THRASHER, MOFFITT, DICKEY, STEINKE AND WIDMAR TAKE FAIR CHECKERS ON JULY 18TH
By: Tony Paris

OSKALOOSA, Iowa (July 18) -  The Southern Iowa Fair was held with KBOE 104.9FM, Oskaloosa Hy-Vee and Southern Iowa Fairboard sponsoring Fan Appreciation night with prizes and candy dash for ages 0-11 years of age along with adults winning prizes from Hy-Vee and KBOE 104.9 your station for racing. The fans payed $5.00 for five exciting classes with the Casey`s General Stores USRA  Weekly Racing Series with Mid-America 305 Sprints making there second apperance of the 2007 season with fifteen winged warriors checked in to thrill the large fair crowd.

In the first feature of the night Mark Steinke of Gibson lead the field to the green flag for fifteen lap main event with Steinke leading all fifteen laps for the win in the USRA Stock Car Division on  his second apperance of 2007. Steinke held of several challenges from Colt Mather who tried several attemps to pass Steinke but settled for the runner-up spot with Nathan Wood and Josh Newell battling for the third spot with Wood taking third and Newell in fourth.

The second apperance of the Mid-America 305 Winged Sprints,with 15 winged warriors checked in action for action. Mark Widmar of Ottumwa drawed the pole and lead all 16 laps for his first win of the 2007 season holding off the 14 year old superstar Tasker Phillips of Pleasantville who took a second straight runner-up position. The younger Phillips brother held off Rager Phillips who was driving the Bruce Clark owned 66 machine and took the third spot with Mike Mayberry and Louis Lynch battling for fourth on the last two laps with Mayberry taking fourth and Lynch in fifth. Mayberry took over the point lead from Matt Stephenson who had mechanical trouble in the heat race ending his night.

Our third feature of the night was the 10 lap USRA B-Modified main event with Cory Brown of Ottumwa leading the first six laps before Brett Moffitt took the lead and won his 5th straight feature of the 2007 season. Brown took the third spot with Paul Underwood in third and Andrew Schroeder in fourth.

The USRA Hobby Stock Feature went 16laps with Danny Thrasher of Agency holding off several challenges to take his second win at the Southern Iowa Speedway and holding off long time friend Jason McDaniel who took the third spot with Randy Veldhuizen of Eddyville passing McDaniel on the last lap for the runner-up spot and Bill Gibson of Knoxville taking the fourth spot. Three wide racing behind Thrasher thrilled the crowd for the final six laps of the 16 lap event.

In the Musco Lighting USRA A-Modifieds Scott Dickey drove his 2007 Larry Shaw Chassie to victory lane for the second time in 2007 holding of Brad Pinkerton who returned back to action after several weeks being gone and took the runner-up spot with Richie Gustin of Gilman in third followed by Ron VerBeek of Oskaloosa who went to the work area and still worked his way from the back to finish fourth.

Next week`s racing action will feature all four classes in action for the Casey`s General Stores USRA Weekly Racing Series with Kid's Night with activities for the young fans and future racers.

USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Colt Mather,Webster 2.Bert McDaniel Jr.,Eldon 3.Mark Steinke,Gibson 4.Pat Rachels, Knoxville 5.AJ Johnson,Oskaloosa 6.Aaron Wendel,Melbourne

Heat#2-1.Corey Stout,Oskaloosa 2.Nathan Wood,Keswick 3.Josh Newell,Oskaloosa 4.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 5.Matt Greiner,Washington 6.Bobby Greene,Eddyville

A-Feature 1.Steinke 2.Mather 3.Wood 4.Newell 5.Greiner 6.Pinkerton 7.Greene 8.Rachels 9.McDaniel 10.Johnson 11.Stout 12.Wendel

MID-AMERICA 305 WINGED SPRINTS
Heat#1-1.Rager Phillips,Knoxville 2.Mike Mayberry,Fremont 3.Bob Lamb,Mitchellville 4.Monte Hill,Fairfield 5.Josh Padellford,Pleasantville 6.Marty Stephenson,Mitchellville 7.Matt Stephenson,Des Moines 8.Nate VanHaften,Otley

Heat#2-1.Tasker Phillips,Pleasantville 2.Rob Kubli,Milo 3.Louis Lynch,Glenwood,Mo. 4.Mark Widmar,Ottumwa 5.Mitchell Alexander,Knoxville 6.Chad Huston,Jamesport,Mo 7.Clint Leedom,Ottumwa

A-Feature 1.Widmar 2.T.Phillips 3.R.Phillips 4.Mayberry 5.Lynch 6.Kubli 7.Marty Stephenson  8.Padellford 9.Huston 10.Lamb 11.Hill 12.Alexander 13.Matt Stephenson 14.Leedom
15.Van Haaften

USRA B-MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Brett Moffitt,Grimes 2.Cory Brown,Ottumwa 3.Andrew Schroeder,Keswick 4.Mike  Wanders,Oskaloosa 5.Ronnie Pumphrey,Altoona 6.Paul Underwood,Otumwa 7.Liz Harwood, Oskaloosa

A-Feature 1.Moffitt 2.Brown 3.Underwood 4.Schroeder 5.Pumphrey 6.Harwood 7.Wanders

USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Jason McDaniel,Eldon 2.Danny Thrasher,Agency 3.Bobby Greene,Eddyville 4.Steve Allen,Oskaloosa 5.Rick Landgrebe,Sigourney 6.Travis Sherwood,Ottumwa 7.Justin Hook,Osky

Heat#2-1.Don Nunnikhoven,Sully 2.Bill Gibson,Knoxville 3.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 4.Chase  Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 5.Mike Leffler Jr.,Ankeny 6.Wes Almond,Oskaloosa 7.Dve Breuklander,Osky

Heat#3-1.Wade Francis,Eddyville 2.Dustin Griffiths,Ottumwa 3.Randy Vedhuizen,Eddyville 4.Jason VanZomeren,Oskaloosa 5.Tony Johnson,Oskaloosa 6.Shannon Sherwood,Rose Hill

A-Feature 1.Thrasher 2.Veldhuizen 3.McDaniel 4.Gibson 5.Francis 6.Griffiths 7.Shelton  8.Nunnikhoven 9.Mitrisin 10.VanZomeren 11.Landgrebe 12.S.Sherwood 13.T.Sherwood 14.Leffler Jr. 15.Breuklander 16.Almond 17.Johnson 18.Allen 19.Greene 20.Hook

MUSCO LIGHTING USRA A-MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Brad Bakken,Garner 2.Scott Dickey,Packwood 3.Brandon Banks,Washington 4.David Ott,Ankeny 5.Tyler Vandekamp,Knoxville 6.Tom Lathrop,Ottumwa

Heat#2-1.Ron VerBeek,Oskaloosa 2.Allison Quick,Redding 3.Kyle Harwood,Oskaloosa 4.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 5.Steven Blattler,Oskaloosa 6.Richie Gustin,Marshalltown

A-Feature 1.Dickey 2.Pinkerton 3.Gustin 4.VerBeek 5.Blattler 6.Banks 7.Harwood 8.Quick 9.Ott 10. en 11.Vandekamp 12.Lathrop