Rockett rolls to victory at Lakeview.

2018 World Short-Track Championship winner Jesse Rockett shook the Sheetz Mid-East Modified Tour monkey off of his back Saturday night in the Carolinas Surface Stripping LLC. South Region event at Lake View Motor Speedway.

Rocket was fast qualifier during Abco performance time trials among the 25 cars entered in Saturday night's event. That put him on the pole and he took the lead from the green flag and led all 25 laps, but not without a few Challengers. Tour newcomer Greg Brown started fourth and quickly moved up into the second position to challenge Rockett in the early laps. After a couple of cautions for minor incidents sixth starting Jeff Parsons moved into the second spot on a restart. Not long after Brown suffered a brake failure and was relegated to a 20th place finish from there Parsons challenge rocket on numerous occasions but was unsuccessful in his bid to take the lead. Lake View regular Josh Fields had a strong run going moving up to third from his eighth place starting spot before a late race spin took him out of contention. Zack Tate continued his strong early season runs by moving into the third spot following Fields spin and held on to finish a respectable third. On the other end of the spectrum Chris Stowe finally had good luck go his way coming home fourth after a dismal start to the 2019 season. Matt Hope rounded out the top 5 finishers.