Thursday, June 22, 2017

Dickey and VanDerWal go two for two, Anderson still unbeaten

It was familiar faces standing in Victory Lane at the Southern Iowa Speedway on Wednesday night.  Four of the five divisions saw repeat winners, while a new winner emerged from the Sport Compact class.

Trent Orwig made his first trip to the track this season pay off, winning the IMCA Sport Compact 12-lap feature.  Nathan Moody led lap one, but Orwig took command at lap two, pulled away and won easily to take his first win at Osky this year.  Moody was a distant second.  Third was Austin Reuman, Bryan Claussen was fourth and Ashley Reuman was fifth.

When the checkers flew in the 16-lap IMCA Northern SportMod feature, it was Curtis VanDerWal once again standing in the winner's circle.  VanDerWal started sixth and was leading by lap three.  He passed early leader Austin Paul, and from there on, never looked back as he stretched his lead, winning by a good margin.  Paul held the runner up spot, Logan Anderson was third, Jason McDaniel fourth and Blaine Webster rounded out the top five.  This makes the fifth win for VanDerWal this season.

There was a pack of cars bunched together as soon as the 16-lap IMCA Stock Car feature went green.  Derrick Agee held down the top spot as lap one was scored, only to have it snatched away by Danny Thrasher at lap two.  Thrasher continued his run at the front of the field until Cayden Carter swung around him coming out of corner four as lap eight was in the books.  Carter then put his Orange Crush/Roger Kelderman ride out in front, and was gone.  Carter scored his second win of the season in the Stock Car class.  Danny Thrasher held on to the runner up spot, Nathan Wood, who had won the previous two weekly features, was third.  Dustin Griffiths made a last corner surge, getting around Mike Hughes, as they went fourth and fifth.

The IMCA Hobby Stock class brought out seventeen competitors to give it a try at beating Shannon Anderson, and taking home the extra $300 in bounty money. It didn't happen.  Anderson started ninth and methodically worked his way toward the front.  He chased leader Bradley Graham, who had led from the start, dogged him for a couple of laps, and then got under him as they came out of turn two, just after lap seven had been scored.  Anderson motored off to stretch his lead in the final laps, scoring his seventh win at the track, and staying unbeaten.  It was also his 303rd win of his career.  Bradley Graham, Brooklyn, Iowa, had his best run of the year, to finish in second place, veteran Bill Bonnett came from eighth starting spot, to finish third, Jamie Songer was fourth and Steve Allen completed the top five. The bounty still stands on Anderson.

Scott Dickey took the win for the second week in a row in the IMCA Modified main event.  Dickey led the entire sixteen laps in doing so.  Cayden Carter chased him much of that distance but could only muster the runner up spot.  Colt Mather finished third, Jesse Dennis made the long haul from Prescott, Iowa in the southwestern part of the state, and was fourth, and Zack Rawlins, Newton, Iowa, made his first appearance at the track this season, and finished fifth.

Racing continues next Wednesday, June 28 at the Southern Iowa Speedway, with racing in all five classes.  Hot laps are 7 with racing at 7:30.  Come and enjoy a mid-week night of racing.  The show will move right along and get you on the road for home early.  The last checkered fell at 9:23 p.m. last night.

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