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Sabraski scores in Late Models and Koch claims Super Stock feature on first night of Gondik Law’s Border Battle

SUPERIOR, WI (June 28) - Night one of the Great Lakes Border Battle got underway at Gondik Law Speedway on Saturday night, having been postponed from Friday due to racing’s familiar dancing partner this season - rain.

When the final checkered flag flew Saturday in WISSOTA Dirt Track Series action, Shane Sabraski took the win in the WISSOTA Late Models, Dexton Koch scored the victory in the WISSOTA Super Stocks, and Joey Jensen topped the WISSOTA Midwest Mods. The Modifieds also ran their dual heat races to qualify for Sunday night’s grand finale.

Travis Budisalovich and Pat Doar brought the field of Late Models to the green flag, with Doar the early leader and Budisalovich right on his bumper. Sabraski, who started fourth, moved to third in the early stages.

For several laps, Budisalovich and Doar were side by side for the top spot, before the front-runners began to dice through lapped traffic with about 12 laps scored. The first caution of the race regrouped the field and gave an open track to the leaders.

Doar led the restart, as Sabraski swung by Budisalovich on the outside line into second and set out after Doar for two laps, before another caution fell. The restart was marred by a several-car pile up.

It took just one lap for Sabraski to blow by Doar on the outside and into the lead following the restart. From there, the No. 7A held command over the field and took home his first-ever Late Model win at Gondik Law. Doar was second, Budisalovich was third, 15th-starter Johnny Broking charged to fourth, and Dan Bargender improved six spots to fifth.

Corey Mehrwerth and David Simpson brought the field to the green flag in the WISSOTA Midwest Mods, with Mehrwerth the early leader. Jake Smith finessed his way into the top spot from his fifth starting position just five laps in. Simpson was third, Joey Jensen was fourth and Ryan Gierke was fifth.

Jensen had a full head of steam along the bottom and got by both Mehrwerth and Simpson to grab second four laps later.

Smith continued to lead at the halfway point, but Jensen was chipping away at the lead. As Smith negotiated lapped traffic, Jensen closed in on his bumper; lapped traffic caused Smith to change his line and Jensen capitalized, making the pass for the lead and the win with just six laps remaining.

Smith closed back in at the finish and they were side by side in turn four with the checkered flag in the air, but Smith did not have enough to get by and settled for second. Simpson was third, Gierke was fourth, and Jason VandeKamp completed the top five.

In the WISSOTA Super Stocks, Dexton Koch started outside the front row, narrowly led lap one, but took off from there.

With about 10 to go, Sabraski, who started fifth, caught Koch and drove to the inside of the No. 78K. They were side by side as they came to put a lap on Rita Anderson, with Koch pulling back out into the lead.

With five laps remaining, Koch built his lead back up to more than a second and drove on to garner the victory, with Sabraski finishing second. Tristan LaBarge was third. Kyle Copp and 10th-starter D.J. Keeler were top-five finishers.

In the USRA Late Models, Cade Nelson started from the front row and drove on to the eventual victory.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

Feature (35 Laps): 1. 7A-Shane Sabraski[4]; 2. 11-Pat Doar[2]; 3. 31-Travis Budisalovich[1]; 4. 45J-Johnny Broking[15]; 5. 10-Daniel Bargender[11]; 6. 29F-Dave Flynn[22]; 7. 57-Mike Anderson[5]; 8. 37X-Skeeter Estey[3]; 9. 30-Kevin Burdick[7]; 10. 44-Darrell Nelson[20]; 11. 22E-Kevin Eder[16]; 12. 99-Billy Kendall III[14]; 13. 16-Derek Vesel[10]; 14. 11(G)-James Giossi[24]; 15. 23-Kyle Peterlin[6]; 16. 71(H)-Rick Hanestad[23]; 17. 47-Danny Vang[13]; 18. 71JR-Buddy Hanestad[12]; 19. 12X-Ben Heinle[21]; 20. 1-Lukas Koski[9]; 21. (DNF) 21-Mike Bellefeuille[8]; 22. (DNF) 6M-Jeff Massingill[18]; 23. (DNF) 54L-Jayme Lautigar[17]; 24. (DNF) 04JR-Adam Ayotte[19]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 57-Mike Anderson[2]; 2. 11-Pat Doar[7]; 3. 47-Danny Vang[3]; 4. 99-Billy Kendall III[6]; 5. 04JR-Adam Ayotte[1]; 6. 12-Mark Heinle[4]; 7. 44-Darrell Nelson[10]; 8. 11D-Tim McMann[9]; 9. 2-Todd Gehl[8]; 10. 23(V)-Steve Vizer[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 30-Kevin Burdick[1]; 2. 1-Lukas Koski[3]; 3. 7A-Shane Sabraski[9]; 4. 71JR-Buddy Hanestad[7]; 5. 29F-Dave Flynn[4]; 6. 12X-Ben Heinle[10]; 7. 81W-Anthony Woodhull[6]; 8. 9-Dylan Kromschroeder[5]; 9. 31T-Trent Follmer[8]; 10. (DNS) 117-Deven VanHouse

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 37X-Skeeter Estey[3]; 2. 16-Derek Vesel[2]; 3. 23-Kyle Peterlin[8]; 4. 54L-Jayme Lautigar[1]; 5. 6M-Jeff Massingill[7]; 6. 7-Harry Hanson[9]; 7. 11(G)-James Giossi[6]; 8. 24(L)-Jase Lien[5]; 9. (DNF) 22-Brett Shafer[4]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Mike Bellefeuille[1]; 2. 31-Travis Budisalovich[9]; 3. 10-Daniel Bargender[5]; 4. 45J-Johnny Broking[6]; 5. 22E-Kevin Eder[8]; 6. 212-Mike Klippenstein[7]; 7. 1L-Brad Loveday[3]; 8. (DNF) 71(H)-Rick Hanestad[2]; 9. (DNF) 68-Mike Prochnow[4]

B Feature #1 (12 Laps): 1. 54L-Jayme Lautigar[1]; 2. 04JR-Adam Ayotte[3]; 3. 12X-Ben Heinle[2]; 4. 71(H)-Rick Hanestad[10]; 5. 11D-Tim McMann[7]; 6. 12-Mark Heinle[5]; 7. 31T-Trent Follmer[9]; 8. 68-Mike Prochnow[11]; 9. 212-Mike Klippenstein[4]; 10. 24(L)-Jase Lien[8]; 11. 81W-Anthony Woodhull[6]

B Feature #2 (12 Laps): 1. 6M-Jeff Massingill[1]; 2. 44-Darrell Nelson[4]; 3. 29F-Dave Flynn[3]; 4. 11(G)-James Giossi[6]; 5. 9-Dylan Kromschroeder[7]; 6. 117-Deven VanHouse[11]; 7. 2-Todd Gehl[8]; 8. 22-Brett Shafer[10]; 9. 1L-Brad Loveday[5]; 10. (DNF) 23(V)-Steve Vizer[9]; 11. (DNF) 7-Harry Hanson[2]

WISSOTA Modifieds:

Heat 1 (Round 1) (8 Laps): 1. 89JR-JT Johnson[1]; 2. 18S-Kennedy Swan[6]; 3. 11-Jody Bellefeuille[4]; 4. 57-Mike Anderson[3]; 5. 99-Billy Kendall III[2]; 6. 45J-Johnny Broking[5]; 7. 45-Bob Broking[9]; 8. 3T-Travis Schulte[8]; 9. 17B-Zach Benson[10]; 10. 98-Al Uotinen[7]

Heat 2 (Round 1) (8 Laps): 1. 621-Colin Chaschuk[2]; 2. 44-Darrell Nelson[1]; 3. 26G-Ryan Gierke[10]; 4. 21(J)-Jake Smith[7]; 5. 24-Brandon Dolman[6]; 6. 19J-Jack Rivord[3]; 7. 22(J)-Jeff Spacek[4]; 8. 95-Rick Rivord[8]; 9. 04N-Nick Ayotte[5]; 10. T23-John Toppozini[9]

Heat 3 (Round 1) (8 Laps): 1. 43K-Kaden Blaeser[1]; 2. 24D-Duane Dale[2]; 3. 22(S)-Cole Spacek[3]; 4. 14W-Clayton Wagamon[4]; 5. 11JR-Andrew Inman[6]; 6. 60-Dan Ebert[7]; 7. 2C-Dave Cain[9]; 8. 9-Brady Uotinen[5]; 9. 515-Devin Fouquette[8]

Heat 4 (Round 1) (8 Laps): 1. 22-Brandon Copp[1]; 2. 4(N)-Jeremy Nelson[7]; 3. 11(W)-Justin Weinberger[3]; 4. 2-Tanner Gehl[5]; 5. 7A-Shane Sabraski[6]; 6. 224-Cody Wolkowski[8]; 7. 112-Brennan Gave[4]; 8. 12-TJ Heinle[2]; 9. 7-Andrew Mackey[9]

Heat 1 (Round 2) (8 Laps): 1. 26G-Ryan Gierke[1]; 2. 4(N)-Jeremy Nelson[3]; 3. 57-Mike Anderson[8]; 4. 11(W)-Justin Weinberger[7]; 5. 621-Colin Chaschuk[9]; 6. 98-Al Uotinen[4]; 7. 14W-Clayton Wagamon[6]; 8. 24-Brandon Dolman[5]; 9. 515-Devin Fouquette[2]

Heat 2 (Round 2) (8 Laps): 1. 17B-Zach Benson[1]; 2. 60-Dan Ebert[3]; 3. 99-Billy Kendall III[9]; 4. 7A-Shane Sabraski[4]; 5. T23-John Toppozini[2]; 6. 22(S)-Cole Spacek[7]; 7. 18S-Kennedy Swan[5]; 8. 04N-Nick Ayotte[6]; 9. 44-Darrell Nelson[10]; 10. 12-TJ Heinle[8]

Heat 3 (Round 2) (8 Laps): 1. 45-Bob Broking[2]; 2. 45J-Johnny Broking[6]; 3. 22-Brandon Copp[9]; 4. 11JR-Andrew Inman[4]; 5. 2-Tanner Gehl[5]; 6. 89JR-JT Johnson[10]; 7. 95-Rick Rivord[3]; 8. 22(J)-Jeff Spacek[7]; 9. 24D-Duane Dale[8]; 10. (DNS) 7-Andrew Mackey

Heat 4 (Round 2) (8 Laps): 1. 2C-Dave Cain[1]; 2. 11-Jody Bellefeuille[7]; 3. 224-Cody Wolkowski[2]; 4. 43K-Kaden Blaeser[9]; 5. 21(J)-Jake Smith[4]; 6. 3T-Travis Schulte[3]; 7. 112-Brennan Gave[6]; 8. 9-Brady Uotinen[5]; 9. 19J-Jack Rivord[8]

WISSOTA Super Stocks:

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 78K-Dexton Koch[2]; 2. 7A-Shane Sabraski[5]; 3. 19-Tristan LaBarge[4]; 4. 26-Kyle Copp[6]; 5. 12K-Duane (DJ) Keeler[10]; 6. 77K-Rick Simpson[9]; 7. 6(K)-Shane Kisling[8]; 8. 76-Doug Koski[1]; 9. 77-Scott Lawrence[7]; 10. 2-Don Livingston[13]; 11. 79A-Andy LaBarge[11]; 12. 11R-Rita Anderson[14]; 13. (DNF) 21(J)-Joey Jensen[3]; 14. (DNF) T23-John Toppozini[12]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 76-Doug Koski[2]; 2. 19-Tristan LaBarge[1]; 3. 7A-Shane Sabraski[5]; 4. 6(K)-Shane Kisling[4]; 5. 77K-Rick Simpson[7]; 6. T23-John Toppozini[3]; 7. 2-Don Livingston[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 78K-Dexton Koch[2]; 2. 21(J)-Joey Jensen[3]; 3. 26-Kyle Copp[4]; 4. 77-Scott Lawrence[5]; 5. 12K-Duane (DJ) Keeler[1]; 6. 79A-Andy LaBarge[7]; 7. 11R-Rita Anderson[6]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 30-Joey Jensen[4]; 2. 21(J)-Jake Smith[5]; 3. 70-David Simpson[2]; 4. 73-Ryan Gierke[11]; 5. 16(V)-Jason VandeKamp[7]; 6. 27-Corey Mehrwerth[1]; 7. 117-Deven VanHouse[9]; 8. 17-Ashley Boyum[10]; 9. 32III-Cody Carlson[3]; 10. 11-Ashton Schulte[13]; 11. 17B-Zach Benson[15]; 12. 16-Ryan Savoy[8]; 13. 33C-Cole Boston[17]; 14. 16(P)-Garrett Paull[19]; 15. 19X-Dexton Koch[12]; 16. 69-Justin Bassa[16]; 17. 21(L)-Jimmy Latvala[22]; 18. 55-Jesse Polson[20]; 19. 16(J)-Cory Jorgensen[24]; 20. 1W1-Kalan Wagner[14]; 21. 15(G)-Eric Gadach[21]; 22. 15-James Vendela[18]; 23. 87-William Moelter[6]; 24. 21-Wyatt Boyum[23]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 27-Corey Mehrwerth[2]; 2. 21(J)-Jake Smith[4]; 3. 87-William Moelter[6]; 4. 73-Ryan Gierke[7]; 5. 15(G)-Eric Gadach[1]; 6. 10X-Matthew Cunha[3]; 7. 16(J)-Cory Jorgensen[8]; 8. 45-Keegan Kough[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 70-David Simpson[2]; 2. 16-Ryan Savoy[1]; 3. 16(V)-Jason VandeKamp[6]; 4. 17B-Zach Benson[4]; 5. 15-James Vendela[7]; 6. 44K-Joshua Kough[3]; 7. 19-Darrin Lawler[8]; 8. (DNF) 21-Wyatt Boyum[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 32III-Cody Carlson[2]; 2. 117-Deven VanHouse[1]; 3. 19X-Dexton Koch[3]; 4. 1W1-Kalan Wagner[6]; 5. 55-Jesse Polson[4]; 6. 16(P)-Garrett Paull[5]; 7. 14-Adam Shinn[7]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 30-Joey Jensen[2]; 2. 17-Ashley Boyum[1]; 3. 11-Ashton Schulte[3]; 4. 69-Justin Bassa[4]; 5. 33C-Cole Boston[6]; 6. 21(L)-Jimmy Latvala[5]; 7. 47-Don Craig[7]

B Feature (10 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Boston[2]; 2. 15-James Vendela[1]; 3. 16(P)-Garrett Paull[7]; 4. 55-Jesse Polson[4]; 5. 15(G)-Eric Gadach[3]; 6. 21(L)-Jimmy Latvala[8]; 7. 21-Wyatt Boyum[14]; 8. 16(J)-Cory Jorgensen[9]; 9. 44K-Joshua Kough[6]; 10. 14-Adam Shinn[11]; 11. 19-Darrin Lawler[10]; 12. 47-Don Craig[12]; 13. 45-Keegan Kough[13]; 14. 10X-Matthew Cunha[5]

USRA Late Models:

Feature (20 Laps): 1. 44-Cade Nelson[2]; 2. 14-Steven O'Brien Jr[8]; 3. 8-Matthew Larson[3]; 4. 73-Larry Fitzsimmons[1]; 5. 63-Patrick Kelley[4]; 6. 10J-Josh Nevoraski[10]; 7. 3-Zack Friske[9]; 8. 52-Jason McFadden[7]; 9. (DNF) 67-Josh Bach[6]; 10. (DNF) 54-Chad Prissel[5]

Heat (8 Laps): 1. 44-Cade Nelson[3]; 2. 73-Larry Fitzsimmons[7]; 3. 8-Matthew Larson[8]; 4. 54-Chad Prissel[1]; 5. 63-Patrick Kelley[10]; 6. 67-Josh Bach[2]; 7. 52-Jason McFadden[5]; 8. 14-Steven O'Brien Jr[4]; 9. 3-Zack Friske[6]; 10. 10J-Josh Nevoraski[9]