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River Cities racers rocket through third night of the season; Peterson, Strand, Dietzler and Brauer the best of the bunch on Friday

By Steven Young

GRAND FORKS, ND (May 31) - Week three of racing at “The Bullring” is in the books and it was another action-packed night, with five features contested among the four weekly classes. In its 70th year of weekly racing action, River Cities Speedway victory lane welcomed WISSOTA Dirt Track Series winners Tyler Peterson, Dustin Strand, Jamie Dietzler, and Braden Brauer.

There were double Late Model features Friday, with a makeup program on tap and a regular card of 36 NLRA WISSOTA Late Models signing in for the first series race of the season.

In the first feature, Cole Schill and Joey Pederson led 25 Late Models at the drop of the green. Schill led the opening lap and was followed by Pederson and Ryan Corbett.

Schill continued to lead following a lap four restart while Corbett took the second spot. The race continued after a pair of cautions on lap seven. The best battle at that point was among Mike Balcaen, Mike Greseth and eighth-stater Tyler Peterson, as they went three wide in a battle for fourth.

Peterson won that battle and reeled in Schill and Corbett as the leaders began working traffic. In the closing laps, Peterson took advantage of the traffic and took the lead for good with three to go, continuing on for his first win at the race track in 2024. Corbett finished second with Schill third, Greseth fourth and Joey Pederson fifth.

In the makeup feature, Dustin Strand returned from a blown engine in his heat race to share the front row with Blake Anderson.

Strand took the point of the start with Corbett again moving into the runner-up spot. Rookie Tucker Pederson and his father Joey battled for third as Strand pulled away from the rest of the field.

Brody Troftgruben joined the Pedersons in their battle for the podium spot, as the leaders worked through thick lapped traffic.

Strand put seven lapped cars between himself and Corbett in the closing laps to pick up the victory. Troftgruben took second, with Corbett, Joey Pederson and 12th-starting Lance Schill completing the top five.

Hunter Hougard and Alex Johnson led the field to green in the WISSOTA Midwest Modified main event. Jamie Dietzler and Nate Raasakka moved into second and third respectively in the opening laps of the race, while Hougard built a straightaway advantage through five circuits.

Dietzler started reeling in Hougard and a battle for the lead ensued, while Jory Berg moved in on Raasakka in a bid for third.

Dietzler's car reacted better to the tricky track surface around the midway point and he made his move with nine to go, taking the lead on the outside of Hougard. Berg and Austin Hunter also made it past Hougard, completing the top five.

Dietzler went on to win the feature, which went green-to-checkered, over Raasakka, Berg, Hunter, and Hoguard.

The WISSOTA Street Stock feature was marred by cautions including two red flags, but Josh Barker and John Halverson led the field to green to start.

Barker led through the midway point before Halverson took the lead coming off of turn four. Braden Brauer followed Halverson into second as Barker retired with mechanical woes.

As Barker slowed, Brauer took the lead on the final restart with seven to go and brought Seth Klostreich with him into second.

Brauer continued on to victory over Klostreich, Halverson, Trey Hess, and Weston Ramsrud.

Mark Dobmeier won in the first Wayne Anderson Cup qualifier in the NOSA Outlaw Sprints.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[7]; 2. 50-Ryan Corbett[3]; 3. 44*-Cole Schill[1]; 4. 17-Mike Greseth[8]; 5. 7P-Joey Pederson[2]; 6. 14-Brody Troftgruben[14]; 7. 10-Mike Balcaen[5]; 8. 5E-Shane Edginton[10]; 9. 17S-Lance Schill[6]; 10. 12S-Brad Seng[16]; 11. 2-Rusty Kollman[19]; 12. T 1-Tom Corcoran[15]; 13. 14M-Greg Moore[21]; 14. 10R-Kevin Robertson[22]; 15. 27P-Tucker Pederson[12]; 16. 56-Laine Schwehr[17]; 17. F9-Brandon Fuller[11]; 18. 9R-Erik Robertson[23]; 19. 33-Ryan Dahl[20]; 20. (DNF) 32-Lindsey Hansen[24]; 21. (DNF) 4C-Brandon Corbett[18]; 22. (DNF) 21S-John Seng[4]; 23. (DNF) 1M-Nicholas Minske[13]; 24. (DNF) 8R-Travis Robertson[9]; 25. (DNF) 6R-Nate Reynolds[25]

Makeup Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[1]; 2. 14-Brody Troftgruben[9]; 3. 50-Ryan Corbett[3]; 4. 7P-Joey Pederson[7]; 5. 17S-Lance Schill[12]; 6. 27P-Tucker Pederson[4]; 7. 12S-Brad Seng[13]; 8. 9A-Blake Anderson[2]; 9. 2*-Cole Babcock[10]; 10. 5E-Shane Edginton[6]; 11. 14M-Greg Moore[18]; 12. T 1-Tom Corcoran[15]; 13. 33-Ryan Dahl[14]; 14. F9-Brandon Fuller[17]; 15. 1M-Nicholas Minske[19]; 16. 4C-Brandon Corbett[21]; 17. 97-Dan McNamee[20]; 18. (DNF) 6R-Nate Reynolds[22]; 19. (DNF) 21S-John Seng[11]; 20. (DNF) 10-Mike Balcaen[8]; 21. (DNS) 70-Jesse Teunis; 22. (DNS) 29K-Ryan Kereluk

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 44*-Cole Schill[3]; 2. 10-Mike Balcaen[6]; 3. F9-Brandon Fuller[4]; 4. 32-Lindsey Hansen[7]; 5. 9R-Erik Robertson[1]; 6. 10R-Kevin Robertson[5]; 7. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[8]; 8. (DNF) 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[2]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 8R-Travis Robertson[2]; 2. 7P-Joey Pederson[3]; 3. 27P-Tucker Pederson[5]; 4. 56-Laine Schwehr[4]; 5. 33-Ryan Dahl[7]; 6. 2-Rusty Kollman[6]; 7. 13-John Buchner[1]

Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 17-Mike Greseth[1]; 2. 50-Ryan Corbett[5]; 3. 1M-Nicholas Minske[2]; 4. 12S-Brad Seng[3]; 5. (DNF) 42-Matthew Jarvis[4]; 6. (DNF) 9-Steve Anderson[7]; 7. (DNF) 2*-Cole Babcock[6]

Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 17S-Lance Schill[3]; 2. 5E-Shane Edginton[4]; 3. 14-Brody Troftgruben[5]; 4. 57H-Nathan Higginbotham[1]; 5. (DNF) 71-Dustin Strand[6]; 6. (DNF) 6R-Nate Reynolds[2]; 7. (DNF) 54-Terry Nelson[7]

Heat 5 (10 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[3]; 2. 21S-John Seng[2]; 3. T 1-Tom Corcoran[1]; 4. 4C-Brandon Corbett[4]; 5. 14M-Greg Moore[5]; 6. 9A-Blake Anderson[6]; 7. 97-Dan McNamee[7]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 12S-Brad Seng[2]; 2. 4C-Brandon Corbett[3]; 3. 33-Ryan Dahl[4]; 4. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[11]; 5. 10R-Kevin Robertson[5]; 6. 9A-Blake Anderson[6]; 7. 13-John Buchner[7]; 8. 42-Matthew Jarvis[8]; 9. (DNF) 32-Lindsey Hansen[1]; 10. (DNS) 2*-Cole Babcock; 11. (DNS) 9-Steve Anderson

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 56-Laine Schwehr[1]; 2. 2-Rusty Kollman[5]; 3. 14M-Greg Moore[4]; 4. 9R-Erik Robertson[3]; 5. 97-Dan McNamee[7]; 6. (DNF) 57H-Nathan Higginbotham[2]; 7. (DNF) 6R-Nate Reynolds[9]; 8. (DNF) 54-Terry Nelson[10]; 9. (DNF) 15-Laela Eisenschenk[6]; 10. (DNS) 71-Dustin Strand

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 39-Jamie Dietzler[4]; 2. 57-Nathan Raasakka[3]; 3. BO-Jory Berg[7]; 4. 44-Austin Hunter[8]; 5. 188-Hunter Hougard[1]; 6. 007-Alex Johnson[2]; 7. 46J-Taylor Jacobson[6]; 8. 33G-Connor Graff[5]; 9. 29-Cylen Vargason[12]; 10. 15TRX-Chris Edmonds[10]; 11. 15-MaKenna Romuld[11]; 12. 34-Ryne Uhrich[9]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 57-Nathan Raasakka[2]; 2. 33G-Connor Graff[3]; 3. 46J-Taylor Jacobson[1]; 4. 007-Alex Johnson[5]; 5. 34-Ryne Uhrich[4]; 6. 15-MaKenna Romuld[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 39-Jamie Dietzler[4]; 2. 44-Austin Hunter[2]; 3. BO-Jory Berg[5]; 4. 188-Hunter Hougard[6]; 5. 15TRX-Chris Edmonds[1]; 6. 29-Cylen Vargason[3]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 34JR-Braden Brauer[6]; 2. 30-Seth Klostreich[8]; 3. 35-John Halvorson[2]; 4. 4-Trey Hess[7]; 5. 67-Weston Ramsrud[4]; 6. 7-James Meagher[10]; 7. 62-Jayson Bronk[14]; 8. 0007H-Austin Dueck[15]; 9. B2-Brodee Eckerdt[13]; 10. 34-Billy Binkley[12]; 11. 49-Rodney Hulst[11]; 12. (DNF) 29-Rachael McNamee[16]; 13. (DNF) 37-Chris Ekren[9]; 14. (DNF) 99-Josh Barker[1]; 15. (DNF) 28-Greg Jose[3]; 16. (DNF) 70-Chris Dudley[5]; 17. (DNF) 7X-Waylon Poitra[17]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 67-Weston Ramsrud[5]; 2. 34JR-Braden Brauer[7]; 3. 99-Josh Barker[4]; 4. 28-Greg Jose[9]; 5. 37-Chris Ekren[1]; 6. 49-Rodney Hulst[6]; 7. B2-Brodee Eckerdt[8]; 8. 0007H-Austin Dueck[3]; 9. (DNF) 7X-Waylon Poitra[2]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 35-John Halvorson[1]; 2. 4-Trey Hess[4]; 3. 70-Chris Dudley[2]; 4. 30-Seth Klostreich[6]; 5. 7-James Meagher[7]; 6. 34-Billy Binkley[3]; 7. 62-Jayson Bronk[5]; 8. 29-Rachael McNamee[8]

410 Sprints:

A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[8]; 2. 8H-Jade Hastings[1]; 3. 11M-Brendan Mullen[3]; 4. 31-Austin Pierce[2]; 5. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[10]; 6. 17-Zach Omdahl[4]; 7. 52-Adam Sobolik[9]; 8. 27-Weston Olson[14]; 9. 0-Nick Omdahl[7]; 10. 8-Jack Croaker[15]; 11. 4-Colton Young[17]; 12. 41T-Travis Strandell[12]; 13. 50-Brad Flaten[13]; 14. 10-Alex Truscinski[5]; 15. (DNF) 14-Tom Egeland[11]; 16. (DNF) 26-Blake Egeland[6]; 17. (DNF) 99-Jordan Graham[16]

Heat 1 (9 Laps): 1. 8H-Jade Hastings[2]; 2. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[4]; 3. 10-Alex Truscinski[1]; 4. 11M-Brendan Mullen[3]; 5. 52-Adam Sobolik[6]; 6. 14-Tom Egeland[7]; 7. 50-Brad Flaten[8]; 8. (DNF) 8-Jack Croaker[9]; 9. (DNF) 4-Colton Young[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Zach Omdahl[2]; 2. 26-Blake Egeland[1]; 3. 31-Austin Pierce[4]; 4. 0-Nick Omdahl[3]; 5. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[5]; 6. 41T-Travis Strandell[6]; 7. (DNS) 27-Weston Olson; 8. (DNS) 99-Jordan Graham