MAHLSTEDT SWEEPS 16TH ANNUAL MUSCO LIGHTING FALL CHALLENGE AT SIS
By: Tony Paris

OSKALOOSA, IA (Sept 16) - The 16th annual MUSCO Lighting Fall Challenge was held Friday night and Sunday afternoon due to rain on Saturday night forcing R L Promotions to run the finals on Sunday at 2:30pm with a beautiful sunny sky and temps in the 70's it made for a awsome show.

Bobby Greiner Jr. of Ottumwa walked away with the stock car victory with Bill Gibson of Knoxville taking the hobby stock feature and Ken Bryant of Ottumwa taking the B-modified feature win and Dean Mahlstedt of Clear Lake taking the modified feature win. Mahlstedt made it a clean sweep with Friday nights checkers going to him with Mark Haugland of Willimas taking the win in the hobby stock preliminary feature. In the B-modified preliminary feature the defending champion Matt Lettow of Roland took the win and the stock car preliminary feature going to Nathan Wood of Keswick.

On Sunday afternoon Bobby Greiner Jr. of Ottumwa passed Nathan Wood of Keswick for the win on the 17th lap of the 20 lap main event with Wood taking second followed by Matt Greiner of Washington in third and Malcom Teachout of Granada, Mn. taking the fourth spot.

The B-modified feature saw Cory Brown of Ottumwa take the lead and pace the field till lap nine before caution would close the field up with Ken Bryant of Ottumwa making the pass on lap 11 and drove to victory lane with Brown taking second and Paul Underwood also from Ottumwa in third and Andrew Schroeder of Keswick taking fourth.

The hobby stock feature saw three drivers battle for the lead with Bill Gibson Mark Hauglan and Chris Hovden all battle for the lead with Gibson taking the lead on lap 7 and held off several challenges to take the win. Haglund took second followed by Nathan Wood taking fourth. The final feature of the day was the $2000 to win modified main event and this race capped off the 2007 season with six diffrent leaders and many flat tires the fans got to see drivers from the age of 16 to 55 years of age going to battle for the title and the cash.

The feature come down to a green, white and checker finish with Dean Mahlstedt of Clear Lake driving the bullett 21M to victory lane for the second straight time. Mark Noble of Blooming Prairie, Mn. taking second followed by Ron Verbeek of Oskaloosa in third and Bruce Hanford in fourth.

Friday Night September 14th Results

Hobby Stocks
Heat#1-1.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 2.Chris Hovden,Cresco 3.Mark Moore,Ottumwa 4.71X-Paul Wheeler, Des Moines 5.Jason Vanzomeren, Oskaloosa

Heat#2-1.Bill Gibson,Knoxville 2.Scott Spilde,Ridgeway 3.Mark Haglund,Williams 4.Ryan Vicker,Creston 5.Richard Yaw, Des Moines

Heat#3-1.Alan Hultz, Madison,Mo. 2.Curtis Barnes, Greentop,Mo. 3.Dustin Griffiths, Ottumwa 4.Justin Hook, Oskaloosa 5.Terry Rachels, Knoxville

Heat#4-1.Nathan Wood,Keswick 2.Bob Lynch, Ottumwa 3.Shannon Sherwood, Rose Hill 4.DerekKirkland, Centerville 5.Lawrence Dorsey, Pleasant Hill

B-Main 1.Dave Breuklander, Oskaloosa 2.John Yaw Jr.,Des Moines 3.Louis Lynch,Glenwood,Mo.4.Don Nunnikhoven, Sully

A-Feature (Top 6 goto A-Main ) 1.Hugland 2.Hovden 3.Gibson 4.Shelton 5.Vicker 6.Spilde 7.Wood 8.Moore 9.Lynch 10.Nunnikhoven 11.Hultz 12.Kirkland 13.Hook 14.Griffiths 15.Breuklander 16.Rachels 17.Dorsey 18.Lynch 19.Wheeler 20.Sherwood 21.VanZomeren 22.Richard Yaw 23.Yaw Jr. 24.Barnes

B-Modifieds
Heat#1-1.Matt Lettow, Roland 2.Ryan Lundy,Knoxville 3.Ray Lundry,Maynard 4.Cory Brown,Ottumwa 5.Mike Wanders,Oskaloosa

Heat#2-1.Ken Bryant,Ottumwa 2.Andrew Schroeder,Keswick 3.Kevin Fee,Knoxville 4.RonniePumphrey,Altoona 5.Paul Underwood,Ottumwa

(Top 6 goto A-Main) 1.Lettow 2.Lundy 3.Lundry 4.Brown 5.Schroeder 6.Fee 7.Ray Stock Jr.,Ankeny 8.Brad Iverson,Grinnell 9.Bryant 10.Jayme Duinink,Pella 11.Pumphrey 12.Curtis Engen,Monona 13.Wanders 14.Underwood

USRA Stock Cars
Heat#1-1.Steve Jackson,Polk City 2.Corey Stout,Oskaloosa 3.Jerry Pilcher,Bloomfield 4.Arlen Hoy,Marble Rock 5.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon

Heat#2-1.Bobby Greiner Jr.,Ottumwa 2.Bert McDaniel,Eldon 3.Josh Newell,Oskaloosa 4.Jeff Joldersma,McClelland 5.Zack Vanderbeek,New Sharon

Heat#3-1.Nathan Wood,Keswick 2.Malcolm Teachout,Granada,Mn. 3.AJ Johnson,Oskaloosa 4.Doug Seidl,Des Moines 5.Carl Colsch,Eitzen,Mn.

Heat#4-1.Mike Harward,Floris 2.Bobby Greene,Eddyville 3.Clayton Garden,Oskaloosa 4.Jason Vansickel,Webster City 5.Rick Todd,Des Moines

B-Main 1.Matt Greiner,Washington 2.Don Wear,Des Moines 3.Matt Pinegar,Ankeny 4.Doug Newell,Oskaloosa

A-Feature (Top 6 goto A-Main) 1.Wood 2.Teachout 3.Harward 4.Greiner Jr. 5.Pilcher 6.Greene 7.Johnson 8.Vanderbeek 9.Greiner 10.Seidl 11.Jackson 12.Vansickel 13.Pinegar 14.Wear 15.Todd 16.D.Newell 17.Joldersma 18.J.Newell 19.Pinkerton 20.Hoy 21.Stout 22.McDaniel 23.Colsch 24.Garden

USRA A-Modifieds

Heat#1-1.Ron Verbeek,Osky 2.Bruce Hanford,Davenport 3.Scott Dickey,Packwood 4.Dean Malhstedt,Clear Lake 5.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon

Heat#2-1.Tony Fraise,Donnellson 2.Ryan Gustin,Marshalltown 3.Colt Mather,Webster 4. Richie Gustin,Gilman 5.Glenn Ridgeway,Eldon

Heat#3-1.Zack Vanderbeek,New Sharon 2.Michael Long,Quincy 3.Chris Spieker,Massena 4.Brad Dubil,Bettendorf 5.John Fellman,Bluegrass

A-Feature 1.Mahlstedt 2.Vanderbeek 3.Fraise 4.Verbeek 5.Hanford 6.Richie Gustin 7. Pinkerton 8.Long 9.Ryan Gustin 10.Mather 11.Spieker 12.Banks 13.Noble 14.Ridgway 15.Pilcher 16.Fellman 17.Sands 18.Dubil 19.Redmann 20.Jensen 21.Dickey 22.Walker 23.Lathrop 24.Elliott 25.Neal

 

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH RESULTS

USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Shelton 2.Hook 3.Griffiths 4.Rachels 5.Kris Walker 6.John Yaw Jr. 7.Barnes 8.Richard Yaw

Heat#2-1.Breuklander 2.Lynch 3.S.Sherwood 4.VanZomeren 5.Mike Yaw 6.Henderson 7.Danny Thrasher

Heat#3-1.Bill Bonnett 2.McDaniel 3.Johnson 4.John Yaw 5.Wilson 6.T.Sherwood 7.Dehne

B-Main 1.Thrasher 2.Walker 3.T.Sherwood 4.R.Yaw 5.M.Yaw 6.Henderson

A-Feature 1.Gibson 2.Haglund 3.Hovden 4.Wood 5.Bonnett 6.Thrasher 7.Walker 8.B.Lynch 9.Hook 10.Griffiths 11.L.Lynch 12.R.Yaw 13.VanZomeren 14.John Yaw 15.Shelton 16.Breuklander 17.Henderson 18.M.Yaw 19.Moore 20.McDaniel 21.Sherwood 22.Johnson 23.Rachels 24.T.Sherwood

USRA B-Modifeds
Heat#1-1.Bryant 2.Underwood 3.Stock Jr. 4.Wanders 5.Pumphrey 6.Iverson 7.Engen 8.Duinink

A-Feature 1.Bryant 2.Brown 3.Underwood 4.Schroeder 5.Lundry 6.Lundy 7.Wanders 8.Pumphrey 9.Fee 10.Stock Jr. 11.Iverson 12.Duinink 13.Lettow 14.Engen

USRA Stock Cars

Heat#1-1.Matt Greiner 2.Todd 3.Stout 4.J.Newell 5.Seidl 6.Garden 7.Pinegar 8.D.Newell 9.Colsch 10.Krampe

Heat#2-1.Pinkerton 2.Johnson 3.Jackson 4.Mitchell 5.McDaniel 6.Johnston 7.Koeneman 8.Wear 9.McDowell

A-Feature 1.Greiner Jr. 2.Wood 3.Greiner 4.Teachout 5.Pilcher 6.Pinkerton 7.Greene 8.Jackson 9.McDaniel 10.Harward 11.Todd 12.J.Newell 13.Mitchell 14.Johnson 15.Krampe 16.Garden 17.D.Newell 18.Wear 19.Stout 20.Koeneman 21.Johnston 22.Pinegar 23.Colsch 24.Seidl 25.McDowell

USRA A-MODIFIEDS

Heat#1-1.Neal 2.Noble 3.Spieker 4.Mahlstedt 5.Hanford 6.Banks 7.Walker 8.Sands 9.Jensen 10.Verbeek

Heat#2-1.Ryan Gustin 2.Mather 3.Fraise 4.Pinkerton 5.Richie Gustin 6.Ridgway 7.Fellman 8.Ott 9.Pilcher 10.Lathrop

A-Feature 1.Mahlstedt 2.Noble 3.Verbeek 4.Hanford 5.Banks 6.Sands 7.Ott 8.Neal 9.Walker 10.Richie Gustn 11.Spieker 12.Gustin 13.Fellman 14.Fraise 15.Ridgway 16.Mather 17.Pinkerton 18.Jensen 19.Pilcher 20.Lathrop