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Drivers take to the track

—Messenger photo by Britt Kudla Devon Havlik competes in hot laps on Friday at Sports Park Raceway.

Sixty-two cars checked in for opening night at Sports Park Raceway on Friday night.

The first feature of the night was the Matt’s Tire Service USRA Tuners 10 lap feature.

Jaedon Erickson from Welcome, Minnesota grabbed the early race lead and never looked back going on to take the feature win. Jade Lange ran second the entire distance.

Jacob Blau led the opening lap of the Pickett Salvage USRA Hobby Stocks 15 lap feature event before a caution came out when Tanner Green came to a stop on the front stretch.

Eric Knutson held off Blau but Jeremy Crimmins was working his way into second.

Jeremy Crimmins held off Knutson and Bryce Sommerfeld to take the win. Knutson finished second, Sommerfeld was third.

Devon Havlik led the first two laps of the United Plant Serivces USRA Modifieds 15 lap feature before exiting with mechanical issues.

Tonganoxie, Kansas’s Adam Kates inherited the race lead and despite a hard charging Chase Ellingson, Kates won rather easily. Ellingson, Greg Elliott, Jesse Ely and Havlik rounded out the top five.

Up next was the On The Lock & Key USRA B-Mods 18 lap feature event and no surprise when Ty Griffith starting on the front row, he grabbed the race lead right away.

Griffith grabbed the opening night victory ahead of Josh Appel, Jared Timmerman, Hunter Longnecker and Jason Bass.

The final feature of the night was the Marsh Concrete USRA Stock Cars 18 lap feature event.

Duncombe’s Jeff Lyon led the first lap before Shawn Ritter from Keystone took the top spot away on lap two.

Bill Crimmins took the race lead from Ritter on lap 12. The caution came out on lap 16 when Todd Staley broke something in the rear end after hitting the rough spot in turn one.

Bill Crimmins held on to take the opening night win. Green came back to finished second, Myles Michehl was third, Hollatz came back to finish fourth and Ritter fell back to fifth.

USRA Modifieds

Feature (15 laps) 1. 23 Adam Kates (Tonganoxie, Kan.) [3]; 2. 14E Chase Ellingson (Iowa Falls) [2]; 3. 75 Greg Elliott (Webster City) [4]; 4. 211 Jesse Ely (Webster City) [5]; 5. 5D Devon Havlik (Waterloo) [1]; 6. 52 LaDon Sams (Fort Dodge) [6].

Heat (7 laps) 1. Kates [1]; 2. Havlik [2]; 3. Ellingson [4]; 4. Elliott [3]; 5. Ely [6]; 6. Sams [5].

USRA Stock Cars

Feature (18 laps) 1. 35 Bill Crimmins (Fort Dodge) [3]; 2. 32 Derek Green (Granada, Minn.) [7]; 3. 21 Myles Michehl (Fort Dodge) [6]; 4. 6 Chanse Hollatz (Clear Lake) [12]; 5. 7SR Shawn Ritter (Keystone) [2]; 6. 59 Jeff Lyon (Duncombe [1]; 7. 47 Parker Slagle (Eagle Grove) [13]; 8. 19 Reid Keller (Webster City) [9]; 9. 24 Josh Zieman (Plymouth) [10]; 10. 11 Jesse Brown (Nashua) [4]; 11. 10 John Ades (Rippey) [16]; 12. 21X Xander Treichel (Greene) [8]; 13. 14 Todd Staley (Webster City) [5]; 14. 43 Calvin Lange (Humboldt) [14]; 15. 87 Travis Shipman (Mason City) [11]; 16. 77M Josh Monthei (Jefferson) [15].

Heat 1 (6 laps) 1. Crimmins [1]; 2. Michehl [6]; 3. Ritter [3]; 4. Brown [5]; 5. Slagle [4]; 6. Ades [2].

Heat 2 (6 laps) 1. Hollatz [2]; 2. Green [4]; 3. Treichel [1]; 4. Zieman [5]; 5. Lange [3].

Heat 3 (6 laps) 1. Lyon [2]; 2. Shipman [4]; 3. Keller [5]; 4. Staley [3]; 5. Monthei [1].

USRA B-Mods

Feature (16 laps) 1. 56 Ty Griffith (Webster City) [1]; 2. 65J Josh Appel (Garner) [4]; 3. 7+ Jared Timmerman (Norwalk) [6]; 4. 93 Hunter Longnecker (Woodward) [5]; 5. 4 Jason Bass (Fort Dodge) [15]; 6. 85T Brandon Toftee (Otho) [3]; 7. 2 Jerid Ratzke (Williams) [11]; 8. 85 Dustin West (Radcliffe) [13]; 9. 9J Jeremiah Reed (Otho) [7]; 10. 88 Bryer McCoy (Webster City) [12]; 11. 27 Michael Parcel (Bondurant) [16]; 12. 56W Kyle Webb (Des Moines) [10]; 13. 37 Thomas Behle (Polk City) [8]; 14. D1 Damion Elliott (Webster City) [9]; 15. 40 George Gilliland (Lehigh) [14]; 16. 25P Justin Patterson (Fort Dodge) [2]; DNS 49 Nate Whitehurst (Mason City).

Heat 1 (6 laps) 1. Griffith [1]; 2. Patterson [2]; 3. Toftee [4]; 4. Appel [5]; 5. McCoy [6]; 6. Bass [3].

Heat 2 (6 laps) 1. Reed [1]; 2. Whitehurst [6]; 3. Behle [4]; 4. Webb [2]; 5. West [3]; 6. Parcel [5].

Heat 3 (6 laps) 1. Longnecker [2]; 2. Timmerman [5]; 3. Elliott [4]; 4. Ratzke [3]; 5. Gilliland [1].

USRA Hobby Stocks

Feature (15 laps) 1. 15 Jeremy Crimmins (Fort Dodge) [9]; 2. 12K Eric Knutson (Slater) [5]; 3. 50 Bryce Sommerfeld (Fort Dodge) [4]; 4. 4D Daniel Ayers (Webster City) [11]; 5. 35 Riley Crimmins (Fort Dodge) [12]; 6. 56 Jake Blau (Latimer) [2]; 7. 76 Justin Jones (Renwick) [15]; 8. 34 Lincoln Miller (Eagle Grove) [1]; 9. 14 Joseph DeBoer (Fort Dodge) [8]; 10. 136 Tanner Green (Hampton) [7]; 11. 55G David Gilliand (Fort Dodge) [14]; 12. 11G Jayden Glenn (Stratford) [16]; 13. 56G Bradley Gilliland (Lehigh) [13]; 14. 5 Caden Lowmiller (Jefferson) [3]; 15. 45 Drew Barglof (Sioux Rapids) [10]; 16. 10X Danny Sassman Jr (Fort Dodge) [6].

Heat 1 (6 laps) 1. Knutson [4]; 2. Sassman [1]; 3. Blau [2]; 4. Lowmiller [3]; 5. Bradley Gilliland [5].

Heat 2 (6 laps) 1. Jeremy Crimmins [1]; 2. Ayers [5]; 3. Sommerfeld [3]; 4. Riley Crimmins [2]; 5. David Gilliland [4].

Heat 3 (6 laps) 1. Barglof [4]; 2. Miller [3]; 3. Green [2]; 4. DeBoer [1]; 5. Jones [5]; 6. Glenn [6].

USRA Tuners

Feature (10 Laps) 1. 440 Jaedon Erickson (Welcome, Minn.) [2]; 2. 43 Jade Lange (Humboldt) [3]; 3. 21T Tayla Lange (Ames) [6]; 4. 45 John Dahlsten (Pomeroy) [5]; 5. 54 Josh Dahlsten (Pomeroy) [7]; 6. 38 Desiree Sells (Fort Dodge) [1]; 7. 10B Breanna Ades (Rippey) [4].

Heat (5 laps) 1. Erickson [2]; 2. Jade Lange [5]; 3. Sells [6]; 4. Ades [3]; 5. John Dahlsten [4]; 6. Tayla Lange [1]; DNS Josh Dahlsten.

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