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Prelude To The Johnny features go to Mass, Thomas, Randt and Greseth at River Cities Speedway

GRAND FORKS, ND (September 10) - The Prelude to the Johnny kicked off John Seitz Memorial weekend action Thursday, September 10 at River Cities Speedway.

Full programs in the WISSOTA Late Models, Modifieds, Midwest Mods and Street Stocks were on tap for race fans in Grand Forks, and winners parking their rides in victory lane included Dave Mass, Joseph Thomas, Landyn Randt and Cole Greseth.

Keith Tourville, Justin Vogel and Cole Greseth were the hornet’s nest of action up front to start the WISSOTA Street Stock feature. After trading sliders, Vogel edged out into the lead, while Greseth used the low side to take second. Tourville was third, and Blaine Barnes was fourth. Greg Jose was fifth before Parker Anderson got by with five laps in the books.

Anderson continued his charge to the front and took fourth, while out front Greseth continued to chip away at Vogel’s lead. A caution for Jose, who had drifted back through the field and had a flat tire, held the field under caution.

Back under green, Vogel held the lead as Tourville and Greseth raced side by side for second and Anderson poked his racer into the fight for top-five positioning. Greseth took the lead from Vogel and had a narrow advantage, as Vogel continued to work the high side and Greseth remained on the bottom. The advantage for Greseth with eight to go was a scant .110 of a second.

With four laps to go Greseth worked his way through lapped traffic and increased his lead, but Vogel fought back along the top side once again. Another lapped car in the preferred lane held Greseth up slightly, but he was able to hold on and grab the victory ahead of Vogel by .444 of a second. Tourville, Anderson and Hunter Carter finished in the top five.

Austin Hunter and Landyn Randt brought the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds to the green flag, but a caution before a lap could be completed regrouped the field.

Back underway Randt escaped to the early advantage, as Hunter fought off Dylan McCaughan and Matt Schow for second; Schow and Hunter made contact, while McCaughan drove into second. Another caution regrouped the field.

Randt remained the leader under green with just two laps complete, as Schow slipped past McCaughan for second. Berg did the same for third as McCaughan slipped back through the field and settled in fifth behind Berg before another wreck made turn three a parking lot.

Back under green Randt held the lead, while Berg and Schow argued over second, exchanging the position back and forth. McCaughan was steady in fourth, ahead of Hunter in fifth with 12 laps to go. Two laps later Hunter was applying heavy pressure on McCaughan, while out front Randt’s advantage had grown to more than 2.5 seconds.

Randt was stellar in lapped traffic and worked his way through in the waning laps to take the win ahead of Berg, Schow, McCaughan and Hunter in the top five.

Joseph Thomas and Ward Imrie were the leaders to the green in the WISSOTA Modifieds, with Thomas besting Imrie out of turn four for the top spot. One lap later Ryan Gierke took third from Cole Chernosky, before Chernosky returned the favor with four complete. Scott Greer was fifth, just ahead of a charging Tyler Peterson.

With six laps in the books Thomas remained in control, with Imrie second and Chernosky third. Peterson slid past Gierke with nine laps completed for fourth.

As Thomas added to his 2.5-second lead out front, Imrie struggled with a lapped car and Chernosky and Peterson closed in. Peterson took third at the stripe with 12 laps to go, before a caution a lap later regrouped the field.

It was a two-car shootout out front for the lead back under green, as Peterson drove by into the top spot past Thomas. Gierke was third, Imrie was fourth, and Bryce Sward cracked the top five.

Peterson had a little less than a 1-second lead before the caution fell again with seven laps complete for a spun Scott Greer.

With the green flying back over the field, Thomas had a great restart and was nearly side by side with Peterson coming out of turn four. Peterson bobbled in turn two along the high side and Thomas shot back past into the lead. Gierke was third, Sward was fourth and Chernosky was fifth.

Thomas remained in control in the remaining laps, while Gierke displaced Peterson for second before the checkered flag. Sward completed his charge from 12th at the start to finish fourth, and Chernosky was fifth.

Dave Mass and A.J. Diemel brought the field of NLRA WISSOTA Late Models to the green flag, with Mass holding the early advantage until lap three, when Diemel used the high side momentum to drive by for the top spot. Dustin Strand was third, Shane Edginton was fourth, and Zach Johnson was fifth to complete the first five laps.

With the top side treacherous, Diemel was able to pull away slightly when Mass bobbled in turn two, but two lanes of lapped traffic were just ahead for Diemel. In the race for the NLRA championship, Strand continued to hold third over Edginton in fourth, and Johnson remained in fifth with 11 laps complete.

As the laps continued to click off, Diemel and Mass took turns trying both high and low lanes to gain the advantage over one another. Back and forth they battled for the lead through lapped traffic. Strand and Edginton continued to hold third and fourth, respectively, and Johnson was fifth.

With three to go, the high side momentum out of turn two paid off for Mass, who shot past Diemel for the lead. From there he took the checkered flag and opening night check. Diemel, Strand, Edginton and James Giossi completed the top five.

Edginton’s fourth-place finish was good enough to secure the NLRA Series Championship.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 2M-Dave Mass[1]; 2. 89-AJ Diemel[2]; 3. 71-Dustin Strand[4]; 4. 5E-Shane Edginton[6]; 5. 11-James Giossi[10]; 6. 10-Chad Olsen[8]; 7. 73-Zach Johnson[5]; 8. 14-Brody Troftgruben[7]; 9. 8-Travis Robertson[3]; 10. 85-Jayson Good[14]; 11. 7P-Joey Pederson[20]; 12. 28-Sam Mars[22]; 13. 44*-Cole Schill[12]; 14. E85-Jason Strand[17]; 15. 2S-Josh Skorczewski[21]; 16. 12-Chad Becker[11]; 17. 12S-Brad Seng[23]; 18. 17-Mike Greseth[27]; 19. 93-Kelsi Pederson[25]; 20. 6-Nick Corbett[16]; 21. 19-Lucas Rodin[24]; 22. (DNF) 33TPO-Tyler Peterson[19]; 23. (DNF) 4C-Brandon Corbett[26]; 24. (DNF) 6T-Aaron Turnbull[18]; 25. (DNF) 29K-Ryan Kereluk[15]; 26. (DNF) 37-Cody Overton[13]; 27. (DNF) 33-Ryan Dahl[9]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 10-Chad Olsen[4]; 2. 89-AJ Diemel[5]; 3. E85-Jason Strand[3]; 4. 55C-Chad Mahder[1]; 5. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[9]; 6. 27P-Tucker Pederson[8]; 7. 93-Kelsi Pederson[2]; 8. 25-Jamie Trautner[7]; 9. 22B-Josh Beaulieu[10]; 10. 2K-Rusty Kollman[6]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 73-Zach Johnson[3]; 2. 14-Brody Troftgruben[5]; 3. 44*-Cole Schill[7]; 4. 39-Jamie Dietzler[1]; 5. 33TPO-Tyler Peterson[9]; 6. 1S-Konner Sperle[4]; 7. 00-Mitch Johnson[2]; 8. 19-Lucas Rodin[6]; 9. 00H-Ben Hunt[8]

Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 5E-Shane Edginton[4]; 2. 85-Jayson Good[3]; 3. 10CO-Charlie Olsen[1]; 4. 24S-Mike Stearns[5]; 5. 6T-Aaron Turnbull[6]; 6. 27-Jake Redetzke[7]; 7. 57H-Nathan Higginbotham[2]; 8. 4-Dylan Langevin[8]; 9. 17T-Talon Seckerson[9]

Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[8]; 2. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[3]; 3. 37-Cody Overton[7]; 4. 7P-Joey Pederson[9]; 5. 49-Collin Compson[6]; 6. 2-Matt Schow[4]; 7. (DNF) 13-Bryan LePier[1]; 8. (DNF) 56-Laine Schwehr[2]; 9. (DNF) 6R-Nate Reynolds[5]

Heat 5 (10 Laps): 1. 8-Travis Robertson[3]; 2. 11-James Giossi[4]; 3. 02-Dan Dowling[1]; 4. 12S-Brad Seng[5]; 5. 28-Sam Mars[7]; 6. 17-Mike Greseth[9]; 7. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[8]; 8. 77-Corey Seckerson[2]; 9. 5-John Buchner[6]

Heat 6 (10 Laps): 1. 2M-Dave Mass[1]; 2. 6-Nick Corbett[3]; 3. 18-Chase Gelling[5]; 4. 21S-John Seng[2]; 5. 50-Gavin Tarras[7]; 6. 37JR-Ty Giles[8]; 7. 90-Lance Matthees[9]; 8. 07HD-Jesse Mckuski[6]; 9. (DNF) 15X-Blake Boelens[4]

Heat 7 (10 Laps): 1. 33-Ryan Dahl[1]; 2. 12-Chad Becker[4]; 3. 22-Jack Koranda[5]; 4. 10C-Cole Searing[7]; 5. 5G-Scott Greer[2]; 6. 12F-Greg Friestad[3]; 7. 2S-Josh Skorczewski[6]; 8. 70-Jesse Teunis[8]; 9. 4C-Brandon Corbett[9]

B Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. E85-Jason Strand[3]; 2. 7P-Joey Pederson[1]; 3. 10C-Cole Searing[2]; 4. 37JR-Ty Giles[8]; 5. 24S-Mike Stearns[4]; 6. 1S-Konner Sperle[9]; 7. 39-Jamie Dietzler[5]; 8. 50-Gavin Tarras[6]; 9. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[10]; 10. 56-Laine Schwehr[16]; 11. 57H-Nathan Higginbotham[11]; 12. 4C-Brandon Corbett[15]; 13. (DNF) 4-Dylan Langevin[13]; 14. (DNF) 19-Lucas Rodin[12]; 15. (DNF) 17-Mike Greseth[7]; 16. (DNF) 5-John Buchner[14]

B Feature 2 (15 Laps): 1. 6T-Aaron Turnbull[6]; 2. 2S-Josh Skorczewski[11]; 3. 18-Chase Gelling[1]; 4. 12S-Brad Seng[4]; 5. 93-Kelsi Pederson[10]; 6. 70-Jesse Teunis[13]; 7. 2-Matt Schow[9]; 8. 15X-Blake Boelens[16]; 9. 5G-Scott Greer[7]; 10. 2K-Rusty Kollman[15]; 11. 07HD-Jesse Mckuski[12]; 12. 00H-Ben Hunt[14]; 13. (DNF) 21S-John Seng[5]; 14. (DNS) 10CO-Charlie Olsen; 15. (DNS) 15-Laela Eisenschenk; 16. (DNS) 27-Jake Redetzke

B Feature 3 (15 Laps): 1. 33TPO-Tyler Peterson[3]; 2. 28-Sam Mars[5]; 3. 22-Jack Koranda[1]; 4. 55C-Chad Mahder[4]; 5. 22B-Josh Beaulieu[13]; 6. 12F-Greg Friestad[8]; 7. 90-Lance Matthees[9]; 8. 27P-Tucker Pederson[7]; 9. 13-Bryan LePier[15]; 10. 02-Dan Dowling[2]; 11. 25-Jamie Trautner[12]; 12. 49-Collin Compson[6]; 13. 77-Corey Seckerson[11]; 14. 17T-Talon Seckerson[14]; 15. (DNS) 00-Mitch Johnson; 16. (DNS) 6R-Nate Reynolds

WISSOTA Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 6T-Joseph Thomas[2]; 2. 26G-Ryan Gierke[3]; 3. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[7]; 4. 6X-Bryce Sward[12]; 5. 33C-Cole Chernosky[4]; 6. 10W-Ward Imrie[1]; 7. 8-Dustin Strand[11]; 8. 24S-Mike Stearns[16]; 9. 11W-Justin Weinberger[6]; 10. 40D-Blake Adams[10]; 11. 7-Bryce Borgen[9]; 12. 21S-Travis Saurer[13]; 13. 50-Aaron Holtan[15]; 14. 16-Brenden Luschinski[14]; 15. 1R-Rick Delaine[8]; 16. 81-Jordan Duray[22]; 17. 5G-Scott Greer[5]; 18. 74-Dustin Wahl[20]; 19. 39-Shawn Teunis[17]; 20. 11-Loki Bjerke[23]; 21. 51A-Avery Anderson[24]; 22. (DNF) 21XXX-Randy Klein[21]; 23. (DNF) 22-Davey Mills[19]; 24. (DNS) 5C-Preston Carr

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10W-Ward Imrie[2]; 2. 11W-Justin Weinberger[4]; 3. 7-Bryce Borgen[6]; 4. 50-Aaron Holtan[5]; 5. 39-Shawn Teunis[7]; 6. 81-Jordan Duray[1]; 7. 51A-Avery Anderson[9]; 8. 57-Michael Tiani[8]; 9. (DNF) 88-Tanner Williamson[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 6T-Joseph Thomas[2]; 2. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[3]; 3. 16-Brenden Luschinski[1]; 4. 6X-Bryce Sward[8]; 5. 5C-Preston Carr[4]; 6. 22-Davey Mills[7]; 7. 40-Patrick Sobolik[6]; 8. 25-Ryan Johnson[9]; 9. 96-Erv Grossman[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Chernosky[1]; 2. 40D-Blake Adams[2]; 3. 26G-Ryan Gierke[8]; 4. 24S-Mike Stearns[4]; 5. 21XXX-Randy Klein[3]; 6. 2G-Brock Gronwold[6]; 7. 4B-Brandon Rehill[5]; 8. 33G-Connor Graff[7]; 9. 18P-Tevin Poluyko[9]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 5G-Scott Greer[1]; 2. 1R-Rick Delaine[3]; 3. 8-Dustin Strand[5]; 4. 21S-Travis Saurer[8]; 5. 11-Loki Bjerke[2]; 6. 74-Dustin Wahl[4]; 7. 77R-Ryan Schroeder[7]; 8. 14F-Blake Ferris[6]

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 39-Shawn Teunis[1]; 2. 5C-Preston Carr[4]; 3. 22-Davey Mills[5]; 4. 74-Dustin Wahl[7]; 5. 21XXX-Randy Klein[3]; 6. 81-Jordan Duray[6]; 7. 11-Loki Bjerke[2]; 8. 51A-Avery Anderson[9]; 9. 14F-Blake Ferris[14]; 10. 40-Patrick Sobolik[11]; 11. 33G-Connor Graff[15]; 12. 25-Ryan Johnson[13]; 13. 77R-Ryan Schroeder[12]; 14. 88-Tanner Williamson[19]; 15. 4B-Brandon Rehill[10]; 16. 18P-Tevin Poluyko[18]; 17. 57-Michael Tiani[16]; 18. 2G-Brock Gronwold[8]; 19. 96-Erv Grossman[17]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 11R-Landyn Randt[2]; 2. BO-Jory Berg[5]; 3. 2S-Matt Schow[3]; 4. 77X-Dylan McCaughan[4]; 5. 44-Austin Hunter[1]; 6. 169-Justin Olson[6]; 7. 87S-Reise Stenberg[9]; 8. 18X-Connor Drewry[15]; 9. 1-Jake Wranek[8]; 10. 28S-Ryan Schow[13]; 11. 29X-Brandon Bahr[7]; 12. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[12]; 13. 15B-Kenna Breidenbach[17]; 14. 17-Zach Beaulieu[22]; 15. 35-Tanner Theis[18]; 16. 33L-Cejay LaValley[16]; 17. 15TBD-Fritz Myers[20]; 18. 4X-Phil Christlieb[19]; 19. 07HD-Aiden McKuski[24]; 20. E15-Mavrik Strand[23]; 21. 92-Nick Seitz[21]; 22. (DNF) 33A-Austin Overwater[25]; 23. (DNF) 47K-Memphis Klassen[14]; 24. (DNF) 1Z-Dawson Zabel[10]; 25. (DNF) 15-Landon Gross[11]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 87S-Reise Stenberg[1]; 2. 77X-Dylan McCaughan[6]; 3. 39-Colin Dietzler[3]; 4. 17-Zach Beaulieu[2]; 5. 15B-Kenna Breidenbach[8]; 6. 33A-Austin Overwater[4]; 7. E15-Mavrik Strand[7]; 8. 52-Maddie Swenson[5]; 9. 4BJR-Hunter Besson[9]; 10. 7-Kody Machart[10]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11R-Landyn Randt[4]; 2. 169-Justin Olson[5]; 3. 2S-Matt Schow[10]; 4. 6-Dean Eggebraaten[6]; 5. 4X-Phil Christlieb[9]; 6. 57-Nathan Raasakka[3]; 7. (DNF) 99MC-James Irwin[1]; 8. (DNF) 4-Nick Perry[2]; 9. (DNF) 57H-Blake Higginbotham[8]; 10. (DNF) 15TRX-Chris Edmonds[7]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Austin Hunter[9]; 2. 29X-Brandon Bahr[5]; 3. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[6]; 4. 47K-Memphis Klassen[8]; 5. 29-Cylen Vargason[1]; 6. 08-Frank Veert[3]; 7. 07HD-Aiden McKuski[7]; 8. M47-Maddox Klassen[4]; 9. 13-Nicholas Jessen[10]; 10. (DNF) 1P-Dusty Peterson[2]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 1Z-Dawson Zabel[1]; 2. 28S-Ryan Schow[2]; 3. 15-Landon Gross[7]; 4. 92-Nick Seitz[3]; 5. 54-Terry Nelson[5]; 6. 14-Lindsay Durocher[6]; 7. 12-Ryan Johnson[4]; 8. (DNF) 77JR-Brody Kraft[9]; 9. (DNF) 88X-Jacksyn Thornton[8]

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. BO-Jory Berg[2]; 2. 1-Jake Wranek[5]; 3. 33L-Cejay LaValley[1]; 4. 18X-Connor Drewry[7]; 5. 35-Tanner Theis[9]; 6. 15TBD-Fritz Myers[3]; 7. 11K-Travis Klein[4]; 8. 469-Aaden Olson[8]; 9. 17S-Nick Shumansky[6]

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 15B-Kenna Breidenbach[3]; 2. 4X-Phil Christlieb[2]; 3. 92-Nick Seitz[4]; 4. E15-Mavrik Strand[9]; 5. 08-Frank Veert[6]; 6. 7-Kody Machart[13]; 7. 57H-Blake Higginbotham[15]; 8. 54-Terry Nelson[5]; 9. 469-Aaden Olson[11]; 10. 17S-Nick Shumansky[12]; 11. M47-Maddox Klassen[10]; 12. 33A-Austin Overwater[7]; 13. (DNF) 39-Colin Dietzler[1]; 14. (DNS) 1P-Dusty Peterson; 15. (DNS) 77JR-Brody Kraft; 16. (DNS) 12-Ryan Johnson

B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 35-Tanner Theis[2]; 2. 15TBD-Fritz Myers[6]; 3. 17-Zach Beaulieu[3]; 4. 07HD-Aiden McKuski[9]; 5. 4BJR-Hunter Besson[12]; 6. 13-Nicholas Jessen[11]; 7. 11K-Travis Klein[8]; 8. 15TRX-Chris Edmonds[16]; 9. 52-Maddie Swenson[10]; 10. 12-Ryan Johnson; 11. 29-Cylen Vargason[4]; 12. (DNF) 6-Dean Eggebraaten[1]; 13. (DNF) 88X-Jacksyn Thornton[15]; 14. (DNF) 14-Lindsay Durocher[7]; 15. (DNF) 99MC-James Irwin[13]; 16. (DNF) 4-Nick Perry[14]; 17. (DNS) 57-Nathan Raasakka

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 19-Cole Greseth[3]; 2. 10V-Justin Vogel[2]; 3. 111-Keith Tourville[1]; 4. 27-Parker Anderson[7]; 5. 19H-Hunter Carter[9]; 6. 49-John Halvorson[6]; 7. B1*-Blaine Barnes[5]; 8. 10T-Darek Turner[8]; 9. 11-Levi Randt[19]; 10. 00-Dustin Ebensteiner[10]; 11. 99-Josh Barker[11]; 12. 29P-Charlie Paradis[13]; 13. 77-Adam Dehne[12]; 14. 91-Shane Swenson[18]; 15. 69-Stoney Kruk[17]; 16. 00H-Logan Hayes[16]; 17. 15-Rodney Hulst[14]; 18. 105-Terry Blacklance[15]; 19. (DNF) 28-Greg Jose[4]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Cole Greseth[1]; 2. 28-Greg Jose[3]; 3. 111-Keith Tourville[10]; 4. 10T-Darek Turner[6]; 5. 19H-Hunter Carter[8]; 6. 77-Adam Dehne[4]; 7. 29P-Charlie Paradis[7]; 8. 15-Rodney Hulst[5]; 9. 105-Terry Blacklance[2]; 10. (DNF) 11-Levi Randt[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 10V-Justin Vogel[2]; 2. B1*-Blaine Barnes[1]; 3. 49-John Halvorson[5]; 4. 27-Parker Anderson[7]; 5. 99-Josh Barker[4]; 6. 00-Dustin Ebensteiner[9]; 7. (DNF) 00H-Logan Hayes[6]; 8. (DNF) 69-Stoney Kruk[3]; 9. (DNF) 91-Shane Swenson[8]