SHANNON SHERWOOD SCORES FIRST EVER WIN AT SOUTHERN IOWA SPEEDWAY
By: Tony Paris

OSKALOOSA, IA (July 3, 2006) -  Racing returned for night number six of the seven day stock car and hobby stock traveling series sponsored by Greiner Buildings of Washington. After five straight nights of racing the winners circle hadn`t seen a repeat winner coming into night number six. In the eighteen lap USRA hobby stock feature Kevin Schmauss of Eagle Grove and Bobby Greene of Eddyville brought the field to the green flag with Greene taking the lead with Schmauss running second with Chase Mitrisin running third. The battle for the lead would get very interesting with three drivers battling for the lead with Green still trying to hold off Shannon Sherwood of Oskaloosa along with Nathan Wood of Sigourney.

The three drivers would swap the lead with Wood taking the lead on lap six and would try to hold off Greene and Sherwood but there was no holding off the 6S machine of local driver Sherwood who powered past Wood in chase of his first ever win. Sherwood would take the win by seven car lenghts pocketing the $400 and his first ever trophy to add to his racing highlights topping the field of fellow drivers. Wood took second with Greene in third and Mike Shelton of Ottumwa in fourth. This was Shelton`s sixth straight night of racing along with Bill Gibson of Knoxville who also had run all six but had motor problems and finished twelveth.

 The second feature of the night was the USRA stock car main event going twenty-five laps with Matt Greiner of Washington and Nathan Wood of Sigourney leading the stock car field to the green and Greiner along with Wood would thrill the crowd for the first twelve laps with side-by-side racing with the two drivers swapping the lead several times before Brad Pinkerton of New Sharon closed in for a three car battle with Piinkerton taking the lead and powered the 17P machine to victory lane for the $1000 payday and making the sixth diffrent stock car feature winner in six nights of racing action. The 12J machine of T.J.Criss of Oskaloosa would make his way from eight to second and closed the gap between his machine and leader Pinkerton but couldn`t do anything with Pinkerton on the last lap and settled for second position. Rookie driver Wood took home the third spot with Matt Greiner taking the fourth spot and veteran driver Steve Jackson of Polk City taking fifth.

                                           USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 2.Chase Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 3.Shannon Sherwood,Oskaloosa 4.Jason VanZomeren,Osklaoosa 5.Adam Bonnett,Norwalk 6.Dave Breuklander,Oskaloosa 7.Travis Sherwood,Ottumwa

Heat#2-1.Bobby Greene,Eddyville 2.Kevin Schmauss,Eagle Grove 3.Jared Sanders,Oskaloosa 4.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 5.Bill Gibson,Knoxville 6.Don Nunnikhoven,Sully 7.Jeff Hovick,St.Charles

A-Feature 1.Shannon Sherwood 2.Wood 3.Greene 4.Shelton 5.Nunnikhoven 6.Hovick 7.Breuklander 8.Schmauss 9.Travis Sherwood 10.VanZomeren 11.Mitrisin 12.Gibson 13.Sanders 14.Bonnett

                                            USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Pat Rachels,Knoxville 2.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 3.Tom Schmitt,Independence 4.Matt Greiner,Washington 5.Rick Gustin,Marshalltown 6.Mark Steinke,Gibson 7.Greg Gill,Muscatine 8.Darrin Thompson,New Sharon

Heat#2-1.Brian Edel,Oskaloosa 2.T,J,Criss,Oskaloosa 3.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 4.Bert McDaniel Jr.,Eldon 5.Josh Newell,Oskaloosa 6.Bobby Greiner Jr.,Ottumwa 7.Bobby Greene,Eddyville

Heat#3-1.Steve Jackson,Polk City 2.Colt Mather,Webster 3.Mike Harward,Bloomfield 4.Jason Minnehan,Churdan 5.Rick Brown,Kellogg 6.Adam Bell,Columbus Junction 7.Terry Peterson,Albia

A-Feature 1.Pinkerton 2.Criis 3.Wood 4.Matt Greiner 5.Jackson 6.Rachels 7.Schmitt 8.Steinke 9.Newell 10.Harward 11.Gill 12.Brown 13.Greene 14.Mather 15.Edel 16.Gustin 17.Peterson 18.Minnehan 19.McDaniel 20.Bell 21.Bobby Greiner Jr. 22.Thompson