Shryock Claims Hawkeye Dirt Tour First at Osky

Southern Iowa Speedway racing action on June 18, 2015 (file photo)

By Jeremy Fox

Oskaloosa, Iowa (July 15th, 2015) – The Southern Iowa Speedway hosted the Southern Iowa Fair Races sponsored by KBOE Radio and Mahaska Bottling Company. 92 Cars checked in including 32 Hawkeye Dirt Tour IMCA Modifieds.

Also the second class of the Southern Iowa Speedway Hall of Fame was inducted at intermission. This year’s class included Jim Brown, Dean Sylvester and Danny Wallace.

Feature Winners were Kelly Shryock (Hawkeye Dirt Tour), Daniel Hilsabeck (IMCA Stock Cars), Jason McDaniel (IMCA Northern SportMods), Dale Porter (IMCA Hobby Stocks) and Bill Whalen (IMCA Sport Compacts).

First feature of the night was the 18 lap Budweiser IMCA Stock Car feature event and it was Daniel Hilsabeck grabbing the lead early from his outside front row starting spot. Hilsabeck knew there was a very intense battle for position behind him as Nathan Wood, Todd Reitzler, Mike Hughes, Cayden Carter, Zack Vanderbeek, Damon Murty and Derrick Agee all battled for 2nd on back. Hilsabeck maintain the lead with Wood in second when the only race caution came out on lap 15 for Trent Barker in turn one. Hilsabeck held on to take his second win at Osky. Hughes grabbed second away from Wood. Murty and Reitzler was fourth and fifth respectively.

Curtis VanDerWal and Frank Packer started on the front row of the 16 lap KBOE Radio IMCA Northern SportMods feature event. VanDerWal grabbed the early lead but just after the completion of lap one the caution came out when Jake McBirnie spun in turn one collecting a few others. On the restart, VanDerWal saw Packer, Cory Van Zante, Aaron Osweiler and Jason McDaniel right behind him by the end of lap two it was McDaniel in the race lead. McDaniel and the field saw the caution come out on lap ten when Frank Packer lost a driveshaft in turns three and four. McDaniel went on to take his 3rd win ahead of VanDerWal, Brayton Carter, Van Zante and Aaron Osweiler.

Because the possibility of rain moving in the 25 lap Hawkeye Dirt Tour for the Musco Lighting IMCA Modifieds feature event was moved up in the program. Ricky Thornton Jr, fresh off from winning the Dakota Classic Tour redrew the pole and took advantage early by taking the lead. Thornton’s time out front leading was short lived because Kelly Shryock grabbed the lead away on lap three just before the caution came out. Shryock continued to pave the way when the caution came out again on lap five for Zach Less, Jason Murray and Jimmy Gustin in turn four. Shryock saw Cayden Carter move into second on the restart. Shryock held on to take his first Hawkeye Dirt Tour win and became the fourth different tour winner at Osky in consecutive years. Strickler grabbed second away from Carter on lap 22. Carter finished third, Colt Mather was fourth and Hunter Marriott was fifth.

Dale Porter wrestled the lead away from Danny Thrasher in the IMCA Hobby Stocks 15 lap feature. Porter led from start-to-finish and held off several challenges from Thrasher to take his second win at Osky. Griffiths, Greene and Jared Stephens rounded out the top five.

Final feature of the night was the IMCA Sport Compacts feature, originally scheduled for ten laps but mother nature had other plans for this feature. Trent Orwig led the first three laps before Bill Whalen took the lead away on lap four. As the field came to complete lap five the call was made to go checkered making it an official race with Bill Whalen picking win number four. Orwig, Shawn Havel, Larry Hopkins and John Girdley was second through fifth.

Next up for the Hawkeye Dirt Tour IMCA Modifieds is the famed Knoxville Raceway on Thursday Night for the Harris Clash. Also on the card is IMCA Northern SportMods. Hot Laps at 6:30pm Racing at 7:15pm.

Southern Iowa Speedway will be idle next Wednesday Night but returns to action on Wednesday July 29th for Autism Society of Iowa Night. All five Weekly IMCA Classes will be in competition. Hot Laps at 7pm and Racing at 7:30pm..

For more information, Like Southern Iowa Speedway Every Wednesday Night on facebook, check out oskyspeedway.com or call Mike Van Genderen at 641-521-0330.

Southern Iowa Speedway Results
Southern Iowa Fair sponsored by KBOE Radio / Pepsi Mahaska Bottling Company
July 15th, 2015

Hawkeye Dirt Tour IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds
Feature – 1. 3 Kelly Shryock (Fertile); 2. 8K Kyle Strickler (Mooresville, NC); 3. 10C Cayden Carter (Oskaloosa); 4. 8 Colt Mather (Keswick); 5. 62X Hunter Marriott (Brookfield, MO); 6. 20RT Ricky Thornton Jr (Chandler, AZ); 7. 02 Andrew Schroeder (Keswick); 8. 24 Jeff Taylor (Cave City, AR); 9. 3XXX Zack Vanderbeek (New Sharon); 10. 57V Mike Van Genderen (Newton); 11. 9X Tyler Groenendyk (Oskaloosa); 12. 21K Kyle Brown (Kellogg); 13. 23JR Nick Roberts (Des Moines); 14. 10M Jeremy Mills (Garner); 15. 00 Cory Sample (Winnemucca, NV); 16. 10K Ronn Lauritzen (Jesup); 17. 21 Dave Brown (Kellogg); 18. 69X Jon Snyder (Ames); 19. 7V Carter VanDenBerg (Oskaloosa); 20. 20L Zach Less (Hopkington); 21. 649 Jason Murray (Hartford); 22. 19 Jimmy Gustin (Marshalltown); 23. 174 Ethan Dotson (Bakersfield); 24. 77 Kurt Kile (Nichols)

B-Feature 1 (top 5 advance)- 1. Marriott; 2. Dotson; 3. Snyder; 4. Kyle Brown; 5. Roberts; 6. Mills; 7. Lauritzen; 8. 6M Larry McConnell (Danville); 9. 48J Jacob Murray (Hartford); 10. 40 Scott Dickey (Packwood)

B-Feature 2 – 1. VanDenBerg; 2. Mather; 3. Kile; 4. Dave Brown; 5. Sample; 6. 87 Blake Woodruff (Galesburg, IL); 7. 7K Ryan Fullenkamp (St. Louis, MO); 8. 14 Joey Franklin (Las Vegas, NV); 9. 5 Todd Shute (Des Moines); 10. 45 Levi Nielsen (Clear Lake)

Heat 1 – 1. Carter; 2. Thornton; 3. Strickler; 4. Dotson; 5. Kyle Brown; 6. Lauritzen; 7. Jacob Murray; 8. McConnell
Heat 2 – 1. Less; 2. Schroeder; 3. Shryock; 4. Dave Brown; 5. Kile; 6. Woodruff; 7. Franklin; 8. Shute
Heat 3 – 1. Taylor; 2. Van Genderen; 3. Gustin; 4. Marriott; 5. Snyder; 6. Dickey; 7. Roberts; 8. Mills
Heat 4 – 1. Jason Murray; 2. Vanderbeek; 3. Groenendyk; 4. VanDenBerg; 5. Sample; 6. Mather; 7. Fullenkamp; 8. Nielsen

Budweiser IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars
Feature – 1. 77N Daniel Hilsabeck (Adel); 2. 11 Mike Hughes (Oskaloosa); 3. 52 Nathan Wood (Sigourney); 4. 99D Damon Murty (Chelsea); 5. 22R Todd Reitzler (Grinnell): 6. 14 Derrick Agee (Moberly, MO); 7. 10C Cayden Carter (Oskaloosa); 8. 17P Brad Pinkerton (New Sharon); 9. 33Z Zack Vanderbeek (New Sharon); 10. 79S Jason See (Albia); 11. 54 Mike Brown (New Sharon); 12. 1X Michael Peterson (Montezuma); 13. 12 Doug Sylvester (Ottummwa); 14. 46B Michael Bilyeu (Indianola); 15. 10R Trent Barker (Floris); 16. 4J Bob Lynch (Ottumwa); 17. 31 Eric Knapp (Albia)

Heat 1 – 1. Agee; 2. Hilsabeck; 3. Carter; 4. Reitzler; 5. Murty; 6. Pinkerton; 7. Peterson; 8. Knapp; 9. Brown
Heat 2 – 1. Hughes; 2. Wood; 3. Vanderbeek; 4. See; 5. Bilyeu; 6. Lynch; 7. Sylvester; 8. Barker

KBOE Radio IMCA Northern SportMods
Feature – 1. 85 Jason McDaniel (Eldon); 2. 1V Curtis VanDerWal (Oskaloosa); 3. 01 Brayton Carter (Oskaloosa); 4. 34Z Cory Van Zante (Sully); 5. 7A Aaron Osweiler (South English); 6. A5 Austin Paul (Monroe); 7. 95J Jason Hall (Grinnell); 8. 80J Jared Van Deest (Holland); 9. 72 Brett Lowry (Montezuma); 10. 00 Shaun Slaughter (Iowa City); 11. 352 Charlie Weber (Sigourney); 12. 20 Danny Brau (Brooklyn); 13. 777 Jayme Duinink (Pella); 14. 26 Scott Brau (Brooklyn); 15. 50 Gary Holthaus (Topeka, KS); 16. 53 Greg Strohman (Webster); 17. 33M Matt Messamaker (Mystic); 18. 77AU Frank Packer (Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia); 19. 7+ Jared Timmerman (Norwalk): 20. 9A Logan Anderson (Oskaloosa); 21. 82 Jake McBirnie (Boone); 22. 40 Dakota Simmons (Libertyville); 23. 21D Dan Drury (Eldora); 24. 8 Tom Lathrop (Ottumwa)

Heat 1 – 1. Simmons: 2. VanDerWal; 3. Osweiler; 4. Duinink; 5. Drury; 6. Paul; 7. Danny Brau; 8. Holthaus
Heat 2 – 1. Van Zante; 2. McDaniel; 3. Hall; 4. Packer; 5. Timmerman; 6. Weber; 7. Scott Brau; 8. Lathrop
Heat 3 – 1. Carter; 2. Van Deest; 3. Anderson; 4. McBirnie; 5. Lowry; 6. Slaughter; 7. Messamaker; 8. Strohman

Pepsi Cola IMCA Hobby Stocks
Feature – 1. 10 Dale Porter (Bloomfield); 2. 84 Danny Thrasher (Agency); 3. 10G Dustin Griffiths (Ottumwa); 4. 32T Bobby Greene (Eddyville); 5. 9 Jared Stephens (Bussey); 6. 3S Steve Allen (Oskaloosa); 7. 2 Brandon Potts (Eldon); 8. 3 Travis Bunnell (Hedrick); 9. 73 Aaron Martin (Ottumwa); 10. 14 Christian Huffman (New Sharon); 11. 15W Clayton Webster (Ottumwa)

Heat 1 – 1. Thrasher; 2. Porter; 3. Martin; 4. Stephens; 5. Potts; 6. Webster
Heat 2 – 1. Greene; 2. Griffiths; 3. Bunnell; 4. Huffman; 5. Allen

IMCA Sport Compacts
Feature – 1. 07 Bill Whalen Jr (Riverside); 2. 33G Trent Orwig (Eldon); 3. 0 Ryan Havel (Iowa City); 4. 4 Larry Hopkins (Ottumwa); 5. 33 John Girdley (Wayland); 6. 22M Curt Myers (Sigourney); 7. 25 Tyler Harring (Oskaloosa); 8. 2M Matt Moore (Ottumwa)

Heat – 1. Whalen; 2. Orwig; 3. Hopkins; 4. Havel; 5. Girdley; 6. Myers; 7. Harring; 8. Moore