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Strand, Imrie, Hess and Stenberg steal the spotlight Friday night at River Cities Speedway

By Steven Young

GRAND FORKS, ND (August 2) - Action was back underway at River Cities Speedway Friday night, as Dustin Strand, Ward Imrie, Trey Hess and Reise Stenberg found their way to WISSOTA Dirt Track Series victory lane.

Tom Corcoran and John Seng led the field to green in the 20-lap WISSOTA Late Model main event but it was Brody Troftgruben moving past Seng in the opening lap to take second, as Corcoran led lap one.

Following a caution on the second lap, Seng and Troftgruben were side by side with Seng taking second back, though the pair went door to door for the position.

On lap three, Troftgruben regained the runner-up spot exiting the second turn on the high side. After the second caution on lap four Seng and Troftgruben resumed their battle for the runner-up spot while Corcoran continued to lead.

Troftgruben started to reel in Corcoran on lap five and Joey Pederson and Dustin Strand battled with Seng for third. Strand took third at the end of lap six while Corcoran and Troftgruben went door-to-door in a battle for the top spot.

Lap eight saw the battle for the lead become a three-car battle as Strand reeled in both Corcoran and Troftgruben. Strand searched from high to low as he remained a close third, while Corcoran and Troftgruben remained door to door for a number of laps until Troftgruben took the lead at the midway point.

With the top two drivers moving to the bottom side of the race track, Strand then started moving forward, running the top side of the quarter-mile, taking second from Corcoran with nine to go.

With lapped cars running the bottom with five to go, Troftgruben had to abandon the low side and moved to the high side. Strand used a diamond line off the exit of turn two and took the lead coming off of turn four with four to go.

From there, Troftgruben was held up in lapped traffic as Strand continued on to the victory over Troftgruben, Corcoran, Ryan Kereluk, and Joey Pederson.

Mike Tiani and Tim Thomas brought the 20-lap WISSOTA Modified feature to green which, save for a caution on the initial start, went green-to-checkered. At the end of the opening lap, Jason Beaulieu cut between both the front-row starters to take the lead while Thomas went three wide with Ward Imrie and Rick Delaine, before Imrie went three wide with Thomas and Tiani to move from fifth to second on the second lap.

On lap four, Imrie moved to the inside of Beaulieu for the first time as the pair battled for the top spot. Though the pair remained side by side for a number of laps, Beaulieu was able to pull away again on lap seven, pulling by about five car lengths.

Beaulieu started working lap traffic just past the midway point, which allowed Imrie to close back in once again. Imrie pulled to the inside for the lead on the exit of four with eight to go and, in the next trip through turns one and two, Imrie took the lead on the bottom at the end of the 14th lap.

Imrie was not slowed in traffic in the last handful laps as he continued on to the victory over Beaulieu, Dustin Strand, Preston Carr, and Rick Delaine.

Reise Stenberg and Taylor Jacobson made up the front row at the beginning of the 20-lap Happy Harry's Midwest Modified feature. Stenberg led from the outset as Lance Schill, MaKenna Romuld and Matt Schow battled for the third spot.

A caution on lap two put Schill to Jacobson's outside as Stenberg led the field back to green. Schill took second on the restart with Jacobson holding off Matt Schow in the battle for third. Schow and Jacobson's battle remained the best on the track through the midway point, as the pair was side by side on a number of occasions for that third spot, while Stenberg pulled to a straightaway lead.

A final caution with three to go erased Stenberg's advantage brought Schill and Schow to his bumper for the restart. Schow moved to the inside of Schill at the end of lap, and the pair continued to wage war for the position. That was all Stenberg needed to regain his near straightaway advantage, winning over Schow, Jacobson, Jamie Dietzler, and Austin Hunter.

James Meagher and Greg Jose led the 20-lap, WISSOTA Street Stock feature to the green. Those two went four wide with Seth Klostreich and Cole Greseth exiting turn two on the opening lap. The quartet ran out of real estate, which ended with a Jose spin off of the top of the backstretch after contact with John Halvorson, bringing out the first caution of the night in feature competition.

Meagher and Jose made up the front row on the ensuing restart with the front four going four wide again at the exit of turn two, but this time Klostreich took the lead over Greseth and Meagher.

From there, seventh-starter Trey Hess moved into third on lap three. Hess went to work on Greseth in second; while Hess tried to track down Greseth, he was side by side for a number of circuits with Weston Ramsrud. Ramsrud got loose on the eighth lap and was hit by John Halvorson, ending Halvorson's race.

Ramsrud returned from the work area and the race went back green, with Klostreich in the lead and Hess second, bringing Braden Brauer with him into third. A final caution fell with eight to go.

Klostreich led the field back to green, as Hess fought off all of Brauer’s pass attempts in the closing laps and the lead trio made it a three-car battle for the win in the final two trips around the Bullring.

The trio was three-wide again in turns three and four on the final lap, with Hess using the bottom to get to the checkered flag first ahead of Brauer, Klostreich, Bryce Reimer, and Weston Ramsrud, who returned from the work area to complete the top five from the back.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[8]; 2. 14-Brody Troftgruben[3]; 3. T 1-Tom Corcoran[1]; 4. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[4]; 5. 7P-Joey Pederson[5]; 6. 12S-Brad Seng[7]; 7. E85-Jason Strand[6]; 8. 11-Troy Schill[10]; 9. 2*-Cole Babcock[11]; 10. 21S-John Seng[2]; 11. 6R-Nate Reynolds[12]; 12. 27P-Tucker Pederson[9]; 13. F9-Brandon Fuller[13]; 14. 42-Matthew Jarvis[15]; 15. 97-Dan McNamee[14]; 16. (DNF) 54-Terry Nelson[16]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7P-Joey Pederson[2]; 2. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[5]; 3. 21S-John Seng[1]; 4. T 1-Tom Corcoran[6]; 5. 27P-Tucker Pederson[4]; 6. 2*-Cole Babcock[7]; 7. F9-Brandon Fuller[8]; 8. 42-Matthew Jarvis[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[1]; 2. E85-Jason Strand[2]; 3. 14-Brody Troftgruben[5]; 4. 12S-Brad Seng[7]; 5. 11-Troy Schill[3]; 6. 6R-Nate Reynolds[4]; 7. 97-Dan McNamee[8]; 8. 54-Terry Nelson[6]

WISSOTA Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 10W-Ward Imrie[6]; 2. 22B-Josh Beaulieu[4]; 3. 71-Dustin Strand[8]; 4. 5C-Preston Carr[5]; 5. 1R-Rick Delaine[3]; 6. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[7]; 7. 81-Jordan Duray[9]; 8. 74-Dustin Wahl[11]; 9. 57-Michael Tiani[1]; 10. 39-Shawn Teunis[10]; 11. 51T-Tim Thomas[2]; 12. 25-Ryan Johnson[14]; 13. 96-Erv Grossman[12]; 14. 36-Ryan Cousins[13]; 15. (DNF) 27-Chris Unrau[16]; 16. (DNF) 5JF-Jonathen Feda[15]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10W-Ward Imrie[6]; 2. 51T-Tim Thomas[1]; 3. 1R-Rick Delaine[5]; 4. 57-Michael Tiani[3]; 5. 81-Jordan Duray[7]; 6. 74-Dustin Wahl[4]; 7. 36-Ryan Cousins[8]; 8. 5JF-Jonathen Feda[2]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 5C-Preston Carr[2]; 2. 22B-Josh Beaulieu[5]; 3. 71-Dustin Strand[8]; 4. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[6]; 5. 39-Shawn Teunis[3]; 6. 96-Erv Grossman[7]; 7. 25-Ryan Johnson[4]; 8. 27-Chris Unrau[1]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 87S-Reise Stenberg[1]; 2. 2S-Matt Schow[7]; 3. 46J-Taylor Jacobson[2]; 4. 39-Jamie Dietzler[10]; 5. 44-Austin Hunter[8]; 6. 17S-Lance Schill[5]; 7. 007-Alex Johnson[9]; 8. 15-MaKenna Romuld[3]; 9. 29-Cylen Vargason[6]; 10. 25-Josh Ostenson[14]; 11. 77B-Logan Bauer[15]; 12. 15TRX-Chris Edmonds[13]; 13. (DNF) 32B-Brennan Schmidt[12]; 14. (DNF) 47-Malachi Klassen[4]; 15. (DNF) 7B-Bailey Cousins[11]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 87S-Reise Stenberg[1]; 2. 29-Cylen Vargason[2]; 3. 44-Austin Hunter[3]; 4. 2S-Matt Schow[8]; 5. 007-Alex Johnson[4]; 6. 7B-Bailey Cousins[5]; 7. 15TRX-Chris Edmonds[6]; 8. (DNF) 77B-Logan Bauer[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17S-Lance Schill[2]; 2. 46J-Taylor Jacobson[3]; 3. 47-Malachi Klassen[1]; 4. 15-MaKenna Romuld[6]; 5. 39-Jamie Dietzler[5]; 6. 32B-Brennan Schmidt[7]; 7. 25-Josh Ostenson[4]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 4-Trey Hess[7]; 2. 34JR-Braden Brauer[8]; 3. 30-Seth Klostreich[3]; 4. 03-Bryce Reimer[12]; 5. 67-Weston Ramsrud[4]; 6. 28-Greg Jose[2]; 7. 62-Jayson Bronk[11]; 8. 29-Rachael McNamee[13]; 9. (DNF) 19-Cole Greseth[5]; 10. (DNF) 35-John Halvorson[6]; 11. (DNF) 7-James Meagher[1]; 12. (DNS) 49-Rodney Hulst; 13. (DNS) 99-Josh Barker

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Trey Hess[1]; 2. 35-John Halvorson[2]; 3. 19-Cole Greseth[3]; 4. 67-Weston Ramsrud[5]; 5. 49-Rodney Hulst[7]; 6. 62-Jayson Bronk[6]; 7. 29-Rachael McNamee[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 34JR-Braden Brauer[1]; 2. 28-Greg Jose[3]; 3. 30-Seth Klostreich[2]; 4. 7-James Meagher[5]; 5. 99-Josh Barker[4]; 6. 03-Bryce Reimer[6]

410 Winged Sprints:

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 8H-Jade Hastings[3]; 2. 64-Andy Pake[4]; 3. 0-Nick Omdahl[6]; 4. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[7]; 5. 8-Jack Croaker[1]; 6. 26-Blake Egeland[14]; 7. 4-Colton Young[9]; 8. 52-Adam Sobolik[10]; 9. 41T-Travis Strandell[5]; 10. 50-Brad Flaten[12]; 11. 22-Tanner Wisk[11]; 12. 25-Jerzee Rosinski[16]; 13. 49-Kim Young[13]; 14. (DNF) 14-Tom Egeland[15]; 15. (DNF) 31-Shane Roemeling[8]; 16. (DNF) 17-Zach Omdahl[2]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 8-Jack Croaker[1]; 2. 8H-Jade Hastings[3]; 3. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[4]; 4. 31-Shane Roemeling[2]; 5. 4-Colton Young[6]; 6. (DNF) 26-Blake Egeland[8]; 7. (DNS) 14-Tom Egeland; 8. (DNS) 25-Jerzee Rosinski

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 64-Andy Pake[2]; 2. 0-Nick Omdahl[4]; 3. 41T-Travis Strandell[1]; 4. 17-Zach Omdahl[3]; 5. 52-Adam Sobolik[5]; 6. 22-Tanner Wisk[6]; 7. 50-Brad Flaten[7]; 8. 49-Kim Young[8]