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Troy Leiker (Char Hurd Photo)
Leiker completes sweep of Midwest Mod mains at Billings while Petroff posts third Streeter win at Big Sky
BILLINGS, MT (June 14) - Troy Leiker completed the sweep of the Mountain States Modified Tour doubleheader at Big Sky Speedway on Saturday. The Gillette driver won his second of the weekend in the Midwest Modifieds, while Robert Petroff grabbed a WISSOTA win as well in the Street Stocks.
Although Leiker started from the pole position in the 30-lap WISSOTA Midwest Modified main event, he failed to run away without a challenge. He paced the opening third of the race before losing the top spot, only to regain the lead with about six laps left. The victory was Leiker's third of the season in four starts at the speedway. Tony Leiker advanced from seventh at the start to steal second in the late going. Mario Berger, who led the middle stages of the contest, settled for third with Rod Lorenz fourth and Justin Elmer fifth.
Petroff snatched his third WISSOTA Street Stock win of the season at the Montana oval. He started on the pole en route to victory in the 20-lap main event. Anthony Cacace crossed the stripe in second ahead of Dalton Stephenson, Dillon Hoppe and Matt Riesinger.
Robert Petroff (Char Hurd Photo)
Bryson Yeager topped the IMCA Modified feature over Ken Schrader, Kinzer McCord, Joey Price and Jeremy Meirhofer.
SUMMARY
WISSOTA Midwest Mods:
A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 17-Troy Leiker[1]; 2. 18-Tony Leiker[7]; 3. 73-Mario Berger[8]; 4. 2-Rod Lorenz[2]; 5. 4E-Justin Elmer[9]; 6. 369-Bart Taylor[17]; 7. X3-Shawn Reed[14]; 8. 31-Scott Hansen[13]; 9. 4-Darin Hauff[11]; 10. 20S-Shay Evig[15]; 11. 27-Chandler Ingle[12]; 12. 87Z-David Hangsleben[19]; 13. 42-Stephen Schicketanz II[10]; 14. B1-Brock Salsbury[20]; 15. 94R-Ryan Nash[18]; 16. 23-Jake Schye[22]; 17. 32-Justin Stoner[23]; 18. 11W-Conner Carter[21]; 19. 24-Ronn Green[24]; 20. (DNF) 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[4]; 21. (DNF) 12S-Chad Switzenberg[3]; 22. (DNF) 9-Griffen Switzenberg[6]; 23. (DNF) 65-Cory Wilder[16]; 24. (DNF) 81-Jake Bosch[5]
B Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 369-Bart Taylor[6]; 2. 94R-Ryan Nash[10]; 3. 87Z-David Hangsleben[4]; 4. B1-Brock Salsbury[3]; 5. 11W-Conner Carter[13]; 6. 23-Jake Schye[14]; 7. 32-Justin Stoner[7]; 8. 24-Ronn Green[11]; 9. (DNF) 94-Michael Rogers[9]; 10. (DNF) 25-Justin Will[2]; 11. (DNF) 20-Brady Lorenz[5]; 12. (DNF) 29-Ty Miller[1]; 13. (DNS) 28-Dawson Stoner; 14. (DNS) 9K-Spencer Krueger
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[2]; 2. 73-Mario Berger[5]; 3. 4E-Justin Elmer[4]; 4. 31-Scott Hansen[6]; 5. 29-Ty Miller[8]; 6. 20-Brady Lorenz[1]; 7. 94-Michael Rogers[7]; 8. 11W-Conner Carter[3]
Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 2-Rod Lorenz[1]; 2. 9-Griffen Switzenberg[5]; 3. 42-Stephen Schicketanz II[4]; 4. X3-Shawn Reed[6]; 5. 25-Justin Will[8]; 6. 369-Bart Taylor[7]; 7. 94R-Ryan Nash[2]; 8. 23-Jake Schye[3]
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 17-Troy Leiker[1]; 2. 18-Tony Leiker[5]; 3. 4-Darin Hauff[7]; 4. 20S-Shay Evig[2]; 5. B1-Brock Salsbury[6]; 6. 32-Justin Stoner[3]; 7. 24-Ronn Green[4]
Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 12S-Chad Switzenberg[6]; 2. 81-Jake Bosch[5]; 3. 27-Chandler Ingle[1]; 4. 65-Cory Wilder[7]; 5. 87Z-David Hangsleben[4]; 6. (DNF) 28-Dawson Stoner[2]; 7. (DNF) 9K-Spencer Krueger[3]
WISSOTA Street Stocks:
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 11-Robert Petroff[1]; 2. IO-Anthony Cacace[2]; 3. 22D-Dalton Stephenson[7]; 4. 14D-Dillon Hoppe[3]; 5. B33R-Matt Riesinger[11]; 6. 29-Darryn Waldo[5]; 7. 13D-Kayla Pelissier[10]; 8. 14X-Jeremy Castro[8]; 9. 45T-Conner Carter[12]; 10. 66S-Patrick Salway[9]; 11. (DNF) 62-Dylan Stephenson[4]; 12. (DNF) 21JR-Caden Craver[6]; 13. (DNF) 30-Bob Gordon[13]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. IO-Anthony Cacace[2]; 2. 21JR-Caden Craver[1]; 3. 11-Robert Petroff[7]; 4. 29-Darryn Waldo[3]; 5. 66S-Patrick Salway[6]; 6. B33R-Matt Riesinger[5]; 7. (DNF) 30-Bob Gordon[4]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 14X-Jeremy Castro[6]; 2. 62-Dylan Stephenson[1]; 3. 14D-Dillon Hoppe[2]; 4. 22D-Dalton Stephenson[5]; 5. 13D-Kayla Pelissier[3]; 6. 45T-Conner Carter[4]
IMCA Modifieds:
A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 33Y-Bryson Yeager[5]; 2. 9-Ken Schrader[2]; 3. 157-Kinzer McCord[4]; 4. 41-Joey Price[7]; 5. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[11]; 6. 369-Bart Taylor[13]; 7. 21-Cory Craver[10]; 8. 57-Jason George[1]; 9. 33BY-Braxton Yeager[9]; 10. 45-Travis Davis[16]; 11. 12DF-Dwayne Fowler[3]; 12. 71-Byran Bettcher[6]; 13. 2-Rod Lorenz[8]; 14. 46-Bert Beech[17]; 15. 2B-Kenny Baumann[12]; 16. 20-Brady Lorenz[15]; 17. 7R-James Rowley[14]; 18. 13-Bryan Wier[19]; 19. (DNF) 81-Don Hildebrandt[20]; 20. (DNF) 7-Tracy Wittenberg[18]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 12DF-Dwayne Fowler[2]; 2. 33Y-Bryson Yeager[3]; 3. 41-Joey Price[5]; 4. 21-Cory Craver[4]; 5. 369-Bart Taylor[1]; 6. 45-Travis Davis[7]; 7. 13-Bryan Wier[6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 57-Jason George[3]; 2. 71-Byran Bettcher[5]; 3. 2-Rod Lorenz[2]; 4. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[6]; 5. 7R-James Rowley[4]; 6. 46-Bert Beech[1]; 7. 81-Don Hildebrandt[7]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 9-Ken Schrader[1]; 2. 157-Kinzer McCord[5]; 3. 33BY-Braxton Yeager[6]; 4. 2B-Kenny Baumann[2]; 5. 20-Brady Lorenz[3]; 6. 7-Tracy Wittenberg[4]