MCDANIEL AND PINKERTON TAKES SEASON OPENER CHECKERS
By: Tony Paris

OSKALOOSA, Iowa (April12, 2006) - A beautiful night for racing action with warm temps and hot action at the Southern Iowa Speedway with Brad Pinkerton of New Sharon burning up the half-mile taking two out of three feature events on the season opener. Pinkerton took checkers in both the USRA stock car and USRA Musco Lighting Modified division and gained points in the Casey's General Stores USRA National Points Championship.

The USRA hobby stock feature was won by Eldon racer Jason McDaniel who lead ten of the fifteen laps for the win holding off several challenges from Rick Landgrebe of Sigourney who tried several times to pass McDaniel but McDaniel`s car was to strong. Bobby Greene of Eddyville raced his way from eleventh to a second place finish with Landgebe taking third and last Saturday nights winner Nathan Wood of Sigourney took fourth after starting twentieth after mechanical problems in the heat race forced a deep start in the feature event.

The USRA Musco Lighting modified feature went twenty laps with Pinkerton taking the checkers holding off Rick Gustin of Marshalltown who took second with Terry Walker of Riverside taking third and local driver Steven Blattler taking fourth after leading the first three. In the USRA stock car division Pinkerton took the second set of checkers along with another trophy to add to the collection after scoring his second win in the same night. Pinkerton held off last years track champion T.J. Criss of Osakloosa who took second with Osky driver Brian Edel passing Bobby Greiner Jr. of Ottumwa with two laps togo for third and Greiner in fourth.

USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Jason McDaniel,Eldon 2.Bobby Greene,Eddyville 3.Chase Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 4.Jason VanZomeren,Oskaloosa 5.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 6.Todd Reitzler,Grinnell 7.Matt Beal,Oskaloosa

Heat#2-1.Rick Landgrebe,Sigourney 2.Shannon Sherwood,Oskaloosa 3.Mark Moore,Ottumwa 4.Mark Ford,Lovilia 5.Rick Johnson,Des Moines 6.Danny Thrasher,Agency 7.Paul Underwood,Ottumwa

Heat#3-1.Joe Ferguson,Tracy 2.Bill Gibson,Knoxville 3.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 4.Jared Sanders,New Sharon 5.Derek Kirkland,Centerville 6.Dave Breuklander,Oskaloosa 7.Justin Hook,Oskaloosa

Heat#4-1.Steve Allen,Oskaloosa 2.Jimmy Hayes,Moravia 3.Travis Sherwood,Ottumwa 4.Lonnie Taylor,Fairfield 5.Tyler Ford,Lovilia 6.Dustin Griffiths,Ottumwa

A-Feature 1.McDaniel 2.Greene 3.Landgrebe 4.Wood 5.Sanders 6.Allen 7.Mitrisin 8.Ferguson 9.S.Sherwood 10.Moore 11.Hayes 12.Shelton 13.Gibson 14.T.Sherwood 15.Thrasher 16.VanZomeren 17.Greiner 18.Kirkland 19.Johnson 20.Reitzler 21.T.Ford 22.Breuklander 23.Beal 24.Underwood 25.M.Ford 26.Griffiths 27.Hook

USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Brian Edel,Oskaloosa 2.T.J.Criss,Oskaloosa 3.Bobby Greiner Jr.,Ottumwa 4.Josh Newell,Oskaloosa 5.Colt Mather,Webster 6.Matt Greiner,Washington 7.Darrin Thompson,New Sharon 8.Brain Jackson,Moravia

Heat#2-1.Steve Landgrebe,Oskaloosa 2.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 3.Brian Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 4.Eric Flander,Barnes City 5.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 6.Shane Weller,Agency 7.Zack Vanderbeek,New Sharon 8.Jim Brown,Fremont

A-Feature 1.Pinkerton 2.Criss 3.Edel 4.Greiner Jr. 5.Newell 6.Mitrisin 7.M.Greiner 8.Landgrebe 9.Brown 10.Mather 11.Weller 12.Wood 13.Flander 14.Jackson 15.Vanderbeek 16.Thompson

USRA MUSCO LIGHTING MODIFIEDS
Heat#1.Rick Gustin,Marshalltown 2.Steven Blattler,Oskaloosa 3.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 4.Brad Stephens,Bussey 5.Kevin Bills,Creston 6.Zack Vanderbeek,New Sharon

Heat#2-1.Scott Dickey,Packwood 2.Terry Walker,Riverside 3.Brandon Banks,Washington 4.Steve Stewart,Washington 5.Ron Verbeek,Oskaloosa 6.Kyle Harwood,Oskaloosa

A-Feature 1.Pinkerton 2.Gustin 3.Walker 4.Blattler 5.Banks 6.Stephens 7.Stewart 8.Bills 9.Vanderbeek 10.Dickey 11.VerBeek 12.Harwood