Bobby Greene picked up his first Hobby stock feature win of the year at the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa, Iowa wed 4 19 06 Photos by: Dave Hill

Brad Pinkerton made it 2 stock car feature wins in as many weeks at the Southern Iowa Speedway Wed 4 19 06 Photos by: Dave Hill

Zack Vander Beek scored his first Modified feature win of the season at the Southern Iowa Speedway Wed, 4 19 06 Photos by: Dave Hill

GREENE, MOYER , PINKERTON AND VANDERBEEK TAKE SIS CHECKERS
By: Tony Paris

OSKALOOSA, Ia (April 19, 2006) - Night number two was held at the Southern Iowa Speedway on a beautiful spring evening with four classes in action. Three new faces picked up there first wins of 2006 season with Brad Pinkerton of New Sharon scoring his second straight win in the USRA stock car division and all three classes battling for the Casey`s General Store USRA National Championship Points.

The first feature of the night was the USRA hobby stock feature event with twenty-three cars taking the green with Rookie driver Danny Thrasher and Oskaloosa driver Shannon Sherwood leading the field to the green flag. Both drivers would battle for the topspot with Thrasher losing a right rear tire on lap two ending his run up front. Sherwood would take the lead on lap three before Bobby Greene of Eddyville took the lead with New Sharon driver Jared Sanders moving into second with Sherwood in third. Green would build a twenty car lenght lead over Sanders but caution would fly for Dustin Griffiths of Ottumwa losing a motor up in smoke ending his night and closing the field up for a five lap shootout with Green being to strong and took his first win of 2006 season after taking a runner-u spot last week. Todd Reitzler of Grinnell taking the second spot after starting nineth with Sherwood in third and Rick Landgrebe of Sigourney in fourth.

In the second feature of the night the USRA stock car feature took too the track for eighteen laps of exciting wheel-to-to-wheel action. Local racer Josh Newell of Oskaloosa and veteran driver Jim Brown of Fremont took the green flag and Newell paced the field for the first eleven laps before Brad Pinkerton of New Sharon worked his way from tenth to the topspot. This class always thrills the fans with three and sometimes four wide racing action and tonight wasn`t anything diffrent with several battles on the track for each and every position. Pinkerton crossed the line to take his second straight win at the Southern Iowa Speedway with Newell drifting back to a fourth place finish. The battle for the runner-up spot was between T.J. Criss of Oskaloosa and Bobby Greiner Jr. of Ottumwa with Criss taking second and Greiner in third.

The Cookies BBQ Sauce and Iowa Diamond dirt trucks were added to the racing card with Carl Moyer of Ankeny taking the win after taking the lead on lap ten of the twelve lap event.In second place was Al Thayer of Indianola with Matt Waugh of Des Moines in third and Lou Sipolt of Altoona in fourth. This was Moyer`s first dirt truck win in the 2006 season.

Our final feature of the night was the Musco Lighting USRA Modified feature event going twenty fast laps around the big half-mile with Steven Blattler of Oskaloosa and Terry Walker of Riverside leading the field to the green with Walker taking the lead and lead till Zack Vanderbeek of New Sharon closed in for the battle. The two drivers would battle door-to-door and wheel-to-wheel for the lead with Vanderbeek taking the lead on lap fifteen and never looked back only forward for his first win of 2006 season. Walker took second with last weeks feature winner Brad Pinkerton of New Sharon racing his way from tenth to third and Ron Verbeek of Oskaloosa in fourth and Rick Gustin of Marshalltown in fifth.

USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Joe Ferguson,Tracy 2.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 3.Jared Sanders,New Sharon 4.Tood Reitzler,Grinnell 5.Kevin Fee,Knoxville 6.Mark moore,Ottumwa 7.Justin Hook,Oskaloosa 8.Jason McDaniel,Eldon

Heat#2-1.Rick Landgrebe,Sigourney 2.Shannon Sherwood,Oskaloosa 3.Bill Gibson,Knoxville 4.Tyler Ford,Lovilia 5.Jason VanZomeren,Oskaloosa 6.Dave Breuklander,Oskaloosa 7.Steve Allen,Oskaloosa 8.Paul Underwood,Ottumwa


Heat#3-1.Bobby Greene,Eddyville 2.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 3.Chase Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 4.Danny Thrasher,Agency 5.Travis Sherwood,Ottumwa 6.Dustin Griffiths,Ottumwa 7.Lonnie Greiner,Fairfield

A-Feature 1.Green 2.Reitzler 3.S.Sherwood 4.Landgrebe 5.Wood 6.Sanders 7.Mitrisin 8.Gibson 9.Allen 10.Ford 11.Shelton 12.Greiner 13.VanZomeren 14.Moore 15.Fee 16.Sherwood 17.Underwood 18.Griffiths 19.Hook 20.Breuklander 21.Ferguson 22.McDaniel 23.Thrasher

USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 2.Jim Brown,Fremont 3.Eric Flander,Barnes City 4.Brian Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 5.Colt Mather,Webster 6.Brian Edel,Oskaloosa 7.Howard Gordon Jr.,Oskaloosa 8.Darrin Thompson,New Sharon

Heat#2-1.Zack Vanderbeek,New Sharon 2.T.J. Criss,Oskaloosa 3.Josh Newell,Oskaloosa 4.Shane Weller,Agency 5.Matt Greiner,Washington 6.Bobby Greiner,Jr.,Ottumwa 7.Steve Landgrebe,Oskaloosa 8.Nathan Wood,Sigourney

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


COOKIE BBQ SAUCE/IOWA DIAMOND DIRT TRUCKS
Heat#1-1.Rick Clark,Des Moines

Heat#2-1.Carl Moyer,Ankeny

A-Feature 1.Carl Moyer 2.Al Thayer,Indianola 3.Matt Waugh,Des Moines 4.Lou Sipolt,Altoona 5.Bill Davis Jr,Des Moines 6.Mike Hoofman,Des Moines 7.Brian Murry,Altoona 8.Rick Clark,Des Moines 9.Josh Hul,Des Moines

MUSCO LIGHTING USRA MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Ron Verbeek,Oskaloosa 2.Rick Gustin,Marshalltown 3.Scott Dickey,Packwood 4.Kyle Harwood,Oskaloosa 5.Bill Davis Jr.Des Moines 6.Brad Stephens,Bussey 7.Jason Murray,Hartford 8.Joe McBirnie,Boone

Heat#2-1.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 2.Zack Vanderbeek,New Sharon 3.Terry Walker,Riverside 4.Brandon Banks,Washington 5.Steven Blattler,Oskaloosa 6.Jack Housley,Des Moines 7.Steve Stewart,Washington 8.Dan Banker,Mitchellville

A-Feature 1.Vanderbeek 2.Walker 3.Pinkerton 4.Verbeek 5.Gustin 6.Blattler 7.Dickey 8.Banks 9.Stephens 10.Harwood 11.Davis 12.Housley 13.Murray 14.Stewart 15.Banker 16.McBirnie