Peyton Sellers is now a four-time South Boston Speedway NASCAR Whelen All American Series Late Model Stock Car Division champion.

With a second-place finish in the first of the twin 75-lap NASCAR Late Model Stock Car Division races that headlined Saturday night’s GCR Presents Spaulding Equipment Company NASCAR Late Model Twin 75s racing program and a win in the nightcap, the Danville, Virginia resident earned his third South Boston Speedway track championship in five years and fourth overall.

Sellers entered Saturday night’s twin bill with a 41-point lead over NASCAR national points leader Philip Morris of Ruckersville, Virginia, and with the two drivers finishing within one position of each other in both races, Sellers was able to secure the championship.

Morris earned a full-field win in the opening race, starting on the pole and leading all the way, edging Sellers by 2.446 seconds in a 25-lap dash to the finish that followed the race’s last caution period. Sellers started in the back of the field in order to pick up track passing points, moved into second place on lap 48, and remained there the rest of the race.

The win, Morris’ 10th of the season at South Boston Speedway, put him in the position of all but locking up a fifth career NASCAR Whelen All American Series national championship.

Thomas Scott of Efland, North Carolina finished third, Justin Carroll of Lanexa, Virginia finished fourth and Colin Garrett of South Boston, Virginia completed the top five finishers.

Sellers started eighth and Morris started 10th in the nightcap which featured an inverted start among the top finishers of the first race. It took Sellers and Morris only six laps to pick their way to the front of the field, and from there, Sellers fended off several bids by Morris over the final 69 circuits to score his third win of the season at South Boston Speedway.

Austin Thaxton of Clarksville, Virginia, Scott, and Mark Keesee Jr, of Altavista, Virginia rounded out the top five finishers in the nightcap.

Race #1:
1 – Philip Morris #01
2 – Peyton Sellers #26
3 – Thomas Scott #8
4 – Justin Carroll #91
5 – Colin Garrett #24
6 – Austin Thaxton #12
7 – Nathan Crews #3
8 – Terry Carroll #90
9 – Mark Keesee #38
10 – Quincy Adkins #75
11 – Charles Barnes #64
12 – Raymond Pittman #50
13 – Danny Willis, Jr. #23
14 – Jason Barnes #28
15 – Mike Jones #39
16 – Mike Looney #87
17 – Dennis Holdren #8
18 – Stuart Crews #26

Race #2:
1 – Peyton Sellers #26
2 – Philip Morris #01
3 – Austin Thaxton #12
4 – Thomas Scott #8
5 – Mark Keesee #38
6 – Terry Carroll #90
7 – Nathan Crews #3
8 – Charles Barnes #64
9 – Raymond Pittman #50
10 – Quincy Adkins #75
11 – Danny Willis, Jr. #26
12 – Mike Jones #39
13 – Jason Barnes #8
14 – Justin Carroll #91
15 – Colin Garrett #24