Week off at the Hancock County Speedway meant another trip to the Marshalltown Speedway for Little League Night sponsored by Triple E Insulators. Ninety-five cars signed in to tame the high banked 1/4 mile race track. Several features came down to the final few laps to determined a winner.
Leah Wroten (Hobby Stocks), Johnathon Logue (Sport Mods), Damon Murty (Stock Cars), Ronn Lauritzen (Modifieds) and Mike Morrill (Mod Lites) all took feature wins on Friday Night.
Joel Huggins grabbed the early race lead in the Mod Lites 15 lap feature event. Huggins held off challenges from Terry Brown, Randy Bryan, Mike Morrill and Joe Glick until a caution came out on lap 11 for Bryan Compart in turn two. Huggins had Morrill and Glick right behind him on the restart with Huggins and Glick on the bottom side, Morrill on the top side it was going set to be an exciting finish. Morill grabbed the lead coming to the white flag and went on to take the feature win ahead of Glick, Huggins, Jeff Stensland and Bryan.
In the IMCA Hobby Stocks 15 lap feature event, Travis Merical led the first two laps before Gary Pfantz took the lead away on lap three. Pfantz continued to lead until the caution came out on lap six for Jacob Floyd and Scott Ellis in turn two. Pfantz and Leah Wroten battled for the race lead on the restart with Wroten able to wrestle the lead away on lap eight. Wroten went on to take the win ahead of Pfantz. William Klosterman finished third, Jeremiah Andrews was fourth and Floyd race back to a fifth place finish.
Up next was the IMCA Sport Mods 18 lap feature, Jason Hall took the lead early despite serveral challenges from Kyle Olson and Austin Schrage. Hall held off all challenges until Schrage made the move and grab to top spot away on lap 12. The caution came out on lap 13 for Dale VanDerWal sitting in turn one after contact with the front stretch wall. Schrage and Hall now had to battle with Johnathon Logue on the restart, Logue got by Hall on lap 14 and then Schrage on lap 16. Logue held on to the win despite a late race charge from Tyler Soppe, who finished second. Schrage, Travis Peterson and 15th place starter Jenae Gustin rounded out the top five.
Michael Peterson led the first three laps of the IMCA Stock Cars 18 lap feature by holding off Damon Murty. Just after the completion of the lap three, the caution came out for Jason Minnehan in turn four. On the restart, Murty grabbed the lead and began to pull away. Murty went on to take the win over a hard charging Justin Temeyer and 13th place starter Steve Meyer. Scott Rice was fourth and Peterson fell back to fifth.
Final feature of the night was the IMCA Modifieds 20 lap feature event. Thor Anderson led the first two laps before Racing Veteran Greg Kastli took the top spot away on lap three. Kastli led until the caution came out on lap six for Bret Ramsey in turn two. Tim Ward took the lead away on the restart but had several challenges from Joel Rust. The caution came out on lap 12 for Joe McBirnie in turn one. Ward, Rust and Ronn Lauritzen battled for the top spot with Ward hanging on to the lead until lap 16. Rust took the lead and then Lauritzen also got by Ward. Lauritzen worked the bottom side and took the lead away from Rust coming to the white flag. Lauritzen out dueled Rust to the finish line to take the win. Rust, Ward, Cody Laney and Ethan Dotson rounded out the top five.
Racing continues at Marshalltown Speedway next Friday when the IMCA Late Models return to the card for Kevin Sharp-Shooter Miller Lite 50 and Toby K's Hideaway Night. IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Hobby Stocks and Mod Lites are also racing. Hot Laps at 6:50, Racing at 7:30!
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Next Friday I will not be in Marshalltown as I will be at the Hancock County Speedway for the Nights of Stars Weekend but you can bet I will write about it with a blog recap from each night.
Marshalltown Speedway
Triple E Insulators Little League Night
Friday August 2nd, 2019
IMCA Modifieds
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 10K Ronn Lauritzen (La Porte City); 2. 26J Joel Rust (Grundy Center); 3. 4TW Tim Ward (Harcourt); 4. 5L Cody Laney (Torrance, CA); 5. 175 Ethan Dotson (Bakersfield, CA); 6. 73 Greg Kastli (Waterloo); 7. 13 Anthony Hofbauer (Huxley); 8. 21K Kyle Brown (Madrid); 9. 3 Kelly Shryock (Fertile); 10. 11 Ethan Braaksma (Newton); 11. 198 Sam Wieben (Dysart); 12. 164 Brandon Leeman (Roland); 13. 77X Austin Kuehl (Cave Creek, AZ); 14. 41 Thor Anderson (Rock Valley); 15. 80J Jared Van Deest (Holland); 16. 40RC Rod Clement (Rhodes); 17. 3W Garrett Wilson (Carlisle); 18. 5 Jason Morehouse (Evansdale); 19. 2 Tanner Pray (Mt Morris, MI); 20. 369 Bart Taylor (Sheridan, WY); 21. 12R Bret Ramsey (Waterloo); 22. 82 Joe McBirnie (Boone); 23. 3Z Randy Havlik (Ankeny); 24. 48J Jacob Murray (Hartford); DNS 5M Matthew Meinecke (Jamaica)
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. Anderson; 2. Braaksma; 3. Ward; 4. Dotson; 5. Kuehl; 6. Wieben; 7. Shryock; 8. Murray; 9. McBirnie
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. Rust; 2. Meinecke; 3. Brown; 4. Kastli; 5. Van Deest; 6. Clement; 7. Pray; 8. Ramsey
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. Laney; 2. Lauritzen; 3. Hofbauer; 4. Havlik; 5. Leeman; 6. Taylor; 7. Wilson; 8. Morehouse
IMCA Stock Cars
A Feature (18 Laps): 1. 99D Damon Murty (Chelsea); 2. 7SR Justin Temeyer (Independence); 3. 94 Steve Meyer (Grundy Center); 4. 4 Scott Rice (Marshalltown); 5. 1X Michael Peterson (Montezuma); 6. 75 Curt Hook (Ackley); 7. 99 Dallon Murty (Chelsea); 8. 2 David Atcher (Laurel); 9. 7 Jason Minnehan (Churdan); 10. 38C Kellie Drury (Eldora); 11. 22R Todd Reitzler (Grinnell); 12. 77M Jeff Mueller (Albion); 13. 56 Joesph Hofbauer (Huxley); 14. 22D Jared Daggett (Marshalltown); 15. 3W Jeff Wollam (Marshalltown); 16. 2K Kyle Everts (Holland); DNS 121 Kenzie Ritter (Keystone)
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. Daggett; 2. Temeyer; 3. Hook; 4. Wollam; 5. Minnehan; 6. Dallon Murty; 7. Meyer; 8. Hofbauer; 9. Ritter
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. Everts; 2. Rice; 3. Damon Murty; 4. Peterson; 5. Reitzler; 6. Mueller; 7. Drury; 8. Atcher
IMCA SportMods
A Feature (18 Laps): 1. 69JR Johnathon Logue (Logansport); 2. 3T Tyler Soppe (Sherrill); 3. 14X Austin Schrage (Cresco); 4. 25 Travis Peterson (Gladbrook); 5. 19J Jenae Gustin (Marshalltown); 6. T23 Tony Olson (Cedar Rapids); 7. 95J Jason Hall (Grinnell); 8. 34Z Cory Van Zante (Sully); 9. K3 Kyle Olson (Cedar Rapids); 10. 82 Jake McBirnie (Boone); 11. 1 Austin Kaplan (Ankeny); 12. 4 Jerry Miles (Bernard); 13. K9 Brian Kauffman (Reinbeck); 14. 7L Brian Lepa (Waterloo); 15. 77AU Frank Packer (Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia); 16. 98X Bill Hildreth (Iowa Falls); 17. 28A Andrew Sneller (Pella); 18. 7D Dale VanDerWal (Maxwell); 19. 17X Jordan Hamilton (Dexter); DNS 98M Morris Schuler (Albion); DNS 4J Jared Dew (Holland)
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. Hall; 2. Kyle Olson; 3. Schrage; 4. Packer; 5. Kauffman; 6. Miles; 7. Hildreth
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. Van Zante; 2. McBirnie; 3. Peterson; 4. Sneller; 5. VanDerWal; 6. Hamilton; 7. Dew
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. Tony Olson; 2. Logue; 3. Soppe; 4. Lepa; 5. Gustin; 6. Schuler; 7. Kaplan
IMCA Hobby Stocks
A Feature (15 Laps): 1. 14C Leah Wroten (Independence); 2. 4X Gary Pfantz (State Center); 3. 11K William Klosterman (Ackley); 4. 37G Jeremiah Andrews (Union); 5. 14J Jacob Floyd (Cedar Rapids); 6. 81M Travis Merical (Marshalltown); 7. 56J Jamie Coady (Colfax); 8. 47 Ray Fees (Des Moines); 9. 17X Ben Newhouse (State Center); 10. J7 David Simpson (Des Moines); 11. 85M Dillion Million (Marshalltown); 12. 15D Dan Brady (Deep River); 13. 17 Andy Peck (Newton); 14. 57 Marlena Betzer (Central City); 15. 75M Preston Merical (State Center); 16. 18 James Jensen (Newton); 17. 40SE Scott Ellis (Marshalltown); DNS 1 Kaden Reynolds (Cedar Rapids)
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. Travis Merical; 2. Brady; 3. Andrews; 4. Wroten; 5. Ellis; 6. Coady
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. Fees; 2. Klosterman; 3. Floyd; 4. Simpson; 5. Betzer; 6. Preston Merical
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. Pfantz; 2. Peck; 3. Million; 4. Jensen; 5. Newhouse; 6. Reynolds
Mod Lites
A Feature (15 Laps): 1. 6 Mike Morrills (Altoona); 2. 3G Joe Glick (Madrid); 3. X50 Joel Huggins (Des Moines); 4. 20 Jeff Stensland (Nevada); 5. 64 Randy Bryan (Ames); 6. 4B Doug Byers (Madrid); 7. 28 Terry Brown (Nevada); 8. 18M Chelsea May (DeSoto); 9. 14 Bryan Compart (Madrid); 10. 8W Joe Wood (Boone); 11. 4G Ben George (Altoona); 12. J7B Chris Weir (Colo); 13. T3 Tonia Stevens (Guersney); DNS 3T Tanner Gannon (Des Moines)
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. Huggins; 2. Brown; 3. Stensland; 4. Compart; 5. Wood; 6. Gannon; 7. Stevens
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. Glick; 2. Byers; 3. Morrill; 4. Bryan; 5. Weir; 6. May; 7. George
