Swenson Tops Winged Warriors
By Bill Nelson
June 19, 2004

A beautiful and sunny day welcomed the WISSOTA Sprint Cars to the Deer Creek Speedway on Freedom Exterior Night.  A smooth and fast track greeted the 123 drivers checking into the back gate and the excellent crowd in the stands.  Steve Yaggy gave away another bicycle tonight to one lucky kid and hundreds of free gifts were distributed to the fans throughout the night.

The Classic Dwarf Cars pulled onto the track for their feature action first with David Lewison taking the early lead from the inside of row two.  From sixth place on back the field was two wide for the first five laps.  Eric Wiste was working on the bottom of David Marso for the second position with Brian Kiehne and Drew Jech racing side by side right behind that group.  Wiste spun coming out of four and into the infield but kept the motor running and rejoined the field shuffling the field slightly as he slid in front of the field.  Brian Kiehne moved up to battle with Marso for the second spot.  With ten to go Kiehne takes over the second spot but Marso pulled back alongside for a lap until Kiehne finally gained control over the spot.  With seven laps left Lewison had pulled out to a three quarter of straight lead as Jeff Jech moved up to the rear bumper of Marso.  Rick Utley and Drew Jech battled for the fifth spot with Tate Bestor joining into the fray at the white flag.  Lewison came home with the win followed by Kiehne and Marso.

The WISSOTA Super Stock feature was breathtaking with the crowd jumping to their fee the last two laps.  Adam Stockhausen took the early lead moving outside of Kelly Anderson on the high side of the track.  Anderson used the low side of the track to work under Stockhausen for the lead on lap two.  Steve Hocovski ran beside of Stockhausen for the next two laps in a great battle as most of the field ran double file around the track.  Chris Klinger was running the extreme high line and powered to the outside of Stockhausen and Hocovski for the second spot as the only caution of the event flew with fifteen to go.  Nick Herrick worked into the third spot on the restart with Hocovski and Brad Waits driving in Dave Haberman's second car raced for fourth.  These two moved alongside of Herrick on the next lap as they ran three wide for position.  Waits gained the advantage while Anderson was trying to get back around Klinger who gained the lead on the restart.  At the midpoint of the race most of the field was running the high line on the track against the cushion.  With four to go Anderson dived low out of two to take the lead with Waits following through. With two to go Anderson, Waits and Klinger went three wide down the back straight with Brandon Jensen and Stockhausen side by side behind them.  As the exited four these five cars ended up five wide as they raced hard for the win.  Waits fade back with a flat because of the inevetible contact with Anderson holding on for the win.  Jensen worked up from his ninth starting spot to take second and Stockhausen in another great drive finishing third.

Stussy Construction and Paulson Rock Products added $1,000 to the WISSOTA Midwest Modified purse tonight with $100 to each of the top ten finishers.  With the added bonus money a huge field of 38 midwest modifieds took to the track.  After the four heat races and an 18 car "B" feature the main event took to the track.  After two attempts at starting the feature the field made a go of it on their third attempt.  Joe Wernecke, Brian Hernandez and Ron Houdek raced up front for the lead.  The field ran two and three wide for the first five laps with Houdek finally taking the advantage up front.  Hernandez and Wernecke continued their battle as thirteenth starting Ryan Weber moved up to battle with Tim Siercks for the fifth spot.  With six laps to go Bob Bunne, Mike Paulson and twenty first starting Albert Wytaske battled for the sixth position. Hernandez finally gained control of second as Weber and Siercks moved up to take over the third and fourth spots while Wernecke spun into the infield.  Houdek held on for the win.

The USRA Modifieds have started out the season without a repeat winner and tonight continued that record with a new winner in the modified division.  Hank Rollinger held the early advantage with Bobby Sorensen in hot pursuit.  There were some three and four wide battles through the field with a little tire hopping going on as the cars made light contact.  A quick restart with eighteen to go saw Bobby Sorensen move under Rollinger into the lead with Karl Fenske and Todd Klees racing for the second spot as Rollinger dropped back early.  Tim Donlinger and Mike Sorensen mixed it up for the fourth spot as the second caution flew.  Klees moved past Bobby Sorensen on the restart to take the lead until he slipped up in two with Fenske and Sorensen moving back under him as they ran three wide.  Klees regained the momentum on the top side and back into the lead.  With fifteen laps to go the final caution flew.  Klees lead as Bobby Sorensen slipped up in two dropping back a few positions.  Mike Sorensen then worked around Fenske for the second spot followed closely by Donlinger.  Nate Wasmund started thirteenth and Jay Ihrke fifteenth as they were working towards the front.  With six to go the top three pulled away as Wasmund, Ihrke, Fenske and Brad Waits were running in a tight pack battling for spots.  Waits was rim riding during the battle just inches from the wall with Fenske at the bottom and Wasmund and Ihrke in the middle.  Coming to the white Ihrke cleared the pack and Donlinger moved alongside of Mike Sorensen for second.  At the line it was Klees taking his first win of the season followed by Donlinger and Sorensen.

An excellent field of 24 WISSOTA Sprint Cars made their tour stop at the track tonight.  Local fan Greg Hummel put up and additional $200 to be split up amongst 4 cars outside of the top twelve.  On the initial start Gregg Bakker had an easy roll-over in turn two.  Bakker stayed in the race and restarted at the rear with a heavily damaged wing.  Joe Kouba took the early lead in the race.  Chuck Swenson moved up high on the track to work the cushion and moved past Ryan York early on in the feature for the second spot.  Brett Geldner moved into a battle with York for the third spot.  With seventeen laps to go in the race Scott Winters pounded the wall exiting turn four flipping wildly onto the track.  After the short red flag period to clean up the mess Winters walked away from the horrific crash.  Swenson pulled away from the field on the restart followed by Kouba and defending race winner Dustin Lindquist.  Behind the front pack a lot of dicing for positions were taking place through the field.  With twelve laps to go Swenson started to work through lapped traffic.  Geldner worked past York for the fourth position and Lindquist cleared Kouba for second.  Swenson was strong up front and took home the win.

Next week is Mid Season point's night at Deer Creek; the event will be brought to you by J.B. Distributing Co, Inc. of Eden Prarie MN and will feature all 6 regular classes in action.  Special thanks to Northern Beverage Co., Insty Prints, Valley Home Improvement, Meadow Area News, Minnesota Corrugated Box, UNC, Spring Valley Inn and Suites and On Site Computers for the track sponsorship.

WISSOTA Sprints
Feature - Chuck Swenson, Dustin Lindquist, Joe Kouba, Donovan Peterson, Brett Geldner, Matt Folstad, Scott Butz, Sye Anderson, Johnny Parsons, Ryan York

Heat 1 - York, Gregg Bakker, David Becker, Tony Kaus, Al Hargrave
Heat 2 - Geldner, Peterson, Lindquist, Anderson, John Nelson
Heat 3 - Swenson, Tony Hargrave, Joe Kouba, Folstad, Joseph Kouba

USRA Modifieds
Feature - Todd Klees, Tim Donlinger, Mike Sorensen, Jay Ihrke, Brad Waits, Karl Fenske, Nate Wasmund, Bruce Angst, Neil Eckhart, Bobby Sorensen

Heat 1 - Hank Rollinger, Dave Siercks, Klees, Fenske, Wasmund
Heat 2 - M. Sorensen, B. Sorensen, Darin Toot, Mike Mehling, Jay Poidinger
Heat 3 - Donlinger, Waits, Angst, Dennis Hillson, Ihrke

WISSOTA Super Stocks
Feature - Kelly Anderson, Brandon Jensen, Adam Stockhausen, Chris Klinger, Dave Haberman, Steve Hucovski, Dan Nissalke, Schatney Sanders, Joel Collins, George Batzel

Heat 1 - Matt Durnen, Bobby Swanson, Stockhausen, Gary Wiersgalla, Jeremy Reinke
Heat 2 - Klinger, Nick Herrick, Jensen, Sanders, Jerry Bloom
Heat 3 - Haberman, Anderson, Hucovski, Brad Waits, Dustin Nelson

WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds
Feature - Ron Houdek, Brian Hernandez, Ryan Weber, Albert Wytaske, Tim Siercks, Bob Bunne, Vince Corbin, Nick Kramer, Derrick Bridley, Jeff Ringenberg

"B" Feature - Albert Wytaske, Jerry Young, Harlan Morehart, Matt Narveson, Johnny Magnum

Heat 1 - Hernandez, Houdek, Dean Hoffman, Weber, Greg Pfeifer Jr.
Heat 2 - Bunne, Terry Timmerman, Ringenberg, Mike Paulson, Jacob Dahle
Heat 3 - Siercks, Troy Hale, Scott Huinker, Craig Bentzin, Tom Paulson
Heat 4 - Kramer, Joe Wernecke, Bridley, Corbin, Bryan Siercks

Dwarf Car
Feature - Dave Lewison, Brian Kiehne, David Marso, Jeff Jech, Drew Jech, Tate Bestor, Rick Utley, Corey Whalen, Todd Kiehne, Jim Dahle

Heat 1 - Utley, Marso, Eric Wiste, Whalen, Gavin Wangen
Heat 2 - D. Jech, Kiehne, Bestor, , J. Jech