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Hample dominates Late Model main at Electric City while Berger cooks Midwest Mod foes and Zampich zeroes out Street Stock competition

With information provided by Vicki Higginbotham

GREAT FALLS, MT (May 18) - On Saturday night, May 18, Ty Hample drove to the memorable - and emotional - victory in the Late Models to highlight WISSOTA Dirt Track Series racing at Electric City Speedway.

Hample, who arrived to the track solo, recently lost his father, Kelly, in April to cancer. Kelly was well-liked in the pits anywhere he went, and known for helping anyone who asked. Pit crews at ECS helped get Ty out on the track - one that was the type of track condition Kelly would have loved - and Ty paid the best kind of homage to his dad with the dominating win.

In victory lane he cleaned off the No. 36 memorial sticker above his number, and after the ceremonies, another group helped him get reloaded and back on the road to Billings.

Paul Leach improved three spots to second, Jeremy Castro was third, Jeremiah LaDue was fourth and Travis Shumate was fifth.

In the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds, Mario Berger started inside the sixth row and slipped his way through the pack to the lead, taking the victory ahead of eighth-starter Joey Price, seventh-starter Tyler Leach, Michael Shure and C.R. Eisenzimer.

Luke Zampich ended his night in victory lane at Electric City, zipping to the WISSOTA Street Stock win ahead of Robert Petroff, Cail Tinker, Patrick Harvie and Dave Azure in the top five.

Cory Craver captured the IMCA Modified win, holding off the charge of ninth-starter Kolby Hannah for the win.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

A Feature 1: 1. 29-Ty Hample[1]; 2. 01-Paul Leach[5]; 3. 14X-Jeremy Castro[2]; 4. 1-Jeremiah LaDue[3]; 5. 4C-Travis Shumate[4]; 6. 98-Dana Lerum[8]; 7. (DNS) 1H-Vernon Hill Jr; 8. (DNS) 1X-Vernon Hill

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 01-Paul Leach[4]; 2. 1-Jeremiah LaDue[1]; 3. 14X-Jeremy Castro[3]; 4. 29-Ty Hample[2]; 5. 4C-Travis Shumate[5]; 6. (DNF) 1X-Vernon Hill[8]; 7. (DNS) 1H-Vernon Hill Jr; 8. (DNS) 98-Dana Lerum

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 73-Mario Berger[11]; 2. 60-Joey Price[8]; 3. 09-Tyler Leach[7]; 4. 22-Michael Shure[4]; 5. 16OZ-CR Eisenzimer[5]; 6. 28H-Kolby Hannah[13]; 7. 086-Patrick J LaMere[10]; 8. 66-Daniel Harvey[2]; 9. 25-Emmalyn Edwards Bush[3]; 10. 3-John Johnson[1]; 11. OG-Cody Pfeiffer[14]; 12. X28-Cooter Liscum[12]; 13. 54-Joseph Brooks[9]; 14. (DQ) 39JR-Kody Harvie[6]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 09-Tyler Leach[1]; 2. 66-Daniel Harvey[2]; 3. 39JR-Kody Harvie[4]; 4. 22-Michael Shure[3]; 5. 54-Joseph Brooks[6]; 6. 73-Mario Berger[5]; 7. (DNF) 28H-Kolby Hannah[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 16OZ-CR Eisenzimer[3]; 2. 25-Emmalyn Edwards Bush[2]; 3. 3-John Johnson[1]; 4. 60-Joey Price[7]; 5. 086-Patrick J LaMere[4]; 6. X28-Cooter Liscum[5]; 7. (DNS) OG-Cody Pfeiffer

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 33Z-Luke Zampich[4]; 2. 11*-Robert Petroff[5]; 3. 814-Cail Tinker[3]; 4. 98-Patrick Harvie[2]; 5. 81-Dave Azure[7]; 6. 57-Bob Leep[8]; 7. 21JR-Caden Craver[6]; 8. 22J-Preston Johnson[10]; 9. 43C-Casey Durand[1]; 10. 8-Stephanie Cahill[9]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 98-Patrick Harvie[1]; 2. 11*-Robert Petroff[3]; 3. 21JR-Caden Craver[4]; 4. 81-Dave Azure[5]; 5. 8-Stephanie Cahill[2]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 33Z-Luke Zampich[3]; 2. 57-Bob Leep[2]; 3. 43C-Casey Durand[1]; 4. 814-Cail Tinker[4]; 5. 22J-Preston Johnson[5]

IMCA Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 21-Cory Craver[3]; 2. 28H-Kolby Hannah[9]; 3. 71K-Cody Kuglin[6]; 4. 44-Devon Jadwin[2]; 5. 15G-Marvin Gonzales[8]; 6. 05-Tyler Leach[5]; 7. 12-Ty Clemens[13]; 8. 2C-Jordan Tocci[10]; 9. 41-Joey Price[11]; 10. 4C-Travis Shumate[14]; 11. D02*-David Davis[12]; 12. 87X-Rex Feller[4]; 13. 14-Fred Hansen[15]; 14. 68-Shawn LaRocque[20]; 15. 5X-Taylor Johnson[1]; 16. 09-Paul Leach[18]; 17. 185-Patrick LaMere[17]; 18. 26-Kaycie Kynett[7]; 19. 28-Cody Blixt[21]; 20. 41K-Rusty King[19]; 21. (DNF) 2-Mike Pistelak[16]; 22. (DNS) 60-John Price

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 15G-Marvin Gonzales[5]; 2. 71K-Cody Kuglin[4]; 3. 2C-Jordan Tocci[7]; 4. D02*-David Davis[8]; 5. 12-Ty Clemens[6]; 6. 2-Mike Pistelak[2]; 7. (DNF) 41K-Rusty King[1]; 8. (DNS) 60-John Price

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Cory Craver[2]; 2. 5X-Taylor Johnson[1]; 3. 41-Joey Price[7]; 4. 26-Kaycie Kynett[4]; 5. 4C-Travis Shumate[6]; 6. 185-Patrick LaMere[3]; 7. 68-Shawn LaRocque[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 28H-Kolby Hannah[6]; 2. 05-Tyler Leach[3]; 3. 87X-Rex Feller[2]; 4. 44-Devon Jadwin[1]; 5. 14-Fred Hansen[4]; 6. 09-Paul Leach[5]; 7. 28-Cody Blixt[7]