Dan Hovden won the first USRA B-Mod main event.

The Southeast Minnesota Corn Growers provided free front gate admission this week at Deer Creek Speedway. The corn growers of Mower, Dodge, Goodhue, Freeborn, Fillmore Olmsted and Wabasha counties were involved.

The show was also supported by Randy and Sandy Norby, K2 Ag and a number of agriculture-based businesses. Some of them had booths set up to educate the crowd on the corn growers and ethanol fuels.

Another large field of 139 racecars were on hand this week. The feature races had two drivers score their first wins at Deer Creek, and one of them was a career first.

Zac Smith jumped from row one to lead the USRA Hobby Stock feature on lap one. Gavin Bartel passed Smith and led lap two.

Bartel held a comfortable lead while the battle for second raged on. Two cautions slowed the race, but Bartel carried on as the leader.

After the lap-13 restart, Bartel was challenged briefly by Chris Hovden but Bartel fended him off and scored his first career win.

Hovden was second followed by Luke Schluetter and tenth-starting Joshua Ludeking. Adam Speicher rallied to fifth after going to the tail for one of the cautions.

A huge field of 46 USRA B-Mods were split into two 18-lap features.

In the first one, Dan Hovden quickly got to the lead and it was over from there as he scored his 11th win of the season in impressive fashion.

Gavin Shaw challenged after a caution on lap 16, but finished second. Spencer Stock finished third with Scott Demmer and Dan Wheeler in the top five.

Brandon Hare and Hunter Kennedy had a fantastic race for the lead in the second feature. They exchanged slide-jobs several times before Kennedy took the lead.

A few yellows slowed the race but Kennedy held on for his second win of the year. Hare was second with Dustin Kruse third, Garitt Wytaske fourth and Noah Grinstead was fifth.

Kyle Falck was the class of the field in the Medieval USRA Stock Car feature. He started on the pole and took off until a caution on lap seven.

Falck led again on the restart while Mitch Hovden and Kevin Donlan battled for second. Brayden Gjere worked his way up and got by both Donlan and Hovden to second.

It looked as though Falck would cruise to the win but Travis Shipman slapped the turn-two wall on the final lap and brought out the yellow which set up a green-white-checkered finish.

On the start, Falck led but Gjere slid to his inside in turn two. Gjere slid up the track, spun and collected several cars for another yellow.

Falk survived to win with Hovden in second. Kory Adam was third and Greg Jensen had a great run in fourth and Jesse Brown rounded out the top five.

Kylie Kath led the USRA Modified feature while Kelly Shryock and Josh Angst gave chase. They went three-wide on lap three, and Shryock slipped past Kath for the lead on lap five.

Angst got to second on lap nine and set after Shryock. Angst caught him on lap 12 and made the pass for the lead on lap 13, but three laps later the leaders were in lapped traffic.

Angst wheeled flawlessly through the traffic and took his second win this season. Aaron Benson slipped past Shryock late in the race for second. Brandon Davis finished in fourth and Kath rounded out the top five.

OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Racing Association
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series
Deer Creek Speedway, Spring Valley, Minn.
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Showing finishing position, starting position in parentheses, car number, driver and hometown

USRA MODIFIEDS

Heat #1:
1. (1) 83 Kylie Kath, Claremont, Minn.
2. (3) 50III Brandon Davis, Hayfield, Minn.
3. (2) 3W Dustin Wiederhoeft, Fairmont, Minn.
4. (5) 95X Shaun Walski, Rollingstone, Minn.
5. (7) 51W J.T. Wasmund, Pine Island, Minn.
6. (4) 8L Lyle Sathoff, Sherburn, Minn.
7. (6) 12 Nick Murgic, Rosemount, Minn.

Heat #2:
1. (1) 3 Kelly Shryock, Fertile, Iowa
2. (7) 69 Lucas Schott, Chatfield, Minn.
3. (4) 4A Joel Alberts, Mantorville, Minn.
4. (6) 1 Blake Arndt, Brownsdale, Minn.
5. (2) 77 Jacob Stark, Austin, Minn.
6. (5) 29H Joe Horgdal, Mantorville, Minn.
7. (3) 85 Ryan Hensel, Blooming Prairie, Minn.

Heat #3:
1. (2) 21 Jacob Bleess, Chatfield, Minn.
2. (5) 24X Aaron Benson, Clear Lake, Iowa
3. (6) 99 Josh Angst, Winona, Minn.
4. (3) 02 Cole Denner, Ionia, Iowa
5. (4) 61T Tammy Soma-Clark, Rochester, Minn.
6. (1) 67 Brian Albrecht, Winona, Minn.
DNS – 75 James Parker, Brownsdale, Minn.

Feature:
1. (5) 99 Josh Angst, Winona, Minn.
2. (7) 24X Aaron Benson, Clear Lake, Iowa
3. (1) 3 Kelly Shryock, Fertile, Iowa
4. (8) 50III Brandon Davis, Hayfield, Minn.
5. (2) 83 Kylie Kath, Claremont, Minn.
6. (9) 21 Jacob Bleess, Chatfield, Minn.
7. (12) 69 Lucas Schott, Chatfield, Minn.
8. (4) 1 Blake Arndt, Brownsdale, Minn.
9. (13) 51W J.T. Wasmund, Pine Island, Minn.
10. (10) 95X Shaun Walski, Rollingstone, Minn.
11. (3) 02 Cole Denner, Ionia, Iowa
12. (14) 77 Jacob Stark, Austin, Minn.
13. (11) 4A Joel Alberts, Mantorville, Minn.
14. (16) 8L Lyle Sathoff, Sherburn, Minn.
15. (17) 29H Joe Horgdal, Mantorville, Minn.
16. (19) 12 Nick Murgic, Rosemount, Minn.
17. (6) 3W Dustin Wiederhoeft, Fairmont, Minn.
18. (15) 61T Tammy Soma-Clark, Rochester, Minn.
19. (18) 67 Brian Albrecht, Winona, Minn.
20. (20) 85 Ryan Hensel, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
21. (21) 75 James Parker, Brownsdale, Minn.

MEDIEVAL USRA STOCK CARS

Heat #1:
1. (3) 23 Brayden Gjere, Mabel, Minn.
2. (4) 67 Kyle Falck, Decorah, Iowa
3. (5) 15 Mitch Hovden, Decorah, Iowa
4. (2) 14 Brady Williamson, Rushford, Minn.
5. (1) 27 Shawn Peter, Mabel, Minn.
6. (6) 711/2 Greg Jensen, Albert Lea, Minn.
7. (7) 28 David Gustafson, Pine Island, Minn.

Heat #2:
1. (2) 33 Kevin Donlan, Decorah, Iowa
2. (1) 11 Jake Lampert, Caledonia, Minn.
3. (3) 16 Jake James, Winona, Minn.
4. (6) 32 Jason Newkirk, Austin, Minn.
5. (7) 49 Nate Whitehurst, Mason City, Iowa
6. (5) 86 Phil Wernert, Galesville, Wis.
7. (4) 99G Greg Sweerin, Evansdale, Iowa

Heat #3:
1. (6) 87 Travis Shipman, Mason City, Iowa
2. (1) 2 Andrew Bleess, Chatfield, Minn.
3. (4) 67S Levi Schott, Chatfield, Minn.
4. (3) 11B Jesse Brown, Nashua, Iowa
5. (5) 01 Kory Adams, Stacyville, Iowa
6. (2) 41 Benjamin Gannon, Dundas, Minn.

Feature:
1. (1) 67 Kyle Falck, Decorah, Iowa
2. (3) 15 Mitch Hovden, Decorah, Iowa
3. (15) 01 Kory Adams, Stacyville, Iowa
4. (16) 711/2 Greg Jensen, Albert Lea, Minn.
5. (12) 11B Jesse Brown, Nashua, Iowa
6. (4) 14 Brady Williamson, Rushford, Minn.
7. (17) 86 Phil Wernert, Galesville, Wis.
8. (5) 33 Kevin Donlan, Decorah, Iowa
9. (9) 11 Jake Lampert, Caledonia, Minn.
10. (18) 41 Benjamin Gannon, Dundas, Minn.
11. (2) 67S Levi Schott, Chatfield, Minn.
12. (19) 28 David Gustafson, Pine Island, Minn.
13. (20) 99G Greg Sweerin, Evansdale, Iowa
14. (6) 23 Brayden Gjere, Mabel, Minn.
15. (7) 2 Andrew Bleess, Chatfield, Minn.
16. (11) 32 Jason Newkirk, Austin, Minn.
17. (8) 87 Travis Shipman, Mason City, Iowa
18. (14) 49 Nate Whitehurst, Mason City, Iowa
19. (13) 27 Shawn Peter, Mabel, Minn.
20. (10) 16 Jake James, Winona, Minn.

USRA B-MODS

Heat #1:
1. (1) 155 Gavin Shaw, Brownsdale, Minn.
2. (3) 33 Corbin Ludemann, Grand Meadow, Minn.
3. (7) 56H Brandon Hare, Elma, Iowa
4. (5) 55 Brody Shaw, Brownsdale, Minn.
5. (6) 28T Philip Ihde, Decorah, Iowa
6. (8) 35 Dennis Dunbar, Winona, Minn.
7. (9) 83R Kullen Kath, Owatonna, Minn.
8. (10) 48 Wally Olsen, Galesville, Wis.
9. (2) 4B Greg Brooks, Spring Valley, Minn.
10. (4) 43 Zach Brom, Winona, Minn.

Heat #2:
1. (1) 35JR Garitt Wytaske, Austin, Minn.
2. (3) 87H Harley Dais, Winona, Minn.
3. (6) 30D Scott Demmer, Ellendale, Minn.
4. (9) 02K Hunter Kennedy, St. Ansgar, Iowa
5. (7) 29S Raymond Rehbein, Byron, Minn.
6. (2) 47 Kyle Swanson, Bellchester, Minn.
7. (5) 07 Logan Alseth, Winona, Minn.
8. (4) 15E Zach Elward, Hayfield, Minn.
9. (8) 30 Russell Quinnell, Hayfield, Minn.

Heat #3:
1. (1) 55S Brian Shaw, Brownsdale, Minn.
2. (3) RED1 Dan Wheeler, Savage, Minn.
3. (5) 28 Spencer Stock, Racine, Minn.
4. (7) 42B Kaeden Bronner, Austin, Minn.
5. (4) 28H Troy Hale, Grand Meadow, Minn.
6. (9) 3K Kody Sexton, Rochester, Minn.
7. (6) 77 Matt Stark, Austin, Minn.
8. (8) 29 Lilli Reps, Utica, Minn.
9. (2) 41 Cheyanne Stanfield, Sparta, Wis.

Heat #4:
1. (6) 16D Dan Hovden, Decorah, Iowa
2. (3) 99 Noah Grinstead, Austin, Minn.
3. (2) 45 Cole Lonergan, Dexter, Minn.
4. (1) 23B Britt Olson Jr., Blooming Prairie, Minn.
5. (4) 15 Cole Neisius, Hastings, Minn.
6. (8) 19 Cody Maier, New Albin, Iowa
7. (7) 13 Jesse Antiporek, Dexter, Minn.
8. (9) 13K Cody Kalvig, Glenville, Minn.
9. (5) 14 Caden Neisius, Hastings, Minn.

Heat #5:
1. (2) 6 Dustin Kruse, Baltic, S.D.
2. (1) 5 Trystan Hagen, Winona, Minn.
3. (6) 8X Josh Roney, Postville, Iowa
4. (4) 37 Michael Wytaske, Hartland, Minn.
5. (7) 10T Trevor Fecht, Allison, Iowa
6. (5) 32 Taylor Skauge, Caledonia, Minn.
7. (8) 2C Cole Bennerotte, Byron, Minn.
8. (3) 17 Justin Murray, Owatonna, Minn.
9. (9) 22 Steve Quinnell, Rochester, Minn.

Feature #1:
1. (4) 16D Dan Hovden, Decorah, Iowa
2. (6) 155 Gavin Shaw, Brownsdale, Minn.
3. (5) 28 Spencer Stock, Racine, Minn.
4. (8) 30D Scott Demmer, Ellendale, Minn.
5. (3) RED1 Dan Wheeler, Savage, Minn.
6. (16) 83R Kullen Kath, Owatonna, Minn.
7. (12) 28T Philip Ihde, Decorah, Iowa
8. (9) 45 Cole Lonergan, Dexter, Minn.
9. (14) 35 Dennis Dunbar, Winona, Minn.
10. (13) 28H Troy Hale, Grand Meadow, Minn.
11. (10) 23B Britt Olson Jr., Blooming Prairie, Minn.
12. (7) 5 Trystan Hagen, Winona, Minn.
13. (1) 33 Corbin Ludemann, Grand Meadow, Minn.
14. (17) 77 Matt Stark, Austin, Minn.
15. (22) 30 Russell Quinnell, Hayfield, Minn.
16. (21) 41 Cheyanne Stanfield, Sparta, Wis.
17. (11) 29S Raymond Rehbein, Byron, Minn.
18. (19) 17 Justin Murray, Owatonna, Minn.
19. (15) 47 Kyle Swanson, Bellchester, Minn.
20. (18) 48 Wally Olsen, Galesville, Wis.
21. (20) 22 Steve Quinnell, Rochester, Minn.
22. (2) 55S Brian Shaw, Brownsdale, Minn.
DNS – 15E Zach Elward, Hayfield, Minn.

Feature #2:
1. (2) 02K Hunter Kennedy, St. Ansgar, Iowa
2. (3) 56H Brandon Hare, Elma, Iowa
3. (4) 6 Dustin Kruse, Baltic, S.D.
4. (6) 35JR Garitt Wytaske, Austin, Minn.
5. (1) 99 Noah Grinstead, Austin, Minn.
6. (7) 8X Josh Roney, Postville, Iowa
7. (15) 32 Taylor Skauge, Caledonia, Minn.
8. (22) 43 Zach Brom, Winona, Minn.
9. (11) 10T Trevor Fecht, Allison, Iowa
10. (13) 15 Cole Neisius, Hastings, Minn.
11. (21) 14 Caden Neisius, Hastings, Minn.
12. (8) 42B Kaeden Bronner, Austin, Minn.
13. (10) 37 Michael Wytaske, Hartland, Minn.
14. (16) 2C Cole Bennerotte, Byron, Minn.
15. (19) 29 Lilli Reps, Utica, Minn.
16. (9) 55 Brody Shaw, Brownsdale, Minn.
17. (20) 4B Greg Brooks, Spring Valley, Minn.
18. (18) 13K Cody Kalvig, Glenville, Minn.
19. (12) 3K Kody Sexton, Rochester, Minn.
20. (14) 19 Cody Maier, New Albin, Iowa
21. (17) 13 Jesse Antiporek, Dexter, Minn.
22. (5) 87H Harley Dais, Winona, Minn.
DNS – 07 Logan Alseth, Winona, Minn.

USRA HOBBY STOCKS

Heat #1:
1. (1) 18JR Gavin Bartel, Kasson, Minn.
2. (6) 70 Steve Holthaus, Cresco, Iowa
3. (4) 9ER Adam Speicher, Fredericksburg, Iowa
4. (5) 15R Ryan Crooks, Ionia, Iowa
5. (7) 7 Steve Dwyer, La Crosse, Wis.
6. (8) 101 Ken Adams, Stacyville, Iowa
7. (2) 16K Kevin Vogt, Rose Creek, Minn.
8. (3) 911 Dakota Koenig, Cochrane, Wis.

Heat #2:
1. (1) 35 Luke Schluetter, New Hampton, Iowa
2. (2) 27H Austin Hoeft, Charles City, Iowa
3. (5) 47P Parker Anderson, Welcome, Minn.
4. (7) 81 Joshua Ludeking, Decorah, Iowa
5. (8) 5 Corey Black, Mankato, Minn.
6. (6) 32J Carter Jonsgaard, Lewiston, Minn.
7. (4) 28K Kaitlyn Paulson, Pine Island, Minn.
8. (3) 72K Carter Kmett, Rochester, Minn.

Heat #3:
1. (2) 75 Michael Minnier, Monona, Iowa
2. (8) 07 Chris Hovden, Cresco, Iowa
3. (3) 38S Nick Schwebach, Fountain, Minn.
4. (1) 18Z Zac Smith, Manly, Iowa
5. (6) 18 Scott Spilde, Cresco, Iowa
6. (5) 44KT Brian Lund, Northwood, Iowa
7. (7) 19M Seth Maier, New Albin, Iowa
8. (4) 99 Jeremy Werner, Rollingstone, Minn.

Feature:
1. (2) 18JR Gavin Bartel, Kasson, Minn.
2. (5) 07 Chris Hovden, Cresco, Iowa
3. (8) 35 Luke Schluetter, New Hampton, Iowa
4. (10) 81 Joshua Ludeking, Decorah, Iowa
5. (3) 9ER Adam Speicher, Fredericksburg, Iowa
6. (9) 38S Nick Schwebach, Fountain, Minn.
7. (15) 18 Scott Spilde, Cresco, Iowa
8. (12) 47P Parker Anderson, Welcome, Minn.
9. (6) 27H Austin Hoeft, Charles City, Iowa
10. (18) 44KT Brian Lund, Northwood, Iowa
11. (1) 18Z Zac Smith, Manly, Iowa
12. (20) 19M Seth Maier, New Albin, Iowa
13. (16) 101 Ken Adams, Stacyville, Iowa
14. (7) 70 Steve Holthaus, Cresco, Iowa
15. (11) 15R Ryan Crooks, Ionia, Iowa
16. (23) 99 Jeremy Werner, Rollingstone, Minn.
17. (17) 32J Carter Jonsgaard, Lewiston, Minn.
18. (14) 5 Corey Black, Mankato, Minn.
19. (19) 16K Kevin Vogt, Rose Creek, Minn.
20. (13) 7 Steve Dwyer, La Crosse, Wis.
21. (4) 75 Michael Minnier, Monona, Iowa
22. (21) 911 Dakota Koenig, Cochrane, Wis.
23. (22) 72K Carter Kmett, Rochester, Minn.
DNS – 28K Kaitlyn Paulson, Pine Island, Minn.

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