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Minnesota’s Sorensen scores a top-five behind Pierce in third night in New Mexico

From DirtonDirt.com Staff Reports

VADO, NM (January 10) - Surviving two hairy moments amid lapped traffic late in the distance, Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, IL held on to capture Wednesday night’s 30-lap Wild West Shootout feature at Vado Speedway Park. The 27-year-old star briefly lost the lead to Garrett Alberson on lap 20—and traded paint with a slower machine six laps later—but beat Alberson to the finish line by 1.165 seconds for his second straight $11,000 victory.

Babb, who was an early leader in the race, finsihed third. Rochester, Minnesota’s Dustin Sorensen was fourth, and Preston Luckman was fifth.

A trio of WISSOTA-region drivers finished in a pack together, as Winona, Minnesota’s Jake Timm was 12th from 23rd, Canadian and former National Champion Ricky Weiss was 13th from 21st at the start, and Menomonie, Wisconsin’s Sam Mars moved from 22nd to 14th at the finish.

SUMMARY

Super Late Models:

A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[2]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson[5]; 3. 18B-Shannon Babb[3]; 4. 19-Dustin Sorensen[4]; 5. 77-Preston Luckman[7]; 6. 15-Justin Duty[11]; 7. 97-Cade Dillard[9]; 8. 1-Tyler Erb[19]; 9. 7T-Drake Troutman[1]; 10. 73-Rodney Sanders[8]; 11. 14S-Collen Winebarger[10]; 12. 49-Jake Timm[23]; 13. 7-Ricky Weiss[21]; 14. 28M-Sam Mars[22]; 15. 15S-Clayton Stuckey[12]; 16. 1R-BJ Robinson[16]; 17. 25-Mikey Kile[14]; 18. 11-Jon Kirby[15]; 19. 86-Kyle Beard[24]; 20. 157-Mike Marlar[13]; 21. 14M-Morgan Bagley[18]; 22. 13-Bricen James[20]; 23. 2-Tyler Stevens[17]; 24. 6-Kyle Larson[6]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 18B-Shannon Babb[2]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson[1]; 3. 97-Cade Dillard[3]; 4. 157-Mike Marlar[5]; 5. 1-Tyler Erb[6]; 6. 2-Tyler Stevens[7]; 7. 82-Ian Whisler[4]; 8. 78S-Steve Stultz[8]; 9. 4P-Shawn DeForest[10]; 10. 6T-Terry Carter[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[1]; 2. 77-Preston Luckman[2]; 3. 15-Justin Duty[4]; 4. 11-Jon Kirby[3]; 5. E85-Jason Strand[5]; 6. 49-Jake Timm[8]; 7. 7-Ricky Weiss[9]; 8. 32B-Cody Laney[7]; 9. 02-Kent Rosevear[10]; 10. 28W-Jim Whisler[6]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Dustin Sorensen[1]; 2. 6-Kyle Larson[2]; 3. 14S-Collen Winebarger[3]; 4. 25-Mikey Kile[4]; 5. 13-Bricen James[8]; 6. 86-Kyle Beard[6]; 7. 28M-Sam Mars[5]; 8. 18-Chase Junghans[10]; 9. 19C-Colby Moore[7]; 10. 3-Keko Perez[9]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 7T-Drake Troutman[1]; 2. 73-Rodney Sanders[3]; 3. 15S-Clayton Stuckey[4]; 4. 1R-BJ Robinson[8]; 5. 14M-Morgan Bagley[7]; 6. 38-Thomas Hunziker[6]; 7. 88-Chance Mann[5]; 8. 250-Walton Kyle Jr[9]; 9. 101-Forrest Trent[2]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 2-Tyler Stevens[3]; 2. 1-Tyler Erb[1]; 3. 7-Ricky Weiss[6]; 4. 49-Jake Timm[4]; 5. 32B-Cody Laney[8]; 6. 82-Ian Whisler[5]; 7. 78S-Steve Stultz[7]; 8. 02-Kent Rosevear[10]; 9. 6T-Terry Carter[11]; 10. 4P-Shawn DeForest[9]; 11. 28W-Jim Whisler[12]; 12. E85-Jason Strand[2]

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 14M-Morgan Bagley[2]; 2. 13-Bricen James[1]; 3. 28M-Sam Mars[5]; 4. 86-Kyle Beard[3]; 5. 18-Chase Junghans[7]; 6. 38-Thomas Hunziker[4]; 7. 101-Forrest Trent[10]; 8. 19C-Colby Moore[9]; 9. 88-Chance Mann[6]; 10. 250-Walton Kyle Jr[8]; 11. 3-Keko Perez[11]