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West Burlington driver takes Sprint Invaders win at CJ
Speedway
By Dana Royer/CJ Speedway
COLUMBUS JUNCTION, IA (May 22) – The Ideal Ready Mix Sprint Invades made
their first of two appearances at Columbus Junction’s CJ Speedway on Friday,
May 22. West Burlington’s Matt Rogerson came away with the win in the twenty
lap, twenty three car field, and now leads the series in the point
standings. Also getting wins were TJ Garrison, Wapello In the 4 Cylinder
feature and Justin Bucholz, Pleasant Valley, Il in the Mod Lite main event.
Ben Wagoner and Rogerson set the pace for the start of the sprint feature
with Wagoner taking the early lead. A red flag on lap three stopped the
action when Kaley Gharst took a flip on the back stretch taking him out of
the race. When action restarted, Rogerson took over the lead and would pull
away from the field running into lap traffic by lap nine. With Rogerson out
in front, Joey Mougon passed eleven cars to move in to the second spot, but
Rogerson had too much of lead and had to settle for second as Rogerson took
the checkered flag. Ben Wagoner, Manny Rockhold and bobby Mincer rounded out
the top five.
In heat race action Dustin Selvage took the checkered in heat number 1.
Rogerson won the second heat of the night that saw John Schulz take a wild
ride out of turn one after hitting the tire barrier and heat three went to
Rockhold. The Shake Up Dash went to Wagoner.
TJ Garrison, Wapello, got his first win of the year winning the 4 Cylinder
twelve lap feature. Wayne Noble took the early lead battling Garrison early
on. The two raced side by side, bumper for the first eight laps exchanging
positions three times. Garrison took the final lead of the race on lap seven
and by lap nine was pulling away from the field. Noble was holding on to a
comfortable second spot lead over Bill Whalen, Travis Yakle and Jacob
Darbyshire putting on a show for the fans trying to get that number 3 spot.
Garrison went on to take the checkered flag by several car lengths, Noble
finished second and Yakle won the battle for third.
Justin Bucholz took the lead from Darrin Norton on lap 2 of the twelve lap,
sixteen car Mod Lite feature. Bucholz had to hold off Norton throughout the
race by was able to pull away at the end to win by several car lengths.
Norton finished second and Todd Hansen won the battle for third taking the
third with four laps to go.
Coming Up – Point Races Coming up at CJ Speedway this weekend will be two
nights of thrilling action. Friday, May 29 will be the rescheduled Tyson
Foods Night along with the 4 Cylinder Dash For Cash sponsored by Bill, Tyler
and John Whalen. Plus all five classes will be competing for points.
Remember to bring your rainchecks from the May 8 rainout. The Lil Racer Car
Club will be holding their Kids Helping Hungry Kids” Canned Food drive. Kids
are encouraged to bring cans of non perishable food with them to the Lil’
Racer booth. For each can of food you bring you will receive 1 ticket. The
more cans you bring, the more tickets you get! The tickets will be put in a
drawing for 4 tickets, plus a gas card to get there, ,to Lost Island Water
Park in Waterloo, Iowa. All food collected will be donated to the SEICAO in
Columbus Junction.
Motorcycle Races. Then come back on Sunday, May 31 for the first of two
stops for the AMA Sanctioned Pro Am Motorcycle races.
Motorcycles, and ATVs will take on the 4/10 mile track in several classes of
racing from 50cc to 450 Pro. Gates will open at 9:00 a.m., practice at 11:00
and races begin at 1:00. For more information go to
www.stevenaceracing.com .
Ideal Ready Mix Sprint Invaders May 22 results
Feature Finish: 1. Matt Rogerson, 2. Joey Moughan, 3. Ben Wagoner, 4. Manny
Rockhold, 5. Bobby Mincer, 6. Jordan Goldesberry, 7. Bryan Dobesh, 8. Russ
Hall, 9. Mike Houseman Jr., 10. Ryan Jamison, 11. Dustin Selvage, 12. Matt
Harms, 13. Justin Newberry, 14. CJ Houseman, 15. Jimmy Davies, 16. Tony
Daniels, 17. Justin Parrish, 18. Josh Schneiderman, 19. Kaley Gharst, 20.
Nick Guernsey. Did Not Start: John Schulz, Pete Crall, Jayson Ditsworth.
Heat Race 1: 1. Selvage, 2. Goldesberry, 3. Rogerson, 4. Houseman, Jr., 5.
Moughan, 6. Davies, 7. Crall, 8. Ditsworth (DNS) Heat Race 2: 1. Rogerson,
2. Mincer, 3. Newberry, 4. Houseman, 5. Harms, 6. Schulz, 7. Gharst, 8.
Parrish Heat Race 3: 1. Rockhold, 2. Wagoner, 3. Schneiderman, 4. Dobesh, 5.
Jamison, 6. Daniels, 7. Guernsey Shake Up Dash: 1. Wagoner, 2. Rogerson, 3.
Rockhold, 4. Mincer, 5. Selvage, 6. Goldesberry
4 Cylinders Results
FEATURE: 1. TJ Garrison, Wapello,, 2. Wayne Noble, Wapello, 3. Travis Yakle,
Wapello, 4. Bill Whalen, Jr., Riverside, 5. Jacob Darbyshire, Morning Sun,
6. Jordon Tipps, Wapello, 7. John Whalen, Ainsworth, 8. Pete Stauffer,
Muscatine, 9. Ryan Walker, Wilton, 10. Darrin Smith, Wapello, 11. Kimberly
Yakle, Wapello, 12. Brett Timmerman, Wapello, 13. Tyler Whalen, Riverside,
14. Andrew Theobald, Wapello, 15. Shaun Tipps, Wapello, 16. Derek Randall,
Washington
Mod Lites
FEATURE: 1. Justin Bucholz, Pleasant Valley, Il., 2. Darrin Norton, 3. Todd
Hansen, 4. Rob Guss, 5. Jacob Darbyshire, 6., #4, 7. Daniel Guss, 8. Keltner,
9. #88, 10. Dan Vincent, 11. #81, 12. Rob Conklin, 13. Bobby Fox, 14. James
Chesmore, 15. Jeff Miller, 16. 3D, 17. Michael Dominguez.
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