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TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS DECIDED AT THE CREEK
by Bill Nelson
SPRING VALLEY, MN (August 28, 2010) - Wow, were did the season go already?
Track championship night, I didn't think we were to mid season yet, but what
a great season it has been at The Creek.
Jason Rauen and Neil Eckhart battled for the lead early in the Altenburg
Construction WISSOTA Late Model division. Rauen took over the point while
Doug Herrick moved into second on lap two. Jake Hartung moved under Eckhart
to take over third with Waits taking control of fourth quickly. With four
complete Hartung was working low on Herrick for the second spot while Mike
Prochnow worked past Eckhart for fifth. On the next lap Keith Foss started
to pressure Prochnow for the fifth spot. With nine laps down Herrick and
Rauen were side by side for the lead and Foss and Prochnow were still
battling for fifth. Lap ten saw Herrick take over the lead and Hartung now
was racing Rauen for the second spot. Lap twelve saw Foss in fifth while
Prochnow and Kelly Anderson raced for sixth and the track championship which
only saw a few points separate the two heading into tonight. Two laps later
Hartung took over second. Waits and Foss quickly moved around Rauen to take
over third and fourth as t he first caution flag flies over the field on lap
twenty. On the restart Herrick lead with Waits into second. Hartung and Foss
raced for third with Foss taking over the spot as the white flew. Foss
worked up high and used the momentum to move past Waits into the second spot
going down the back chute on the last lap. Herrick held on for the win while
Prochnow stayed in front of Anderson for the championship.
Dan Bohr led out of turn two in the EZ Fabricating USRA Modified division
but Jason Cummins moved past him down the back straight to take over the
lead on lap one. Steve Wetzstein and Todd Scharkey were racing for third
with Wetzstein taking that spot and then second away from Bohr on lap two.
Mark Noble and Nate Wasmund raced for fourth. Darrin Walch moved into fourth
on lap three and then started to pressure Noble for fourth. A restart on lap
four saw Cummins continue to fly up top while Wasmund, Wetzstein and Noble
were three wide for second. Noble took the spot with Walch moving past the
other two into the third spot on lap five. By lap ten Cummins was flying out
front but the two battles that would run for the next fifteen laps were
starting to show. Walch and Noble raced for second while Wetzstein and Lucas
Schott were side by side for fourth. These two battles for position ran down
to the last lap with Walch taking second ahead of Noble. Schott came home
fourth and Wetzstein fifth while Cummins flew home to the win on the top
side of the speedway.
Tony Bloom, Ryan Siegle and Ross Dixon were three wide for the lead in the
US ARMY WISSOTA Super Stocks early on in their feature event. Dixon took
over the point with Gary Wiersgalla working into the second spot with Siegle
and Cole Queensland racing for third. Three complete and Brauer, Queensland
and Wiersgalla were three wide for the second spot. Brauer took over second
with Siegle in third. Queensland moved around Siegle on lap six while Kelly
Anderson moved into the top five. With seven completed the field stretched
out slightly as the top three of Dixon, Brauer and Queensland had put some
room over the rest of the field. On lap twelve the race for fourth heated up
between Siegle, Anderson, Bloom and Nick Wranek. Anderson held onto the
fourth spot with a challenge from Wranek on lap thirteen but Wranek lost the
handle of his mount but regained it after losing several spots. UP front
Brauer was all over Dixon as the last three laps clicked off. On the final
lap Brauer drove it in hard in three, slid up in front of Dixon as they went
through four and powered out to the checkers for the win. Queensland took
home the track title for 2010.
Track Champion Brandon Davis moved past Leigh Volkman to take over the lead
in the Dirt Doctor Trucking WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature event on lap
one. Bryan Hernandez moved past Volkman on lap three to take over the second
spot. Dustin Scott started working on Volkman for third while Cody Gardner
sat in fifth on lap three. A restart on lap four saw Davis leading,
Hernandez in second and Jerry Young and Gardner racing for fourth. Another
caution on lap six saw Scott move into second behind Davis. Hernandez in
third and Gardner in fourth. Young and Jared Boumeester raced for fifth.
With twelve down Davis started to pull away again and cruised home to the
win over Scott and Hernandez. Boumeester worked past Gardner for fourth as
the race ended.
Danny Hanson had the track championship solidly wrapped up for the BP
WISSOTA Street Stocks as they pulled onto the track for their feature event.
Troy Voth led out of turn two with Nicholas Schwebach in second.. Mike
Blowers and Ryan Goergen raced for third while they were four wide mid pack
early on. On lap two Donny Ganz, Hanson and AJ Zvorak were three wide for
fifth. Hanson and Zvorak cleared Ganz as the first caution flew on lap
three. On the restart Voth led with Blowers in second. Hanson started to
pressure Schwebach and on lap five took over the spot. Blowers was
pressuring Voth for the lead while sixth through tenth were in a tight pack
for position. With seven down Hanson now was racing Blowers for second and
by lap nine their battle was now on Voth's rear bumper as he led the field.
Another restart on lap ten saw Voth leading with Hanson trying to get a run
up top. Hanson cut back down and moved alongside of Voth at the line with
twelve down. Hanson took the lead on lap thirteen. Voth continued to hold
off Blowers for the second spot as the laps wound down. Hanson took home the
win with his tenth at the speedway this season tying for the most wins in a
season at the speedway.
Brandon Hare took home the title in the Hinz Trucking USRA B-Modified
division but championship night belonged to Oskaloosa Iowa driver Tyler
Groenedyk. Groenedyk took the early lead in the feature event and slowly
started to pull away from the field while Jacob Bleess sat in second early.
Mike Jaeger and Brandon Hare raced for fourth behind Parker Hale. Hare and
Jaeger kept their race going until lap nine when Hare took the spot and
eventually moved past Hale on lap ten. By lap twelve Hare moved past Bleess
for second but Groenedyk had pulled out to over a full straight away lead by
that point. Jaeger and Bleess battled for third for the final three laps
with Jaeger taking the position as the checkers flew.
Earlier in the day the Truck Country Slingshots took to the track. The
Junior Division was up first with Jackson Koster and Lexi Schott racing for
the lead. Schott took the lead but broke on lap two handing the point to
Koster. On the restart Koster led with Derek Clement in second and Dustin
Sorensen in third. On lap five Matthew Schliesman worked under Sorensen for
the third spot while Ryan Wetzstein worked into the top five. Koster took
home the win with Clement close behind in second and Schliesman in third.
In the Pee-Wee division Jim Chisholm took the early lead with Garrett Koster
in second. Jackson Hale sat in third. Koster pressured Chisholm early but
Chisholm was holding strong up front. A spin in turn four brought out a
caution just before Chisholm got loose coming out of two. Chisholm got
tagged by Koster sending the Chisholm machine tumbling over twice before
coming to rest. The Chisholm machine and Jim himself were quickly looked at
rejoined the field to take the green. Chisholm jumped out front again with
Koster all over his bumper. Despite his best efforts Koster could not
overtake Chisholm as the checkers flew. Chisholm took the win over Koster
and Hale.
Derek Clement jumped out front in the Senior division with Jeremy Paulson in
second. Dustin Sorensen was sitting in third with Matthew Schliesman in
fourth and Jackson Koster in fifth. Paulson was pushing Clement hard with
four laps down but was unable to muster a pass even though he was able to
get alongside of him a few times down the straights. Clement held on for the
win over Paulson and Sorensen.
Altenburg Construction WISSOTA Late Models
Feature - Doug Herrick, Keith Foss, Brad Waits, Jake Hartung, Mike Prochnow,
Lance Matthees, Kelly Anderson, Jason Rauen, Joe Ludemann, Andy Altenburg,
Jerry Bloom, Nick Herrick, Nick Kramer, Dennis Hillson, Kyle Jumbeck, Roger
Herrick, Lucas Peterson, Don Schaefer, Roger Torgerson, Neil Eckhart
Heat 1 - Hartung, D. Herrick, Anderson, N. Herrick, Bloom, Hillson,
Schaefer, R. Herrick
Heat 2 - Foss, Prochnow, Waits, Jumbeck, Matthees, Torgerson
Heat 3 - Eckhart, Rauen, Ludemann, Altenburg, Kramer, Peterson
EZ Fabricating USRA Modifieds
Feature -Jason Cummins, Darrin Walch, Mark Noble, Lucas Schott, Steve
Wetzstein, Josh Angst, Bobby Swanson, Todd Scharkey, Mike Sorensen, Joel
Alberts, Joe Horgdal, Nate Wasmund, Andy Bohnstengel, Bob Timm, LeRoy
Scharkey, Hank Rollinger Jr. , Greg Jensen, Tom Brink, Chris Gilbertson,
Darwyn Karau, Joe Wernecke, Ryan York, AJ Wiste, Dan Bohr
B-Feature - Timm, York, Karau, Brink, Phil Wernert, Tony Vaith, Bill
Clemens, Aaron Rake, James Parker
Heat 1 - Swanson, Noble, Alberts, Schott, Wernecke, Timm, Brink, Parker
Heat 2 - Wetzstein, Wasmund, Horgdal, Bohnstengel, Angst, Karau, Rake
Heat 3 - Cummins, Walch, Scharkey, Wiste, Jensen, Wernert, Clemens
Heat 4 - Bohr, Gilbertson, Scharkey, Sorensen, Rollinger Jr., York, Vaith
US ARMY WISSOTA Super Stocks
Feature - Jeff Brauer, Ross Dixon, Cole Queensland, Kelly Anderson, Ryan
Siegle, Nick Wranek, Tony Bloom, Brett Dulas, Kevin Hager, Gary Wiersgalla,
Dave Solum, Rick Lisowski, Josh Bartel, Michael Hofer
Heat 1 - Hofer, Siegle, Bloom, Wiersgalla, Hager, Wranek, Bartel
Heat 2 - Brauer, Queensland, Dixon, Anderson, Lisowski, Solum, Dulas
Dirt Doctor Trucking WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds
Feature -Brandon Davis, Dustin Scott, Bryan Hernandez, Jared Boumeester,
Cody Gardner, Jerry Young, Bill Stettner, Mike Hernke, Ric Fynbo, Jason
Born, Mike Paulson, Larry Nelson, Jayme Hiller, George Sniezek, Tyron Friese,
Josh Crary, Craig Shaw, Leigh Volkman, Alan Mondus
Heat 1 - Young, Gardner, Boumeester, Hiller, Crary, Fynbo
Heat 2 - Davis, Hernandez, Volkman, Shaw, Sniezek, Mondus, Friese
Heat 3 - Scott, Stettner, Nelson, Hernke, Paulson, Born
BP WISSOTA Street Stocks
Feature -Danny Hanson, Tory Voth, Mike Blowers, AJ Zvorak, Donny Ganz, Bobby
Kilby, Rick Lisowski, Nicholas Schwebach, Ryan Goergen, Kory Adams, Dan
Holland, Brent Holland, Briana Grinstead, James Weber, Ben Goldsmith, Fred
Prudoehl
Heat 1 - Zvorak, Voth, Hanson. Schwebach, Prudoehl, Kilby, B. Holland, Weber
Heat 2 - Goergen, Ganz, Blowers, D. Holland, Lisowski, Adams, Grinstead,
Goldsmith
Hinz Trucking USRA B-Modifieds
Feature - Tyler Groenedyk, Brandon Hare, Mike Jaeger, Jacob Bleess, Parker
Hale, Dan Tenold, Jake Timm, Kylie Kath, Scott Demmer, Colter Deutsch, Brett
Bumgardner, Chris Trainer, James Krejci, John Warrington, Terry Kohnert,
Michael Wytaske, Shaun Walski
Heat 1 - Kath, Bleess, Bumgardner, Timm, Deutsch, Jaeger, Trainer, Kohnert,
Walski
Heat 2 - Hare, Tenold, Hale, Groenedyk, Krejci, Warrington, Demmer, Wytaske
Truck Country Slingshots
Junior Division
Feature - Jackson Koster, Derek Clement, Matthew Schliesman, Dustin
Sorensen, Ryan Wetzstein, Garrett Koster, Dylan Buckland, Bailey Karau,
Dakota Kelly, Lexi Schott
Heat One 1 - Schott, Clement, Wetzstein, Karau, Kelly
Heat One 2 - J. Koster, Schliesman, Sorensen, Buckland, G. Koster
Heat Two 1 - Clement, Schott, Karau, Kelly, Wetzstein
Heat Two 2 - Sorensen, J. Koster, G. Koster, Schliesman, Buckland
Pee-Wee Division
Feature - Jim Chisholm, Garrett Koster, Jackson Hale, Keagan Einck, Dakota
Kelly
Heat One - Chisholm, Einck, Koster, Hale, Kelly
Heat Two - Hale, Koster, Chisholm, Einck, Kelly
Senior Division
Feature - Derek Clement, Jeremy Paulson, Dustin Sorensen, Matthew Schliesman,
Jackson Koster, Nia Gardner, Dan Olson, Ryan Wetzstein, Jeff Hemker, Dylan
Buckland, Lexi Schott
Heat One 1 - Paulson, Clement, Koster, Buckland, Wetzstein
Heat One 2 - Sorensen, Olson, Schliesman, Gardner, Schott, Hemker
Heat Two 1 - Clement, Paulson, Koster, Buckland, Wetzstein
Heat Two 2 - Gardner, Schliesman, Sorensen, Hemker, Olson, Schott
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