GREENE,PINKERTON AND VANDERBEEK TAKE CHECKERS ON BUDWEISER NIGHT AT SIS
By: Tony Paris

OSKALOOSA, Ia (May 11, 2006) - Another wild Wednesday night of racing action at the always fast 1/2 mile the Southern Iowa Speedway. Budweiser night at the races with three exciting classes in action in the Casey`s General Stores USRA point chase for local and national points.

The night started off with the Musco Lighting USRA modified feature going twenty laps with local racer Steven Blattler of Oskaloosa and John Vandenberg of Oskaloosa battling for the race lead with Blattler leading the field for the first ten laps to the midway point before the caution flag flew. This closed the field up with Zack VanderBeek of New Sharon running second and on the restart powered by Blattler to take the lead and lead the final nine laps for the win. Blattler took second with Brad Pinkerton battling his way from tenth to take third along with Scott Dickey of Packwood in fourth. A battle for fifth between Rick Gustin of Marshalltown and Brandon Banks of Washington going wheel-to-wheel for the fifth spot with Gustin in fifth and Banks in sixth.

The second feature of the night was the USRA hobby stock feature with the field trying three times to get a lap in the books but a crash off turn four would send Bill Gibson of Knoxville to the Mahaska County Hospital with injuries to his foot after crashing into Mike Shelton of Ottumwa in turn four. The fourth restart of the night would see Matt Snyder of Kirksville,Mo. taking the early race lead with Bobby Greene of Eddyville running second. Snyder would get to high coming off turn two letting Greene to take the race lead and never looked back taking his second win in the past three weeks. Nathan Wood of Sigourney battled from the seventh starting spot for the second spot trying several times for the lead but came up short with a second place finish.Snyder took third with Todd Reitzler of Grinnell taking fourth and Steve Allen of Oskaloosa in fifth.
 

In the final feature off the night the USRA stock cars battled it out with the full fender machines thrilling the crowd. Brad Pinkerton of New Sharon found victory lane by leading all eighteen laps for the win. The battle for second, third, fourth and fifth got really heated with three and some times four wide racing for position with T.J.Criss of Oskaloosa taking second after starting eigth with teammate Brian Mitrisin of Oskaloosa taking third and Zack VanderBeek of New Sharon taking fourth. The fifth place went to rookie driver Colt Mather who worked his way up five spots fafter starting tenth.

Next weeks racing action will feature all three of the Casey`s General Store USRA divisions in action with hot laps at 7:00pm and racing action following around 7:30 for Wild Wednesday racing action.

USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Matt Snyder,Kirksville,Mo. 2.Steve Allen,Oskaloosa 3.Rick Landgrebe,Sigourney 4.Jason McDaniel,Eldon 5.Jared Sanders,New Sharon 6.Chase Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 7.Tyler Ford,Lovilia 8.Dave Breuklander,Oskaloosa 9.Justin Hook,Oskaloosa

Heat#2-1.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 2.Todd Reitzler,Grinell 3.Bobby Greene,Eddyville 4.Travis Sherwood,Ottumwa 5.Bill Gibson,Knoxville 6.Danny Thrasher,Agency 7.AJ Johnson,Osakloosa 8.Mark Ford,Lovilia 9.Randy Hemsley,Sigourney

Heat#3-1.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 2.Jimmy Hayes,Moravia 3.Tory Mathis,Oskaloosa 4.Joe Ferguson,Tracy 5.Jason VanZomeren,Osakloosa 6.Jayme Duinink,Pella 7.Bill Bonnett,Knoxville 8.Shannon Sherwood,Oskaloosa

A-Feature 1.Greene 2.Wood 3.Snyder 4.Reitzler 5.Allen 6.Hayes 7.Shelton 8.Landgrebe 9.Ferguson 10.VanZomeren 11.Johnson 12.Thrasher 13.Hook 14.Breuklander 15.Mitrisin 16.Mark Ford 17.Sanders 18.Tyler Ford 19.McDaniel 20.Mathis 21.Gibson 22.Duinink 23.Bonnett 24.Shannon Sherwood 25.Travis Sherwood 26.Hemsley

USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Matt Greiner,Washington 2.Josh Newell,Oskaloosa 3.T.J.Criss,Oskaloosa 4.Brian MitrisinOskaloosa 5.Zack VanderBeek,New Sharon 6.Brian Sterling,Oskaloosa 7.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 8.Brian Edel,Oskaloosa

Heat#2-1.Mark Steinke,Gibson 2.Colt Mather,Webster 3.Eric Flander,Barnes City 4.Steve Landgrebe,Oskaloosa 5.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 6.Jim Brown,Fremont 7.Pat Rachels,Knoxville 8.Keith Kuder,Rose Hill

A-Feature 1.Pinkerton 2.Criss 3.Mitrisin 4.VanderBeek 5.Mather 6.Greiner 7.Brown 8.Flander 9.Rachels 10.Landgrebe 11.Steinke 12.Newell 13.Sterling 14.Wood 15.Kuder 16.Edel

MUSCO LIGHTING USRA MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.John Vandenberg,Oskaloosa 2.Brandon Banks,Washington 3.Rick Gustin,Marshalltown 4.Scott Dickey,Packwood 5.Jason Murray,Hartford 6.Greg Cox,Altoona 7.Steve Stewart,Washington 8.Brad Stephens,Bussey 9.Jack Housley,Des Moines

Heat#2-1.Zack VanderBeek,New Sharon 2.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 3.Steven Blattler,Oskaloosa 4.Brad Dubil,Bettendorf 5.David Ott,Ankeny 6.Josh Truman,Indianola 7.Kyle Harwood,Oskaloosa 8.Jacob Murray,Hartford 9.Terry Walker,Riverside

A-Feature 1.VanderBeek 2.Blattler 3.Pinkerton 4.Dickey 5.Gustin 6.Banks 7.Dubil 8.Housley 9.Stephens 10.Cox 11.Vandenberg 12.Jason Murray 13.Truman 14.Stewart 15.Ott 16.Harwood 17.Jacob Murray 18.Walker