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Troftgruben, Thompson and Brauer battle to victory lane at Devils Lake Speedway

By Heather MacDonald

CRARY, ND (June 8) - Devils Lake Speedway held another action packed night of racing Saturday night. Brody Troftgruben, Randy Thompson and Braden Brauer grabbed the WISSOTA Dirt Track Series victories.

Brauer, of Eyota, MN, stormed his way to another win at the Devil’s Playground. Brauer started 10th in the WISSOTA Street Stock feature, which went green to checkers without a caution. Veteran driver Stoney Kruk led early, and about four laps into the race, there was a solid three-wide battle for the second position among Trey Hess, Shane Swenson and Josh Barker.

Brauer reeled them in, and eventually took the lead away from Kruk. Hess was not done with his battle for the win, nor was Seth Klostreich; Hess, Klostreich and Brauer continued to battle into lap 11 - all within striking distance of each other. With two laps to go, Hess retired to the infield with a mechanical issue. Brauer raced out another win with Klostreich second and John Halvorson third. Dustin Ebensteiner finished fourth and Swenson fifth.

Randy Thompson, of Lakota ND, inched out his first win of the season with a close finish against Jory Berg in the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds. Thompson started outside pole for the 20-lap feature, took an early lead and held on for dear life. Austin Hunter and Berg duked it out much of the race, and Jason Halvorson stuck his nose into the battle from time to time. Berg eventually got past Halvorson and Hunter to race Thompson to the line; Thompson beat Berg by .017 seconds. Hunter finished third, Halvorson was fourth and Ryne Uhrich was fifth.

The WISSOTA Late Model field was stacked with some heavy hitters; Brody Troftgruben, the two-time Devils Lake Speedway points champion, cruised his way to victory lane, but not without some challenges. About lap nine, Dustin Strand started reeling in Troftgruben, and when Strand was about to make his move, a caution came out on lap 13.

After the field was restacked, Strand made a few more attempts at Troftgruben before lap 19 when another caution came out. Strand settled for second place, Travis Robertson made his return to Late Models this season and held onto a third-place finish. Cole Schill finished fourth and Joey Pederson was fifth.

Brian Bellew had a tough battle with Tate Bullis and Jason Halvorson for much of the Pure Stock race. He took the lead from Halvorson with three to go for the win.

In the Western Renegade Non-wing Sprint feature, Myles Tomlinson took the back row challenge and elected to tag the tail of the field for the feature race. Tomlinson worked his way to the front with five to go, and the battle was on between Tomlinson and Eric Guyot. Tomlinson got by Guyot with three to go to cruise his way to victory lane for the second time this season.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 14-Brody Troftgruben[2]; 2. 71-Dustin Strand[9]; 3. 8R-Travis Robertson[1]; 4. 44-Cole Schill[7]; 5. 7P-Joey Pederson[6]; 6. 10-Kevin Robertson[8]; 7. E85-Jason Strand[12]; 8. 33-Ryan Dahl[11]; 9. 9R-Erik Robertson[13]; 10. 2-Rusty Kollman[3]; 11. 54-Terry Nelson[10]; 12. 9-Steve Anderson[4]; 13. 13-John Buchner[14]; 14. 11S-Casey Stremick[16]; 15. 9A-Blake Anderson[15]; 16. (DNF) 27P-Tucker Pederson[5]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[3]; 2. 2-Rusty Kollman[2]; 3. 9-Steve Anderson[5]; 4. 54-Terry Nelson[1]; 5. 9R-Erik Robertson[4]; 6. 11S-Casey Stremick[6]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 10-Kevin Robertson[1]; 2. 14-Brody Troftgruben[4]; 3. 27P-Tucker Pederson[3]; 4. 33-Ryan Dahl[2]; 5. 13-John Buchner[5]

Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 7P-Joey Pederson[1]; 2. 44-Cole Schill[3]; 3. 8R-Travis Robertson[2]; 4. E85-Jason Strand[5]; 5. 9A-Blake Anderson[4]

WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 16-Randy Thompson[2]; 2. B0-Jory Berg[6]; 3. 44-Austin Hunter[5]; 4. 111-Jason Halverson[4]; 5. 34-Ryne Uhrich[3]; 6. 8-Jason Schuh[1]; 7. 007-Alex Johnson[8]; 8. 33G-Connor Graff[7]; 9. 29-Cylen Vargason[9]; 10. 15-MaKenna Romuld[10]; 11. 47-Memphis Klassen[13]; 12. 77R-Brody Kraft[11]; 13. (DNF) 25-Josh Ostenson[12]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Austin Hunter[4]; 2. B0-Jory Berg[6]; 3. 007-Alex Johnson[5]; 4. 8-Jason Schuh[3]; 5. 29-Cylen Vargason[7]; 6. 77R-Brody Kraft[1]; 7. 47-Memphis Klassen[2]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 16-Randy Thompson[3]; 2. 34-Ryne Uhrich[1]; 3. 33G-Connor Graff[6]; 4. 111-Jason Halverson[5]; 5. 15-MaKenna Romuld[2]; 6. 25-Josh Ostenson[4]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 34JR-Braden Brauer[10]; 2. 30-Seth Klostreich[7]; 3. 35-John Halvorson[2]; 4. 00-Dustin Ebensteiner[5]; 5. 91-Shane Swenson[6]; 6. 99-Josh Barker[4]; 7. 69-Stoney Kruk[1]; 8. 21J-Brian Johanson[9]; 9. 06-Drew Peterson[3]; 10. (DNF) 4-Trey Hess[8]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 00-Dustin Ebensteiner[5]; 2. 99-Josh Barker[2]; 3. 35-John Halvorson[1]; 4. 06-Drew Peterson[4]; 5. 21J-Brian Johanson[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 30-Seth Klostreich[1]; 2. 4-Trey Hess[4]; 3. 69-Stoney Kruk[5]; 4. 91-Shane Swenson[2]; 5. (DNF) 34JR-Braden Brauer[3]

Non-Wing Sprints:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 15T-Myles Tomlinson[12]; 2. 25-Eric Guyot[1]; 3. 37-Steve Nordrum[4]; 4. 5H-Nick Shirek[3]; 5. 15B-Doug Mccambridge[5]; 6. 2T-Mike Tomlinson[7]; 7. 8-Parker Vilandre[9]; 8. 36-Tyler Wass[8]; 9. 84-Joshua Johnson[10]; 10. 69-Tom Cummings[6]; 11. (DNF) 4-Colton Young[2]; 12. (DNF) 21N-Bryan Nordrum[11]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 15B-Doug Mccambridge[3]; 2. 37-Steve Nordrum[1]; 3. 4-Colton Young[6]; 4. 8-Parker Vilandre[4]; 5. 84-Joshua Johnson[2]; 6. 2T-Mike Tomlinson[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Eric Guyot[5]; 2. 15T-Myles Tomlinson[2]; 3. 5H-Nick Shirek[1]; 4. 69-Tom Cummings[3]; 5. 21N-Bryan Nordrum[6]; 6. (DNF) 36-Tyler Wass[4]

Pure Stocks:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 30K-Brian Bellew[4]; 2. 1CJ-Joe Armstrong[1]; 3. 12B-Tate Bullis[5]; 4. 69-Austin Harris[6]; 5. 7-Erik Wenstad[7]; 6. 64-Joe Ree[2]; 7. 04-Trentin Decoteau[8]; 8. 8-Kyle Charette[3]; 9. (DNF) 29XT-Aaron Sigerud[9]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 1CJ-Joe Armstrong[1]; 2. 30K-Brian Bellew[2]; 3. 12B-Tate Bullis[5]; 4. 64-Joe Ree[4]; 5. 8-Kyle Charette[6]; 6. 69-Austin Harris[9]; 7. 7-Erik Wenstad[8]; 8. 04-Trentin Decoteau[3]; 9. 29XT-Aaron Sigerud[7]