal win of the season and fifth of his career. He extended his point lead as well.

The outcome was much better than four days earlier when he flipped the Stehman-Shuttlesworth No. 23 in the first turn during the Speedweek finale.

“After last week, we knew we had to get the job done tonight,” Borden said. “Everything worked out and we were able to do that. It was a solid night.”

He quickly put that crash behind him racing from 10th to third in his qualifying heat and then quickly from eighth to the lead in the feature.

“The heat race was huge,” Borden said. “Getting to the third spot was the difference between starting eighth and starting way back. That was crucial. We drew the worst pill there was (for heat race starting spots).”

It has been exactly one year since he joined the Halifax-based team.

“Jim (Shuttlesworth) said what he always says, ‘get up on the wheel and go,'” Borden said about his crew chief. “We tried a few different things with the racecar. It has taken me a little bit to get comfortable around here, but I’m starting to get the hang of it.”

Garrett Bard got the jump on fellow rookie Jake Karklin on the opening lap.

Contact sent five-time champion Logan Wagner spinning into turn one with two laps completed. The front end damage ended his night.

Borden was up to fifth, lost a few spots on the restart, and then roared back on the outside groove and was fourth with four laps down. TJ Stutts passed Karklin for second.

Borden blasted under Karklin taking third entering the third turn, and made the same pass of Stutts the next lap taking over the runner-up spot with six laps down.

Bard was racing the low line with Borden pinned on the outside. As Bard slid up off the fourth turn, Borden turned insider of him taking the lead down the frontstretch completing lap seven as the leader.

It was all Borden from there as his lead was over 5-seconds at one point. He sliced through slower traffic without much trouble.

“I figured with the pace I drove by everyone, I was probably out a ways,” Borden said about his big lead. “It tough to really know. I was racing in lapped traffic and they were making the bottom work. I was worried, so I tried it one lap, but I ended up going back to the top.

His final margin of victory was 3.5 seconds over Stutts.

“In this sport, you can never get too high and you can never get too low,” Borden said.

Blane Heimbach raced from 12th to complete the podium. Lucas Wolfe and Gerard McIntyre Jr. completed the top five. Bard scored his highest 410 sprint car finish in sixth. Justin Whittall started 11th and finished seventh. Jeff Halligan raced from 17th to eighth, Mike Wagner from 19th to ninth and Mayor Dylan Cisney from 20th to 10th.

Heat races for the 30 cars were won by Karklin, Bard and L. Wagner. M. Wagner won the consolation.

Jonestown’s Bryan Bernheisel led all 25 laps of the late model feature earning $4,000 for his first career speedway win. He turned back a mid-race challenge from Trevor Feathers and then pulled away over the final laps.

Bernheisel had things his way for most of the race. Feathers, who started fifth, ducked under him for the lead in turns three and four with 10 laps to go. Bernheisel kept the top spot and then a caution slowed the race. Feathers challenged him again after the restart, but Bernheisel eventually pulled away to the win. Feathers, point leader and 10th starter Rick Eckert, Gregg Satterlee and Jeff Rine completed the top five. Kyle Hardy, Jim Bernheisel, Dylan Yoder, Gary Stuhler and Nick Dickson rounded out the top 10.

Heat races for the 32 cars went to Rine, Yoder, and the Bernheisel’s. Colton Flinner won the consolation.

Stuhler earned $1,000 with a last corner pass of Dickson in the eight-lap Australian Pursuit race for the late models.

Mifflintown’s Ryan Zook won the 20-lap limited late model feature earning $1,500 for his first career track win. Shawn Shoemaker, Taylor Farlling, Trent Brenneman, and Lane Snook completed the top five. Zook leads Shoemaker by five in the point standings.