7 Features Saw 6 Winners At I-80 Speedway Sunday Night

Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne., 05/31/09) There was a lot of action at I-80 Speedway on
Sunday night as 7 features were run with 6 different drivers.

The IMCA Sports Compacts started the night with a makeup feature from last
week. And that feature saw Justin Soule take the checkers over a fast
closing Pete Fink Jr. Fink is the current point leader and started back in
the field. With 2 laps left he passed Jamie Spanel for 2nd but ran out of
laps trying to reel in Soule.

In the 2nd feature Dave Christensen took the early lead and held it til lap
3 when Austin Kurtzer passed him. Kurtzer held the lead until lap 8 when he
hit the front stretch wall and Soule inherited the lead and held on for his
2nd win of the evening. Kennin Colestock finished 2nd.

In the 3rd feature Will McConnell took the early lead with Steven Neiderhaus
in 2nd. Neiderhaus was trying to pass McConnell on lap 3, when he lost
control out of turn 2 hitting the infield guard rail and flipping his car.
Neiderhaus was ok but was done for the night. Jamie Spanel inherited the
lead at this point, lost it on lap 7 to Ole Olsen and then regained it with
one lap left.

The Pro-am A-Feature saw Scotty Hartman take the lead from the pole position
and then wired the field for the win. There was quite a battle for 2nd thru
4th for the rest of the race, with Rick Negrete finally settling into 2nd.
But Jeff Joldersma was a man on the move after starting 20th. In the end he
won a stirring battle from Negrete to finish 2nd. Negrete finished 3rd ahead
of Greg Cooper and Terry Cleveland.

The IMCA Sports Mod feature saw Josh Blumer and Dustin Thayer battling for
the early lead. By lap 2 Blumer had the lead which he held thru lap 7 when
Robert Tippery took over. Tippery held off Kyle Nordquist for the win with
Blumer taking 3rd ahead of Joe Feyen and Denny Berghahn Jr.

The Crate Late Models lost 2 of seven cars at the start of the race as
Michael Powell and Steven Saunders got together in turn 1. On the restart
Joe Simpson took the early lead and held it til lap 2 when Mike Morton Jr.
passed for the lead. From that point on it was all Morton as he outdistanced
Tyler Zander, Simpson and Shevi Collins.

The NASCAR Late Models closed out the evening with Brad Soll battling wily
veteran Ron Tilley for the lead. The 2 traded the lead until lap 7 when Soll
took command and then held off another veteran Les Siebert for the win, his
1st of the year. Billy Leighton came on strong to finish 3rd ahead of Clint
Benson and Mike Wallace.

Next Sunday night will feature the NASCAR Late Models, Pro-ams, IMCA
Modifieds, Sports Mods and Sports Compacts with action set to get under way
at 5:55.

Results

IMCA Sports Compacts

Makeup A-Feature: 1). 16 Justin Soule, 2) 13 Pete Fink Jr., 3) 15 Jamie
Spanel, 4) 2 Alex Fink, 5) 74c Dave Christensen, 6) 9X Joe Baker, 7) 6 Dan
Markham, 8) 23 Ole Olsen, 9) car #89, 10) 18 Will McConnell

Feature #2: 1) 16 Justin Soule, 2) 7 Kennin Colestock, 3) 40 Jake Mc Cloud,
4) 9x Joe Baker, 5) 74c Dave Christensen, 6) car #77, 7) 93 Preston Gigax,
8) 60R Wayne Stricklett,
9) 32j Jeff Davis, 10) 4w Mike Wallace Jr.

Feature #3: 1)15 Jamie Spanel, 2) 23 Ole Olsen, 3) 13 Pete Fink Jr., 4) 93X
John Sedlachek, 5) 6 Dan Markham, 6) 18 Will McConnell, 7) 4T Tammy Clark,
8) B52 Skip Brown, 9) 55P Steven Neiderhaus, 10) car #19

IMCA Sports Mods

A-Feature: 1) 121 Robert Tippery, 2) 9N Kyle Nordquist, 3) 21 Josh Blumer,
4) 25x Joe Feyen, 5) 6 Denny Berghahn Jr., 6) 33 Jim Hendricks, 7) 9 Hank
Dewild, 8) 48 Kyle Harpster, 9) 480 Greg Tichy, 10) 96c Cory Hutchinson, 11)
Keegan Nordquist, 12) Jeremy Longmeyer, 13) Sean Conaway, 14) Roger
Harpster, 15) Mike Brown, 16) Nick Hermsen, 17) Keenan Nordquist, 18) Joe
Thomas, 19) Kyle Chalek, 20) Brian Kosiski

B-Feature: 1) Kosiski, 2) Chalek, 3) Hermsen, 4) Thomas, 5) Mike
Christiansen

Pro-Am

A-Feature: 1) 88 Scotty Hartman, 2) 66 Jeff Joldersma, 3) 72 Rick Negrete,
4) 37 Greg Cooper, 5) 12 Terry Cleveland, 6) 36 Shawn Bulin, 7) 49x Chad
Sanders, 8) 13Z Mark Zodel, 9) 6A Adam Armstrong, 10) 24 Don Moher, 11) Nick
Steier, 12) Alan Schmitt, 13) John Allensworth, 14) Ray Dessel, 15) Casey
Cleveland

Crate Late Models

A-Feature: 1) 71m Mike Morton Jr., 2) 2 Tyler Zander, 3) 86 Joe Simpson, 4)
5C Shevi Collins, 5) 34 Michaela Kosiski, 6) 44 Michael Saunders, 7) 14
Michael Powell

NASCAR late Models

A-Feature: 1) 50 Brad Soll, 2) 51 Les Siebert, 3) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 4)
00 Clint Benson, 5) 1W Mike Wallace, 6) 2X Andrew Kosiski, 7) 97d Craig
Preble, 8) 43 Matt Buller, 9) 9 Dave Cook, 10) 56T Ron Tilley, 11) Jason
Hobscheidt, 12) Tom Svoboda, 13) Glenn Robey, 14) Gary Joens Jr., 15) Rick
Vanderheiden, 16) Jacob Brown, 17) Mollee Collins, 18) Jason Longmeyer, 19)
Billy Koons Jr., 20) Steve Farnsworth

1st B-Feature: 1) Preble, 2) Micha Brown, 3) Collins, 4) Vanderheiden, 5)
Ryan Joens

2nd B-Feature: 1) Michael Svagera Jr., 2) Gary Joens Jr., 3) Robey, 4)
Longmeyer, 5) Kortney Kosiski