Kirkland Breaks Through, VanDenBerg, Carter & Orwig Also Win At SIS
Southern Iowa Speedway
by Jerry Mackey
Oskaloosa, Iowa: KBOE Hosted Kids Bike night at the Musco Lighting Southern Iowa Speedway on Wednesday night. The weather man finally smiled on the Mahaska County Fairgrounds and provided a very enjoyable night for racing action. 24 youngsters left the races with a big smile and a brand new bicycle courtesy of a long list of sponsors.
The final feature of the night was run in the Parker Tree Service Hobby Stock division. When the checkered flag flew and the winner made his way to the victory lane it was Derek Kirkland pulling himself from his 2K machine. Kirkland was really dialed in on Wednesday night in topping the 14 lap main event. Kirkland was very emotional in victory lane as it had been over 2 years since he had visited victory lane. Kirkland scored an impressive win over Dustin Griffiths and Brad Stephens.
The Oskaloosa Quality Rental Sportmod main event came down to the final lap as the leaders were forced to deal with lapped traffic. The top three runners split as they encountered lapped traffic on the back chute. The feature winner was very much in doubt as the leaders raced into turn four of the final lap. Carter VanDenBerg chose the correct line in turn four and crossed under the checkers with a win that could not have been by more than a few feet over Cayden Carter and Jason Bass.
The Midstate Machine Stock Car feature win went to Cayden Carter which certainly was no surprise but the fact that Carter did not secure the top spot until lap 12 was somewhat of a surprise. Carter had been running in the tire tracks of race leader Nathan Wood until Wood slipped up the track just a little on lap twelve. Carter took advantage of the miscue and shot into the lead and went on take the checkers first ahead of Wood and Dustin Griffiths.
The Autocrafters Sport Compacts provided the fans with another great race on Wednesday night. Trent Orwig advanced from the third row to take his second consecutive SIS win by less than a car length over Brandon Allison.
Racing action will continue on Wednesday night May 29th which will be Hall Of Fame voting night. The fans will have an opportunity to vote for who they think should be inducted into the SIS Hall of Fame. In addition the Iowa Sportsman Series will be in action along with the four regular classes of cars. Hot laps will get underway at 7 pm with racing to follow.
Wednesday, May 22 KBOE Race Night
Parker Tree Service Hobby Stocks
2K Derick Kirkland-Centerville
10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
55 Brad Stephens-Bussey
27 Clint Nelson-Baxter
14 Christian Huffman-New Sharon
Midstate Machine Stock Cars
10CC Cayden Carter-Oskaloosa
52 Nathan Wood -Sigourney
10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
54 Mike Brown-New Sharon
85 Jason McDaniel-Eldon
Oskaloosa Quality Rental Sportmods
7V Carter VanDenBerg-Oskaloosa
01 Cayden Carter-Oskaloosa
4 Jason Bass-Fort Dodge
7 Blaine Webster-Ottumwa
34Z Cory VanZante-Sully
Autocrafters Sport Compacts
04 Trent Orwig-Ottumwa
14A Brandon Allison-Oskaloosa
72 Jake Houston-Burlington
52 Billy Ccain-Bloomfield
41 Nathan Moody-Oskaloosa
