The 19-year-old started Friday night's 25-lap Discount Tire Co. ASCS Canyon Region five rows deep, but it didn't take long for Bacon to make his way to the front.

Taking command on the eleventh round, Bacon went on to take the checkered flag with more than an eight-second margin between himself and runner-up Jeremy Sherman. The 2009 Sprint Bandits TNT champion earned a front row outside starting position in Saturday night's $5,000-to-win non-wing main event with the triumph.

With Bacon gridding Friday's feature outside the fifth row, pole starter Bobby Taylor outgunned Mike Martin for the lead at the drop of the green with third-starter Ronnie Clark moving into second.

With Taylor, Clark and Martin leading the way, Bacon cracked the top five by the fifth round and then passed both Sherman and Martin to take over third on the seventh circuit.

As the lead duo of Taylor and Clark reached the tail of the field on the 11th lap, Bacon pounced into the top spot with Clark slipping past Taylor for second. Before Bacon could stretch out his lead though, the caution flew when Clark tangled with the lapped car of Brian O'Donnell exiting turn two on the 12th lap, with O'Donnell sailing into the darkness of the desert without injury.

Back under way, it was all Bacon all the time, as the young shoe drove away from the field aboard Mike and Megan Eubanks' Wesmar-powered Tel-Star Communications No. 99 Triple-X.

Bacon ultimately took the checkered flag well ahead of two-time ASCS Canyon Region champion Sherman, with Nathan High advancing from 13th to claim the show position.

After sweeping last year's ASCS Canyon Region portion of the Western World Championships, Jesse Hockett charged from 16th to finish fourth, with Dustin Morgan advancing a half-dozen positions to round out the top five.

Johnny Herrera was sixth, with 18th-starter Johnathon Henry racing into the seventh and final lock-in position to Saturday night's championship main event.

Jimmy Crawford was eighth, Tony Elliott was the final car on the lead lap in ninth and Brandon Lane was tenth.