BAAKEN, BROWN. MOYER AND WOOD TAKE SOUTHERN IOWA SPEEDWAY CHECKERS
By: Tony Paris

OSKALOOSA, Ia (May 17, 2006) - Night number five was held at the Southern Iowa Speedway with warmer temps but breezy conditions it was a much better night for racing action and much more comfortable for the fans to enjoy the racing action from the stands. With four classes in action for Wild Wednesday night excitment on the fast 1/2 mile speedway.

The twenty lap Musco Lighting USRA modifieds feature event with Bruce Hanford of Davenport taking the early race lead and lead till Brad Baaken of Garner,Iowa took the race lead off turn two on lap six of the twenty lap event. Baaken powered the Unicover, Bud Light number 50 to his first victory lane celebration at the Southern Iowa Speedway. The second spot went to Mark Elliott of Webster City who worked his way past Hanford on lap fifteen and took second with Brad Pinkerton of New Sharon having trouble in turn two bring out the caution flag on lap ten but worked his way from the tail to take third and Hanford taking a hard fought fourth after battling with Brandon Banks of Washington for fourth with Banks taking fifth.
 

In the fifteen lap USRA hobby stock feature event Jared Sanders of New Sharon took the early race lead and lead till lap eleven before Nathan Wood of Sigourney made the pass on the inside of turns three and four and took the lead and lead the final four laps for the win. Mike Shelton of Ottumwa and Sanders went wheel-to-wheel for the second spot the final three laps of the race with Shelton taking second followed by Sanders in third and Joe Ferguson of tracy working his way from seventh to the fourth spot. This was Wood`s second straight win in the Casey`s General Store weekly and national point standings taking a win Saturday night at the Pepsi Scotland County Speedway in Memphis, Mo. and repeating tonight in Oskaloosa.

The twelve lap Cookies BBQ Sauce Dirt Truck feature saw two drivers of Matt Waugh of Des Moines and Carl Moyer of Ankeny battled for the race lead with seven diffrent lead changes with Moyer taking his second win at the Southern Iowa Speedway and adding to his current point lead in the truck series. Waugh took second with Lou Sipolt of Altoona in third amd Rick Clark of Des Moines in fourth.

Our final feature of the night was the eighteen lap USRA Stock Car main event with twenty-one cars checked in for action. Veteran racer Jim Brown of Fremont and rookie driver Nathan Wood of Sigourney lead the field to the green falg with Brown taking the race lead and lead all eighteen laps in style,picking up his first win athe Southern Iowa speedway in 2006. The second spot went to Steve Landgrebe of Oskaloosa who tried several time to close the gap but could only get one to two car lenghts distance between the two and settled for second. Bobby Greiner Jr. of Ottumwa took the tird spot after racing his way from the tenth starting position. The fourth spot went to Brain Mitrisin of Oskaloosa in the team green machine of Joe Ferguson owned machine with teammate T.J. Criss having a engine expire on the last lap after running third and finished twelveth after the trouble.

USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Bill Gibson,Knoxville 2.Rick Landgrebe,Sigourney 3.Rod Reitzler,Grinnell 4.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 5.Danny Thrasher,Agency 6.Justin Hook,Oskaloosa 7.Rick Johnson,Des Moines

Heat#2-1.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 2.Jared Sanders,New Sharon 3.Joe Ferguson,Tracy 4.Lonnie Greiner,Fairfield 5.Jason VanZomeren,Oskaloosa 6.Shannon Sherwood,Oskaloosa 7.Mark Ford,Lovilia

Heat#3-1.Bobby Greene,Eddyville 2.Jason McDaniel,Eldon 3.Chase Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 4.Tyler Ford,Lovilia 5.AJ Johnson,Oskaloosa 6.Dave Breuklander,Oskaloosa

A-Feature 1.Wood 2.Shelton 3.Sanders 4.Ferguson 5.Mitrisin 6.Landgrebe 7.Gibson 8.Thrasher 9.VanZomeren 10.Sherwood 11.T.Ford 12.Johnson 13.Breuklander 14.M.Ford 15.Johnson 16.McDaniel 17.Reitzler 18.Greiner 19.Greene 20.Hook

USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Brain Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 2.Scotty Pratt,Tipton 3.Josh Newell,Oskaloosa 4.Brain Edel,Oskaloosa 5.Matt Greiner,Washington 6.Pat Rachels,Knoxville 7.Jerry Pratt,Bennett

Heat#2-1.Jim Brown,Fremont 2.Howard Gordon Jr,Oskaloosa 3.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 4.Mark Steinke,Gibson 5.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 6.Michael Pothoff,Muscatine 7.Eric Falnder,Barnes City

Heat#3-1.T.J. Criss,Oskaloosa 2.Colt Mather,Webster 3.Bobby Greiner Jr.,Ottumwa 4.Steve Landgrebe,Oskaloosa 5.Rick brown,Kellogg 6.Greg Gill,Muscatine 7.Shane Weller,Agency

A-Feature 1.Jim Brown 2.Landgrebe 3.Bobby Greiner Jr. 4.Mitrisin 5.Newell 6.Mather 7.Pinkerton 8.Edel 9.Steinke 10.Scotty Pratt 11.Gordon 12.Criss 13.Rick Brown 14.Jerry Pratt 15.Pothoff 16.Matt Greiner 17.Gill 18.Wood 19.Rachels 20.Flander 21.Weller

COOKIES BBQ SAUCE/IOWA DIAMOND DIRT TRUCKS
Heat#1-1.Carl Moyer,Ankeny 2.Mike Hoffman,Des Moines 3.Rick Clark,Des Moines 4.Brian Murray,Altoona

Heat#2-1.Matt Waugh,Des Moines 2.Lou Sipolt,Altoona 3.Al Thayer,Indianola 4.Josh Hull,Mitchelville

A-Feature 1.Moyer 2.Waugh 3.Sipolt 4.Clark 5.Hoffman 6.Thayer 7.Murray 8.Hull

MUSCO LIGHTING USRA MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 2.Mark Elliott,Webster City 3.Steve Stewart,Washington 4.Brandon Banks,Washington 5.Keith Haislip,Davenport 6.David Ott,Ankeny 7.Scott Dickey,Packwood 8.Kyle Harwood,Oskaloosa 9.Jack Housley.Des Moines

Heat#2-1.Steven Blattler,Oskaloosa 2.Brad Baaken,Garner 3.Bruce Hanford,Davenport 4.Mark Schulte,Delhi 5.Brad Stephens,Bussey 6.Danny Fetters,Montour 7.Rick Gustin,Marshalltown 8.Mark Massey,Worthington

A-Feature 1.Baaken 2.Elliott 3.Pinkerton 4.Hanford 5.Banks 6.Blattler 7.Stewart 8.Fetters 9.Massey 10.Stephens 11.Ott 12.Housley 13.Haislip 14.Harwood 15.Gustin 16.Schulte 17.Dickey