Casino Speedway Memorial cut short by rain with only one of six features completed
WATERTOWN — With just a little more than half of the racing program completed, the weather got the best of the ninth Casino Speedway Memorial racing program on Sunday night.
The Casino Speedway Memorial is held each year to celebrate the lives of Casino Speedway family members who passed away in the last year.
All of the heat races in the regular six classes of cars were held and the Gen X late models feature was completed before rain washed out the final five features. The features will be made up at a later date.
Bodie Croninger of Watertown won the Gen X late models feature. Complete results of the race won't be posted until the other five features are made up.
Another weekly racing program, featuring all six regular classes, is scheduled for Sunday at 6:30 p.m.
Here are Sunday's heat results:
LATE MODELS
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10CO-Charlie Olsen[2]; 2. 37-Scott Ward[5]; 3. 2*-Cole Babcock[7]; 4. X-Chuck Swenson[6]; 5. 57-Chad Williamson[3]; 6. 11-Roger Bitz[1]; 7. (DNF) 16-Thomas Weisgram[8]; 8. (DNF) 4J-Lee Grosz[4].
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 12-Chad Becker[2]; 2. 87-Curt Kranz[4]; 3. 32T-Lindsey Hansen[3]; 4. 27-Tyler Myers[5]; 5. 4-Justin Boomsma[8]; 6. 20-Trevor Anderson[7]; 7. 37JR-Morgan Ward Grosz[1]; 8. T3-Rich Thomas[6].
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 10C-Chad Olsen[7]; 2. 73M-David Carlson[3]; 3. 2S-Josh Skorczewski[5]; 4. 14B-Brody Troftgruben[8]; 5. 85-Jayson Good[6]; 6. 12S-Trajan Schmidt[4]; 7. 14-Nick Schmidt[1]; 8. (DNS) 1-Blake Boelens.
MODIFIEDS
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 37-Scott Ward[1]; 2. 20-Trevor Anderson[4]; 3. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[6]; 4. 51T-Tim Thomas[2]; 5. 18-Aaron Sowers[3]; 6. 65-Dave Brooker[5]; 7. 9L-Ed Leonard[7].
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 13-Cayden Schmeling[2]; 2. 15-Tony Konold[3]; 3. 24S-Mike Stearns[6]; 4. 10H-Nate Heinrich[5]; 5. 7-Bryce Borgen[1]; 6. 11Z-Dylan Zabel[4].
MIDWEST MODIFIEDS
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 67-Mike Nichols[1]; 2. 28-Tommy Nichols[5]; 3. 11S-Darren Engesser[3]; 4. 61-Zach LaQua[6]; 5. 3-Luke Johnson[4]; 6. 12R-Logan Redlin[7]; 7. 12-Eric Cease[2]; 8. 56D-Doug Neitzel[8].
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 9M-Jake Molitor[1]; 2. 54-Todd Stark[3]; 3. 1Z-Dawson Zabel[2]; 4. 54H-Chad Williamson[6]; 5. BO-Jory Berg[7]; 6. 77J-Nathan Jager[4]; 7. 89H-Charles Hanten[5].
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 31-Scott Hansen[3]; 2. 69R-Terry Reilly[2]; 3. 34J-Derek Rieck[6]; 4. 15-MaKenna Romuld[4]; 5. 19-Tyler McFarland[5]; 6. 47-Memphis Klassen[7]; 7. 48-Camden Rassel[1].
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STREET STOCKS
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 14-Maria Broksieck[1]; 2. 01-Chris Serr[3]; 3. 31-Jason Marko[2]; 4. 17-Matt Goth[5]; 5. 0-Wyatt Brooker[7]; 6. 58-Wade Tirrel[6]; 7. 20JR-Jayden Bogh[4].
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 711-Kenneth Clements[1]; 2. 4-Trey Hess[4]; 3. 12-Al Schmidt[3]; 4. 28-Greg Jose[2]; 5. 99-Andy Rossow[7]; 6. E30-Cooper Butterfield[5]; 7. 73-Cory Giessinger[6].
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 95-Jayden Michaelsohn[3]; 2. 20-Michael Bogh[6]; 3. 80-Tony Miller[2]; 4. 81-Travis Oxandaburu[4]; 5. 99J-Josh Barker[5]; 6. 37W-Ferlin Sheridan[1].
HORNETS
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 25-Brayden Begalka[3]; 2. 68JR-Nathan Telkamp[1]; 3. 555-Bradley Rossow[6]; 4. 5AR-Adam VanDerostyne[5]; 5. 79-Joshua Gebhart[8]; 6. 98-Brett Alexander[7]; 7. 10B-Curtis Borstad[2]; 8. 7-Dylan Tirrel[4].
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GEN X LATE MODELS
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 15-Trevor Walsh[1]; 2. 20-Doug Walsh[2]; 3. 8T-Tony Croninger[6]; 4. 17J-John Winge[5]; 5. 1-Konner Sperle[4]; 6. 40+-Ryan Shepherd Sr[3]; 7. 11X-Brittany Swenson[7].
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 14-Scott Harrington[1]; 2. 87-Curt Kranz[3]; 3. 1776-Joseph Thomas[4]; 4. 811-Bodie Croninger[5]; 5. XJR-Hope Swenson[2]; 6. 50-Maria Broksieck[6].
Other Weekend Racing
Weekend racing events at Brown County Speedway in Aberdeen and Fiesta City Speedway in Montevideo (Minn.) on Friday were canceled or postponed because of the weather along with the two-day season opener on Friday and Saturday at Miller Central Speedway.
The Military Appreciation Program at Fiesta City has been rescheduled for Wednesday at 7 p.m.
The Memorial Day season opener at Madison (Minn.) Speedway was also rained out on Monday. The season will now open Saturday with a program scheduled for 7 p.m.
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