SPRING VALLEY, Minn. -- Saturday night was the second annual school bus racees with nine area schools participating in the event. Schools on hand included Grand Meadow, Kingsland, Goodhue, LeRoy-Ostrander, Chatfield, St. Ansgar, Pine Island, Immanuel Lutheran and Waseca. Each school was given $100 by Deer Creek Speedway to participate in the event plus a split of the night’s 50/50 drawing at the speedway. Each school was offered the chance to sell tickets to the event with the proceeds going to the school. It is a great way to raise some funds for the area schools that can always use more money for programs.

Randy and Patti Eastvold of Hanson Tire in LeRoy were on hand also and donated $200 to the bus that won the feature race and to each driver who won their feature event for the main races.

Jacob Bleess charged out front on lap 1 of the Hinz Trucking USRA B-Mod feature with Jerry Young in second. A restart on the completion of lap 1 saw Dean Hoffman and Jerry Young get together in turn 3 with both cars leaving the speedway. On the restart Bleess again led with Ben Moudry in second, Kylie Kath and Scott Demmer raced for the third spot ahead of Alex Williamson in fifth.

Kath moved into third on lap six and started to gain on Bleess up front. Parker Hale pressured Williamson for the fifth spot. With 12 down, Kath was close enough to capitalize on a mistake but Bleess kept his line strong and ran a great race. Bleess moved low to work on a slower car with Kath tried to keep it up top, the move worked for Bleess as he cleared the slower car first and cruised home to his first feature win at the speedway. Kath, Moudry, Demmer and Williamson rounded out the top 5.

In the NAPA AutoCare USRA Modifieds, Nate Wasmund jumped out front exiting turn 2 with a bull rush behind him as cars battled for position. Bob Timm and Brad Waits raced for second with Joey Jensen in fourth. Brandon Davis was in fifth and then Davis, Jensen and Waits were three wide for the third spot. Davis took the spot with Jensen holding close to him.

With nine down, Timm was all over the rear bumper of Wasmund but was running the upper groove and his momentum kept him out front. Further back, Tim Donlinger and Ryan Ruter raced for the fifth spot with Jason Cummins right behind them keeping pace and looking for an opening. Davis moved low and started gaining on the leaders and on lap 13 took away the second spot from Timm.

Davis kept the hammer down and quickly moved past Wasmund to take the lead on lap 14. With 17 down, Donlinger and Cummins were all over Jensen in a battle for fourth with Donlinger taking the spot and Cummins following him through. Davis started working through lapped cars splitting them in a three-wide battle as he slowly pulled away from the field.

His lead vanished as a caution flew on lap 20 but on the restart Davis held onto the lead and ran it to the finish to take home the win. Behind Davis were Cummins, Donlinger, Timm and Jensen in the top 5.

Racing resumes next week with the A&A Electric Southern Minnesota Spring Challenge with the USMTS Modifieds on hand. Also competing will be the Wissota Super Stocks and Street Stocks along with the Industrial Material Surplus Iron Man Challenge for USRA Stock Cars and USRA B-Mods.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
American Racer USRA Weekly Racing Series
Deer Creek Speedway, Spring Valley, Minn.
Saturday, May 19, 2012

USRA B-MODS

Feature: 1. Jacob Bleess, 2. Kylie Kath, 3. Ben Moudry, 4. Scott Demmer, 5. Alex Williamson, 6. Parker Hale, 7. Alan Wagner, 8. Shaun Walski, 9. Brady Keefe, 10. John Warrington, 11. Terry Kohnert, 12. Wade Wenzel, 13. Erik Kanz, 14. Mike Chisholm, 15. Jerry Young, 16. Dean Hoffman, 17. Josh Smith.

Heat #1: 1. Bleess, 2. Walski, 3. Moudry, 4. Wagner, 5. Smith, 6. Kohnert, 7. Warrington, 8. Chisholm, 9. Wenzel.

Heat #2: 1. Young, 2. Williamson, 3. Kath, 4. Hoffman, 5. Demmer, 6. Hale, 7. Kanz, 8. Keefe.

USRA MODIFIEDS

"A" Feature: 1. Brandon Davis, 2. Jason Cummins, 3. Tim Donlinger, 4. Bob Timm, 5. Joey Jensen, 6. Ryan Ruter, 7. Mike Steensma, 8. Todd Scharkey, 9. Josh Angst, 10. Lucas Schott, 11. Joel Alberts, 12. Bobby Swanson, 13. Kurt Krauskopf, 14. Jay Ihrke, 15. Jake Timm, 16. Brandon Aggen, 17. Darwyn Karau, 18. Cole Queensland, 19. Doug Hillson, 20. Joe Horgdal, 21. James Broszeit, 22. Greg Jensen, 23. Nate Wasmund, 24. Dan Bohr, 25. Ron Ver Beek, 26. Brad Waits.

"B" Feature: 1. Swanson, 2. Horgdal, 3. Broszeit, 4. Queensland, 5. Ihrke, 6. Jensen, 7. Doug Herrick, 8. Tom Brink, 9. Billy Steinberg, 10. Ric Fynbo, 11. Lance Hofer, 12. J.J. Wise.

Heat #1: 1. Cummins, 2. Jensen, 3. B. Timm, 4. Schott, 5. Angst, 6. Swanson, 7. Queensland, 8. Brink.

Heat #2: 1. Davis, 2. Waits, 3. Alberts, 4. Krauskopf, 5. Hillson, 6. Broszeit, 7. Herrick, 8. Ihrke.

Heat #3: 1. Wasmund, 2. Bohr, 3. Karau, 4. Steensma, 5. J. Timm, 6. Horgdal, 7. Fynbo, 8. Wise.

Heat #4: 1. Ruter, 2. Donlinger, 3. Scharkey, 4. Aggen, 5. Ver Beek, 6. Jensen, 7. Steinberg, 8. Hofer.