LEBANON, Tenn. — After multiple brilliant and exhilarating door-to-door battles — veteran against rookie — in the closing portion of Saturday night’s Sports Illustrated Resorts 250, the old man emerged victorious.

And after JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier held off 18-year-old rookie Brent Crews at Nashville Speedway, he hoisted his series-best fourth race trophy of the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series season.

Allgaier’s win in the No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet — ultimately by 1.4-second over Crews — was his third at the 1.33-mile Nashville concrete oval and the 32nd overall win of the 2024 series champion’s career. And it took hard, clean side-by-side racing lap-after-lap for Allgaier to eventually get by Crews’ No. 19 Joe Gibbs Motorsports Toyota for good with 20 laps remaining and hold on to victory.

The veteran Allgaier celebrated by climbing out of his Chevy’s roof hatch then bowing to the Nashville crowd — an ode to the trademark winning celebration of two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch, who died May 21 after pneumonia turned into sepsis.

“First of all, it’s been a rough couple of weeks, and lots of prayers to (Busch’s wife) Samantha and Kyle and (their children) Brexton and Lennix — it’s been an emotional couple weeks,” Allgaier said.

“This team, right here, they are incredible. To win in Nashville, you fans … this place is electric. I love coming to Nashville.

“I told them before the race, that we were going to go to victory lane,” said a grinning Allgaier, who turns 40 years old next week and is capping his winning race weekend by running a triathlon in downtown Nashville Sunday.

“What a race,” he added with a grin.

The near-miss marks the North Carolinian Crews’ second runner-up finish this season. He led the race twice for a total of 45 laps — the most he’s ever led in a single race. After the race he called his battle with Allgaier “the most fun I’ve had without winning.”

“Man, the positive was, I thought we were going to win that race,” Crews’ said when asked about the takeaway from the race. “I’m happy for our guys.

“Had to start 33rd and worked our way up to the lead and led a lot of laps and got to race one of the best guys in our series of all-time for the win in the last few laps,” he said. “Couldn’t ask for much more, other than to beat him.”

Crews’ teammate William Sawalich finished third to claim his third-consecutive top five. Haas Factory Team’s Sam Mayer finished fourth — his fifth straight top 10 at Nashville with another JGR driver, Brandon Jones, rounding out the top five.

Corey Day, Carson Kvapil, reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson, Taylor Gray and Sammy Smith rounded out the top 10. Smith, of note, is competing in the Nashville triathlon with his JR Motorsports teammate Allgaier.

Richard Childress Racing’s Jesse Love finished 16th after leading the most laps (87) — a pit stop miscue put the reigning series champion a lap down at one point before he rallied back. He lost some ground in the title run and now sits 179 points behind Allgaier in race for the championship.

“Definitely really frustrating,” a disappointed Love said after the race. “Our Camaro was really fast and I know we had a misstep on pit road but we’ve got the best pit crew in the garage right now, it’s not even close.

“The only thing I can control is the way I prepare and keep showing up even when it hurts and I know right now, my path isn’t necessarily coming with a lot of wins and that can be frustrating but it’s the past now, so all I can do is keep showing up and preparing. It’s going to turn around. It has to. There’s no other possible way it’s not going to and having faith in that will get me through all this.”

YouTube personality Cleetus McFarland finished 35th in his second NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series start — rallying from a series of late-race pit stop miscues and penalties to finish the race in the No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

After a streak of racing in 16 consecutive weekends, the series has its first off week next weekend before returning to competition June 13 in the Miller Tech Battery 250 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. (4 p.m., The CW, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Connor Zilisch is the defending race winner.

NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Race — Sports Illustrated Resorts 250

Nashville Superspeedway

Nashville, Tennessee

Saturday, May 30, 2026

1. (17) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 188.

2. (33) Brent Crews #, Toyota, 188.

3. (5) William Sawalich, Toyota, 188.

4. (34) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 188.

5. (29) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 188.

6. (3) Corey Day, Chevrolet, 188.

7. (4) Carson Kvapil, Chevrolet, 188.

8. (6) Kyle Larson(i), Chevrolet, 188.

9. (27) Taylor Gray, Toyota, 188.

10. (8) Sammy Smith, Chevrolet, 188.

11. (2) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 188.

12. (9) Parker Retzlaff, Chevrolet, 188.

13. (7) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 188.

14. (13) Dean Thompson, Toyota, 188.

15. (24) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 188.

16. (1) Jesse Love, Chevrolet, 188.

17. (12) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 188.

18. (31) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 187.

19. (25) Rajah Caruth, Chevrolet, 187.

20. (21) Blaine Perkins, Chevrolet, 187.

21. (23) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 187.

22. (15) Leland Honeyman Jr(i), Chevrolet, 187.

23. (19) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 187.

24. (20) Kyle Sieg, Chevrolet, 187.

25. (16) Patrick Staropoli #, Chevrolet, 187.

26. (32) Logan Bearden, Chevrolet, 186.

27. (35) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 186.

28. (11) Mason Maggio, Chevrolet, 186.

29. (26) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, 185.

30. (14) Austin Green, Chevrolet, 185.

31. (18) Lavar Scott #, Chevrolet, 184.

32. (28) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, 184.

33. (10) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet, 184.

34. (36) Dawson Cram, Chevrolet, 183.

35. (38) Cleetus McFarland, Chevrolet, 182.

36. (30) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 179.

37. (22) David Starr, Chevrolet, Suspension, 151.

38. (37) JJ Yeley, Ford, Rear End, 59.

Average Speed of Race Winner: 132.452 mph.

Time of Race: 1 Hrs, 53 Mins, 16 Secs. Margin of Victory: 1.403 Seconds.

Caution Flags: 2 for 15 laps.

Lead Changes: 12 among 7 drivers.

Lap Leaders: J. Love 1-49;J. Yeley 50;J. Love 51-54;J. Allgaier 55-75;J. Love 76-85;J. Allgaier 86-94;J. Love 95-118;B. Crews # 119-145;B. Jones 146;A. Hill 147-148;R. Sieg 149-150;B. Crews # 151-168;J. Allgaier 169-188.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Jesse Love 4 times for 87 laps; Justin Allgaier 3 times for 50 laps; Brent Crews # 2 times for 45 laps; Ryan Sieg 1 time for 2 laps; Austin Hill 1 time for 2 laps; JJ Yeley 1 time for 1 lap; Brandon Jones 1 time for 1 lap.

Stage #1 Top Ten: 2,17,7,21,88,1,18,39,8,19

Stage #2 Top Ten: 7,2,1,18,19,17,41,99,88,39

–Holly Cain, NASCAR Wire Service

Luis Garcia stopped Juan Purata’s shot in the seventh round of penalty kicks for a 6-5 edge, lifting host Toluca FC past Tigres UANL on Saturday night in the CONCACAF Champions Cup final after the Mexican teams played to a 1-1 draw through regulation and extra time.

Jorge Diaz’s goal for Toluca at the 104-minute mark in the first half of extra time had broken the scoreless tie, but Joaquim delivered for Tigres UANL in the 114th minute during the second half of extra time to pull even.

Toluca won the tournament for the third time and first since 2003.

For the 20th time in the past 21 years, a Mexican team lifted the trophy. The only exception in that span was the Seattle Sounders’ title run in 2022.

Garcia also made a save on Fernando Gorriaran’s shot in the third round of penalties, while Tigres goalkeeper Nahuel Guzman stopped Franco Romero in the fifth round.

Scoring in the penalty shootout for Toluca were: Pavel Perez, Santiago Simon, Federico Pereira, Diaz, Sebastian Cordova and Fernando Arce.

Scoring in the penalty shootout for the Tigres were: Andre-Pierre Gignac, Juan Brunetta, Angel Correa, Diego Lainez and Romulo.

Diaz was on target with a right-footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner of the goal off an Arce assist at the 104-minute mark. Moments earlier, Toluca’s Cordova took a shot from the right side of the box which Guzman saved.

Joaquim’s header from very close range found the top left corner of the net off a set-piece crossing assist from Brunetta.

Garcia kept Toluca even with a save on Correa’s right-footed shot from the center of the box at the 117-minute mark.

The teams were scoreless through the first and second halves of regulation, including two extra minutes in the first half and seven more in the second half.

After regulation and the two halves of extra time, Tigres UANL had the edge in shots on goal (8-4), shot attempts (15-13) and corner kicks (7-4). Toluca had more fouls (24-14) and yellow cards (2-1).

Toluca’s Garcia made eight saves and Guzman three.

The Tigres, based in San Nicolas de los Garza in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, were playing for their second Champions Cup crown and first since 2020. They also finished runner-up in 2016, ’17 and ’19.

In their most-recent meeting before Saturday, the teams played to a scoreless draw on Jan. 17 of this year with the Tigres as host.

–Field Level Media

Jake McCarthy homered, singled twice and drove in four runs, Ryan Feltner returned to the rotation with six shutout innings and the Colorado Rockies beat the San Francisco Giants 8-3 in Denver on Saturday night.

Kyle Karros also went deep, and TJ Rumfield and Willi Castro had two hits each for Colorado, which has won consecutive games for the first time since May 7-8.

Drew Gilbert homered among his two hits, and Jung Hoo Lee and Matt Chapman also had two hits for San Francisco, which has lost five in a row.

Feltner (2-1) was activated from the injured list (right ulnar nerve inflammation) to make his first start since April 23. He retired the first five batters he faced before Chapman’s two-out double in the second, and he erased leadoff singles in the third and fifth innings with double-play grounders.

He left after scattering four hits and fanning two to earn his first win since April 6.

The Rockies, who used a five-run rally in the ninth inning to win 8-6 Friday night, built on that momentum in the first inning against Adrian Houser.

McCarthy led off with a walk and one out later, Goodman drew a base on balls to put runners on first and second. Castro followed with an RBI single, Ezequiel Tovar followed with a two-out single and Houser hit Sterlin Thompson with the bases loaded to make it 2-0.

McCarthy lined a two-run homer into the Colorado bullpen in the fourth inning, his third of the season, to double the Rockies’ lead.

Houser (2-5) allowed four runs on eight hits in 3 2/3 innings. He struck out four and walked two.

The Rockies made it 5-0 on McCarthy’s RBI single in the fifth and then padded the advantage in the seventh.

Karros led off the inning with a pinch-hit homer, his third of the season, Tyler Freeman reached on a bloop double and scored on McCarthy’s single. McCarthy stole second and scored on Rumfield’s single.

Gilbert spoiled Colorado’s shutout bid with a two-run homer in the eighth, his third, and Chapman had a two-out RBI single in the ninth.

–Field Level Media