OSKALOOSA — It was Musco Lighting Mid-Season Championships Night plus the IMCA Deery Brothers Summer Series IMCA Late Models in attendance to do battle on the big half mile.

Fans was treated to some awesome side-by-side action in all five classes and the A-modified class having the night off and will return next week and the final checkers flew before the rain and before 10PM.

First feature of the night was the Autocrafters/Whalen Racing IMCA Sport Compacts feature. Brad Chandler would take the early lead but on lap 3, Brad Chandler would now have to deal with his dad, Merv Chandler. They would rub with each other and it would be the racing veteran Merv Chandler taking the lead and going on to the his sixth win of the year at SIS. Brad Chandler would settle for second, Bill Whalen Jr was third, Cody Thompson was fourth and Ricky Kay was fifth.

In the Carter’s Manufacturing IMCA Stock Car feature, it was the caution coming out before a lap was completed when Leroy Groenendyk got sideways and forcing Zack Vanderbeek to slide. Neither car would have damage and be able to continue. Alan Van Gorp would jump out to the lead and appeared to be going on to the win until Damon Murty and Matt Greiner would battle for the lead. Murty would slip up allowing Greiner and Van Gorp to battle for the lead and it was Greiner sneaking by on lap 10. Greiner would go on and take the win, his second of the year at SIS. Van Gorp, Vanderbeek, Murty and Nathan Wood would round out the top 5.

Next up was the Tracy Elevator IMCA Hobby Stock feature and it was Jamie Songer getting out front early and not looking back as Songer would go on to his 1st win of the year at SIS. Last Week’s feature winne,r Bobby Greene, was second, points leader Shannon Anderson was third, Danny Thrasher was fourth and Mike Hughes was fifth.

The Pyramid Graphics and Sports IMCA SportMods feature would be a caution-filled feature. Bryan Weyer would jump out the early lead, but just after one lap was scored, the caution would come out for Bill Gibson going off turn 3. After another lap was completed, the caution would come out for Levi Laymon coming to a stop in turn 2. Weyer wouldn’t let that bother him but after two more laps were completed the caution would come out for debris on the topside of turn 2. The following two laps the caution would fly again for debris on lap 5 and lap 6. Weyer would lead the remaining three laps despite being chased down by Jesse Sobbing. Weyer took his third win of the year at SIS, Sobbing would take runner-up honors. Curtis VanDerWal, Carter VanDenBerg, Jason Hall and Tony Johnson finished third through fifth, respectiovely.

The final feature of the night was the IMCA Deery Brothers Summer Series for IMCA Late Models 35-lap feature. Ray Guss Jr. and Denny Eckrich would start on the front row and it was Eckrich jumping out to the lead and it appeared nothing was going to slow him down not even lap traffic until the only race caution came out on lap 20 for Justin Diercks sitting up in the topside of turn 2.

Eckrich would resume command and go on and take his second win of the Deery Season. Ray Guss Jr. was second, Todd Cooney was third, Jeff Aikey was fourth and Andy Eckrich was fifth. Sunoco Race Fuels $250 bonus goes to Jeff Mitrisin.

Next Wednesday Night the Southern Iowa Speedway will be Titan Machinery Pajama Night and also residents of Knoxville can get in for $5 which will feature all five weekly classes that include the Modifieds, Stock Cars, Sport Mods, Hobby Stocks and Sport Compacts. Hot Laps at 7 p.m. and Racing at 7:30 p.m. The following Wednesday will see an early start time as the Stock Cars will have teh Budweiser Stockcar Shootout and Fireworks after Races that night so Hot Laps will be at 5:30 pm and Racing at 6 pm.



Musco Lighting Mid-Season Championships

Southern Iowa Speedway

Autocrafters/Whalen Racing IMCA Sport Compacts

Feature — 1. Merv Chandler (Vinton); 2. Brad Chandler (Cedar Rapids); 3. Bill Whalen Jr. (Riverside); 4. Cody Thompson (Ainsworth); 5. Ricky Kay (Wheatland); 6. John Whalen (Ainsworth,); 7. Trent Orwig (Blakesburg). DNS — Ronald McCish (Union).

Heat — B. Chandler, M. Chandler, Kay, B. Whalen, J. Whalen, Thompson, McCish, Orwig.



Carter’s Manufacturing IMCA Stock Cars

Feature — 1. Matt Greiner (Washington); 2. Alan Van Gorp (Knoxville); 3. Zack Vanderbeek (New Sharon); 4. Damon Murty (Chelsea); 5. Nathan Wood (Sigourney); 6. 566 Jim Lynch (Donnellson, IA); 7. Cole Simmons (Morning Sun); 8. Alex Buffington (Wapello); 9 Todd Reitzler (Grinnell); 10. Corey Stout (Oskaloosa); 11. Todd Phillips (Packwood); 12. Steve Hill (Des Moines); 13. Leroy Groenendyk (Oskaloosa); 14. Clayton Garden (Oskaloosa); 15. Carl Yaw Jr. (Des Moines). DNS — Scott Seaman (Des Moines).

Heat 1 — Greiner, Murty, Reitzler, Groenendyk, Simmons, Hill, Buffington, Yaw.

Heat 2 — Wood, Stout, Lynch, Van Gorp, Vanderbeek, Phillips, Garden, Seaman.



Tracy Elevator IMCA Hobby Stocks

Feature — 1. Jamie Songer (Ankeny); 2. Bobby Greene (Eddyville); 3. Shannon Anderson (Urbandale); 4. Danny Thrasher (Agency); 5. Mike Hughes (Oskaloosa); 6. Dustin Griffiths (Ottumwa); 7. Kevin Fee (Knoxville); 8. Donavon Nunnikhoven (Sully); 9. Nick Ulin (Agency); 10. Justin Hook (Oskaloosa,); 11. Craig Brown (Eldon); 12. Jarred Gann (Sigourney); 13. Richard Yaw II (Pleasant Hill).

Heat 1 — Anderson, Songer, Greene, Nunnikhoven, Fee, Yaw II, Gann.

Heat 2 — Hughes, Hook, Griffiths, Thrasher, Brown, Ulin.



Pyramid Graphics and Sports IMCA SportMods

Feature — 1. Bryan Weyer (Des Moines); 2. Jesse Sobbing (Glenwood); 3. Curtis VanDerWal (Oskaloosa); 4. Carter VanDenBerg (Oskaloosa); 5. Jason Hall (Grinnell); 6. Tony Johnson (Oskaloosa); 7. Brett Lowry (Montezuma); 8. Eric Flander (Barnes City); 9. Adam Bell (Kalona); 10. 8 Tom Lathrop (Ottumwa); 11. Bobby Davis III (Des Moines); 12. Josh Modde (Des Moines); 13. Tyler Heckart (Ottumwa); 14. Jason McDaniel (Eldon); 15. Brayton Carter (Oskaloosa); 16. Levi Laymon (Muscatine); 17. Bill Gibson (Knoxville); 18. Joel Rust (Grundy Center).

Heat 1 — Flander, McDaniel, VanDerWal, Gibson, Rust, Laymon, Modde, Lathrop, Carter, Bell.

Heat 2 — Weyer, Sobbing, Lowry, Johnson, VanDenBerg, Davis III, Hall, Heckart.



Deery Brothers Summer Series IMCA Late Models

Feature — 1. Denny Eckrich (Tiffin); 2. Ray Guss Jr. (Milan, Ill.); 3. Todd Cooney (Des Moines); 4. Jeff Aikey (Cedar Falls); 5. Andy Eckrich (Oxford); 6. Mike Murphy Jr. (Colona, Ill.); 7. Kurt Kile (Nichols); 8. Jay Johnson (West Burlington); 9. Spencer Diercks (Davenport); 10. 99D Darrel DeFrance (Marshalltown); 11. Kevin Kile (West Liberty); 12. Colby Springsteen (Wapello); 13. Justin Kay (Wheatland); 14. Jay Chenoweth (Wapello); 15. Joel Callahan (Dubuque); 16. Jeff Mitrisin (Oskaloosa); 17. Tyler Bruening (Decorah); 18. Justin Diercks (Davenport); 19. Paul Glendenning (Mount Ayr); 20. Kevin Sather (Ankeny). DNS — Jason Utter (Columbus Junction,); Mike Klinkhammer (West Branch).

Heat 1 – A. Eckrich, Ku. Kile, Callahan, Aikey, Mitrisin, Glendenning, Kay, Bruening.

Heat 2 — Murphy, Johnson, Guss, S. Diercks, Sather, Ke. Kile, J. Diercks.

Heat 3 — D. Eckrich, Cooney, Utter, Springsteen, DeFrance, Chenoweth, Klinkhammer.