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Jason Strand, pictured in action from Central Arizona Raceway, finished 17th January 12 at Vado. (Ron Pelton, Jr. Photo)

Pierce wins again at Vado on Friday; Sorensen, Weiss, Timm and Strand in top 20

From DirtonDirt.com Staff Reports

VADO, NM (January 12) - Powering around the outside of early leader B.J. Robinson on lap five, pole-starter Bobby Pierce paced the rest of the way to win Friday's 30-lap feature at Vado Speedway Park, the fourth of six of the Wild West Shootout. Pierce overcame a right-rear wheel packed full of mud after hopping the turn-three cushion on lap three to earn $11,000 for his 11th career Wild West Shootout victory, moving him into sole possession of second on the miniseries's all-time win list.

Hometown racer Garrett Alberson moved into second on a lap-16 restart and trailed Pierce the final 15 laps, finishing 0.493 of a second back; Alberson secured his second straight runner-up result—both coming behind Pierce—and his third overall top-five finish of the week.

There were a few WISSOTA-region faces back on hand for Friday action. Rochester, Minnesota’s Dustin Sorensen was 11th, former WISSOTA Late Model National Champion Ricky Weiss was 14th, and Winona, Minnesota’s Jake Timm was 15th. Portland, North Dakota’s Jason Strand was 17th.

SUMMARY

Super Late Models:

A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[1]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson[3]; 3. 97-Cade Dillard[6]; 4. 18B-Shannon Babb[4]; 5. 6-Kyle Larson[22]; 6. 157-Mike Marlar[9]; 7. B5-Brandon Sheppard[5]; 8. 1-Tyler Erb[8]; 9. 2S-Stormy Scott[13]; 10. 7T-Drake Troutman[10]; 11. 19-Dustin Sorensen[15]; 12. 77-Preston Luckman[7]; 13. 14M-Morgan Bagley[17]; 14. 7-Ricky Weiss[12]; 15. 49T-Jake Timm[11]; 16. 15-Justin Duty[19]; 17. E85-Jason Strand[24]; 18. 10-Kaden Honeycutt[23]; 19. 14S-Collen Winebarger[16]; 20. 15S-Clayton Stuckey[21]; 21. 1R-BJ Robinson[2]; 22. 101-Forrest Trent[14]; 23. 18-Chase Junghans[20]; 24. 32B-Cody Laney[18]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 58-Garrett Alberson[1]; 2. B5-Brandon Sheppard[2]; 3. 157-Mike Marlar[3]; 4. 2S-Stormy Scott[4]; 5. 15-Justin Duty[5]; 6. 14M-Morgan Bagley[7]; 7. 15S-Clayton Stuckey[10]; 8. 10-Kaden Honeycutt[8]; 9. 86-Kyle Beard[6]; 10. 78S-Steve Stultz[9]; 11. 250-Walton Kyle Jr[11]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 18B-Shannon Babb[1]; 2. 77-Preston Luckman[3]; 3. 49T-Jake Timm[4]; 4. 19-Dustin Sorensen[2]; 5. 11-Jon Kirby[7]; 6. 28M-Sam Mars[5]; 7. 82-Ian Whisler[6]; 8. 38-Thomas Hunziker[8]; 9. 5C-Brad Couch[11]; 10. 6T-Terry Carter[10]; 11. 4P-Shawn DeForest[9]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 1R-BJ Robinson[4]; 2. 97-Cade Dillard[1]; 3. 7T-Drake Troutman[2]; 4. 101-Forrest Trent[5]; 5. 32B-Cody Laney[7]; 6. 42S-Don Shaw[6]; 7. 13-Bricen James[3]; 8. 73-Rodney Sanders[8]; 9. 88-Chance Mann[11]; 10. 25-Mikey Kile[9]; 11. 02-Kent Rosevear[10]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[1]; 2. 1-Tyler Erb[4]; 3. 7-Ricky Weiss[5]; 4. 14S-Collen Winebarger[2]; 5. E85-Jason Strand[3]; 6. 18-Chase Junghans[9]; 7. 28W-Jim Whisler[6]; 8. 3-Keko Perez[10]; 9. 2-Tyler Stevens[7]; 10. 6-Kyle Larson[8]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 14M-Morgan Bagley[3]; 2. 15-Justin Duty[1]; 3. 15S-Clayton Stuckey[5]; 4. 10-Kaden Honeycutt[7]; 5. 11-Jon Kirby[2]; 6. 28M-Sam Mars[4]; 7. 78S-Steve Stultz[11]; 8. 38-Thomas Hunziker[8]; 9. 250-Walton Kyle Jr[13]; 10. 82-Ian Whisler[6]; 11. 6T-Terry Carter[12]; 12. 5C-Brad Couch[10]; 13. 86-Kyle Beard[9]; 14. 4P-Shawn DeForest[14]

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 32B-Cody Laney[1]; 2. 18-Chase Junghans[4]; 3. 6-Kyle Larson[12]; 4. E85-Jason Strand[2]; 5. 13-Bricen James[5]; 6. 73-Rodney Sanders[7]; 7. 28W-Jim Whisler[6]; 8. 25-Mikey Kile[11]; 9. 88-Chance Mann[9]; 10. 02-Kent Rosevear[13]; 11. 3-Keko Perez[8]; 12. 42S-Don Shaw[3]; 13. 2-Tyler Stevens[10]