Murray picks up $1,000 at
Wakeeney Speedway
By Mike
Hughes
WAKEENEY, KS (August 2) -
The Trego County Fair featured races at the Wakeeney (KS) Speedway Monday
evening, August 2, with added prize money to all four regular divisions.
The biggest paycheck of
the night went to David Murray Jr. of Oberlin who dominated the IMCA
Modified feature. Murray started on the pole of the 20-lap race and left
the field to win his second feature of the season at the 3/8-mile oval. The
lone caution flag waved on lap 16 when Dylan Sherfick slowed, but on the
restart with 5 laps to go, Murray again pulled away to collect a $1,000
paycheck. ‘The Minneapolis Missle’ Dave Hardesty chased Murray the entire
distance, but could not get close enough to mount a serious challenge and
settled for second. Corey Lagroon, Jason Schoenberger and Jeremy Frenier
rounded out the top five. Heat race winners were Murray, Jeremy Zorn,
Schoenberger and ‘Rapid’ Ronnie Hill. ‘Gentleman’ Jerry Phillips and ‘The Z
Man’ Mark Zorn were first to the checkers in the two B-features.
After winning the heat
race, Stockton’s Adam Balthazor led all 15 caution free laps in the IMCA
Stock Car feature, his first of the season at Wakeeney. Balthazor was alone
at the checkers, but the race for the runner-up spot saw Terry Cunningham
beat Jay Hachmeister and Rod Bencken to the line. Pat Bedore completed the
top five.
Hoxie’s Chris Heim also
led green to checkered to score his second Wakeeney win of the year in the
IMCA Northern Sport Mod main event. Heat one winner Clayton Wilson chased
him most of the 15-lap distance but had to settle for second, trailed by
second heat victor Brian Conness, Blaine Walt and Tanner Portenier.
The wildest finish of the
night came in the IMCA Hobby Stock feature. Salina’s Austin Carter took the
lead at the drop of the green, followed closely by Josh Latka, G.W.
‘Cheeseburger’ Fuller and heat one winner Kirk Karst. At the halfway mark
in the 15-lap event, Carter continued to lead, trailed by Latka, Karst,
Michael Schamberger and Daniel Irwin. Carter appeared to be on his way to
his first feature win, but as the tight lead pack came out of turn 2 on the
final lap, Latka made contact with Carter, who spun on the backside of the
track, as did Karst. The caution flag did not wave though and the field
raced to the checkers with Latka taking the win, followed by Schamberger,
Irwin, Casey Gilmore and Cody Graham. But track officials penalized Latka 2
positions for the contact, giving Hoxie’s Schamberger his second win of the
season at Wakeeney. Carter won the other heat race.
The evening’s race
sponsors were 1st Federal Savings & Loan of Wakeeney, and
Billinger-Brungardt Farms, your certified seed wheat dealer in Wakeeney.
The next race at Wakeeney
will be a make-up race on Friday, August 13. All 4 regular divisions return
to action, along with the URSS 305 Sprint Cars. Race time is 7:30 p.m.
RESULTS
IMCA Hobby Stocks
Heat 1: 1. Kirk Karst, 2.
Josh Latka, 3. G.W. Fuller, 4. Cody Graham.
Heat 2: 1. Austin Carter,
2. Daniel Irwin, 3. Casey Gilmore, 4. Aaron Honas.
Feature: 1. Michael
Schamberger, 2. Irwin, 3. Latka, 4. Gilmore, 5. Graham, 6. Honas, 7. Fuller,
8. Al Emmons, 9. Auron Gray, 10. Karst, 11. Carter (DNF), 12. Tyrel Smith (DNF),
13. Blaine Buchholz (DNF), 14. Cody Ghumm (DNF).
IMCA Northern Sport
Mods
Heat 1: 1. Clayton Wilson,
2. Mathew Crowell, 3. Blaine Walt, 4. Kenny Schmidt.
Heat 2: 1. Brian Conness,
2. Chris Heim, 3. Tanner Portenier, 4. Tyler Watts.
Feature: 1. Heim, 2.
Wilson, 3. Conness, 4. Walt, 5. Portenier, 6. Crowell, 7. Watts, 8. Justin
Dietz, 9. Schmidt, 10. Brendon Damon, 11. Jeremy Sigler, 12. Claire Sellard,
13. Cory McGann (DNF), 14. Trenton Kleweno (DNS).
IMCA Stock Cars
Heat: 1. Adam Balthazor,
2. Jay Hachmeister, 3. Rod Bencken, 4. Brandon Clough.
Feature: 1. Balthazor, 2.
Terry Cunningham, 3. Hachmeister, 4. Bencken, 5. Pat Bedore, 6. Keith Riley,
7. Clough.
IMCA Modifieds
Heat 1: 1. David Murray
Jr., 2. Dave Hardesty, 3. Jeremy Frenier, 4. Jerry Phillips.
Heat 2: 1. Jeremy Zorn, 2.
Jerry Teel, 3. Dylan Sherfick, 4. Rob Day.
Heat 3: 1. Jason
Schoenberger, 2. Corey Lagroon, 3. Rodger Peck, 4. Mark Zorn.
Heat 4: 1. Ronnie Hill, 2.
Marty Clark, 3. John Fose, 4. Mike Petersilie.
B-Feature #1 (top 4
advance): 1. Phillips, 2. Travis Sherfick, 3. Tim Watts, 4. Jesse Richter,
5. Kyle Rohleder, 6. Day, 7. Milo Lippelmann, 8. Chadd Brown, 9. William
Nusser, 10. Matt Henke.
B-Feature #2 (top 4
advance): 1. M. Zorn, 2. Petersilie, 3. Brian Calhoon, 4. Rick Schwab, 5.
Scott Brown, 6. Matt Fabrizius, 7. Todd Schwarz, 8. William Miller (DNF), 9.
Jared Kier (DNS), 10. Bill Albin (DNS).
A-Feature: 1. Murray, 2.
Hardesty, 3. Lagroon, 4. Schoenberger, 5. Frenier, 6. J. Zorn, 7. Teel, 8.
Watts, 9. Hill, 10. Clark, 11. Phillips, 12. Schwab, 13. Fose, 14. M. Zorn,
15. D. Sherfick, 16. Peck, 17. Richter, 18. Petersilie, 19. Calhoon (DNF),
20. T. Sherfick (DNS).
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