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Searing and Meirhofer split WISSOTA wins during first of two nights at Big Sky Speedway

BILLINGS, MT (September 19) - Cole Searing hauled his No. 10 WISSOTA Late Model out to Big Sky Country for the final weekend of WISSOTA Auto Racing-sanctioned action at Big Sky Speedway, and the long trip paid dividends as he won the 25-lap feature. The Billings, Montana area oval also hosted the WISSOTA Super Stocks in sanctioned action, with Jeremy Meirhofer making his way to victory lane Friday night, the first of two nights of racing among the mountainous backdrop.

Searing started from the front row and led from start to finish in the Late Model headliner. He scored the victory ahead of fellow long-distance traveler Dustin Strand, who finished about 1.6 seconds back in the runner-up spot. Ninth-starter Brad Hartigan moved into third in the closing two laps for the final podium spot. Lyndon Bolt and Dillon Price completed the top five.

In the Super Stocks, Meirhofer charged forward from his 10th-starting spot, cracking the top five by lap four and then patiently working his way into the lead with about five laps to go in the 20-lapper. From there he built a more than 3-second lead ahead of Beau Brown, who had led laps 1-15. Brown had to settle for second ahead of RC Geiss, ninth-starter and Wisconsin traveler Jason Havel, and Bill Monnett in the top five.

In the track’s other classes, Travis Hagen picked his way forward from the sixth row at the start to garner the IMCA Modified victory, while Harrison White took top honors in the Wingless Sprints class. Ty Olson won in the INEX Legends feature.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 10-Cole Searing[2]; 2. 71S-Dustin Strand[6]; 3. 87H-Brad Hartigan[9]; 4. 3X-Lyndon Bolt[1]; 5. 308-Dillon Price[7]; 6. 97-Dan Henrikson[8]; 7. 24DD-DJ Baxter[5]; 8. 50-Ted Hample[10]; 9. 17-Jim Harris[12]; 10. 85-Jason Strand[23]; 11. 12DF-Dwayne Fowler[22]; 12. 24-Gary Hill[3]; 13. 22-Troy Cepak Jr[20]; 14. 21-Shad Jensen[15]; 15. 21F-Ryan Fasching[16]; 16. 14-Ken Helman[17]; 17. 71-Morris Oberle[18]; 18. (DNF) 29-Ty Hample[19]; 19. (DNF) 33-Jeremy McCune[11]; 20. (DNF) 2-Mario Berger[4]; 21. (DNF) 25-Jamie Mocko[21]; 22. (DNF) 16-Jeannette Jensen[24]; 23. (DNF) 58-Randy Sandvick[13]; 24. (DNF) 14X-Jeremy Castro[14]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 308-Dillon Price[2]; 2. 71S-Dustin Strand[3]; 3. 3X-Lyndon Bolt[1]; 4. 50-Ted Hample[8]; 5. 58-Randy Sandvick[7]; 6. 21F-Ryan Fasching[6]; 7. 29-Ty Hample[4]; 8. (DNF) 85-Jason Strand[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 87H-Brad Hartigan[2]; 2. 2-Mario Berger[3]; 3. 24-Gary Hill[1]; 4. 33-Jeremy McCune[6]; 5. 14X-Jeremy Castro[4]; 6. 14-Ken Helman[5]; 7. 22-Troy Cepak Jr[8]; 8. 12DF-Dwayne Fowler[7]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 97-Dan Henrikson[2]; 2. 10-Cole Searing[4]; 3. 24DD-DJ Baxter[3]; 4. 17-Jim Harris[6]; 5. 21-Shad Jensen[1]; 6. 71-Morris Oberle[5]; 7. 25-Jamie Mocko[7]; 8. 16-Jeannette Jensen[8]

WISSOTA Super Stocks:

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[10]; 2. 00-Beau Brown[1]; 3. 9-RC Geiss[2]; 4. 5H-Jason Havel[9]; 5. 108-Bill Monnett[6]; 6. 13S-Anthony Berger[5]; 7. 21-Ryan Fasching[4]; 8. 68-Barry Bontrager[8]; 9. 10M-Shane Makeeff[12]; 10. (DNF) 5-Andrew Gilbraith[11]; 11. (DNF) 33-Stewart Schipke[3]; 12. (DNS) 14-Matt Tribble

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 13S-Anthony Berger[2]; 2. 33-Stewart Schipke[1]; 3. 00-Beau Brown[3]; 4. 108-Bill Monnett[4]; 5. 5H-Jason Havel[6]; 6. 5-Andrew Gilbraith[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 14-Matt Tribble[4]; 2. 9-RC Geiss[3]; 3. 68-Barry Bontrager[2]; 4. 21-Ryan Fasching[6]; 5. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[5]; 6. 10M-Shane Makeeff[1]

INEX Legends:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 7T-Ty Olson[3]; 2. 3-Travis Wagner[1]; 3. 511-Josh Broadbent[6]; 4. 66-Casey Martin[10]; 5. 70-Aaron Dowell[5]; 6. 23-Stuart Mckechnie[4]; 7. 25-Shawn Artz[2]; 8. 27-Blake Swenson[8]; 9. 1-Scott Salsbury[7]; 10. 74-Easton Olson[11]; 11. 44-Libby Martin[15]; 12. 88T-Derick Thronson[13]; 13. 420-Wes Viktora[14]; 14. (DNF) 14-DEVON GIBSON[12]; 15. (DNS) 58-Timothy Ames

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 3-Travis Wagner[4]; 2. 7T-Ty Olson[5]; 3. 70-Aaron Dowell[1]; 4. 1-Scott Salsbury[3]; 5. 74-Easton Olson[6]; 6. 14-DEVON GIBSON[8]; 7. 420-Wes Viktora[7]; 8. (DNS) 66-Casey Martin

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Shawn Artz[1]; 2. 23-Stuart Mckechnie[4]; 3. 511-Josh Broadbent[3]; 4. 27-Blake Swenson[7]; 5. 58-Timothy Ames[2]; 6. 88T-Derick Thronson[5]; 7. (DNS) 44-Libby Martin

Big Sky Wingless Sprints:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 2D-Harrison White[4]; 2. 16K-Kade Vogt[1]; 3. 27S-Tom Sires[3]; 4. 511-Josh Broadbent[5]; 5. M240-Teri Omoth[2]; 6. 17J-Chris Williams[10]; 7. 171-Roy Guy III[6]; 8. 21-Dayne Kocher[9]; 9. 71-James Stands III[12]; 10. 44-Chandler Ingle[11]; 11. (DNF) 63-Jake Dewitt[8]; 12. (DNF) 33-Keith Ahlgren[7]; 13. (DNS) 25-Weston Smith

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 16K-Kade Vogt[2]; 2. M240-Teri Omoth[4]; 3. 511-Josh Broadbent[3]; 4. 33-Keith Ahlgren[6]; 5. 21-Dayne Kocher[7]; 6. 44-Chandler Ingle[5]; 7. (DNS) 25-Weston Smith

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 27S-Tom Sires[5]; 2. 2D-Harrison White[3]; 3. 171-Roy Guy III[2]; 4. 63-Jake Dewitt[4]; 5. 17J-Chris Williams[1]; 6. 71-James Stands III[6]

IMCA Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 14T-Travis Hagen[11]; 2. 68-Shawn LaRocque[4]; 3. 83-Dale Neitzel[6]; 4. 57-Jason George[5]; 5. 157-Kinzer McCord[10]; 6. 73-Mario Berger[1]; 7. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[9]; 8. 550K-Kyle Anton[7]; 9. 20-Brady Lorenz[2]; 10. 14-Caden Roberts[12]; 11. 72X-Kyler Jeffrey[18]; 12. 12DF-Dwayne Fowler[14]; 13. 2B-Kenny Baumann[3]; 14. 28C-Austin Caruthers[8]; 15. 48-Brock Beeter[20]; 16. 2-Rod Lorenz[13]; 17. 10-Smokey Jensen[19]; 18. (DNF) 60-Joey Price[17]; 19. (DNF) 52-Darran Conrad[15]; 20. (DNF) 81-Don Hildebrandt[21]; 21. (DNF) 94-Michael Rogers[16]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 83-Dale Neitzel[4]; 2. 14T-Travis Hagen[6]; 3. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[5]; 4. 20-Brady Lorenz[2]; 5. 2-Rod Lorenz[3]; 6. 94-Michael Rogers[1]; 7. 10-Smokey Jensen[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 2B-Kenny Baumann[2]; 2. 14-Caden Roberts[7]; 3. 73-Mario Berger[1]; 4. 550K-Kyle Anton[4]; 5. 12DF-Dwayne Fowler[3]; 6. 60-Joey Price[5]; 7. 48-Brock Beeter[6]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 157-Kinzer McCord[5]; 2. 57-Jason George[3]; 3. 68-Shawn LaRocque[2]; 4. 28C-Austin Caruthers[4]; 5. 52-Darran Conrad[7]; 6. 72X-Kyler Jeffrey[6]; 7. 81-Don Hildebrandt[1]