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Romuld, Strand and Greseth get Friday feature wins while four people honored with Hall Of Fame induction at River Cities

By Steven Young

GRAND FORKS, ND (August 1) - River Cities Speedway inducted four new members into its Hall of Fame Friday night, and more history was made later on in the evening when 16-year-old MaKenna Romuld won the WISSOTA Midwest Mod main event, becoming just the third female driver to win a feature at the Bullring in its 71 seasons.

During intermission, Todd Johnson, Pat Miller, Troy Schill, and Roger Srnsky entered the Hall of Fame, joining a prestigious list of members that have been inducted since 1990.

Other WISSOTA Dirt Track Series winners Friday included Dustin Strand and Cole Greseth.

Romuld and Brennan Schmidt led the WISSOTA Midwest Mod main event to the green flag. Romuld, last year's National Rookie of the Year, led the opening lap and continued out front following the first caution on lap three.

It was the beginning of many tense moments for Romuld, as the feature was slowed by a number of yellow flags. Romuld continued to lead following a lap four caution as Ryan Schow took over second when the race resumed.

Schow ducked to Romuld's inside for the first time with 14 to go and remained on the leader's back bumper until the third caution two laps later. Schmidt regained second when the green flew once more, and held it through the midway point as Romuld built her biggest advantage of the race to that point.

A pair of cautions with eight to go, including a five-car pileup at the bottom of turns one and two, brought the race to a full stop. The final eight laps were caution free as Romuld continued on to her first victory at the speedway ahead of Schow, Schmidt, Jory Berg, and Dean Eggebratten in the top five.

Romuld becomes the first female driver in the history of the track to win outside of the Lightning Sprint division.

Hall-of-Famer Tom Corcoran and Tucker Pederson paced the field at the start of the WISSOTA Late Model feature. Corcoran led the opening lap, but Pederson moved to his outside on lap two and took the lead, bringing Dustin Strand with him into second.

On lap four, Strand moved to Pederson’s inside for the first time, but was unable to take the top spot. Pederson continued the lead until the first and only caution on lap six. Tyler Peterson used the restart to his advantage, moving into third with the top three remaining within striking distance for the lead.

Strand took the lead on lap seven and was already out front by half a straightaway in the lap that followed. Strand led by a straightaway at the midway point as Peterson made it past Tucker Pederson for second, though the latter pulled even to his inside on a couple of occasions in the lap that followed.

Tyler Peterson made the second spot his for good as Strand started working lapped traffic. In the closing laps, and in heavy lapped traffic, Peterson pulled to within a car length of Strand - and briefly nosing in front in turn two, but Strand got the run off turns three and four around the bottom and made it to the checkered flag first for his sixth Late Model victory at the speedway this season. Tucker Pederson, Brody Troftgruben, and Joey Pederson rounded out the top five.

John Halvorson and Greg Jose brought the WISSOTA Street Stock feature to green, with Jose taking the lead down the backstretch while Cole Greseth moved to Halvorson's outside to take second. It didn't take long for the top two to pull away from the rest of the field, as the lead duo opened up a 10-car length advantage over Halverson.

By the midway point, the leaders remained nose to tail and had built a straightaway advantage over the rest of the field. With six to go, Jose held the lead as he nearly made contact with a lapped car, but continued to hold off Greseth for the top spot.

With three to go, Jose hit an infield tractor tire in-between turns one and two, allowing Greseth to move to his outside and take the lead. Greseth then put a lapped car between himself and Jose, and led the final three laps to pick up his seventh win at the Bullring this season.

Halvorson, Chris Ekren, and Josh Barker rounded out the top five.

Mark Dobmeier won his third NOSA Sprint car feature.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[4]; 2. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[7]; 3. 27P-Tucker Pederson[2]; 4. 14-Brody Troftgruben[5]; 5. 7P-Joey Pederson[6]; 6. 12S-Brad Seng[10]; 7. T 1-Tom Corcoran[1]; 8. 2S-Matt Schow[3]; 9. 22-Jack Koranda[12]; 10. 39-Jamie Dietzler[8]; 11. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[9]; 12. 21S-John Seng[13]; 13. 25-Jamie Trautner[17]; 14. 10-Mike Balcaen[19]; 15. 11-Troy Schill[11]; 16. F9-Brandon Fuller[14]; 17. 16S-Jeff Hapala[16]; 18. 93-Kelsi Pederson[15]; 19. 42-Matthew Jarvis[18]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[3]; 2. 7P-Joey Pederson[6]; 3. 12S-Brad Seng[2]; 4. 11-Troy Schill[5]; 5. F9-Brandon Fuller[7]; 6. 25-Jamie Trautner[1]; 7. (DNF) 10-Mike Balcaen[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 39-Jamie Dietzler[2]; 2. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[3]; 3. 27P-Tucker Pederson[6]; 4. 22-Jack Koranda[5]; 5. 93-Kelsi Pederson[4]; 6. 42-Matthew Jarvis[1]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 14-Brody Troftgruben[1]; 2. 2S-Matt Schow[4]; 3. T 1-Tom Corcoran[3]; 4. 21S-John Seng[2]; 5. 16S-Jeff Hapala[6]; 6. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[5]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 15-MaKenna Romuld[1]; 2. 28S-Ryan Schow[5]; 3. 32B-Brennan Schmidt[2]; 4. BO-Jory Berg[15]; 5. 6-Dean Eggebraaten[4]; 6. 47K-Memphis Klassen[3]; 7. 29-Cylen Vargason[9]; 8. 3L-Logan Salazar[11]; 9. 18X-Connor Drewry[12]; 10. 44-Austin Hunter[6]; 11. 08-Frank Veert[7]; 12. 54-Terry Nelson[16]; 13. 15TRX-Chris Edmonds[17]; 14. 33L-Cejay LaValley[13]; 15. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski[14]; 16. (DNF) 2S-Matt Schow[10]; 17. (DNF) 47-Malachi Klassen[8]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 15-MaKenna Romuld[1]; 2. 32B-Brennan Schmidt[3]; 3. 6-Dean Eggebraaten[5]; 4. 47K-Memphis Klassen[2]; 5. 29-Cylen Vargason[7]; 6. 3L-Logan Salazar[9]; 7. 33L-Cejay LaValley[8]; 8. (DNF) BO-Jory Berg[6]; 9. (DNF) 15TRX-Chris Edmonds[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 47-Malachi Klassen[2]; 2. 44-Austin Hunter[3]; 3. 28S-Ryan Schow[5]; 4. 08-Frank Veert[4]; 5. 2S-Matt Schow[6]; 6. 18X-Connor Drewry[7]; 7. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski[1]; 8. (DNF) 54-Terry Nelson[8]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 19-Cole Greseth[5]; 2. 28-Greg Jose[2]; 3. 35-John Halvorson[1]; 4. 37-Chris Ekren[3]; 5. 99-Josh Barker[7]; 6. 49-Rodney Hulst[6]; 7. 5-Royce Jawaski[9]; 8. 29-Rachael McNamee[8]; 9. 03-Bryce Reimer[4]; 10. (DNS) B1*-Blaine Barnes

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Cole Greseth[5]; 2. 35-John Halvorson[1]; 3. 37-Chris Ekren[4]; 4. 29-Rachael McNamee[2]; 5. (DNF) B1*-Blaine Barnes[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 28-Greg Jose[2]; 2. 99-Josh Barker[4]; 3. 03-Bryce Reimer[5]; 4. 49-Rodney Hulst[3]; 5. 5-Royce Jawaski[1]

410 Sprints - Winged:

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[6]; 2. 27-Weston Olson[11]; 3. 26-Blake Egeland[1]; 4. 10-Alex Truscinski[10]; 5. 11M-Wade Nygaard[8]; 6. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[4]; 7. 12-Austin Pierce[12]; 8. 64-Andy Pake[3]; 9. 17-Zach Omdahl[9]; 10. 8H-Jade Hastings[2]; 11. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[13]; 12. 14-Tom Egeland[15]; 13. 72K-Kate Taves[17]; 14. 41T-Travis Strandell[18]; 15. 6-Zach Wilde[21]; 16. (DNF) 00-Jack Croaker[7]; 17. (DNF) 4-Colton Young[14]; 18. (DNF) 99JR-Brody Graham[20]; 19. (DNF) 49-Kim Young[16]; 20. (DNF) 0-Nick Omdahl[5]; 21. (DNS) 52-Adam Sobolik; 22. (DNS) 50-Brad Flaten

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[4]; 2. 8H-Jade Hastings[2]; 3. 17-Zach Omdahl[1]; 4. 27-Weston Olson[3]; 5. 4-Colton Young[7]; 6. (DNF) 49-Kim Young[8]; 7. (DNF) 6-Zach Wilde[6]; 8. (DNF) 52-Adam Sobolik[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 64-Andy Pake[3]; 2. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[2]; 3. 10-Alex Truscinski[5]; 4. 12-Austin Pierce[1]; 5. 0-Nick Omdahl[4]; 6. (DNF) 99JR-Brody Graham[6]; 7. (DNF) 50-Brad Flaten[7]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 11M-Wade Nygaard[2]; 2. 00-Jack Croaker[3]; 3. 26-Blake Egeland[4]; 4. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[1]; 5. 14-Tom Egeland[6]; 6. 72K-Kate Taves[5]; 7. 41T-Travis Strandell[7]