SPRING VALLEY, Minn. -- With weather moving into the area, 104 cars showed up to do battle at Deer Creek Speedway on Saturday. After spending just over an hour to run all of the heat races, the feature action took to the track. When the races were completed in 2 hours and 45 minutes there was about 5 minutes before the rains hit.

Thanks to all of the drivers who put in the extra effort to keep the show moving as fast as possible.

The Hinz Trucking USRA B-Mods took to the track for their feature, and after four restarts the field was put in single file order and then they went to the finish without any cautions.

Josh Smith took the early lead with Parker Hale and Kylie Kath racing for second. Kath took over second on lap two and then shot under Smith to take over the lead. Erik Kanz charged up to fourth with Shaun Walski following him into fifth.

With five down Kanz battled with Hale for the second spot while Walski moved into fourth. Walski had the high side working and flew around Hale and Kanz on lap six to take over the second spot. Jacob Bleess worked into the top five while Kanz finally got past Hale for the third spot.

With eight down Bleess moved into the fourth spot and on lap eleven moved under Kanz for the third spot.

Up front it was all Kath picking off lap cars one by one and cruising home to the win, followed by Walski, Bleess, Kanz and Dan Wheeler.

The Napa Auto Care USRA Modifieds were up for the final feature of the night. Mike Sorensen jumped into the early lead with Steve Wetzstein in second. Kelly Shryock and Pat Graham raced for third. Further back Nate Wasmund and Todd Scharkey raced for fifth.

Wetzstein moved up to the high side and was gaining on Sorensen when the caution came out on lap four. With the rest of the laps raced under green Sorensen jumped back out front. Wasmund, Shryock and Wetzstein were three wide for second.

With six down Sorensen and Shryock were side by side for the lead. Sorensen held on as Wasmund moved into the second spot. Wasmund’s move was quickly erased as Wetzstein was humming around the top side and flew past Wasmund and Sorensen to take over the lead on lap eight. Wasmund moved into the second spot as Jason Cummins moved into the top five.

Shryock kept worked on Sorensen and on then on lap thirteen took over the third spot with Cummins following through into fourth. On lap seventeen Wasmund and Shryock were side by side for the second spot. Shryock took over the second spot as Cummins worked into the third spot shortly thereafter. Sorensen moved back past Wasmund to take home fourth as the checkers waved over the field.

Wetzstein took home his second straight win at the speedway.

Racing action resumes next Saturday with a 5:00 start time.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
American Racer USRA Weekly Racing Series
Deer Creek Speedway, Spring Valley, Minn.
Saturday, April 14, 2012

USRA B-MODS

Feature – Kylie Kath, Shaun Walski, Jacob Bleess, Erik Kanz, Dan Wheeler, Brian Mahlstadt, Parker Hale, Ben Moudry, Scott Demmer, Josh Smith, Alex Williamson, Mike Jaeger, Dean Hoffman, Trevor Fecht, Josh Gesell, Austin Schrage, Lee Jonsgaard, Mike Chisholm, Patrick McCarthy, Terry Kohnert, Alan Wagner, Todd Borwege, John Warrington.

Heat 1 – Demmer, Walski, Jaeger, Hale, Hoffman, Wagner, Chisholm, McCarthy.

Heat 2 – Jonsgaard, Smith, Moudry, Kanz, Fecht, Warrington, Kohnert.

Heat 3 – Bleess, Kath, wheeler, Mahlstadt, Borwege, Gesell, Williamson.

USRA MODIFIEDS

A-Feature – Steve Wetzstein, Kelly Shryock, Jason Cummins, Mike Sorensen, Nate Wasmund, Brandon Davis, Todd Scharkey, Lucas Schott, Bob Timm, Cole Queensland, jay Ihrke, Dan Bohr, Doug Hillson, Jake Timm, Josh Angst, J.J. Wise, Pat Graham, Terry Timmerman, Brandon Hare, Lance Hofer, Jimmy Broszeit, Tom Brink, Darwyn Karau, Bobby Swanson, Ric Fynbo, Kurt Krauskopf.

B-Feature – Schott, Swanson, Wise, brink, Krauskopf, Fynbo, Les Jonsgaard, Bill Clemens, Joe Horgdal, LeRoy Scharkey, Greg Jensen, Scott Bintz.

Heat 1 – Wasmund, T. Scharkey, Timmerman, B. Timm, Bohr, Schott, Wise, Jensen.

Heat 2 – Cummins, Queensland, Shryock, Hare, Ihrke, Swanson, Horgdal, Krauskopf.

Heat 3 – Wetzstein, Graham, Sorensen, Hofer, Karau, Clemens, Brink, Bintz.

Heat 4 – Davis, Broszeit, Angst, J. Timm, Hillson, Fynbo, L. Scharkey, Jonsgaard.