**James Edens Holds Off Late Push at Weedsport in Series Opener** James Edens led the final eight laps to pocket the feature win at Weedsport, but it wasn't clean sailing down the stretch. Jason Korn ran him hard in the closing corners, applying pressure but never quite finding the room to pull the trigger on a pass attempt. Edens kept his line and took the checkered flag with Korn glued to his rear bumper. The real story was Dustin Griffitts clawing his way from eighth to the podium. He was the hard charger of the night, carving through traffic and making calculated moves to land third. That kind of aggression on a half-mile dirt oval doesn't go unnoticed. Hayden Cardwell locked down the pole with a 15.149-second lap but didn't carry that speed into the feature. The five heat races distributed the field, with Gregory Lamey, Kendal Tucker, Colton Davis, Tyler Schell, and Waylon Wilson each taking their respective heats. JD Brown and Mason Hannagan got the job done in the consolation races and made their way into the main event. Round 1 is in the books. Edens made it count.