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Strand scores 50th WISSOTA feature win at River Cities and Scelzi tops WoO headliner

By Steven Young

GRAND FORKS, MN (June 7) - History was made Friday night at River Cities Speedway in two distinct ways, as Dustin Strand garnered his 50th feature win at River Cities, and the NLRA Late Model main event was led for a lap by a female for the first time ever.

Laela Eisenschenk shared the front row with Jason Strand for the 25-lap WISSOTA Late Model feature, with Eisenschenk out front early and becoming the first female driver to lead a feature race with the 27-year-old series.

Strand took the lead on lap two as Shane Edginton battled Eisenschenk for second. The top three remained the same through cautions on laps five and six; during the lap six restart, Eisenschenk went for a series of flips in turn one that also collected Joey Pederson and Lance Schill.

Eisenschenk did get out of her car with help of the safety crew and suffered a concussion.

Back under green, Strand and Edginton went door-to-door for the lead for a number of laps until Edginton took the position at the end of the eighth circuit. Another caution on lap 12 was followed by a lap 14 rollover for Greg Moore, as he dug in and flipped on the outside of turn two. He exited his No. 14M safely.

The final 11 laps went caution free as Strand continued to hound Edginton for the lead throughout the duration of the race. On the final lap, Strand ducked to the inside of turns three and four and passed Edginton at the line to steal the win by .049 seconds to win his 50th Late Model feature at the Bullring and 106th overall. Jason Strand, Cole Schill, and Ryan Corbett completed the top five.

In the World of Outlaws Sprint feature, Giovanni Scelzi delivered the victory from his pole starting spot.

Racing action continues Friday night as the Late Models have the night off for the NLRA races at Red River Valley Speedway in West Fargo. The Sprint Cars, WISSOTA Midwest Mods, and WISSOTA Street Stocks will be joined by WISSOTA Modifieds and the Red River IMCA Sprint Series for the first time at the Bullring in 2024. Races begin at 7 p.m.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[3]; 2. 5E-Shane Edginton[4]; 3. E85-Jason Strand[2]; 4. 44*-Cole Schill[6]; 5. 50-Ryan Corbett[9]; 6. 14-Brody Troftgruben[8]; 7. F9-Brandon Fuller[10]; 8. 17S-Lance Schill[12]; 9. 12S-Brad Seng[15]; 10. 1M-Nicholas Minske[17]; 11. 4C-Brandon Corbett[19]; 12. 2-Rusty Kollman[18]; 13. 21-Brady Pengilly[23]; 14. 54-Terry Nelson[24]; 15. 5-John Buchner[20]; 16. 42-Matthew Jarvis[22]; 17. (DNF) 27P-Tucker Pederson[16]; 18. (DNF) 14M-Greg Moore[21]; 19. (DNF) 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[14]; 20. (DNF) 16S-Jeff Hapala[13]; 21. (DNF) 9-Steve Anderson[25]; 22. (DNF) 7P-Joey Pederson[7]; 23. (DNF) T 1-Tom Corcoran[11]; 24. (DNF) 15-Laela Eisenschenk[1]; 25. (DNF) 9A-Blake Anderson[5]; 26. (DNF) 33-Ryan Dahl[27]; 27. (DNS) 21S-John Seng

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7P-Joey Pederson[1]; 2. E85-Jason Strand[3]; 3. 14-Brody Troftgruben[7]; 4. 17S-Lance Schill[6]; 5. 27P-Tucker Pederson[2]; 6. 33-Ryan Dahl[5]; 7. (DNF) 9-Steve Anderson[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 44*-Cole Schill[2]; 2. 9A-Blake Anderson[1]; 3. 50-Ryan Corbett[4]; 4. 16S-Jeff Hapala[3]; 5. 1M-Nicholas Minske[5]; 6. 5-John Buchner[6]; 7. 21-Brady Pengilly[7]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[2]; 2. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[4]; 3. F9-Brandon Fuller[6]; 4. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[7]; 5. 2-Rusty Kollman[3]; 6. 14M-Greg Moore[5]; 7. 54-Terry Nelson[1]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 21S-John Seng[1]; 2. 5E-Shane Edginton[3]; 3. T 1-Tom Corcoran[2]; 4. 12S-Brad Seng[6]; 5. 4C-Brandon Corbett[4]; 6. 42-Matthew Jarvis[5]

410 Sprints:

Feature (40 Laps): 1. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[1]; 2. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[7]; 3. 15-Donny Schatz[2]; 4. 41-Carson Macedo[3]; 5. 13-Mark Dobmeier[13]; 6. 1S-Logan Schuchart[10]; 7. 83-Michael Kofoid[25]; 8. 7S-Landon Crawley[5]; 9. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[21]; 10. 2-David Gravel[11]; 11. 22K-Kaleb Johnson[4]; 12. 64-Andy Pake[18]; 13. 0-Nick Omdahl[8]; 14. 70-Kraig Kinser[22]; 15. 23-Garet Williamson[6]; 16. 17Z-Zach Omdahl[20]; 17. 4-Brendan Mullen[19]; 18. 3-Tim Kaeding[9]; 19. 6-Bill Rose[24]; 20. 8-Jack Croaker[23]; 21. 17B-Bill Balog[14]; 22. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[17]; 23. 14T-Tim Estenson[12]; 24. 4Y-Colton Young[15]; 25. 26-Blake Egeland[16]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 41-Carson Macedo[1]; 2. 22K-Kaleb Johnson[4]; 3. 3-Tim Kaeding[2]; 4. 13-Mark Dobmeier[5]; 5. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[3]; 6. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[6]; 7. 6-Bill Rose[7]; 8. 14-Tom Egeland[8]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 23-Garet Williamson[2]; 2. 7S-Landon Crawley[1]; 3. 1S-Logan Schuchart[3]; 4. 17B-Bill Balog[4]; 5. 64-Andy Pake[6]; 6. 70-Kraig Kinser[5]; 7. 10-Alex Truscinski[7]; 8. 10S-Josh Swangler[8]

Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[1]; 2. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[2]; 3. 2-David Gravel[3]; 4. 4Y-Colton Young[7]; 5. 4-Brendan Mullen[4]; 6. 8-Jack Croaker[5]; 7. 9-Dominic Dobesh[6]; 8. 91-Reed Allex[8]

Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 0-Nick Omdahl[2]; 2. 15-Donny Schatz[1]; 3. 14T-Tim Estenson[3]; 4. 26-Blake Egeland[5]; 5. 17Z-Zach Omdahl[6]; 6. 52-Adam Sobolik[7]; 7. 83-Michael Kofoid[4]

Last Chance Showdown (12 Laps): 1. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[3]; 2. 70-Kraig Kinser[2]; 3. 8-Jack Croaker[4]; 4. 6-Bill Rose[6]; 5. 52-Adam Sobolik[5]; 6. 10-Alex Truscinski[7]; 7. 9-Dominic Dobesh[8]; 8. 91-Reed Allex[11]; 9. 83-Michael Kofoid[1]; 10. 14-Tom Egeland[9]; 11. 10S-Josh Swangler[10]

Dash (8 Laps): 1. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[2]; 2. 15-Donny Schatz[1]; 3. 41-Carson Macedo[4]; 4. 22K-Kaleb Johnson[3]; 5. 7S-Landon Crawley[8]; 6. 23-Garet Williamson[6]; 7. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[7]; 8. 0-Nick Omdahl[5]