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Jensen and Ekdahl post Princeton feature wins before Friday night rain shower ends show early

By Tami Jo Kuehn

PRINCETON, MN (May 17) - More than 100 drivers signed into the pits Friday for a night of WISSOTA Dirt Track Series race action at Princeton Speedway. Mother Nature delivered a quick shot of rain just before race time, and as the night progressed and features began, the skies reopened; the night was called early after completing just two features.

Joey Jensen and Jeff Ekdahl grabbed the two trophies for the night, before Mother Nature won the rest of the program.

The WISSOTA Street Stocks were the first feature of the night, led to green by Ekdahl and Kaden Woodie from row one. An immediate caution slowed the drivers, but Ekdahl claimed the lead when the race resumed. Ekdahl stretched his lead as cars covered the quarter-mile race surface.

Ekdahl’s lead evaporated after a caution slowed the drivers, and Woodie was at his door for the restart. Woodie continued to chase Ekdahl over the remaining laps, but Ekdahl held the lead and took the win. Woodie, Thomas Worth, Levi Randt and Rachel Boston rounded out the top five spots.

A 24-car field of WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds filled the track surface for the next race event. Grayson Pratt and Mitch Weiss led the stacked field to the green and they battled for first place. A caution was quickly triggered, and the field was reset with just one lap in the books.

As the race resumed, Joey Jensen wheeled his way to the lead and separated from the pack, while other drivers raced two and three wide for positions. A couple of cautions kept the drivers slowed, and a break was taken while cars were untangled. Through it all, Jensen remained in command, and with more cautions keeping the drivers at a stop-and-go pace, Cole Boston moved into second and made a run at Jensen’s No. 30. However, Jensen held his line and grabbed the checkers with the remaining top five positions going to Boston, Paul Ripley, Jason VandeKamp and Ryan Putnam.

The WISSOTA Super Stocks took the speedway with Joey Jensen back out on the track alongside Dylan Kromschroeder on the first row. As the field took the green, Kromschroeder edged out a slight lead, but Jensen remained close. Drivers were nearly four wide as they battled for positions, but the yellow flag waved as a car spun in turn three. The drivers had just settled into their restart spots when Mother Nature unleashed her fury. Rain poured from the sky and unfortunately the remainder of the race night was postponed.

Makeup features will be scheduled in the upcoming weeks for the Super Stocks, Mod Fours, Hornets and Modifieds as the night was considered a complete show.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Modifieds:

Feature - Postponed due to weather.

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 2C-Dave Cain[7]; 2. 14W-Clayton Wagamon[1]; 3. 23-Tim Patchen[3]; 4. WIN1-Karl Leavenworth[4]; 5. 27-Tony Proell[8]; 6. 32-Max Nelson[6]; 7. (DNF) T23-John Toppozini[5]; 8. (DNF) 66-Kevin Lear[2]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 88-Eric Lamm[1]; 2. 22-Brandon Copp[3]; 3. 7A-Shane Sabraski[4]; 4. 112-Brennan Gave[2]; 5. 3T-Travis Schulte[6]; 6. 9E-Don Eischens[5]; 7. 20-Jeff Patchen[7]; 8. 24-Carson Patchen[8]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Chernosky[1]; 2. 89JR-JT Johnson[4]; 3. 15-Devin Fouquette[3]; 4. 11-Jody Bellefeuille[5]; 5. 17B-Zach Benson[2]; 6. 21-Jake Smith[7]; 7. 2K-Kyle Kirberger[6]

WISSOTA Super Stocks:

Feature - Postponed due to weather.

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 78K-Dexton Koch[1]; 2. 33-Austin Niemeyer[4]; 3. 11A-Jordan Henkemeyer[7]; 4. 44-Kris Peterson[3]; 5. 81B-Doug Bolt[2]; 6. 24-Eric Martini[6]; 7. 00-Jason Hobbs[5]; 8. 47J-Jeremiah Gebhardt[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Denis Czech[2]; 2. 21-Joey Jensen[1]; 3. 46-Dustin Nelson[4]; 4. 9-Dylan Kromschroeder[3]; 5. 7A-Shane Sabraski[5]; 6. 24W-Chris Wark[6]; 7. 25-Dylan Nelson[7]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

Feature (20 Laps): 1. 30-Joey Jensen[4]; 2. 33CB-Cole Boston[7]; 3. 28-Paul Ripley[3]; 4. 16V-Jason VandeKamp[9]; 5. 46-Ryan Putnam[10]; 6. 8-Justin Jones[17]; 7. 23-Mitch Weiss[2]; 8. 17B-Zach Benson[5]; 9. 33C-Cole Chernosky[15]; 10. 47-Erik Gruhlke[8]; 11. 17-Ashley Boyum[6]; 12. 11R-Landyn Randt[24]; 13. 21-Wyatt Boyum[20]; 14. 00AZ-TJ Wyman[16]; 15. 71B-David Siercks[23]; 16. 24-Cole Elton[18]; 17. 4W-Joey Wagamon[12]; 18. 13-Tate Kostreba[13]; 19. 3P-David Pixley[21]; 20. 50-Nick McCann[22]; 21. 7G-Rick Grams[11]; 22. 63X-Grayson Pratt[1]; 23. (DNF) 2-Scott Splittstoesser[19]; 24. (DNF) 11-Ashton Schulte[14]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Ashley Boyum[2]; 2. 63X-Grayson Pratt[1]; 3. 47-Erik Gruhlke[5]; 4. 46-Ryan Putnam[8]; 5. 13-Tate Kostreba[4]; 6. 00AZ-TJ Wyman[7]; 7. 2-Scott Splittstoesser[6]; 8. (DNS) 11R-Landyn Randt

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 28-Paul Ripley[1]; 2. 16V-Jason VandeKamp[6]; 3. 23-Mitch Weiss[3]; 4. 7G-Rick Grams[2]; 5. 11-Ashton Schulte[4]; 6. 8-Justin Jones[7]; 7. 21-Wyatt Boyum[8]; 8. 50-Nick McCann[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 30-Joey Jensen[4]; 2. 33CB-Cole Boston[5]; 3. 17B-Zach Benson[7]; 4. 4W-Joey Wagamon[2]; 5. 33C-Cole Chernosky[6]; 6. 24-Cole Elton[1]; 7. 3P-David Pixley[3]; 8. 71B-David Siercks[8]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

Feature (15 Laps): 1. 11JR-Jeff Ekdahl[1]; 2. 980-Kaden Woodie[2]; 3. 55-Thomas Worth[5]; 4. 11-Levi Randt[7]; 5. 17B-Rachel Boston[9]; 6. 05-Kyle Howland[6]; 7. 66E-Steve Eggersgluess[3]; 8. 76-Braedyn Fleck[10]; 9. (DNF) 60-Andrew Milz[4]; 10. (DNF) 04-Tommy Pogones[8]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 05-Kyle Howland[1]; 2. 11JR-Jeff Ekdahl[3]; 3. 11-Levi Randt[2]; 4. 55-Thomas Worth[4]; 5. 17B-Rachel Boston[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 04-Tommy Pogones[2]; 2. 980-Kaden Woodie[1]; 3. 66E-Steve Eggersgluess[4]; 4. 60-Andrew Milz[3]; 5. 76-Braedyn Fleck[5]

WISSOTA Mod Fours:

Feature - Postponed due to weather.

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 5H-Dustin Holtquist[6]; 2. 5-Robert Holtquist[1]; 3. 7L-Tyler Larson[2]; 4. 13-Casey Traxler[7]; 5. 31J-Jordan Fischer[3]; 6. 18-Ashton Schwinn[9]; 7. 21-Blake Hawker[8]; 8. 9T-Thomas Burgard[5]; 9. (DNF) 11-Jesse Turnvall[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 04-Tommy Pogones[1]; 2. TB81-Tommy Bawden[5]; 3. 14T-Rowan Tramm[7]; 4. D5-Doug Frederick[3]; 5. 8R-Josh Litzau[6]; 6. 60-Maeghan Milz[4]; 7. 81-Amanda Carroll[2]; 8. N28-Hailey Nohner[9]; 9. (DNF) 119-Brandon Backstrom[8]

WISSOTA Hornets:

Feature - Postponed due to weather.

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 64-Eric Pfundt[3]; 2. 14-Justin Schelitzche[4]; 3. 53-Branley Theel[2]; 4. 19-Josh Backstrom[5]; 5. 26N-Nikota Larson[6]; 6. 89-Randy Jacoboski[1]; 7. (DNS) 94A-Bobie Arnes

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 13-Brandon Nyberg[1]; 2. 73-Payson Patrin[2]; 3. 35-Alyssa Nelson[3]; 4. 26-Jenna Hagemann[5]; 5. 23T-Anthony Jenson[4]; 6. 74R-Joseph Strandlien[6]