Henry takes Fallen Heroes Memorials at East Moline
Morris, Roth, Dahl also take checkers
BY ROB HINCKLEY
EAST MOLINE, Ill. (Sept. 4) – As usual, the rumble of the high-powered Dynamic Power Street Stocks did not disappoint speeding around the high-banked quarter-mile East Moline Speedway oval during the 10th Fallen Heroes Memorial Sunday evening.
Rob Henry maneuvered the low groove of the track enroute to the $1,001.01 top prize.
“Wow, this is great,” Henry said in victory lane. “We knew the bottom was the place to be and those other cars would be coming. I almost slipped up and I saw (Robert Cottom) there.”
Henry became the first three-time winner of the event, also taking the 2015 and 2017 events. He waited out eight cautions before the last four laps under green.
“Yeah, it’s a wait and see. It’s nice because there’s no traffic to deal with and I can just run my race. But it takes longer with the cautions.”
The Port Byron, Ill. hotshoe started on the pole and led all 32 laps in the 21-car field. Four different drivers held the runner up spot at some point with Cottom taking it the final 10 laps.
Former event winners Joe Bonney (2016), Jeff Struck, Jr. (2018) and Zach Zuberbier (2019, 2020) rounded out the top five. Three-time track champion and 2021 victor Jesse Owen was sixth.
The 32 Street Stock laps were raced in memory of Rick Rogers, a long-time competitor and friend at East Moline Speedway, who passed away recently.
California teen Troy Morris III sped to the point from the start and won the 19-lap J&J Camper Sales IMCA Modified portion of the Fallen Heroes Memorial. He also paced every circuit with challenges behind him the entire race.
Dubuque, Iowa hotshoes Jason Schueller and Jed Freiburger came next followed by Brandon Durbin and track champ Travis Denning.
It was Morris’ first win outside the west coast.
The Modified 19 laps were in memory of Mark VerVynck and winner Morris qualified for the 19th IMCA Super Nationals Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational voting.
Wisconsin ace Jason Roth drove from his seventh starting position and outran Trey Grimm to the 15-lap Legacy Corporation IMCA SportMod checkers. David Engelkens, Erick Turner and Dakota Cole followed. Grimm took his spot on the last lap.
Brandon Dahl debuted his new car, took the lead on lap eight and held off Jason Rhoads for the 12-lap Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compact win with Tommy Staggs, Spencer Roggentien and Drew Wise next.
A total of 78 cars were in the pits and the final checkered flag fell about 9:00 p.m.
The 2022 season continues this Sunday Sept. 11 with a salute to 9/11 . All seven regular weekly classes will be in action.
For more information, log on to the East Moline Speedway Facebook page or call 563-343-8250.
Following are the UNOFFICIAL RESULTS of stock car racing Sunday evening at East Moline Speedway, East Moline, Ill., listed with finishing position, car number, driver and starting position.
Dynamic Power Street Stocks
RT Fallen Heroes Memorial Feature (32 laps) – 1. 00-Rob Henry[1]; 2. 127-Robert Cottom[7]; 3. 70-Joe Bonney[9]; 4. 4S-Jeff Struck Jr[4]; 5. 4Z-Zach Zuberbier[5]; 6. 95-Jesse Owen[10]; 7. 4K-Jerry Miles[14]; 8. 3P-Alex Pappas[11]; 9. 4H-Kraig Hughes[12]; 10. 83-Jim Rutsaert[16]; 11. 8H-Kyler Hickenbottom[3]; 12. 36-Ben Odell[8]; 13. R00-Veronica Anderson[19]; 14. 78-Nick Lawrence[20]; 15. 1-Rob Nylin[2]; 16. 88-Jake Lund[6]; 17. 61S-Jeff Streitmatter[18]; 18. 33A-Dan Allen[15]; 19. 1A-Kyle Anderson[21]; 20. 81-Cary Brown[13]; 21. 16-Dave Wadsager[17]
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Hughes 2. Bonney 3. Lund 4. Pappas
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Owen 2. Zuberbier 3. Cottom 4. Henry
3rd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Struck 2. Nylin 3. Hickenbottom 4. Odell
J&J Camper Sales IMCA Modifieds
RT Fallen Heroes Memorial Feature (19 laps) – 1. 07X-Troy Morris III[2]; 2. 3-Jason Schueller[3]; 3. 6-Jed Freiburger[10]; 4. 15D-Brandon Durbin[8]; 5. 56D-Travis Denning[9]; 6. 22-Austen Becerra[7]; 7. G1-Mike Garland[5]; 8. 85-Mike Zemo Jr[12]; 9. J1-Jim Sandusky[6]; 10. 19C-Alex VerVynck[16]; 11. 3C-Richard Vela[1]; 12. 9G-Anthony Guss[14]; 13. 19H-Nick Hillyer[15]; 14. D6-John Connolly[18]; 15. C9-Brandt Cole[17]; 16. 79-Nathan Balensiefen[11]; 17. 190-Chris Morefield[13]; 18. 33F-Jadin Fuller[4]
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Becerra 2. Durbin 3. Denning 4. Sandusky
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1, Schueller 2. Fuller 3. Morris 4. Freiburger
Legacy Corporation IMCA SportMods
Feature (15 laps) – 1. 31-Jason Roth[7]; 2. 88-Trey Grimm[4]; 3. 65-David Engelkens[8]; 4. 10-Erick Turner[3]; 5. 18C-Dakota Cole[2]; 6. 90-Keith Wiersema[5]; 7. 34-Josh Marth[6]; 8. X14-Randy Farrell[12]; 9. 35-Pat Emerick[17]; 10. 81-Adam Parker[24]; 11. 17-Jed Frederick[22]; 12. 68B-Raiff Cauwels[18]; 13. 71-Bryan Heather[1]; 14. 756-Josh Pink[23]; 15. F81-John Freeman[14]; 16. 08-Tyler Carrol[20]; 17. 14J-Matt Speidel[9]; 18. C31-Chad Coyne[13]; 19. 6-Brody Prescott[15]; 20. 18W-Josh Woodruff[11]; 21. 42-JJ Hashbanger[16]; 22. 43LV-Logan Veloz[10]; 23. 33X-Jeff Waterfall[25]; DNS – 24-Jeff Schoonover; 19H-Chris Hesseling
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Roth 2. Veloz 3. Woodruff 4. Coyne
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Cole 2. Farrell 3. Heather 4. Freeman
3rd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Turner 2. Grimm 3. Marth 4. Prescott
4th Heat (8 laps) – 1.Wiersema 2. Speidel 3. Engelkens 4. Hashbanger
Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compacts
Feature (12 laps) – 1. D17-Brandon Dahl[6]; 2. 514-Jason Rhoads[1]; 3. 14X-Tommy Staggs[5]; 4. 4R-Spencer Roggentien[3]; 5. 14-Drew Wise[7]; 6. 86-Tim Long[8]; 7. 29-Roy Schmidt[4]; 8. 58T-Michael Snyder[9]; 9. 513-Josh Lane[11]; 10. 7-Rob Harding Jr[13]; 11. 101-Nick Proehl[10]; 12. 630-Dustin Munn[12]; 13. 25M-Nolan Morrow[2]; 14. 09-Eric Stogdell[14]
1st Heat (6 laps) – 1. Dahl 2. Proehl 3. Snyder 4. Long
2nd Heat (6 laps) – 1. Staggs 2. Schmidt 3. Wise 4. Rhoads
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