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Severe weather shortens River Cities program after Jose and Schow score bullring feature wins

By Steven Young

GRAND FORKS, ND (May 17) - Greg Jose and Matt Schow won in WISSOTA Dirt Track Series action at River Cities Speedway Friday night, before the races came to an early end due to severe weather. Schow's win was his 22nd-career Bullring victory, while Jose broke a long dry spell, picking up his second-career win in Grand Forks and first since August 30, 2013.

Jose and James Meagher made up the front row for the WISSOTA Street Stock 20-lap main event, with Meagher leading most of the opening circuit, before Jose took the lead off turn four.

Weston Ramsrud moved his “Ol’ Relic” into second and brought Shane Swenson with him, as Jose built a half-straightaway advantage early.

As Jose started to pull away, Trey Hess joined Ramsrud and Swenson in a three-car battle for second before Meagher brought out the only caution of the race as he suffered mechanical woes.

Ramsrud and Swenson made contact on the ensuing restart, allowing Jose to reopen his lengthy advantage out front as Hess moved into second and Aaron Blacklance took third.

Jose continued on to victory over Hess, Blacklance, Ramsrud, and Seth Klostreich. Jose, a longtime River Cities Speedway regular, broke a nearly 11-year drought at the speedway with Friday's victory.

Alex Johnson and Cylen Vargason led the 20-lap WISSOTA Midwest Mod feature to green, but a pair of cautions before a lap was completed slowed the pace at the start.

When the race went green for good on the third attempt, Schow, who originally started fifth, took the lead in turns one and two and brought Jory Berg with him into second.

Opening night winner Austin Hunter followed into third as lightning started to show up on the horizon to the west. Schow remained the leader with six to go as the leaders started working lapped traffic.

Schow led every lap en route to his 22nd-career River Cities feature win over Berg, Hunter, Jamie Dietzler, and Alex Johnson. Just as Schow took the checkers, everyone started bolting for the exits as high winds and eventual rain ended the evening.

Mike Balcaen, Jesse Teunis, and Dustin Strand won the heat races in the WISSOTA Late Models. Mark Dobmeier and Wade Nygaard pocketed the pair of NOSA Sprint heat races, and Dexter Dvergsten and Kate Taves picked up Lightning Sprint heat wins.

A date for the makeup features will be announced at a later time.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

Feature - Postponed due to weather.

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10-Mike Balcaen[1]; 2. 7P-Joey Pederson[3]; 3. 50-Ryan Corbett[2]; 4. 2*-Cole Babcock[7]; 5. 12S-Brad Seng[8]; 6. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[4]; 7. 1M-Nicholas Minske[5]; 8. 4C-Brandon Corbett[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 70-Jesse Teunis[2]; 2. 27P-Tucker Pederson[4]; 3. 9A-Blake Anderson[1]; 4. 21S-John Seng[5]; 5. 33-Ryan Dahl[6]; 6. F9-Brandon Fuller[7]; 7. (DNS) 6R-Nate Reynolds

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[4]; 2. 5E-Shane Edginton[2]; 3. 14-Brody Troftgruben[6]; 4. 17S-Lance Schill[3]; 5. T 1-Tom Corcoran[5]; 6. 14M-Greg Moore[7]; 7. 97-Dan McNamee[1]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 2S-Matt Schow[5]; 2. BO-Jory Berg[4]; 3. 44-Austin Hunter[7]; 4. 39-Jamie Dietzler[3]; 5. 007-Alex Johnson[1]; 6. 29-Cylen Vargason[2]; 7. 57-Nathan Raasakka[6]; 8. 77E-Tra Ewalt[10]; 9. (DNF) 15G-Landon Gross[9]; 10. (DNF) 32B-Brennan Schmidt[8]; 11. (DNF) 15-MaKenna Romuld[11]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 2S-Matt Schow[1]; 2. 39-Jamie Dietzler[3]; 3. BO-Jory Berg[2]; 4. 32B-Brennan Schmidt[4]; 5. 15G-Landon Gross[5]; 6. 15-MaKenna Romuld[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 007-Alex Johnson[1]; 2. 44-Austin Hunter[3]; 3. 57-Nathan Raasakka[2]; 4. 29-Cylen Vargason[5]; 5. 77E-Tra Ewalt[4]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 28-Greg Jose[2]; 2. 4-Trey Hess[5]; 3. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[7]; 4. 67-Weston Ramsrud[4]; 5. 30-Seth Klostreich[8]; 6. 35-John Halvorson[3]; 7. 65-Jerome Berger[9]; 8. 37-Chris Ekren[13]; 9. 49S-Rodney Hulst[10]; 10. 99-Josh Barker[11]; 11. (DNF) 91-Shane Swenson[6]; 12. (DNF) 7-James Meagher[1]; 13. (DNF) 29-Rachael McNamee[12]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 35-John Halvorson[1]; 2. 30-Seth Klostreich[3]; 3. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[4]; 4. 67-Weston Ramsrud[7]; 5. 65-Jerome Berger[5]; 6. 99-Josh Barker[6]; 7. 37-Chris Ekren[2]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Trey Hess[1]; 2. 28-Greg Jose[3]; 3. 91-Shane Swenson[2]; 4. 7-James Meagher[6]; 5. 49S-Rodney Hulst[4]; 6. 29-Rachael McNamee[5]

410 Sprints:

Feature - Postponed due to weather.

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[4]; 2. 8-Jack Croaker[2]; 3. 17-Zach Omdahl[3]; 4. 99-Jordan Graham[1]; 5. 26-Blake Egeland[8]; 6. 4-Colton Young[5]; 7. 52-Adam Sobolik[6]; 8. 41T-Travis Strandell[7]; 9. 50-Brad Flaten[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11M-Wade Nygaard[1]; 2. 8H-Jade Hastings[4]; 3. 0-Nick Omdahl[3]; 4. 10S-Josh Swangler[2]; 5. 10-Alex Truscinski[8]; 6. 27-Weston Olson[5]; 7. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[7]; 8. 14-Tom Egeland[6]

Lightning Sprints:

Feature - Postponed due to weather.

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[2]; 2. 87-Matthew Taves[4]; 3. 93-Kelsi Pederson[7]; 4. 40-Evan Yanish[9]; 5. 1W-Mark Williams[3]; 6. 7S-Sean Enright[5]; 7. 18I-Emmitt Isane[6]; 8. 3-Arlen Rygg[8]; 9. (DNF) 12-Loki Bjerke[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 72-Kate Taves[3]; 2. 24-Jake Haugeberg[1]; 3. 22-Bryce Haugeberg[6]; 4. 18-Hayden Koehmstedt[2]; 5. 4-Dylan Langevin[7]; 6. 21B-Hunter Bugge[8]; 7. 99-Brody Graham[5]; 8. (DNS) 52-Eugene Vik