{"id":4163,"date":"2020-05-30T23:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T04:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcraceway.com\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2020-05-31T06:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T11:58:14","slug":"nsb-season-opener-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/nsb-season-opener-results\/","title":{"rendered":"NSB Season Opener Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jarecki\nTakes First Feature Win on ABC Raceway Opening Night<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cook, Flynn, Vernon,\nAkervik, Graham also score<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Nick Gima<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nAshland, WI, May 30<\/strong> — Despite the chaos and concerns that the coronavirus\npandemic has caused in recent weeks, the ABC Raceway opened its 56th stock car\nracing season in front of a great turnout on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nDuring the program, presented by the Northern State Bank of Ashland, the big\ncrowd watched 79 entries take to the historic three-eighths-mile red-clay oval\nin six divisions, and by the end of the night one veteran local driver had\nscored his first career feature win and two past track champs also kicked off\ntheir 2020 seasons here in winning fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nAshland\u2019s DeJay Jarecki, who had become a local favorite over his 12 seasons in\nthe Raceway\u2019s Six-Cylinder division, made the move into a WISSOTA Hornet for\nthe new season, and his decision has already paid a dividend, as he earned the\nfirst-ever feature win of his career on Saturday. Jarecki started outside on\nthe front row and grabbed the initial lead, bringing Hunter McGougall and AJ\nHouse in tow to second and third before Josh Johnson Jr\u2019s spin brought about an\nearly caution stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nThe order up front remained the same for the first half of the race, despite\nthe field staying tight due to stoppages for spins by first-time visitors Harry\nRuikka on lap 3 and Brady Albertson on lap 6. But during the second half of the\n12-lapper Derek Ament and Kaleb Ruikka became serious contenders for the win,\nwith Ament stealing second on the lap 6 restart, only to lose it back to House\na circuit later. Ament tried to take it back with two to go, but House\nprevailed for runner-up honors while staying tight on Jarecki\u2019s trunklid over\nthe closing laps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nJarecki celebrated the landmark win with family and friends in Victory Lane\nafter the race, as House, Kaleb Ruikka, Ament and McDougall completed the top\nfive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nDuring earlier Hornet heat race action, Jason Ronning took a wild three-turn\nbarrel-roll in turn 4 while battling for a top-three position. Ronning was\nunhurt but unable to start the feature due to the damage to his car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nTyler Vernon, the 2017 ABC Raceway WISSOTA Midwest Modified champion from\nAshland, sent a signal to his fellow competitors that he could be tough to beat\nthis season, taking the early lead in the Mid-Mod main event on Saturday and\nrunning away to his eighth career feature win here and fifth in this division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nVernon who started outside on row 2, waited patiently through four frustrating\nattempts to start the 20-lap race, but on that last attempt he used an inside move\nto get by Ross Fuhrman to find himself in second behind polestarter and\nfirst-time visitor Justin Jones. Two laps later Vernon used the inside line\nagain to take the lead from Jones and, after one last yellow flag for debris on\nlap 3, led the field the rest of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nWith no further delays in the run, Vernon was able to stretch his lead to over\na second, while Jones stayed firmly entrenched in second. Fuhrman lost third to\nMarcus Dunbar shortly after the last restart but was solidly ahead of visiting\nDan Wheeler, who spent much of the last half of the run fending off Tanner\nHicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nVernon crossed under the checkers 1.5 seconds ahead of Jones, whose car failed\na post-race technical inspection. Dunbar was moved to second, with Fuhrman\nthird, Wheeler fourth and Hicks fifth in the final rundown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nDespite a thin field of ABC Six-Cylinders, defending track champ Randy Graham\nof Trego continued his winning ways by picking up that division\u2019s opening-night\nfeature win – but it was certainly not a cakewalk. Graham started on the pole\nand led every lap but one, as Forrest Schultz swiped second from Dalton Truchon\nafter two laps had been scored and challenged the champ throughout the 12-lap\nrun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nTruchon, running alone in third, looped his ride with three laps remaining and\nwas pushed to the pits. Joshua Saunders would have inherited third for the\nre-do, but he left the track with a flat during the yellow, ending his night.\nSchultz surprised Graham with a strong run off of turn 4 after the restart and\nnosed ahead at the line to lead lap 10, but Graham charged back to take the\nlead for good a half-lap later, just a couple of car-lengths ahead of Schultz\nat the final stripe. Second-year man Mathew Rohlfing and first-nighter Dominic\nHmielewski were the only others running at the finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nPat Cook of Washburn won a thrilling WISSOTA Modified feature from the pole,\nbut it took a heartbreaking error by Brandon Copp to get the win. Copp, in his\nrookie season in the \u201cbig Mods\u201d after several strong seasons in the Mid-Mods,\nshot out to a huge lead over Cook after a lap 1 restart, building the advantage\nto nearly two full seconds before a lap 4 stop for debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nCopp drove away again, but just as the margin got comfortable sixth-running\nGreg Chesley spun in traffic to stop the pace on lap 7. After this restart,\nhowever, Cook didn\u2019t let Copp run off to hide, staying side-by-side with the\nleader through mid-race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nNeil Balduc took third from 14th-starting Michael Truscott at the halfway\npoint, and a couple laps later Copp had barely shaken loose of Cook\u2019s threats\nwhen Jake Hiatt and Shane Kisling crashed together on lap 13, knocking Kisling\nfrom a top-ten run. Three laps after that restart Copp, who was getting\npressure from Cook and the others, bobbled in turn 4, allowing Cook, Truscott\nand Balduc to slip by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nFrom there Cook withstood one last challenge from Truscott for the 11th feature\nwin of his career and fourth in a \u201cbig Mod\u201d here. Chesley recovered from his\nearly miscue and took advantage of the yellows to climb back to third, ahead of\nBalduc and Copp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nDave Flynn of Superior dominated the opening-night WISSOTA Super Stock A-main,\nleading every lap from the pole and running away from defending national\nchampion Kevin Burdick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nIt did not take long for Flynn to flex his car\u2019s muscles, pulling to a\n1.1-second advantage on Burdick after just four laps and extending that lead to\nover two seconds another four laps later. Burdick had plenty of distance on\nMatt Deragon, so there was no challenge to hold Burdick back; Flynn was just\nthat fast and smooth on this night. Even the lap 10 caution flag – the only\nstoppage of the race – for Andrew Mackey\u2019s stalled car didn\u2019t seem to concern\nFlynn, as he sailed away again over the last ten laps and finished 3.2 seconds\nahead of Burdick for his 17th career Super Stock feature win at ABC and 19th\noverall here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nA strong second-half run by four-time defending track champ Nick Oreskovich,\nwho started tenth, earned him third-place honors in the final rundown after he\nsped past Deragon for the spot with eight laps to go. Deragon\u2019s impressive\neffort on this night kept him in front of Terran Spacek at the pay window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nIn the WISSOTA Pure Stock feature, Superior\u2019s Jared Akervik outran Graham for\nhis second win in as many nights. Polestarter Tanner Gehl provided the early\nchallenge to Akervik, driving low to take the lead on lap 2, before Akervik\nswitched lanes and returned the favor on lap 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nAkervik drew away slightly when Graham pulled even with Gehl during the race\u2019s\nmiddle stages, but once Graham displaced Gehl for second with two laps to go he\nwas too many car-lengths back to catch the winner. The lead trio was well out\nfront of visiting Jennie Krause in fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nQuick lap times during the features were posted by Brandon Copp in the Mods\n(17.500 secs; 77.143 mph), Flynn in the Supers (17.538; 76.976), and Jones in\nthe Mid-Mods (17.583; 76.779).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nThe Ashland Area Chamber of Commerce will present the race program slated for\nSaturday, June 6, at the ABC Raceway. All six divisions will once again be in\naction. The grandstands and pits will open at 5 pm, hot laps will start at\n6:15, and the first green flag of the night is scheduled for 7 pm. Throughout\nthe week, the Heartland Communications Group of radio stations will air Raceway\nnews and weather updates in the Chequamegon Bay area, online on the station\nwebsites, and via the free Heartland Communications Group radio app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nThe ABC Raceway is located 3-1\/2 miles south of Ashland on State Highway 13 and\none mile west on Butterworth Road. For raceday information call (715) 682-4990,\nor log on to the track’s website, www.abcraceway.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WISSOTA MODIFIEDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nFeature: 1-10: Pat Cook, Washburn; Michael Truscott, Chippewa Falls; Greg\nChesley, Duluth, MN; Neil Balduc, Bessemer, MI; Brandon Copp; Brule; Alex Van\nNatta, Minocqua; Jeff Spacek, Phillips; Tyler Luger, Oxford; Al Uotinen,\nSuperior; Jake Hiatt, Mason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \n11-15: Paul Niznik, Medford; Cole Spacek, Phillips; Shane Kisling, Butternut;\nMike Knopps, Chippewa Falls; Tyler Vernon, Ashland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nHeat 1: Kisling; C Spacek; Balduc; Niznik; Van Natta; Chesley; Luger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nHeat 2: Copp; Cook; Knopps; Hiatt; Uotinen; Vernon; Truscott; J Spacek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WISSOTA SUPER STOCKS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nFeature: 1-10: Dave Flynn, Superior; Kevin Burdick, Proctor, MN; Nick\nOreskovich, Mason; Matt Deragon, Ashland; Terran Spacek, Phillips; Kyle Copp,\nBrule; Patrick Beeksma, Ironwood, MI; DJ Keeler, Superior; Cory Casari,\nMontreal; Harley Kroening, Bemidji, MN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \n11-17: Kevin Salin, Iron, MN; Greg Kuklinski, Ironwood, MI; Tyler Kroening,\nBemidji, MN; Scott Lawrence, Superior; Andrew Mackey, Duluth, MN; Shawn\nMcFadden, Ashland; Don Muzzy, Ironwood, MI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nHeat 1: Flynn; Spacek; Mackey; Beeksma; Salin; Muzzy; H Kroening; Kuklinski; T\nKroening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nHeat 2: McFadden; Lawrence; Deragon; Burdick; Oreskovich; Copp; Keeler; Casari;\nAaron Mashlan, Ashland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WISSOTA MIDWEST MODIFIEDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nFeature: 1-10: Tyler Vernon, Ashland; Marcus Dunbar, Marenisco, MI; Ross\nFuhrman, Ashland; Dan Wheeler, Savage, MN; Tanner Hicks, Ashland; Justin\nWeinberger, Butternut; Cody Carlson, Superior; Jimmy Latvala, Solon Springs;\nJohn Darwin, Iron River; John Kallas, Hurley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \n11-17: Ryan Barningham, Bayfield; Joey Krause, International Falls, MN; Bryan\nLund, Ashland; Jesse Polson, Superior; Jennie Krause, Aurora, MN; Andy LaBarge,\nKeewatin, MN; Mark Kangas, Eveleth, MN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nHeat 1: Weinberger; Dunbar; Carlson; Justin Jones, Bemidji, MN; Darwin; Jennie\nKrause; Kangas; LaBarge; Joey Krause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nHeat 2: Vernon; Hicks; Fuhrman; Wheeler; Latvala; Barningham; Polson; Kallas;\nLund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC SIX-CYLINDERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nFeature: 1-6: Randy Graham, Trego; Forrest Schultz, Ashland; Mathew Rohlfing,\nCable; Dominic Hmielewski, Marengo; Dalton Truchon, Ashland; Joshua Saunders,\nSpooner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nHeat: Graham; Schultz; Truchon; Rohlfing; Saunders; Hmielewski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WISSOTA PURE STOCKS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nFeature: 1-4: Jared Akervik, Superior; Randy Graham, Trego; Tanner Gehl, Solon\nSprings; Jennie Krause, Aurora, MN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nHeat: Akervik; Graham; Gehl; Krause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WISSOTA HORNETS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nFeature: 1-10: DeJay Jarecki, Ashland; AJ House, Cloquet, MN; Kaleb Ruikka,\nFort Ripley, MN; Derek Ament, Barnum, MN; Hunter McDougall, Duluth, MN; Caleb\nDecker, Barnum, MN; Rick Andrews Jr; Superior; Harry Ruikka, Fort Ripley, MN;\nBrady Albertson, Sauk Rapids, MN; Mitch Kieber, Ironwood, MI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \n11-14: Josh Rowe, Duluth, MN; Andy Leino, Sturgeon Lake, MN; Cully Butterfield,\nTrego; Joshua Johnson Jr, Superior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nHeat 1: Jarecki; McDougall; Ament; Decker; Kieber; Albertson; Jason Ronning,\nAshland; H Ruikka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

               \nHeat 2: House; K Ruikka; Andrews; Johnson; Rowe; Butterfield; Leino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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