MATHER TAKES THIRD STRAIGHT WIN AND $1000 IN STOCK CAR SHOOTOUT
AT MOUNTAIN-DEW BLOOMFIELD SPEEDWAY
By: Tony Paris

BLOOMFIELD, IA (June 30, 2006) - The month of June came to a end with a bang and getting ready for the month of July with fans having the opportunity to see five classes of action with two special big money classes in action sponsored by Troy Elevator and Stop-N-Go Drive Thru night at the races. The Casey`s General Stores Great American Stock Car Shootout with the winner getting $1000 and hobby winner getting $400.

In the first feature the Spilman Auto Parts USRA Modifieds took to the track with Jared Durbin of Ft.Madison taking the green from the pole position and leading all fifteen laps for his second ever feature win and both coming at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway.Dennis Elliott of Mt.Ayr worked his way from the fifth spot to take second passing Casey Lancaster with four laps remaining with Lancaster taking third and veteran racer Jerry Pilcher taking fourth after starting ninth.

The second feature was the Mid-America 305 Winged Sprint Car feature with Logan Trueblood of Memphis,Mo. leading the field to the green for sixteen laps of open wheel excitement. Steve Breazeale of Trenton,Mo. took the lead in turns three and four and lead all sixteen laps for his third win of 2006 season. Jeff Mitrisin of Oskaloosa was back in action after winning the Tuesday night sprint show at the Scotland County Fair in Memphis,Mo. he was piloting the 83 machine for the injured Brian Ridge of Ottumwa and worked his way from tenth to second but couldn't`t catch a break with the feature going green to checkered and settled for second. Shawn Deman of Knoxville had another good run in the 16 machine taking home the third spot with Mark Widmar of Ottumwa taking fourth. The First Choice Reality of Ottumwa mystery spot went to Logan Trueblood and the Lancaster Oil Company Hard Charger award went to Jeff Mitrisin who passed eight cars on the march forward. The Haines Auto Supply Hard Luck Award went to Jamie Needham of Moline,Il. who fought a power steering problem all night long.

Our third feature was the Kollision Korner Hornets going eight laps with Brent Hartley of Niota,Il. taking his first win after two tries at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway. Dale Porter of Floris took the second spot holding off the 11 machine of Larry Hopkins who took third with last weeks feature winner Tom Irwin of Bloomfield taking fourth.

The fourth feature was the Kirkland Auto USRA Hobby Stock Shootout for $400 to win with Nathan Wood of Sigourney leading all eighteen laps for the win. The battle for second was between Mike Shelton of Ottumwa and Gary Harward of Bloomfield with Shelton taking the second spot with Harward in third and Mark Moore of Ottumwa in fourth. After the feature in post race inspection Nathan Wood was disqualified for illegal rear-end gear and Shelton was awarded the win and all drivers moved up one spot.

The final feature of the night was the one everyone was wanting to see the third night of seven contiuous nights of racing action for the Casey`s General Store USRA Great American Stock Car Shootout with $1000 going to the winner in the Hougland Repair Shop USRA Stock Car main event. Two experienced stock car drivers lead the field to the green for twenty-five laps of door-to-door and wheel-to-wheel excitment with Tom Schmitt of Independence and Steve Jackson of Des Moines with Scmitt taking the race lead and would lead tll lap nineteen before caution would fly. This would close the field up,setting the field for a six lap run to the checkers with Scmitt diving down to the bottom of the speedway in turns one and two on the restart. Colt Mather of Webster would us the highside to his advantage making the pass off turn two on the highside to take the race lead and hold off Schmitt for his third straight win at Bloomfield and the $1000 payday for the rokkie making it his eight of the season. Schmitt took second just like on Thursday night at the Hancock County Speedway in Britt. Pat Rachels who scored the win on Wedensday night at the Southern Iowa Speedway took third after starting tenth and Bert McDaniel of Eldon worked the bottom side of the speedway for a run from twelveth to fourth with eight drivers following the series it has made for some exciting racing action with three diffrent winners in three night.

Next weeks racing action will feature five classes in action with the Keith`s Foods Late Model series back in action with the Casey`s General Stores USRA weekly point series back in action with hot laps at 7:00pm and racing action at 7:30pm at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway.

KOLLISION KORNER HORNETS
Heat#1-1.Brent Hartley,Niota,Il. 2.Curtis Barnes,Greentop,Mo. 3.Kevin Garrett,Bloomfield 4.Gene Irwin,Bloomfield 5.Wes Gladfelder,Bloomfield 6.Jim Garrett,Ottumwa

Heat#2-1.Dale Porter,Floris 2.Larry Hopkins,Ottumwa 3.Tom Irwin,Bloomfield 4.Matt Moore,Ottumwa 5.Bill Young,Ottumwa

A-Feature 1.Hartley 2.Porter 3.Hopkins 4.T.Irwin 5.Barnes 6.G.Irwin 7.Moore 8.J.Garrett 9.K.Garrett 10.Young 11.Gladfelder

KIRKLAND AUTO USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 2.Dave Morrison,Bloomfield 3.Nathan Olinger,Floris 4.Bill Gibson,Knoxville 5.Robby Sands,Centerville 6.Rick Sands,Milan,Mo. 7.Dustin Griffiths,Ottumwa

Heat#2-1.Jim Walker,Mystic 2.Jim Sulser,Centerville 3.Cory Brown,Ottumwa 4.Bob Lynch,Ottumwa 5.Lance Meyer,Ottumwa 6.Derek Kirkland,Centerville 7.Ben Jones,Williamsburg

Heat#3-1.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 2.Gary Harward,Bloomfield 3.Randy Hadacek,Duncan 4.Mark Moore,Ottumwa 5.Rusty Sands,Unionville,Mo. 6.Chad Dehne,Ottumwa

A-Feature 1.Shelton 2.Harward 3.Moore 4.Hadacek 5.Kirkland 6.Lynch 7.Gibson 8.Morrison 9.Rusty Sands 10.Meyer 11.Walker 12.Dehne 13.Brown 14.Sulser 15.Olinger 16.Rick Sands 17.Robby Sands 18.Griffiths 19.Jones 20.Wood

HOUGLAND REPAIR SHOP USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Phil McClure,Floris 2.Mike Robinson,Moravia 3.Pat Rachels,Knoxville 4.Bert McDaniel Jr.,Eldon 5.Ryan Cook,West Point 6.Chris Wibbell,Dallas City,Il. 7.Mike McClure,Bloomfield

Heat#2-1.Bobby Greiner Jr.,Ottumwa 2.Matt Greiner,Washington 3.Jeremy Hamlin,Memphis,Mo. 4.Jason Cook,Mt. Pleasant 5.Brian Jackson,Moravia 6.Tyler McClure,Floris 7.Jared Miller,Pulaski

Heat#3-1.Colt Mather,Webster 2.Tom Schmitt,Independence 3.Steve Jackson,Des Moines 4.Chris Hawkins,Drakesville 5.Eric Flander,Barnes City 6.T.J.Criss,Oskaloosa 7.Mike Harward,Bloomfield

A-Feature 1.Mather 2.Schmitt 3.Rachels 4.McDaniel 5.Jackson 6.Flander 7.Bobby Greiner Jr. 8.Criss 9.P.McClure 10.J.Cook 11.R.Cook 12.Robinson 13.Wibbell 14.Hawkins 15.Harward 16.M.McClure 17.Hamlin 18.Miller 19.Matt Greiner 20.B.Jackson 21.T.McClure

SPILMAN AUTO PARTS USRA MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Chris Eggers,Lancaster,Mo. 2.Jared Durbin,Ft. Madison 3.Jeremy Townsend,Blomfield 4.Steve Stewart,Washington 5.Jerry Pilcher,Bloomfield 6.Brandon Banks,Washington

Heat#2-1.Dennis Elliott,Mt.Ayr 2.Jerry Reese,Baring,Mo. 3.Casey Lancaster,Glenwood,Mo. 4.Tom Lathrop,Ottumwa 5.Chris Leather,Macon,Mo.

A-Feature 1.Durbin 2.Elliott 3.Lancaster 4.Pilcher 5.Reese 6.Eggers 7.Stewart 8.Banks 9.Lathrop 10.Townsend 11.Leathers

MID-AMERICA 305 WINGED SPRINTS
Heat#1-1.Louis Lynch,Glenwood,Mo. 2.Matt Stephenson,Des Moines 3.Shawn Deman,Knoxville 4.Rob Kubli,Milo 5.Bob Lamb,Mitchellville 6.Marty Stephenson,Mitchellville 7.Justin Giannetto,Cedar Rapids 8.Jamie Needham,Moline,Il. 9.Monte Hill,Fairfield

Heat#2-1.Jeff Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 2.Steve Breazeale,Trenton,Mo. 3.Mark Widmar,Ottumwa 4.John Hillman,Jefferson City,Mo. 5. Logan Trueblood,Memphis,Mo. 6.Mike Mayberry,Ottumwa 7.Josh Padeliford,Pleasentville 8.David Bourck,Tenton,Mo.

A-Feature 1.Breazeale 2.Mitrisin 3.Deman 4.Widmar 5.Matt Stephenson 6.Trueblood 7.Marty Stephenson 8.Kubli 9.Lynch 10.Hillman 11.Mayberry 12.Giannetto 13.Lamb 14.Padeliford 15.Hill 16.Needham 17.Bourck