Ricky Wells continued his late-season domination at Industry Speedway by winning his third consecutive main event and his fourth in five races Wednesday night.

Wells, 17, of Yorba Linda, the reigning U.S. Under 21 champion, pulled away from Bobby Schwartz, Jimmy Fishback, Eddie Castro and Shawn McConnell on the final lap of the four-lap race in The Grand arena at the Industry Hills Expo Center.

Schwartz, of Costa Mesa, was 52 on Sunday and the  man known as “Boogaloo” celebrated by winning two heat races and making a strong run at the win in the First Division feature. Schwartz got the lead at the start with Wells in second and they raced that way, with Schwartz on the inside and Wells using the outside line, until Wells pulled ahead on the final lap.

It was a good race with which to bring down the curtain on what could have been a disastrous night for the speedway’s top riders.

An already shallow pool of participants was made even smaller early in the evening when Buck Blair, one of this season’s main event winners, announced he would probably be a spectator for the final six nights of the season due to broken left collarbone suffered Saturday night in Victorville.

Then, during the division’s opening heat race, Neil Facchini, of Riverside, was involved in a pair of incidents that left him with a strained back and his motorcycle with a bent frame. And in the final turn on the final lap of the final heat race for the division, Eddie Castro and Jason Ramirez were in a collision that left both temporarily stretched out on the track. Both were able to walk off the track and continue, however.

Charlie Venegas wasn’t as lucky. The eight-time winner from San Bernardino finished second in his opening heat, but didn’t ride the second round because of motor problems and fell on the opening lap of his third heat after making several changes to the camshaft setting. It was the third race in a row that Venegas had failed to qualify for the main event.