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DAVIS WINS FROM FIFTEENTH IN WISSOTA MIDWEST MODIFIED ACTION
by Bill Nelson
SPRING VALLEY, MN (April 11) - A very nice day in Southern Minnesota brought
out a very nice field of cars and a good crowd of spectators as Deer Creek
Speedway opened up its 2009 racing season.
The WISSOTA Street Stocks put on a whale of a show as is normal for the
Street Stocks at Deer Creek. As is typical of many openers there were a lot
of visiting drivers and fans from around WISSOTA Country. Some are always
surprises but the biggest surprise was to see Danny Hanson out on the track
with his 2008 car after destroying his new car on Thursdays practice night.
The first lap of the Street Stock feature saw a five car incident in turn
two sending a couple cars to the pits. On the restart the streeters came out
of turn two four wide and the race was on. Travis Berends and Tim Johnson
were the two to pull out as they raced for the lead. Berends took control of
the event early while Johnson now battle with Cory Crapser and Dan Bork for
second. They went three wide in turn four on the second lap with Crapser and
Johnson touching allowing Bork to take control of second. Crapser started to
pressure Bork on the next lap but lost control of the machine and spun to
the infield restarting at the rear. Karl Hewitt Jr. joined Johnson and Bork
for the second place battle until they went three wide out of four and
contact ensued with Hewitt Jr., catching a flat tire. Another restart with
Berends leading and Danny now working up to fourth after starting 8th was
ended as Hanson and Troy Voth made contact bringing out another caution. On
the restart with eight to go Johnson took the lead and never relinquished it
again to the end. At this point most of the crowd was watching Crapser as he
charged his way back to the front eventually taking over the second spot
with two to go. Johnson took home the win, Crapser second and Berends third.
Johnson, Crapser and AJ Zvorak took home the wins in the earlier heat races.
Jason Born jumped out front in the WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature event
and unfortunately brought out the first caution of the night needing a
complete restart. On the restart Albert Wytaske jumped out to the early lead
with AJ Wiste right behind him in second. Greg Pfeifer Jr., sat in third
while Wiste ran a lower line and moved alongside of Wytaske for the lead.
The top way was the fast way early with Wytaske holding the point by a
slight margin while Jerry Young and Kenny Wytaske raced for fourth. A
restart wtih thirteen to go say Albert continue leading with Wiste
pressuring him. Brandon Davis found the extreme bottom line to his liking as
he started his charge forward and with eleven to go found himself in the
third position. Nine to go and Davis worked under Wiste for the second spot
and set his sights on Wytaske up front. With five to go the top three were
very tight and raced almost three wide for the lead. Davis took the point
with four to go and hung on to take home the win followed by Wytaske and
Wiste. Dennis Jones took home the "B" feature with Wiste, Shane Sabraski,
PFeifer JR., Young and Kenny Wytaske taking home the heat wins.
Jeff Brauer led early in the WISSOTA Super Stocks with Dan Gullikson tight
behind in second. Shawn Huse quickly moved up from sixth to take over the
third spot. Don Eischens raced with Huse for third early on. A restart with
seventeen to go saw Gullikson take the top spot, Huse moved into second
while Brauer and Eischens raced for third. With twelve to go Huse and
Gullikson were side by side at the line. After two quick restarts they
continued their race for the lead up front with Huse getting the edge two
laps later. Ross Dixon was on the move now and was racing Eischens for
third. These two put on a great battle for four laps until Dixon didn't
quite clear a slide job and Eischens returned the favor in turn four
bringing out the caution as the two stopped on the speedway with both
drivers sent to the tail. Huse led the final five laps running low on the
speedway while Gullikson worked the top. Gullikson pulled alongside a couple
times but was unable to move past Huse for the lead. Brauer came home fourth
wtih Cole Queensland rounding out the top five. Huse, Dixon and Corey Tammen
won the earlier heat races.
A full field of 24 WISSOTA Late Models were on hand for opening night with
Rick Hanestad pacing the field and jumping into the early lead. Mike
Prochnow sat in second early with Kevin Keuhn in third. Hanestad slowly
pulled away early while Keith Foss started working on Keuhn for third spot
with twenty to go. Three laps later Foss moved under Prochnow and was
starting to pressure Hanestad for the lead. A caution with sixteen to go put
Foss and Prochnow side by side, the two raced that way for three laps under
Foss took the spot and moved under Hanestad all in one move. Another caution
came out the next lap and this time Foss took off in the lead. Pat Doar
started working the low line and moved into third while further back a large
pack of cars battle for the sixth through twelfth spot as they were two and
three wide in this pack to the finish. Foss came home with the win followed
by Hanestad and Doar. Lance Matthees and Doug Herrick rounded out the top
five. Heat race wins went to Keuhn, Nick Herrick and Foss.
In this part of the state the USRA Modifieds rule the roost for the fans and
tonight a handfull of WISSOTA Modifieds drivers threw their hats into the
ring to give it a shot. A total of twenty six cars pulled onto the track for
heat race action with Brad Waits, Mike Sorensen, Jacob Dahle and Todd
Scharkey taking home the heat wins. The WISSOTA drivers held their own with
one having the crowd on their feet during the feature event. Dahle took the
lead early on in the feature with Layne Meyer charging hard on his outside.
Meyer went for a pass on lap three, the two touched lightly and Dahle went
spinning to the infield. Doug HIllson took the lead on the restart with
Dahle and Scharkey racing side by side fo rsecond. The three then went three
wide for the lead with Scharkey taking control of the event. With nineteen
to go Dave Cain jumped to the highside of the track and took off like a
rocket. He was in seventh on lap eighteen. On lap seventeen he was in second
with Mike Sorensen racing him on the low side as they flew by Hillson.
Sorensen slowed Cain's momentum and that was the end of the run for Cain as
the top slicked off and the extra bite he found went away but it was an
incredible run for two laps. With fifteen to go Sorensen moved up to race
with Scharkey for the lead. Sorensen took control with thirteen to go while
Steve Wetzstein sat in fourth behind Cain. Wetzstein was making the bottom
work and moved past Cain for third with five laps left. At the line it was
Sorensen with his first win in two years at the speedway followed by
Scharkey, Wetzstein, Cain and Waits.
USRA Modifieds
Feature - Mike Sorensen, Todd Scharkey, Steve Wetzstein, Dave Cain, Brad
Waits, Bob Timm, Josh Reisch, Jason Miller, Doug Hillson, Jason Cummins,
Greg Jensen, Jay Ihrke, Terry Timmerman, Don Eischens, Jacob Dahle, Dustin
Nelson, Josh Angst, Dano Ostrander, Layne Meyer, Jason Voigt, Blake Jetvig,
LeRoy Scharkey, Joel Alberts, Don Gerritsen Jr., Anthony Mann, Tim Thomas
Heat 1 - Waits, Wetzstein, Cain, Reisch, Miller, Angst, Ihrke, Scharkey,
Thomas
Heat 2 - Sorensen, Hillson, Dahle, Timm, Voigt, Eischens, Jetvig, Mann,
Ostrander
Heat 3 - T. Scharkey, Meyer, Timmerman, Nelson, Cummins, Jensen, Alberts,
Gerritsen
WISSOTA Late Models
Feature - Keith Foss, Rick Hanestad, Pat Doar, Lance Matthees, Doug Herrick,
Mike Prochnow, Nick Herrick, Joe Ludemann, Justin Sass, Jake Redetzke, Craig
Scheffner, Kelly Anderson, Scott Greer, Roger Herrick, Dennis Hillson,
Jordan Yaggy, Nick Kramer, Jason Fritzsche, Kevin Keuhn, Kerry Hanson, Chad
Chenoweth, Lucas Peterson, Andy Altenburg, Tony Bloom
Heat 1 - Keuhn, Hanestad, Doar, Sass, Ludemann, Peterson, Fritzsche, Yaggy
heat 2 - N. Herrick, Matthees, Hanson, Schueffner, Hillson, Kramer,
Chenoweth, Bloom
Heat 3 - Foss, D. Herrick, Prochnow, Greer, Redetzke, Altenburg, Anderson,
R. Herrick
WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds
Feature - Brandon Davis, Albert Wytaske, Andrew Wiste, Bryan Hernandez,
Shane Sabraski, Kenny Wytaske, Greg Pfeifer Jr., Andy Jones, Joel Alberts,
Ronnie Rihn, Jared Boumeester, Bob Bunne, Jason Born, Clayton Wagamon, Dan
Wheeler, Joe Horgdal, Dennis Jones, Jerry Young, Chris Gilbertson, Dustin
Scott, Jeremy Houle, Pete Bushman, Chad Olsen, Leigh Volkman
"B" feature - D. Jones, Horgdal, Boumeester, Scott, David Stevens, Matt
Weisman, Mike Kyllonen, Travis Krause, Jayme Hiller, Patrick McCarthy JR.,
Don Schaefer, Billy Steinberg, MIke Gibson, Travis Wytaske, Jerry Esler,
Beau Lammers
Heat 1 - Wiste, Sabraski, Hernandez, Olsen, Houle, Horgdal, Kyllonen, Scott,
Gibson
Heat 2 - Pfeifer JR., Born, Alberts, Bunne, Rihn, D. Jones, Steinberg,
Schaefer, Esler
Heat 3 - Young, A. Wytaske, A. Jones, Davis, Bushman, Boumeester, Weisman,
Krause, T. Wytaske
heat 4 - K. Wytaske, Volkman, Gilbertson, Wheeler, Wagamon, Stevens,
McCarthy JR., Hiller, Lammers
WiSSOTA Street Stocks
Feature - Tim Johnson, Cory Crapser, Travis Berends, Chuck Nerland, Dan
Bork, Michael Conrad, Troy Voth, Danny Hanson, Jordan Raterman, Andy Hoch,
Christine Wollak, Tyler Peterson, Maria Wollak, Donny Ganz, Rick Lisowski,
Danny Richards, Fred Prudoehl, Jesse Baer, AJ Zvorak, Karl Hewitt Jr., Tony
Konold, Dan Holland, Brent Holland
Heat 1 - Johnson, Voth, Bork, Konold, Ganz, Raterman, Conrad, C. Wollak
Heat 2 - Crapser, Prudoehl, Richards, D. Holland, Hanson, Hoch, Lisowski, B.
Holland
Heat 3 - Zvorak, Hewitt Jr., Berends, Baer, Peterson, M. Wollak
WISSOTA Super Stocks
Feature - Shawn Huse, Dan Gullikson, Jeff Brauer, Cole Queensland, Bob Fort,
Ken Truscott, Gary Brown Jr., Corey Tammen, Don Eischens, Kevin Hager, Kurt
Kromschroder, Ross Dixon, Todd Carlson, Ryan Siegle, Ashley Donald, Michael
Hofer, Bobby Saterdalen, John Thissen, Dave Solum
Heat 1 - Huse, Queensland, Brauer, Truscott, Fort, Solum, Hofer
Heat 2 - Tammen, Eischens, BRown Jr., Saterdalen, Carlson, Donald
Heat 3 - Dixon, Gullikson, Siegle, Kromschroeder, Hager, Thissen
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