Barnes and Banks Takes Features With Carter, VanDerWal and Griffiths Leading Points on Night #1

By Jeremy Fox

Oskaloosa, Iowa (July 1st, 2015) – One of the most exciting events at the Southern Iowa Speedway is the Budweiser Great American Stock Car Shootout and this year marks the 20th Anniversary of the event. 91 cars signed in for Night one of the Shootout featuring 35 IMCA Stock Cars, 20 IMCA Hobby Stocks and 17 IMCA Northern SportMods.

Josh Barnes (IMCA Sport Compacts) and Brandon Banks (IMCA Modifieds) took feature wins on Wednesday Night. Stock Cars, Hobby Stocks and Sport Mods ran two sets of heat races with points earned during those events.

Cayden Carter (IMCA Stock Cars), Curtis VanDerWal (IMCA Northern SportMods) and Dustin Griffiths (IMCA Hobby Stocks) was the top point getters as all three won both of their heat races.

Josh Barnes started outside row two of the 12 lap IMCA Sport Compacts feature but by the end of lap one, it was Barnes grabbing the lead in his 1st ever visit to the monster half mile. Barnes pulled away meanwhile Trent Orwig, John Whalen, John Girdley and Shane Evans battled for position until the only caution came out on lap five for fluid on the front-stretch that came from Orwig’s car. Barnes again pulled away and went on to take the win over Evans, John Whalen, Bill Whalen and Girdley.

Brandon Banks started right where he left off two weeks ago in the Musco Lighting IMCA Modifieds 16 lap feature. Banks led the entire distance to take the feature win meanwhile Cayden Carter worked his way too second but ran out of laps to chase down Banks. Andrew Schroeder was third, Tyler Groenendyk was fourth and Colt Mather was fifth.

In the Budweiser IMCA Stock Cars Round one heats went to Derrick Agee, Damon Murty and Cayden Carter. Round two heats saw Mike Hughes, Carter and Cody Agee victorious. Top eight in Points was Carter, Murty, Hughes, Daniel Hilsabeck, Cody Agee, Nathan Wood, Derrick Agee and Shane Paris.

Colton Livezey and Curtis VanDerWal won round one heats in the KBOE Radio IMCA Northern SportMods meanwhile Logan Anderson and VanDerWal won round two heats. VanDerWal led the points followed by Anderson, Jason McDaniel, Brett Lowry, Livezey, Kyle Hill, Cory Van Zante and Charlie Weber.

Pepsi Cola IMCA Hobby Stocks saw Nick Ulin and Dustin Griffiths won round one heats. Griffiths and Danny Thrasher took round two heats. With two wins it was Griffiths leading the way in points followed by Thrasher, Ulin, Craig Brown, Adam Bonnett, Dale Porter, Brandon Potts and Jamie Songer.

Back at it for night two on Thursday Night as there will be Last Chance Qualifers for Stock Cars, SportMods and Hobby Stocks. Everybody will get two chances to make the features. Top eight from Points on Wednesday will race in a dash. Iowa Sportsman Series will also be racing. Hot Laps at 7pm and Racing at 7:30pm.

For more information, Like Southern Iowa Speedway Every Wednesday Night on facebook, check out oskyspeedway.com or call Mike Van Genderen at 641-521-0330.

Southern Iowa Speedway Results
20th Annual Budweiser Great American Stock Car Shootout
July 1st, 2015

Musco Lighting IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds
Feature
1. 22 Brandon Banks (Washington); 2. 10C Cayden Carter (Oskaloosa); 3. 02 Andrew Schroeder (Keswick); 4. 9X Tyler Groenendyk (Oskaloosa); 5. 8 Colt Mather (Keswick; 6. 7V Carter VanDenBerg (Oskaloosa); 7. 40 Scott Dickey (Packwood); 8. K1 Kyle Krampe (Baxter); DNS/9. 7W Jerry Pilcher (Bloomfield)

Heat – 1. Dickey; 2. Banks; 3. Schroeder; 4. Groenendyk; 5. Carter; 6. VanDenBerg; 7. Mather; 8. Krampe; DNS Pilcher

Budweiser IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars
Round 1 Heats
Heat 1 – 1. 14 Derrick Agee (Moberly, MO); 2. 52 Nathan Wood (Sigourney); 3. 11 Mike Hughes (Oskaloosa); 4. 17C Shane Paris (Muscatine); 5. 79S Jason See (Albia); 6. 6 Caleb Crenshaw (Fort Worth, TX); 7. 72 Jerry Pilcher (Bloomfield); 8. 87 Les Blakley (Fairfield); 9. 16J Ashton Johnson (Bloomfield); 10. 46B Michael Bilyeu (Indianola); 11. 17 Brock Welch (Oskaloosa); 12. 10R Ryan Fullenkamp (St. Louis, MO)

Heat 2 – 1. 99D Damon Murty (Chelsea); 2. 77N Daniel Hilsabeck (Adel); 3. 64 Casey Greubel (Lacona); 4. 25 Cody Agee (Huntsville, MO); 5. 3D Daniel Gordon (Oskaloosa); 6. 54 Robbie Merkle (Des Moines); 7. 19 Donnie Pearson (Oskaloosa); 8. 8 Austin Evans (Independence); 9. 7 Todd Phillips (Packwood); 10. 9 Terry Clayton (Brooklyn); 11. 19J Jay Schmidt (Tama); DQ/12. 00 Johnny Spaw (Cedar Rapids)

Heat 3 – 1. 10C Cayden Carter (Oskaloosa); 2. 33Z Zack Vanderbeek (Oskaloosa); 3. 71 David Brandies (Wilton); 4. 22R Todd Reitzler (Grinnell); 5. 3 Joe Zadina (Blair, NE); 6. 4J Bob Lynch (Ottumwa); 7. 12 Doug Sylvester (Ottumwa); 8. 71Z Ron Christopher (Forney, TX); 9. 12H Duawyne Herb (Hiawatha); 10. 17P Brad Pinkerton (New Sharon); 11. 97 Steve Clair (Carlisle)

Round 2 Heats
Heat 1 – 1. Hughes; 2. Hilsabeck; 3. Reitzler; 4. Pinkerton; 5. Spaw; 6. Phillips; 7. Sylvester; 8. Blakley; 9. Christopher; 10. Pearson; 11. Lynch; 12. Johnson

Heat 2 – 1. Carter; 2 Murty; 3. Wood; 4. Brandies; 5. Derrick Agee; 6. Vanderbeek; 7. Pilcher; 8. Schmidt; 9. Merkle; 10. Crenshaw; 11. Bilyeu; 12. Clayton

Heat 3 – 1. Cody Agee; 2. Paris; 3. See; 4. Greubel; 5. Zadina; 6. Gordon; 7. Evans; 8. Herb; 9. Welch; DNS/10. Fullenkamp; DNS/11. Clair

KBOE Radio IMCA Northern SportMods
Round 1 Heats
Heat 1 – 1. 29 Colton Livezey (New Sharon); 2. 72 Brett Lowry (Montezuma); 3. 14B Kyle Hill (New London); 4. 34Z Cory Van Zante (Sully); 5. 12 Brandon Dale (Memphis, MO); 6. 7A Aaron Osweiler (South English); 7. 49G Leroy Groenendyk (Oskaloosa); 8. 53 Greg Strohman (Webster); 9. 84B Trent Brink (Bussey)

Heat 2 – 1. 1V Curtis VanDerWal (Oskaloosa); 2. 85 Jason McDaniel (Eldon); 3. 9A Logan Anderson (Oskaloosa); 4. 01 Brayton Carter (Oskaloosa); 5. 25 Scott VanBusKirk (Hedrick); 6. 352 Charlie Weber (Sigourney); 7. 20 Danny Brau (Brooklyn); 8. 26 Scott Brau (Brooklyn)

Round 2 Heats
Heat 1 – 1. Anderson; 2. McDaniel; 3. Van Zante; 4. Dale; 5. Osweiler; 6. Livezey; 7. VanBusKirk; 8. Carter

Heat 2 – 1. VanDerWal; 2. Weber; 3. Lowry; 4. Hill; 5. Groenendyk; 6. Brink; 7. Strohman; 8. Scott Brau; 9. Danny Brau

Pepsi Cola IMCA Hobby Stocks
Round 1 Heats
Heat 1 – 1. 21 Nick Ulin (Agency); 2. 69 Craig Brown (Eldon); 3. 96R Jamie Songer (Ankeny); 4. 32T Bobby Greene (Eddyville); 5. 19 Bill Bonnett (Knoxville); 6. 52 Kevin Fee (Knoxville); 7. 224 August Bach (Newton); 8. 12 Mike Kincaid (Cincinnati); 9. 3 Travis Bunnell (Hedrick); 10. 19D Daniel Dyer (Ottumwa)

Heat 2 – 1. 10G Dustin Griffths (Ottumwa); 2. 10 Dale Porter (Bloomfield); 3. 84 Danny Thrasher (Agency); 4. 31 Adam Bonnett (Martensdale); 5. 73 Aaron Martin (Ottumwa); 6. 2 Brandon Potts (Eldon); 7. 3S Steve Allen (Oskaloosa); 8. 15W Clayton Webster (Ottumwa); 9. 14 Christian Huffman (New Sharon); 10. 53D Ron Downing Jr (Ottumwa)

Round 2 Heats
Heat 1 – 1. Griffiths; 2. Potts; 3. Bill Bonnett; 4. Ulin; 5. Songer; 6. Porter; 7. Huffman; 8. Martin; 9. Bach; 10. Kincaid

Heat 2 – 1. Thrasher; 2. Bunnell; 3. Adam Bonnett; 4. Brown; 5. Greene; 6. Allen; 7. Fee; 8. Webster; 9. Downing; 10. Dyer

IMCA Sport Compacts
Feature
1. 13B Josh Barnes (Keokuk); 2. 92E Shane Evans (Iowa City); 3. 77 John Whalen (Ainsworth); 4. 07 Bill Whalen Jr (Riverside); 5. 33 John Girdley (Wayland); 6. 0 Ryan Havel (Iowa City); 7. 29 Kevin Garrett (Bloomfield); 8. 22M Curt Myers (Sigourney); 9. 2M Matt Moore (Ottumwa); 10. 33G Trent Orwig (Eldon)

Heat – 1. Orwig; 2. Barnes; 3. Girdley; 4. Evans; 5. John Whalen; 6. Moore; 7. Bill Whalen; 8. Havel; 9. Garrett; 10. Myers

Category: Iowa, Southern Iowa Speedway