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Sabraski, Gerdes, Schow, Agen and Rohner roll into victory lane Saturday at I-94 Speedway

By Ron Krog

FERGUS FALLS, MN (May 4) - Fans at I-94 emr Speedway were treated to another great night of racing Saturday, as a 178 cars hit the track for the second half of the opening doubleheader weekend.

WISSOTA Dirt Track Series winners included Ty Agen, Matt Schow, Brady Gerdes, Jeff Rohner, and Shane Sabraski. Larry Samuelson was victorious in the Gen X Late Model class.

In the WISSOTA Street Stock feature, it was a battle between Ethan Beckler and Joe Martin early on, as they fought hard back and forth for top honors. Soon Eric Riley came charging in to take control, but he had company as Ty Agen and Braden Brauer closed in. Agen was able to work the low side of the track and grab the lead with eight laps to go. He drove on to the victory, followed by Riley and Brauer close behind. Kyle Anderson and Nick Shumansky completed the top five.

A monster field of 43 hard-charging WISSOTA Midwest Mods came out, with guns a blazing.The 28-car feature began with Ron Saurer in the early lead, as he and Ryan Schow swapped spots before Schow secured the position. As the laps counted down Matt Schow and Brennan Weight moved in and ran in first and second, and that’s how they finished. Ninth-starter Corey Storck finished third and Lucas Rodin came from 13th to finish fourth. Ryan Schow lost some spots and finished fifth.

Matt Dittman and Jeff Rohner continued to dominate the WISSOTA Hornets Saturday night, as Rohner won for the second straight night over the 17-car field. Payson Patrin ran a solid second, followed by Dittman. Chase Pourrier had a very nice run to take home fourth, and Alex Aderman was fifth.

Another good field of WISSOTA Super Stocks was present, with 20 on hand — including many expected to chase the national point title. Matt Sparby is one of those guys that really makes it tough on the competition when he shows up to race, and not surprisingly, he and Bailey Rosch fought hard for the lead early. Multi-time National Champion Shane Sabraski found an opening and grabbed the lead, looking like he might run off with the victory. However, with three laps to go Dexton Koch caught Sabraski in traffic and took the lead, before a caution reset the field and Sabraski got his spot back.

On the restart Sabraski got a good run and held on for his second Super Stock win of the weekend. Trevor Nelson was very fast again in third, with Dylan Nelson close behind in fourth and 20th-starter James Trantina completing the top five.

The WISSOTA Mods are always a treat at I-94 and with 29 good drivers in the pits, you knew it was going to get pretty wild. The feature started out with Travis Saurer taking charge early, as he dusted the wall in all four corners. Brady Gereds was dialed in and in a few laps he was under Saurer and took the lead. As usual Don Eischens was in the thick of things as well, and he eventually took over second. Gerdes drove on to the victory, Eischens settled for second, Saurer was third, Tanner Williamson was fourth and Joseph Thomas completed the top five.

The WISSOTA Late Models have a lot of new faces this year and they are not exactly rookies. Shane Sabraski and Lee Grosz are just two examples and they were fighting for the lead up front early on, with Sabraski taking charge. The 25-car feature was really rolling along and race leader Sabraski started to come into a bunch of lapped traffic. All of a sudden Grosz, Cole Schill, Shane Edginton, and Dave Mass were swarming Sabraski, with Kollin Hibdon and Cole Searing trying to move forward as well. The last four laps were as good of a Late Model finish as I have ever seen at I-94, and Sabraski came out on top for his first-ever Late Model victory. Edginton, Schill, Grosz and Mass completed the top five.

Congratulations to Larry Samuelson, who won his first Gen X Late Model feature.

I-94 thanks the fans for their great support in not the greatest of weather conditions this past weekend. You know it was cold when they nearly drank us out of coffee and hot chocolate.

Friday, May 10 will be the WISSOTA Late Model Challenge Series along with WISSOTA Streets, Midwest Mods, Mods, Hornets and the Gen X Late Models.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 7A-Shane Sabraski[2]; 2. 5E-Shane Edginton[4]; 3. 44*-Cole Schill[3]; 4. 4J-Lee Grosz[1]; 5. 2-Dave Mass[8]; 6. 48K-Kollin Hibdon[5]; 7. 10-Cole Searing[9]; 8. 8R-Travis Robertson[10]; 9. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[12]; 10. 00-Mitch Johnson[7]; 11. 30-Kevin Burdick[14]; 12. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[18]; 13. 18X-Shawn Meyer[20]; 14. 16-Thomas Weisgram[16]; 15. 00C-Brandon Corbett[6]; 16. X-Chuck Swenson[11]; 17. 1E-Ryan Engels[17]; 18. 2RK-Rusty Kollman[15]; 19. 18C-Chase Gelling[21]; 20. 66-Sam Zender[24]; 21. 70-Jesse Teunis[19]; 22. 50-Ben Wolden[13]; 23. 56-Laine Schwehr[23]; 24. 18-Josh Rieck[22]; 25. 3S-Nathan Sletto[25]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 48K-Kollin Hibdon[2]; 2. 5E-Shane Edginton[3]; 3. 10-Cole Searing[8]; 4. 8R-Travis Robertson[5]; 5. 50-Ben Wolden[1]; 6. 16-Thomas Weisgram[7]; 7. 70-Jesse Teunis[4]; 8. 18-Josh Rieck[6]; 9. (DNF) 3S-Nathan Sletto[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7A-Shane Sabraski[3]; 2. 4J-Lee Grosz[4]; 3. 00C-Brandon Corbett[6]; 4. X-Chuck Swenson[2]; 5. 30-Kevin Burdick[8]; 6. 1E-Ryan Engels[5]; 7. 18X-Shawn Meyer[7]; 8. (DNF) 66-Sam Zender[1]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Dave Mass[1]; 2. 00-Mitch Johnson[4]; 3. 44*-Cole Schill[6]; 4. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[7]; 5. 2RK-Rusty Kollman[8]; 6. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[5]; 7. 18C-Chase Gelling[3]; 8. 56-Laine Schwehr[2]

WISSOTA Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 2X-Brady Gerdes[1]; 2. 9E-Don Eischens[3]; 3. 21X-Travis Saurer[2]; 4. 88-Tanner Williamson[4]; 5. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[5]; 6. 7A-Shane Sabraski[12]; 7. 10W-Ward Imrie[7]; 8. 10X-Dustin Bitzan[10]; 9. 24S-Mike Stearns[14]; 10. 19-Lucas Rodin[11]; 11. 71-Dustin Strand[16]; 12. 33C-Cole Chernosky[9]; 13. 2G-Brock Gronwold[20]; 14. 52-Jason Thoennes[19]; 15. 9B-Brendan Blascyk[18]; 16. 6*-Brian Haben[13]; 17. 17B-Zach Benson[24]; 18. 7-Bryce Borgen[15]; 19. 11X-Austin Chyba[28]; 20. 9-Riley Matthews[26]; 21. 99-Jason Grimes[29]; 22. 81-Jordan Duray[21]; 23. 16-Brenden Luschinski[27]; 24. 91-Gerald Thorstad[23]; 25. 96-Erv Grossman[25]; 26. 26G-Ryan Gierke[8]; 27. (DNF) 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[17]; 28. (DNF) 21-Jake Smith[22]; 29. (DNF) 22-Brandon Copp[6]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 26G-Ryan Gierke[1]; 2. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[3]; 3. 33C-Cole Chernosky[2]; 4. 6*-Brian Haben[6]; 5. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[7]; 6. 81-Jordan Duray[8]; 7. 96-Erv Grossman[4]; 8. (DQ) 99-Jason Grimes[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 2X-Brady Gerdes[4]; 2. 9E-Don Eischens[1]; 3. 10X-Dustin Bitzan[3]; 4. 24S-Mike Stearns[5]; 5. 9B-Brendan Blascyk[2]; 6. 21-Jake Smith[7]; 7. 9-Riley Matthews[6]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 10W-Ward Imrie[1]; 2. 22-Brandon Copp[4]; 3. 19-Lucas Rodin[6]; 4. 7-Bryce Borgen[2]; 5. 52-Jason Thoennes[7]; 6. 91-Gerald Thorstad[3]; 7. 16-Brenden Luschinski[5]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 21X-Travis Saurer[1]; 2. 88-Tanner Williamson[2]; 3. 7A-Shane Sabraski[5]; 4. 71-Dustin Strand[4]; 5. 2G-Brock Gronwold[6]; 6. 17B-Zach Benson[3]; 7. 11X-Austin Chyba[7]

WISSOTA Super Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 7A-Shane Sabraski[4]; 2. 78K-Dexton Koch[9]; 3. 71N-Trevor Nelson[8]; 4. 25-Dylan Nelson[6]; 5. 19-James Trantina III[20]; 6. 33C-Cole Chernosky[7]; 7. 54-William Lund[16]; 8. 33-Austin Niemeyer[11]; 9. 81X-Matt Sparby[1]; 10. 81B-Doug Bolt[17]; 11. 71X-Travis Scott[18]; 12. 67-Ryan Satter[15]; 13. (DNF) 28*-Bailey Rosch[2]; 14. (DNF) 5-Andrew Hedtke[13]; 15. (DNF) 4A-Allan Cleveland[5]; 16. (DNF) 2-Nathan Grehl[14]; 17. (DNF) 49-Tim Compson[12]; 18. (DNF) 77-Carson Miller[10]; 19. (DNF) 11A-Jordan Henkemeyer[3]; 20. (DNS) 37J-Tyler Wade

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 78K-Dexton Koch[5]; 2. 33C-Cole Chernosky[3]; 3. 7A-Shane Sabraski[6]; 4. 77-Carson Miller[4]; 5. 5-Andrew Hedtke[7]; 6. 54-William Lund[2]; 7. (DNF) 37J-Tyler Wade[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Dylan Nelson[4]; 2. 81X-Matt Sparby[1]; 3. 4A-Allan Cleveland[5]; 4. 33-Austin Niemeyer[7]; 5. 2-Nathan Grehl[2]; 6. 81B-Doug Bolt[3]; 7. (DNF) 19-James Trantina III[6]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 11A-Jordan Henkemeyer[1]; 2. 28*-Bailey Rosch[4]; 3. 71N-Trevor Nelson[6]; 4. 49-Tim Compson[2]; 5. 67-Ryan Satter[5]; 6. (DNF) 71X-Travis Scott[3]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 2S-Matt Schow[3]; 2. 28-Brennon Weight[5]; 3. 57-Corey Storck[9]; 4. 19-Lucas Rodin[13]; 5. 28S-Ryan Schow[1]; 6. 71-Nate Reinke[6]; 7. 1S-Scott Bintz[4]; 8. 42B-Tanner Bitzan[8]; 9. 42-Ron Saurer[2]; 10. 87-William Moelter[10]; 11. 24TB-Taylor Bitzan[12]; 12. 16-Garrett Paull[11]; 13. 19X-James Trantina III[17]; 14. 67-Mike Nichols[14]; 15. 27-Corey Mehrwerth[21]; 16. 24-Cole Elton[18]; 17. 28T-Tommy Nichols[25]; 18. 16T-Tim Kanten[15]; 19. 13-Scott Oeltjen[23]; 20. 40-Colton Kramer[19]; 21. 12X-Jamie Norman[22]; 22. 30-Cole Neset[26]; 23. 50-Brady Caul[24]; 24. 24X-Ryan Ost[28]; 25. (DNF) 00AZ-TJ Wyman[20]; 26. (DNF) 70JR-David Simpson[7]; 27. (DNF) 3T-Alex Tschakert[27]; 28. (DNF) 22Z-Zach Reinke[16]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 1S-Scott Bintz[2]; 2. 71-Nate Reinke[3]; 3. 16-Garrett Paull[5]; 4. 22Z-Zach Reinke[7]; 5. 13-Scott Oeltjen[8]; 6. 20-Brayden Kunze[6]; 7. 4-Phil Christlieb[9]; 8. 24XN-Rick Norman[1]; 9. (DNS) 21Z-Zach Kort

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 28S-Ryan Schow[2]; 2. 70JR-David Simpson[1]; 3. 24TB-Taylor Bitzan[4]; 4. 19X-James Trantina III[7]; 5. 12X-Jamie Norman[6]; 6. 28T-Tommy Nichols[5]; 7. 10B-Tyler Bitzan[9]; 8. 26-Paul Hari[3]; 9. (DNS) 092-Nick Bruder

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 28-Brennon Weight[2]; 2. 42B-Tanner Bitzan[1]; 3. 19-Lucas Rodin[7]; 4. 24-Cole Elton[3]; 5. 27-Corey Mehrwerth[8]; 6. 24X-Ryan Ost[4]; 7. 32C-Zach Clark[5]; 8. 554-Alan Oeltjen[9]; 9. (DNS) 75JR-Daniel Harstad

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 42-Ron Saurer[2]; 2. 57-Corey Storck[7]; 3. 67-Mike Nichols[8]; 4. 40-Colton Kramer[3]; 5. 50-Brady Caul[5]; 6. 28K-Nick Preston[6]; 7. 97-Michelle Hutt[4]; 8. 30-Cole Neset[1]

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 2S-Matt Schow[2]; 2. 87-William Moelter[5]; 3. 16T-Tim Kanten[1]; 4. 00AZ-TJ Wyman[7]; 5. 3T-Alex Tschakert[4]; 6. 67B-Glen Brown[6]; 7. 17V-Colton Vogel[3]; 8. 81K-Casey Knabe[8]

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 27-Corey Mehrwerth[2]; 2. 13-Scott Oeltjen[1]; 3. 28T-Tommy Nichols[4]; 4. 3T-Alex Tschakert[3]; 5. 97-Michelle Hutt[7]; 6. 28K-Nick Preston[5]; 7. 10B-Tyler Bitzan[12]; 8. 554-Alan Oeltjen[9]; 9. 24XN-Rick Norman[8]; 10. 81K-Casey Knabe[10]; 11. (DNF) 4-Phil Christlieb[6]; 12. (DNS) 092-Nick Bruder

B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 12X-Jamie Norman[1]; 2. 50-Brady Caul[2]; 3. 30-Cole Neset[9]; 4. 24X-Ryan Ost[4]; 5. 32C-Zach Clark[6]; 6. 75JR-Daniel Harstad[11]; 7. 67B-Glen Brown[5]; 8. 21Z-Zach Kort[10]; 9. (DNF) 26-Paul Hari[8]; 10. (DNF) 17V-Colton Vogel[7]; 11. (DNF) 20-Brayden Kunze[3]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 26-Ty Agen[8]; 2. 51-Eric Riley[6]; 3. 34JR-Braden Brauer[10]; 4. 59-Kyle Anderson[12]; 5. 17-Nick Shumansky[5]; 6. 77-Kyle Bolt[2]; 7. 2U-Kasey Ussatis[14]; 8. 16-Greg Platzer[11]; 9. 16S-Ty Schuler[26]; 10. 19-Cole Greseth[4]; 11. 4M-Mike Mund[15]; 12. 2J-Jonah Bolt[18]; 13. 22B-Ethan Beckler[1]; 14. 4H-Trey Hess[23]; 15. 18X-Brendon Scott[29]; 16. 18J-Justin Peterson[21]; 17. 7X-Peter Martin[28]; 18. 12-Kevin Pender[20]; 19. 57-Jason Fechtner[27]; 20. (DNF) 31X-Anthony Blom[17]; 21. (DNF) 3-Ryan Mund[22]; 22. (DNF) 2-Joe Martin[3]; 23. (DNF) 30B-Wade Bergerud[16]; 24. (DNF) 34-Billy Binkley[13]; 25. (DNF) 4-Micheal Brockman[24]; 26. (DNF) 56-Riley Lorensen[31]; 27. (DNF) 92-Payton Asche[9]; 28. (DNF) 70-Chris Dudley[7]; 29. (DNF) Z28-Greg Jose[25]; 30. (DNF) 2*-Dustin Schultz[30]; 31. (DNS) 2K-Tyler Klugman

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 51-Eric Riley[3]; 2. 70-Chris Dudley[2]; 3. 92-Payton Asche[4]; 4. 34-Billy Binkley[7]; 5. 31X-Anthony Blom[5]; 6. 18J-Justin Peterson[8]; 7. Z28-Greg Jose[6]; 8. (DNF) 2*-Dustin Schultz[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Joe Martin[2]; 2. 17-Nick Shumansky[6]; 3. 34JR-Braden Brauer[7]; 4. 2U-Kasey Ussatis[3]; 5. 2J-Jonah Bolt[5]; 6. 3-Ryan Mund[8]; 7. 16S-Ty Schuler[4]; 8. 18X-Brendon Scott[1]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 26-Ty Agen[1]; 2. 22B-Ethan Beckler[2]; 3. 16-Greg Platzer[4]; 4. 4M-Mike Mund[5]; 5. 2K-Tyler Klugman[3]; 6. 4H-Trey Hess[7]; 7. 57-Jason Fechtner[6]; 8. (DNS) 56-Riley Lorensen

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Cole Greseth[3]; 2. 77-Kyle Bolt[4]; 3. 59-Kyle Anderson[6]; 4. 30B-Wade Bergerud[2]; 5. 12-Kevin Pender[1]; 6. 4-Micheal Brockman[5]; 7. 7X-Peter Martin[7]

WISSOTA Hornets:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 08-Jeff Rohner[8]; 2. 73-Payson Patrin[1]; 3. 22-Matthew Dittman[2]; 4. 35-Chase Pourrier[7]; 5. 37-Alex Aderman[14]; 6. 104-Jonathan Aderman[6]; 7. 35N-Alyssa Nelson[4]; 8. 988-Danna Gronwold[10]; 9. 22A-Austin Raths[9]; 10. 03-Christian Kast[5]; 11. (DNF) 10-Dexyn Habraken[12]; 12. (DNF) 35P-Tylar Pourrier[11]; 13. (DNF) 11-Isabelle Gronwold[3]; 14. (DNF) H20-Nic Hiles[17]; 15. (DNS) 26-Jenna Hagemann; 16. (DNS) 988CC-Clinton Starnes; 17. (DNS) 69D-Miles Deitchman

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 22-Matthew Dittman[5]; 2. 11-Isabelle Gronwold[1]; 3. 35N-Alyssa Nelson[2]; 4. 03-Christian Kast[9]; 5. 22A-Austin Raths[4]; 6. 35P-Tylar Pourrier[3]; 7. (DNF) 26-Jenna Hagemann[8]; 8. (DNS) 988CC-Clinton Starnes; 9. (DNS) 69D-Miles Deitchman

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 08-Jeff Rohner[5]; 2. 73-Payson Patrin[7]; 3. 104-Jonathan Aderman[1]; 4. 35-Chase Pourrier[6]; 5. 988-Danna Gronwold[4]; 6. 10-Dexyn Habraken[2]; 7. (DNF) 37-Alex Aderman[3]; 8. (DNS) H20-Nic Hiles

GEN X Late Models:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 11*-Larry Samuelson[1]; 2. 20Z-Scott Zimmerman[3]; 3. 50-Ben Wolden[8]; 4. 27-Jarrett Huus[5]; 5. 1776-Joseph Thomas[7]; 6. 17J-John Winge[12]; 7. 2-Derek Quinn[6]; 8. 40+-Ryan Shepherd Sr[11]; 9. 4C-Brent Clemensen[9]; 10. 1-Tai Engels[13]; 11. 22-Curtis Newberg[2]; 12. 49-Andrew Tysdal[10]; 13. (DNF) 18A-Mike Anderson[4]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 50-Ben Wolden[2]; 2. 22-Curtis Newberg[4]; 3. 20Z-Scott Zimmerman[1]; 4. 18A-Mike Anderson[5]; 5. 4C-Brent Clemensen[6]; 6. 40+-Ryan Shepherd Sr[3]; 7. 1-Tai Engels[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11*-Larry Samuelson[1]; 2. 2-Derek Quinn[2]; 3. 1776-Joseph Thomas[6]; 4. 27-Jarrett Huus[5]; 5. 49-Andrew Tysdal[3]; 6. 17J-John Winge[4]