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TWO REPEAT WINNERS AND THREE NEW FACES IN VICTORY LANE AT SOUTHERN IOWA SPEEDWAY
By: Tony Paris

OSKALOOSA, IA (July 16) - The Southern Iowa Speedway featured five classes in action sponsored by local businesses in New Sharon with the Casey’s General Store USRA weekly racing series in action along with the Miller Lite Schwartz Distributing Mid-America 305 sprints in action. The first feature of the night was the USRA hobby stock feature with Andy Coleman of Packwood leading the first six laps before a flat right rear tire ended his run to victory with Coleman’s car slowing on the top of turn three and four Wes Almond was racing on the high side and clipped the car of Coleman’s sending Almonds car upside-down bringing the red flag out stopping the action. When the action resumed Jason McDaniel would lead the final six laps for his second straight win at the monster half-mile. The runner-up spot went to Danny Thrasher of Agency who tried to close in for the win but took second with Shannon Sherwood of Rose Hill in third and Don Nunnikhoven of Kellogg in fourth.

In the Karl Chevrolet USRA stock car feature Bobby Green of Eddyville held off several challenges and lead all sixteen laps for the win. Howard Gordon Jr.of Oskaloosa tried several times to take the lead but Greene was to tough with Gordon taking second followed by Corey Stout of Oskaloosa in third and Matt Greiner of Washington in fourth. The Preacher feature saw four guys try there luck in borrowed equipment and Phil Campbell of Douds took the feature win. Phil is the pastor of the Bethel Worship Church in Douds and he use to race over thirty years ago.

The Mid-America 305 Sprint Car feature went to fifteen year old up a coming star Tasker Phillips of Pleasantville who lead all fifteen laps to take the win. Phillips held off several challenges from Omaha, Ne. driver Matt Stelzer who tried several time to make the pass on the bottom side of the speedway but took the second spot with Chad Huston of Jamesport, Mo. Taking the third spot and Louis Lynch of Glenwood, Mo. Finish fourth helping to add to his point lead with a another good and consistent finish.

The fourth feature was the Carter International and Karl Chevrolet USRA b-modified feature Leroy Groenindyk of Oskaloosa leading the first five laps before the red flag would fly for Leroy’s son Tyler rolling his 17T machine in turn four after making contact with the inside tire barrier. On the restart Andrew Schroeder of Keswick and Brian Edel of Oskaloosa would battle for the lead making a three car battle with Edel powering his machine into the lead and hold off Schroeder for the win. This was Edel’s second straight win and moved him into the point lead. Schroeder took second with Leroy Groenindyk in third and Mike Shelton of Bloomfield in fourth.

In the Musco Lighting USRA a-modifieds Zack Vanderbeek had the Casey’s General Store skyrock and Chester Cheeto 33z flying around the track leading all sixteen laps with Colt Mather of Webster in second with Ron Verbeek of Oskaloosa in third and Scott Dickey of Packwood in fourth.
Next weeks action will be sponsored by KBOE 104.9FM with the Southern Iowa Fair night with the return of the IMCA Deery Brother Summer Series Late Models in action with Karl Chevrolet dirt Trucks along with the USRA hobby stocks, USRA stock cars and USRA b-modifieds in action with hot laps at 7:15PM and racing action to follow.

USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Jason McDaniel, Eldon 2.Don Nunnikhoven, Kellogg 3.Dustin Griffiths, Ottumwa 4.Casey Greubel, Lacona 5.Dave Breuklander, Oskaloosa 6.Wes Almond, Oskaloosa 7.Keye Wallace, Pleasantville 8.Kris Walker, Oskaloosa 9.Dale Porter, Pulaski

Heat#2-1.Andy Coleman, Packwood 2.Steve Allen, Oskaloosa 3.Shannon Sherwood, Rose Hill 4.Danny Trasher, Agency 5.Justin Hook, Oskaloosa 6.Mark Moore, Ottumwa 7.Shawn Coleman, Packwood 8.Tj Henderson, Douds 8.Bobby Greene, Eddyville

A-Feature 1.McDaniel 2.Thrasher 3.Sherwood 4.Nunnikhiven 5.Walker 6.S.Coleman 7.Greene 8.Moore 9.Allen 10.Hook 11.A.Coleman 12.Breuklander 13.Greubel 14.Wallace 15.Griffiths 16.Almond 17.Henderson 18.Porter

CARTER INTERNATIONAL & KARL CHEVROLET USRA B-MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Brian Edel, Oskaloosa 2.Leroy Groenindyk, Oskaloosa 3.Cory Brown, Ottumwa 4.Bill Gibson, Knoxville 5.Tyler Groenindyk, Oskaloosa 6.Rick Krueger, Sigourney 7.Rick Landgrebe, Sigourney

Heat#2-1.Mike Shelton, Bloomfield 2.Andrew Schroeder, Keswick 3.Chad Malone, Knoxville 4.Ken Bryant, Ottumwa 5.Mike Wanders, Oskaloosa 6.Jayme Duinink, Pella

A-Feature 1.Edel 2.Schroeder 3.L.Groenindyk 4.Shelton 5.Brown 6.Gibson 7.Bryant 8.Landgrebe 9.Wanders 10.Malone 11.Duinink 12.T.Gronendyk 13.Krueger

FASTER PASTER RACE
A-Feature 1. Phil Campbell, Douds 2.Mack Jisinsky, Leighton 3.Del Bittner, Rose Hill 4.Tom Palmer, Oskaloosa

MILLER LITE SCHWARTZ DISTRIBUTING MID-AMERICA 305 WINGED SPRINTS
Heat#1-1.Chad Huston, Jamesport, Mo 2.Matt Stelzer, Omaha, Ne. 3.Tasker Phillips, Pleasantville 4.Marty Stephenson, Mitchellville 5.Mike Mayberry, Fremont 6.Monty Hill, Fairfield 7.Louis Lynch, Glenwood, Mo. 8.Patrick Long, Hedrick 9.Mitchell Alexander, Knoxville

A-Feature 1. Phillips 2. Stelzer 3.Huston 4.Lynch 5.Stephenson 6.Hill 7.Mayberry 8.Long 9.Alexander

KARL CHEVROLET USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.AJ Johnson, Osky 2.Bobby Greene, Eddyville 4.Howard Gordon Jr., Osky 5.Zack Vanderbeek, New Sharon 6.Rick Todd, Des Moines 7.Brock Welch, Osky

Heat#2-1.Matt Greiner, Washington 2.Brian Mitrisin, Osky 3.Corey Stout, Osky 4.Terry Rachels, Knoxville 5.Kyle Anderson, Osky 6.Nathan Wood, Keswick

A-Feature 1.Greene 2. Gordon Jr. 3.Stout 4.Greiner 5.Rachels 6.Johnson 7.Vanderbeek 8.Anderson 9.Todd 10.Welch 11.Garden 12.Wood 13.Mitrisin

MUSCO LIGHTING USRA A-MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Zack Vanderbeek, New Sharon 2.Colt Mather, Webster 3.Steven Blattler, Osky 4.Mark Widmar, Ottumwa 5.Ron Verbeek, Osky 6.Josh Truman, Indianola

Heat#2-1.Scott Dickey, Packwood 2.Brandon Banks, Washington 3.Jesse Dennis, Prescott 4.David Ott, Ankeny 5.Kyle Harwood, Osky

A-Feature 1.Vanderbeek 2.Mather 3.Verbeek 4.Dickey 5.Banks 6.Dennis 7.Blattler 8.Truman 9.Widmar 10.Ott 11.Harwood