Photo courtesy of PORT ROYAL SPEEDWAY Driver Anthony Macri (center) and his crew stand with Jim Kline Tribute sponsor Sandy Kline in victory lane at Port Royal Speedway Saturday night.

PORT ROYAL — Saturday night started with a big announcement, courtesy of Sandy Kline from J&S Classics that the Weikert Livestock 410 A-main event would pay $22,000 instead of the scheduled $5,000 to win the Jim Kline Tribute in memory of her husband, Jim.

With the unannounced change in payout, the event became a PA Speedweek-style format with two-car qualifying that saw Logan Wagner go fastest in the group.

The A-main saw Logan Wagner and Brent Marks make up the front row for the 25-lap event with Anthony Macri and Justin Whittall making up row two.

Wagner led the opening 13 circuits of the race before problems would slow the 69K to halt on the backstretch and give the 19M of Brent Marks the lead.

On the ensuing restart, Macri attempted to put a slider on Marks in turn one, but Marks drove back by for the lead.

On the next lap, Macri attempted a second slider into one and got it to stick for the lead with 10 laps remaining.

Macri opened his lead to over 1.000 seconds in the waning laps of the race, but with 3 laps to go, Brent Marks came to life and started to track down Macri for the win.

With the white flag thrown, Marks followed Macri through the first set of corners and carried the momentum to pull alongside for the lead going into turns 3 and 4 when the caution flag waved for a slowing Michael Walter on the front stretch.

With a one lap shootout for the win, Macri powered off to a great start and claimed the Jim Kline Tribute race title and took home $22,000.

“We drove over 19 and a half hours from Husets to be here tonight for Sandy and this race,” said Macri in victory lane. “This is the cherry on top for this team and for her.”

“I’ve known Jim and Sandy since I was a really little kid. She used to tease me and Jim was just an amazing guy and everything he did was well respected.”

Brent Marks held on for the runner-up finish worth $5,000 and Chase Dietz rounded out the podium.

Garrett Bard took home the Warrior Award for finishing in the 22nd position, worth $1,000.

Lance Dewease won the hard charger for going from 18th to 9th, which was worth an extra $500.

In Super Late Model competition, Rick Eckert led from flag to flag for the $4,000 win in a different car than what fans would be used to seeing him in.

Eckert drove the Jacob Julius No. 5 for the night after a grueling Appalachian Mountain Super Late Model Speedweek would see him run out of motors after his would broke at Lincoln Speedway a week ago.

“I was going to work on Jacob’s car this week, and I called him up and asked him if he planned on racing this weekend,” said Eckert after the race, “He said, ‘No.’ So, I asked him if I could and he said yeah!”

Eckert started on the pole and led all 25 laps with Andrew Yoder trailing him closely throughout the event.

While Yoder pulled close to Eckert multiple times throughout the feature, he never had enough speed to make the pass for the win.

Andrew Yoder finsihed in the runner-up spot and Dylan Yoder finished third.

For the 305 sprint cars, Logan Spahr charged from the 11th starting position to pass for the win with just three laps remaining.

Doug Dodson led the field to the green flag and held onto that position for the opening 17 laps.

He started to face challenges from Spahr with eight laps remaining with Spahr pulling alongside through the first two turns, but Dodson held enough speed to get back in front.

Spahr attempted a slider but wouldn’t be able to get the move to stick, and lost ground on Dodson and had to charge him down for the next four laps.

Spahr did just that and made the winning move in turn three by going to the inside and held it steady to take the lead and the win.

Dodson placed second and Zach Rhodes took 3rd.

Port Royal Speedway will be back in action on Saturday for the 13th Annual Blue Collar Classic, which features the PA Sprint Series RaceSaver sprint cars, the Limited Late Models and the wingless sportsman.