Eric Riggins, Jr. sweeps USCS Senoia Summer Nationals
By Jacob Seelman
Posted 10:00AM on Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Eric Riggins, Jr. won Saturday night's USCS Senoia Summer Nationals final at Senoia Raceway, grabbing his third win of the year and completing a weekend sweep. / Photo: Chris Seelman
SENOIA, GA - Coming into the weekend, Eric Riggins, Jr. had never won a feature event at Senoia Raceway in Senoia, GA. Now, he's two for two in 2014 at the famed three-eighths mile dirt track.<br />
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The 19 year-old from Charlotte, NC, powered around K&N Filters pole-sitter Collin Cabre on lap 15 of the 30-lap Senoia Summer Nationals A-main finale and survived a lap 23 tussle with Cabre that saw the two exchanged the lead twice in one lap, to grab his second straight USCS win and complete a weekend sweep.<br />
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It marks Riggins' eighth career USCS victory and his third in 2014.<br />
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"This one was hard-fought tonight," Riggins said in Victory Lane. "Once I finally got to the lead, I just got held up by lap traffic and couldn't time it right to get under him because it was a really a hard track to pass on. I give credit, (Cabre) raced me clean