What won the race: Breaking through for his first series win, Cole Wells of Crane, Mo., topped 10th-starting Ryan Gillmore to win Saturday’s Malvern Bank Cash Money Series feature at Springfield Raceway. Wells earned $2,500 for winning the Saturday Night Lights Showdown 100.

Key notes: Runner-up Ryan Gillmore of Springfield, Mo., drove a Chris Hawkins-backed machine. … Springfield Raceway hosted the Malvern Bank Cash Money Series for fifth time this season. … It was the longest and richest event of the second-year tour’s season, a 100-lap, $2,500-to-win main event. … Brad Looney or Republic, Mo., won last year’s Showdown 100. … Looney won the tour’s first three races at Springfield this season before splitting twin features with Dustin Mooneyham there on Aug. 17.

Winner's sponsors: Cole Wells drives a Swartz Race Car powered by a Yeoman Race Engine and sponsored by Fry Farms, Midwest Sheet Metal, Woody's Express, Bass Livestock, Bowling Garms, Jason's Stump Grinding, Yock's, Ormsby Trucking, Doty Truck Center GT Motors and Animal Race Bodies.

Points chase: Brad Looney (1,013 points) of Republic, Mo., leads Cole Wells (798) and Michael Maggard (793).

Current weather: Sunny, 82°F

Car count: 35

Polesitter: Brad Looney

Heat race winners: Larry Campbell, Jackie Dalton, Dustin Mooneyham, Brad Looney, Cole Wells, Kanyan Methvin, Ryan Gillmore, Mike Hailmann

Consolation race winners: Jim Body, Kylan Garner

Next series race: September 27, Thunderbird Speedway (Muskogee, OK) $2,000