West Burlington, IA (Sunday, May 25, 2014) - A rare Sunday night of racing took place at 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa, as the Brockway and Mechanical Sprint Invaders made there second stop of the 2014 season at the track. Also in action on the night was the IMRA Midget Lites, Mod Lites, 4 Cylinders and Vintage cars.
The first feature to take to the track was the 12 lap Mod Lites, with Devon Rouse and Gary Snyder on the front row. Snyder would use his front row start to grab the lead on lap 1 over Rouse and Daniel Keltner, who started 4th. Keltner would slip under Snyder on lap 5 to take the top spot away, with Justin Buchholz, who started 5th, following him into second. Buchholz then tried the middle to top of the track to get around Keltner over the final laps. But Keltner was able to hold him off in a caution free race to claim his second win of the season at the track. Buchholz was 2nd, Snyder was 3rd, Rouse was 4th, with Collin Ball rounding out the top 5.
Up next was the 12 lap IMRA Midget Lites feature, with Shane Morgan and Brian Rieck drawing the front row. Morgan took advantage of his starting spot to jump out into the lead on lap 1 over Rieck and Jeff Mallonnee, who started 4th. Rieck who was looking under Morgan in turn 1 for the lead, ended up rolling in turn 2 to bring out the red flag on the completion of lap 1. He walked away okay. On the restart Morgan moved back out front, with Mallonnee and Brayden Gaylord, who started 5th, close behind. Mallonnee jumped to the top of the track on lap 3 to edge Morgan out at the line to grab the top spot away. Gaylord then tried that same groove over the final two laps to get around Mallonnee for the lead, but Mallonnee would hold him off to pick up the win. Gaylord settled for 2nd, Morgan was 3rd, Johnny Murdock was 4th, with Barry Trone coming home in 5th.
Jordan Tipps and Brian Mehaffy drew the front row for the 12 lap 4 Cylinder feature, with Mehaffy grabbing the lead on lap 1 over Tipps and Cody Washburne, who started 6th. Mehaffy's run up front came to an end on lap 4, as he slowed off turn 4 to hand the lead over to Tipps. Tipps then had to work to hold off Ron Kibbe, who started 7th in the #29 usually driven by Dustin Ravelin, over laps 6,7, 8, and 9. But Kibbe's battle for the lead would end on lap 9, as he slowed to a stop down the backstretch with a right front flat to bring out the caution. Washburne would use the bottom of the speedway on the restart to slip past Tipps for the top spot and then held him off on the final lap to earn his first career feature win. Tipps was 2nd, Wayne Noble was 3rd, John Whalen was 4th, with Roy Norton coming from 10th to round out the top 5.
The final feature up on the night was the 25 lap Sprint Invaders, with Jon Agan and Josh Schneiderman leading the field to the green flag. Agan used his front row starting spot to grab the lead on lap 1 over Schneiderman and Roger Crockett, who was behind the wheel of the #82 Buffalo Wild Wings Sprinter. Crockett's early run up front came to an end on lap 3. When Andy Huston lost a right front tire in turn 4 and Crockett ran it over, which caused him to roll off turn 4 to bring out the red. He climbed out okay. On the restart Agan jumped back out front, with Josh working to hold off Jarrod Schneiderman in the battle for second. Just as Agan was coming up on lapped cars, the red flag appeared on lap 6 to bring the action to a halt. This time CJ Houseman got into the turn 4 wall hard and rolled to bring out the red. He climbed from his machine okay. Agan once again moved out front on the restart, with Josh and Jarrod Schniederman continuing there battle for second. The top three cars would enter lapped traffic on lap 16, which allowed then second and third place runners to close in on Agan. Jarrod reeled Agan in on lap 20 and was able to get up beside Agan in turn 2 on lap 21, when Agan drifted to high. But a caution for a Tim Moore who slowed to a stop down the front stretch on lap 21 saved Agan. Jordan Weaver, a female competitor from Woodard, Oklahoma who was making her first ever visit to 34 Raceway, was running 7th when she slowed on the restart with a right rear tire to bring the caution light back on. On the restart Agan moved back out front and then led the final 4 laps to pick up his first Sprint Invaders win of 2014. Jarrod Schneiderman was 2nd, Josh Schneiderman was 3rd, Mike Houseman Jr. came from 8th to finish in 4th, with Russ Hall coming from 10th to round out the top 5.
Motes from 34: 30 Sprint Invader cars signed in on the night, with each one of them drawing a pill to determine there starting spot in one of the four heat races. The top two in heat of those heats races went to the dash, while third and fourth moved into the feature. The remainder of the field was put into the B Main, in which the top 4 out of those went to the feature. Then one points provisional was added to set the 21 car starting field....Chris Miller won the dash and then drew a 6, which meant the top 6 in the dash were inverted for the feature....Bobby Mincer started the Sprint feature in 11th and finished 6th....Tony Schilling came from 15th to take home a 7th place finish....Davey Heskin drove Dale Oaks #41 from 17th to an 8th place finish....John Schulz came from 8th to 9th in Jimmy Davies #99 Sprinter....Harold Pohren made his 2014 debut after a fire over the winter burnt down his garage that had all his Sprint cars in. He would bring home a 10th place finish on the night....Daniel Bergquist came from 16th to finish in 11th....Dave Getchell was 13th after starting in 19th....Damian Getchell earned a spot in the feature as an alternate and finished 17th after staring in 21st....Kelly Graham was the points provisional and started 22nd and finished in 18th....Bret Tripplett was piloting the #14P of Randy Plath's. He would cross the line 3rd in the first heat race, which would have put him in the 9th place starting spot for the feature. But had motor troubles that forced them to scratch from the feature....Corey Timmerman was running 2nd in the B Main, a qualifying spot into the feature, when he tried to go around a lapped car in turn 2 on lap 5. He got his right rear tire off the turn and tried to correct it, but ended up hard into the pit wall to bring out the red. Everybody was okay....Dustin Selvage and Carson McCarl had troubles in there heats that forced them to scratch for the night....While Andy Krieger took a nasty roll in turn 3 in heat three to end his night. He walked from the wreck okay......Jerrod Nichols started the 4 Cylinder feature in 9th and finished 6th....Stevie Shull drove Ron Kibbe's #89 car and finished 7th....Kevin Mortimer came from 11th to finish 8th....Daytona Fenton was running 3rd after staring in 8th, when he slowed on the lap 9 restart with troubles that ended his night in 9th....Shawn Baker had troubles in hot laps that forced him to scratch for the night.
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