BUFFALO TWP — With only three weeks of Fab Four racing remaining, Lernerville Speedway’s points leaders marked their territory Friday night.

Carl Bowser (Sprints), Alex Ferree (Saxonburg) and Rex King Jr. (Modifieds — all leading their respective divisions in points — posted feature wins at the Sarver oval.

The trio reached victory lane in different fashion.

Bowser, of Sarver, rallied from the seventh starting position to claim his fourth Sprint win of the season. A 22nd-lap restart provided him the means to get past 21-year-old AJ Flick of Apollo.

Flick, a rookie in the division, was bidding for his first-ever Sprint feature triumph. He started on the front row and led for the first 22 laps.

A broken tire rod on the Brandon Matus No. 13 car brought out the caution flag Flick did not want to see.

“I was OK with the caution that came out two laps earlier because there were three lapped cars positioned between myself and the others on the lead lap,” Flick said. “I could use that to my advantage.

“But when that last (caution) came out, I didn’t even want to look at it.”

That final caution almost made Bowser lick his chops.

“With the track as slick as it was, he (Flick) was practically a sitting duck in that situation,” Bowser said. “All I had to do was slide past him.

“That was definitely a break for me. Our car’s been good all year, but we’ve been getting good luck this season and luck can play a big part in this sport.”

Ferree, of Saxonburg, has been a model of consistency all season. He has finished among the top five in all 11 Late Model features this season.

Starting ninth on this night, it appeared Ferree would have to settle for second as Jared Miley came around Turn 4 with a sizable edge on the final lap. But Michael Norris spun in Turn 1, forcing a caution that created a two-lap shootout to the checkered flag.

Miley sailed too high off Turn 2 on the restart, handing Ferree the lead he never lost. It was Feree’s fourth win of the year and his 29th career Lernverville triumph.

“If Jared doesn’t go off the track there, I don’t think I can catch him,” Ferree admitted. “But he hopped the cushion. That’s the way it happens sometimes.”

Much of the race was a four-way battle for first between Ferree, Miley, Norris and Johnny Garvin Jr.

“That was a lot of fun, racing three or four wide much of the time. You could go wherever you wanted on the track tonight,” Ferree said.

King recorded his fourth Modified win of the campaign in impressive fashion. Despite starting 10th, he grabbed the lead on a sixth-lap restart and pulled away from the field.

A caution on the 22nd lap enabled Erick Rudolph and Brian Swartzlander to start right behind King, but neither was able to run him down.

“I didn’t need that last caution to come out, but the car was great tonight ... It’s been great,” King said.

King’s win was his third feature triumph in eight days. He won last week’s race at Lernerville, started on the pole and led wire to wire Wednesday at Sharon Speedway before taking Friday’s race.

Swartzlander and Dave Murdick were running 1-2 for the first four laps Friday before Murdick nudged Swartzlander over the top of Turn 2. Both drivers were sent to the back of the field.

Both made their way back near the front. Murdick was running fourth when he lost a shock absorber and was forced to the pits with six laps left. Swartzlander wound up third behind Rudolph.

“I actually passed him (Rudolph) for second before a caution took away that lap,” Swartzlander said. “It happens. The car was good. It’s been good for a few weeks now.”

Rudolph, coming off a win in New York last week, visited Lernerville Friday because his home trackin Ransomville, N.Y., ran a special show that did not include Modifieds.

“We were going to take the night off, but we’ve been having some issues with the car,” Rudolph said. “We decided to bring it down here, experiment a little and see how it was. We’re pretty happy with it.”

Rob Shook of Creighton won a hotly contested Sportsman Stock feature, taking advantage of soje contact off Turn 3 of the final lap.

Points leader Jim Fosnaught and fellow four-time feature winner Corey McPherson came together and took each other out as Shook claimed his first feature win of the year. Shook had finished among the top five nine times this season, including three runner-up efforts.

“We’ve been so close all year,” Shook said. “It’s been such a struggle. We’ve seemingly been finishing second every place we go.

“It feels good to finally get this monkey off our back.”

Notes: There were 85 cars in the pits. ... Scott Priester of Rimersburg earned his first Sprint heat win of the season and his fourth-place finish in the feature marked a season-high. ... Michael Wagner (Sprints) and Norris (Late Models) also claimed their first heat wins of 2014. ... Flick had not finished better than sixth in a Sprint feature before Friday. Murdick finished second in the Late Model feature. His previous best this year was fifth. ... Butler’s Aaron Easler rallied to finish third in the Sportsman Stock feature after being involved in a multi-car pileup after three laps, forcing him to tag the field.