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Kerkhoff Wins Again At 141
Joe Kerkhoff of DePere defended his point lead in the Mid_American stock car
division in grand fashion Saturday night by winning the thirty-five-lap
feature race at 141 Speedway.
Kerkhoff started on the outside of the front row and battled crowd favorite
Travis Groelle who held the point for the first half of the race. In fact
Groelle seemed destined to win his first feature event building a six car
length lead.
However, on lap sixteen Gary Benion of Kaukauna lost the handle on his ride
and spun out in four bringing out the caution and erasing the big lead.
On the restart, Groelle and Kerkhoff were once again going door handle to door
handle for the lead when the two made contact coming off turn two causing
Kerkhoff to spin and bringing out another caution. Groelle was found to be at
fault for the incident and was sent to the rear of the field while Kerkhoff
was awarded the lead.
The race restarted on lap eighteen and although he would get an immediate
challenge for the lead from Mike Rahn Kerkhoff would not be denied. Rahn
finished second just ahead of Bob Schultz, Greg Herrmann and Dennis Rabas.
In the Super Stock race, Bruce Hendrickson of Two Rivers fought off challenges
by almost the entire field to get the win.
Hendrickson started on the pole led the race wire to wire but not without a
fight. Randy Van Roy and Josh Sand dogged the eventual victor nearly every
lap, even making contact once or twice. But Hendrickson stuck to his guns and
held them off to get the win.
Van Roy finished second edging closer to season points leader Andy Cassavant
with only one race left on the calendar. Sand was third just ahead of Crystal
Koenig and Jimbo Schlies.
The twenty-five lap Mini Stock feature saw the lead change seven times with
Randy Nething of Manitowoc leading the opening laps. Mike Meyerhofer of
Harrison had other ideas, though, challenging Nething on the outside and
actually taking the lead at one point.
Nething took the lead back after just one lap though as Jay Sand began to
challenge Meyerhofer for second. The two made contact on lap nine and spun out
bringing out the yellow flag and sending them both to the rear of the field.
On the restart Nething again held the point but had a strong challenge on the
outside from Green Bay’s Chris “Flash” Yerges. The two would seesaw for
two laps but Yerges overpowered him for the lead and began running away from
the field.
The lead would be short lived however as John Senkbeil lost a wheel in turn
two bringing out the yellow and erasing the advantage Yerges had built.
In the meantime fast qualifier Tom Melichar of Mishicot had patiently worked
his way to the front and would restart on the outside of the front row.
Melichar and Yerges ran side by side for a couple of lap with the “Mishicot
Missile” actually taking a brief lead. But Yerges came back and fought off
the challenge for his second career victory.
Melichar finished second with current point leader Mark Christiansen, Nething
and Allen Dillon rounding out the top five.
Curt Thomas seemed as though he was on his way to his first ever win in the
Hobby Stock feature. Thomas started on the pole and held off the field
through twelve laps punctuated with multiple yellow flags for crashes and
spins involving about a third of the twenty-car field.
Lap twelve proved to be Thomas’ downfall though, as he was shuffled to the
middle of the pack and Matt Reinke of Reedsville when to the point.
Reinke was never seriously challenged taking his first win this season.
Jason Rabas took the second spot with Greg “T-Bone “ Thompson, Jo Mueller
and point leader Kyle Bauknecht third, fourth and fifth respectively.
The guest class of the night was the Rascal Outlaw winged mini-sprints who put
on an impressive show in their feature with point leader Butch Torkelson
picking his way through the field for the win.
Mark Findley and Chris Bedore finished second and third.
Next week the Mid-Am and Super Stock points champs will be crowned on John
Koss Builders night at 141 Speedway. Time trials are at 5:30pm with
racing at 7. For more information go to their website at www.141Speedway.com.
Mini Stock
Fast Time Tom Melichar 13.822
Heat 1: 1) #29 Chris Wellner 2) #8 Corey Dallmann 3) #6 Josh
Lammers 4) #86 Kevin Peroutka 5) #9 Rick Lyons 6) #008 Ken
(Buster) Knapp 7) #83 Kim Ducat 8) #90 Jeff McCormick
Heat 2: 1) #4 Allen Dillon 2) #32 Mike Meyerhofer 3) #5 Dave
Senkbeil 4) #56 Jason Sand 5) #18 Christopher Yerges 6) #40
John Senkbeil 7) #17 Sean Farrell
Heat 3: 1) #72 Randy Nething 2) #38 Mike Oswald 3) #62 Tom
Melichar 4) #00 Mark Christensen 5) #24 Dave Gauger, Jr. 6)
#13 Jason Novak 7) #01 Paul Ray
Semi-Feature: 1) #83 Kim Ducat 2) #008 Ken (Buster) Knapp 3)
#29 Chris Wellner 4) #6 Josh Lammers 5) #86 Kevin Peroutka
6) #8 Corey Dallmann 7) #90 Jeff McCormick
Feature: 1) #18 Christopher Yerges 2) #62 Tom Melichar 3)
#00 Mark Christensen 4) #72 Randy Nething 5) #4 Allen Dillon
6) #38 Mike Oswald 7) #24 Dave Gauger, Jr. 8) #01 Paul Ray
9) #56 Jason Sand 10) #32 Mike Meyerhofer 11) #17 Sean
Farrell 12) #13 Jason Novak 13) #5 Dave Senkbeil 14) #008
Ken (Buster) Knapp 15) #29 Chris Wellner 16) #40 John Senkbeil
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Super Stock
Fast Time Randy VanRoy 12.88
Heat 1: 1) #76 Jason Manecki 2) #40c arnie carriveau 3) #07 terry
miller 4) #69 Robert Rayburn
Heat 2: 1) #5L Scott Lehmann 2) #5W Andy Waack 3) #44 Greg
Marks 4) #2 Derek Rosek
Heat 3: 1) #65T Jeff Treml 2) #4 Jimbo Schleis 3) #17 Todd
Hacker 4) #65 Josh Sand 5) #10 Crystal Koenig 6) #50 Nathan
Wegner 7) #7 jesse Schneider
Heat 4: 1) #8 Bill Gast 2) #123 Bruce Henrickson 3) #25 Andy
Casavant 4) #49 Randy VanRoy 5) #32w Don Wood 6) #JO Denny
Crass 7) #31 Kevin Charles
Semi-Feature: 1) #76 Jason Manecki 2) #5L Scott Lehmann 3)
#5W Andy Waack 4) #40c arnie carriveau
Feature: 1) #123 Bruce Henrickson 2) #65 Josh Sand 3) #49
Randy VanRoy 4) #10 Crystal Koenig 5) #4 Jimbo Schleis 6)
#50 Nathan Wegner 7) #32w Don Wood 8) #17 Todd Hacker 9) #25
Andy Casavant 10) #8 Bill Gast 11) #5L Scott Lehmann 12)
#65T Jeff Treml 13) #76 Jason Manecki 14) #JO Denny Crass
15) #7 jesse Schneider
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Mid American
Fast Time Ben Kroll 12.602
Heat 1: 1) #65 Joe Kerkhoff 2) #79 Greg Herrmann 3) #42 Ben
Kroll 4) #3 Travis Groelle 5) #B7 Gregg Haese 6) #8 Monte
Strouf
Heat 2: 1) #34 Bob Schultz 2) #7 Dennis Rabas 3) #12 Rod "PeeWee"
Dart 4) #50 Jeff Tisler 5) #58 Gary Benion 6) #96 Steve
Smits
Feature: 1) #65 Joe Kerkhoff 2) #96 Steve Smits 3) #34 Bob
Schultz 4) #B7 Gregg Haese 5) #79 Greg Herrmann 6) #7
Dennis Rabas 7) #42 Ben Kroll 8) #3 Travis Groelle 9) #50
Jeff Tisler 10) #12 Rod "PeeWee" Dart 11) #8 Monte
Strouf 12) #58 Gary Benion
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Hobby Stock
Heat 1: 1) #18 Jason Behnke 2) #024 Kari Kostichka 3) #15 Michael
Robinson 4) #81 Joe Behnke 5) #82 mark vranak
Heat 2: 1) #5SC Jason Schneider 2) #31 Greg Thompson 3) #7 Jason
Rabas 4) #0 David Verhagen 5) #54 James Dunham 6) #50 Travis
Kronfrost
Heat 3: 1) #42 Peter Kumbalek 2) #27 Travis Rodewald 3) #43 Curt
Thomas 4) #32 Don Wood 5) #00m Jerry Brice 6) #30 David
Wood
Heat 4: 1) #99 Matt Reinke 2) #33 Kyle Bauknecht 3) #35 Brian
Rathe 4) #26 Jo Mueller 5) #119 Eric Jandrin 6) #001 Brian
Stanelle
Semi-Feature: 1) #JO Mat Crass 2) #00m Jerry Brice 3) #54
James Dunham 4) #001 Brian Stanelle 5) #119 Eric Jandrin 6)
#82 mark vranak 7) #30 David Wood
Feature: 1) #99 Matt Reinke 2) #7 Jason Rabas 3) #31 Greg
Thompson 4) #26 Jo Mueller 5) #33 Kyle Bauknecht 6) #42
Peter Kumbalek 7) #0 David Verhagen 8) #27 Travis Rodewald
9) #18 Jason Behnke 10) #00m Jerry Brice 11) #JO Mat Crass
12) #32 Don Wood 13) #15 Michael Robinson 14) #001 Brian Stanelle
15) #43 Curt Thomas 16) #5SC Jason Schneider 17) #024 Kari
Kostichka 18) #81 Joe Behnke 19) #54 James Dunham
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Rascal
Heat 1: 1) #43 MARK FINDLEY 2) #27 ROB POLLAK 3) #2 Dale
Olson 4) #5008 John LeSage 5) #5015 John Benkert
Heat 2: 1) #88 Jim Vuegler 2) #28 Butch Torkelson 3) #3 Jeff
LeSage 4) #0 KIP NOVOTNY
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Sport 4s
Feature: 1) #1 Jeff Meulemans 2) #56 Jesse Sheffer 3) #11
Jason Meulemans 4) #104 Matt Vetting 5) #7 Scott Chrudinsky
6) #90 Bruce Sand 7) #51z Bryan Monday 8) #41 Aaron Dalton
9) #92 Tony Habeck 10) #40 shelby melichar 11) #19 Nick Boldt
12) #55 Kendra Cretton 13) #00 Calen Graf 14) #87 Rick Lorrigan
15) #129 Unknown Driver 16) #101 Andy Lauer
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