OXFORD – You could almost say he deserves his own key to the place.

Eddie MacDonald drove past defending champion Brian Hoar on lap 106 and hung on to claim the ACT 150 Saturday night at Oxford Plains Speedway.

The 2009 TD Bank 250 winner started sixth on the 33-car grid, quickly moved into the top five and took the lead for the first time on lap 103.

Ricky Rolfe ran among the leaders all night and brought his car home second, while rising star T.J. Brackett of Buckfield placed third. Oxford regular Corey Morgan and Hoar completed the top five.

Ryan Farrar (Trucks); Troy Jordan (Runnin Rebels), Darrell Moore (Mini Stock); and Kurt Hewins (Strictly Stock) were also feature winners on a warm, summer-like evening at the speedway.

“This is just awesome for us,” MacDonald said in Victory Lane. “Rollie really has the setup for this place figured out, and we were lucky in traffic tonight. Brian was fast all race long, but I had a chance to sneak by, and the car stuck. It’s been great to win both ACT races here this spring. Now, we’ll focus on defending our crown in the 250 next month.”

Rolfe, a former champion in weekly competition at Oxford who now runs the ACT tour full-time, seemed pleased with his fortunes after a less than stellar start to his season.

“That was quite a race,” Rolfe said. “I tried to get up there and run Eddie down late in the going, but the car wasn’t quite good enough. He has got a rhythm here this year, but I don’t think another win in the 250 is guaranteed. A lot of us plan to make him work for it next month.”

Brackett has been following in his father’s footsteps for a few years now. He’s enjoyed some level of success at the weekly level, but has never been quite this good in a long-distance ACT feature.

“The car was really going late in the race,” Brackett said. “I was pretty hooked up down low, while most everybody else was fast in the outside groove. That’s how I was able to make up some ground, and a good setup paid dividends tonight. It feels great, I’d love to win one of these things some day.”

Winthrop native Jeff White led the first four circuits before Hoar took over the point. Former Oxford champion Shawn Martin turned his season around with a solid run, leading the pack for five laps and coming home in the 12th position. Hoar got the jump on a restart and regained control at lap 54, then began an epic battle with MacDonald for the top spot.

Finishing sixth through 10th in the ACT 150 was Tommy Ricker, Brent Dragon, Timmy Brackett, Jeff White and Austin Therriault. Four cautions slowed the pace, none for serious incidents.

Twenty of the 33 starters finished on the lead lap, while 31 were still running at the finish. The race took one hour, four minutes and 51 seconds to complete.