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Berg and Jose hold the winning hands Saturday night at Devils Lake Speedway

By Heather MacDonald

CRARY, ND (July 18) - WISSOTA Dirt Track Series racing returned to Devils Lake Speedway Saturday, July 18, with Jory Berg and Greg Jose making their way to victory lane.

In the track’s other action, rookie driver Rylan Swenson captured his first career feature victory Saturday night in the Pure Stock division after making an impressive pass on Joe Armstrong, while Nick Shirek captured the victory in the Western Renegade Sprints feature.

Greg Jose completed a clean sweep in the WISSOTA Street Stock division. Stoney Kruk redrew the pole with Waylon Poitra alongside him. Kruk led the opening laps before mechanical issues forced him to retire from the race. Jose inherited the lead on lap three and drove to his fifth consecutive feature victory. Drew Peterson put together a solid run to finish second, while Weston Ramsrud came home third. Rookie Andrew White finished fourth, and fellow rookie Logan Hayes rounded out the top five.

The WISSOTA Midwest Mods produced the race of the night. In the feature, Dusty Peterson started on the pole and led the opening laps ahead of Randy Thompson. By lap two, Kenna Breidenbach had charged forward four positions to take over the lead. Breidenbach and Berg then put on an outstanding side-by-side battle for much of the feature, exchanging the lead several times. Berg finally gained the advantage in the closing laps to secure his ninth feature victory of the 2026 season. Breidenbach finished a strong second, followed by Peterson in third. Ryne Uhrich finished fourth after slipping back one position, while Thompson rounded out the top five.

Armstrong jumped out to the early lead in the Pure Stock feature with Swenson close behind. Swenson used the high side of the speedway to make a clean pass for the lead and never looked back, driving away for his first career feature win. The victory came in just his ninth career Pure Stock start. Armstrong finished second.

Shirek grabbed the early lead in the Sprint feature, but was challenged throughout by Myles Tomlinson and Jeremy Lizakowski. Heavy lapped traffic became a factor early, but Shirek expertly worked through traffic and held off the hard-charging field behind him to earn his first feature victory of the season. Tomlinson finished second, followed by Lizakowski in third. Eric Guyot crossed the line fourth, while Ken Hron was fifth.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. B0-Jory Berg[8]; 2. 15-Kenna Breidenbach[4]; 3. 1-Dusty Peterson[1]; 4. 34-Ryne Uhrich[3]; 5. 16-Randy Thompson[2]; 6. 07-Carter Matthews[7]; 7. 66-Kyle Langland[5]; 8. 8-Jason Schuh[11]; 9. 21-Deveryn Malmlov[6]; 10. 12-Jaden Varnson[9]; 11. (DNF) 39C-Colin Dietzler[10]; 12. (DNF) 92-Nick Seitz[12]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Deveryn Malmlov[1]; 2. 16-Randy Thompson[2]; 3. 34-Ryne Uhrich[3]; 4. 66-Kyle Langland[4]; 5. 12-Jaden Varnson[5]; 6. (DNS) 92-Nick Seitz

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. B0-Jory Berg[3]; 2. 15-Kenna Breidenbach[1]; 3. 1-Dusty Peterson[2]; 4. 07-Carter Matthews[6]; 5. 39C-Colin Dietzler[4]; 6. 8-Jason Schuh[5]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 28-Greg Jose[3]; 2. 06-Drew Peterson[4]; 3. 67-Weston Ramsrud[5]; 4. 16-Andrew White[7]; 5. 00-Logan Hayes[6]; 6. 99-Jordan Barker[8]; 7. 7X-Waylon Poitra[2]; 8. (DNF) 69-Stoney Kruk[1]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 28-Greg Jose[3]; 2. 06-Drew Peterson[1]; 3. 67-Weston Ramsrud[2]; 4. 69-Stoney Kruk[5]; 5. 7X-Waylon Poitra[6]; 6. 00-Logan Hayes[7]; 7. 16-Andrew White[8]; 8. (DNF) 99-Jordan Barker[4]

Non-Winged Sprints:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 5H-Nick Shirek[2]; 2. 15T-Myles Tomlinson[4]; 3. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski[7]; 4. 25-Eric Guyot[10]; 5. 46H-Ken Hron[8]; 6. 21-Cory Palm[9]; 7. 52-Emma Sobolik[3]; 8. 21N-Bryan Nordrum[11]; 9. 18-Paul Tharalson[6]; 10. 15B-Doug Mccambridge[12]; 11. W5-Rod Fidler[13]; 12. 42-Caitlyn Palm[14]; 13. (DNF) 52S-Adam Sobolik[5]; 14. (DNS) 8-Parker Vilandre

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 52S-Adam Sobolik[6]; 2. 15T-Myles Tomlinson[3]; 3. 18-Paul Tharalson[2]; 4. 52-Emma Sobolik[5]; 5. 21-Cory Palm[4]; 6. 21N-Bryan Nordrum[1]; 7. W5-Rod Fidler[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 46H-Ken Hron[1]; 2. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski[5]; 3. 8-Parker Vilandre[2]; 4. 5H-Nick Shirek[4]; 5. 25-Eric Guyot[3]; 6. 15B-Doug Mccambridge[6]; 7. 42-Caitlyn Palm[7]

Pure Stocks:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 4-Rylan Swenson[2]; 2. 1CJ-Joe Armstrong[1]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 1CJ-Joe Armstrong[2]; 2. 4-Rylan Swenson[1]