I-80 Results 6-28-09

Jim Brennan
   
(Greenwood, Ne., 06/28/2009) A record crowd on Fan Appreciation Night saw
some action packed racing at I-80 Speedway as Jesse Sobbing and Chad Dills
won the IMCA Sports Mod Twin features, Alex Fink and Jake McCloud won the
IMCA Sports Compact Twin features, Tyler Zander won the IMCA Crate Late
Model Feature, Dave Doll won the NASCAR Late Nodel feature  and Rick Negrete
won the Pro-am feature.
   
In Sports Mod feature 1, it took Jesse Sobbing just 2 laps to get to the
front taking the lead when Ed McConnell spun out in turn 2. Rick Rohr had a
strong 2nd place finish but was disqualified for using an illegal rearend.
Kyle Harpster then inherited 2nd place ahead of Jeremy Longmeyer.
In the 2nd Sports Mod feature Denny Berghahn Jr took the early lead only to
lose it on the back chute to Dennis Cook. Chad Dills, making the long trip
from Harlan, Iowa, grabbed the lead on lap 3 and stayed out front as point
leader Robert Tippery fought with Cook for 2nd place. At the finish it was
Tippery in 2nd and Cook in 3rd.
    
In the Crate Late Model feature Shevi Collins took the early lead only to
lose it on lap 3 to Tyler Zander. Zander went on to record his 1st career
feature win.
   
In Sports Compact feature 1 Mark Lamer took the early lead. Joe Baker took
the lead on lap 2 and Pete Fink Jr. took over on lap 3. In the end it was
another stirring battle between the Fink brothers, but this time Alex
prevailed with Pete in 2nd.
   
In Sports Compact feature 2 Dave Christensen took the early lead and then
swapped it with Ole Olsen. Christensen took the lead back on lap 4 and
stayed there the rest of the way. But in the Tech area he refused a claim on
his car and was disqualified giving the win to 2nd generation driver Jake
McCloud.
    
In the NASCAR Late Model feature Brad Soll grabbed the early lead but lost
it before one lap was complete to Jason Hobscheidt. The battle behind
Hobscheidt intensified as Andrew Kosiski, Dave Cook,, Soll, Kent Schimenti
and Todd Hipnar battled for 2nd place. Restarts played a key role in this
race as Dave Doll worked his way to the front. Doll took the lead on lap 22
of the 25 lap feature. Hobscheidt held on to 2nd ahead of Cook, Kosiski and
Schimenti. For Schimenti it was his best finish of the year.
    
In the Pro-am feature Mark Zordel jumped to the early lead and held it til
lap 6 when Rick Negrete took over. Negrete then rolled to his first win of
the year over Adam Armstrong, Scotty Hartman, Chad Sanders, and the "Racing
Md." Nick Steier. Negrete is the defending point champion and is currently
leading this years point standings.
     
Results for June 28
     
IMCA Sports Mods
    
1st A-Feature: 1) 99 Jesse Sobbing, 2) 48 Kyle Harpster, 3) 56 Jeremy
Longmeyer, 4) car 47, 5) 52K Brian Kosiski, 6) 10N Keenan Nodquist, 7) Denny
Nielsen Jr,., 8) 64 Nick Hermsen, 9) 18 Laini Schwartz, 10) 10J Joe Thomas,
11) Ed McConnell, 12) Kevin Kloke, 13) Joe Feyen, 14) Kyle Nodquist, 15)
Hank Dewild
    
2nd A-Feature: 1) 11 Chad Dills, 2) 121 Robert Tippery, 3) 45 Dennis Cook,
4) 6 Denny Berghahn Jr., 5) 33 Jim Hendricks, 6) 98 Bret Sheppard, 7) 08
Roger Harpster, 8) 2 Mike Brown, 9) 15 Anthony Kobus, 10) 85 John Riggelman,
11) Steve Swarthout, 12) Kyle Chalek, 13) Sean Conaway, 14) Dustin Thayer
    
IMCA Sports Compacts
    
1st A-Feature: 1) 2 Alex Fink, 2) 13 Pete Fink Jr., 3) 7 Kennin Colestock,
4) 9x Joe Baker, 5) 50 Mary Peoples, 6) 55L Mark Lamer, 7) 26h Caleb
Hammens, 8) 15 Jamie Spanel, 9) 29 Ryan Munhall, 10) 93 Preston Gigax, 11)
Jeff Davis, 12) Mike Wallace Jr., 13) Skip Brown, 14) Louis Epperson, 15)
Trisha Hultgren
  
2nd A-Feature: 1) 40 Jake McCloud, 2) 23 Ole Olsen, 3) 16j Justin Soule, 4)
93x John Sedlachek, 5) 21p Justin Davis, 6) 4T Tammy Clark, 7) 60R Wayne
Stricklet, 8) 97 John Irvine, 9) car 70d, 10) 55p Steve Niederhaus, 11)
Amanda Christensen, 12) Kevin Staack, 13) Dan Markham
    
IMCA Crate Late Models
    
A-Feature: 1) 2 Tyler Zander, 2) 5c Shevi Collins, 3) 14 Michael Powell, 4)
34 Michlea Kosiski
     
NASCAR Late Models
   
A-Feature: 1) 97d Dave Doll, 2) 1j Jason Hobscheidt, 3) 9 Dave Cook, 4) 2x
Andrew Kosiski,
5) 22 Kent Schimenti, 6) 51 Les Siebert, 7) 12 Todd Hipnar, 8) 1w Mike
Wallace, 9) 50 Brad Soll, 10) 16 Tom Svoboda, 11) Gary Joens Jr., 12) Billy
Leighton Jr., 13) Dwane Pospisill, 14) Matt Buller, 15) Micah Brown, 16) 92
Jacob Brown, 17) Marc Peters, 18) Steve Farnsworth, 19) Mike Morton Jr., 20)
Ron Tilley
   
B-Feature: 1) Tilley, 2) Wallace, 3) Morton, 4) Peters, 5) Michael Svagera
    
NASCAR Pro-ams
    
A-Feature: 1) 72 Rick Negrete, 2) 6a Adam Armstrong, 3) 88 Scotty Hartman,
4) 49x Chad Sanders, 5) 8 Nick Steier, 6) 13z Mark Zordel, 7) 36 Shawn
Bulin, 8) Jeremy Swanson, 9) 37 Greg Cooper, 10) 28 Casey Cleveland, 11) Ray
Dessell, 12) Jeff Atkins, 13) Don Mohr, 14) Matt Boucher, 15) car 52, 16)
Dana Deeke, 17) Alan Schmitt, 18) car 80, 19) Jim Kruse, 20) Terry
Cleveland, 21) Jeff Joldersma,22) Denny Berghahn