Wood & DeJong Dominate Musco Lighting Fall Challenge
by Jerry Mackey
Oskaloosa, Iowa: The 2022 racing season came to a close this past weekend with the running of the Musco Lighting Fall Challenge which featured two complete nights of racing on the Southern Iowa Speedway ½ mile dirt track located on the Mahaska County Fairgrounds.
The Midstate Machine Stock Cars always provide great racing on the lightning fast ½ mile and this weekend was no different as the racing was excellent both nights. Sigourney, Iowa driver Nathan Wood placed an exclamation point on his fantastic season at Osky with wins both nights against a very tough field of competitors. Friday night Wood advanced from the second row to take the lead late from Derrick Agee and score the win. Saturday night Wood came from the fifth row to score the win again over Agee. Both features provided close finishes and lots of side by side racing throughout the entire field.
The Oskaloosa Quality Rentals saw Montezuma High schooler, Maguire DeJong scored wins both Friday and Saturday. DeJong took the Friday night win ahead of Oskaloosa veteran Curtis VanDerwal and the Saturday night win came after DeJong was able to make a late race pass of leader Dylan Vanwyk.
The Parker Tree Service Hobby Stocks saw well over 30 cars in competition each night. Both nights the feature winners were in doubt til very late as the battle for the wins were hotly contested. Friday night Luke Ramsey scored the win by less than a car length ahead of Aaron Martin. Saturday night Dustin Griffiths was able to take the checkers first ahead of John Watson.
The Dirt N Asphalt Sport Compacts Friday night main event win went to Kolby Sabin who took the win ahead of track Champion Terry Bickford. Saturday night 16 year old, Cardinal Sophomore, Garrett Porter scored his first ever feature win by out racing Matt Moore to the checkers.
In the Clow Valve Company Non-WIng Sprint Car division, the Friday night win went to Doug Sylvester who got to the finish line ahead of 74 year young Buddy Parker from Wichita Falls, TX. Saturday night, Ben Woods easily scored the win ahead of Sylvester.
The Southern Iowa Fairboard and the Race Committee would like to thank the drivers and crews and of course all the fans who attend racing at the Southern Iowa Speedway for making the 2022 race season and the Musco Lighting Fall Challenge a success. We look forward to seeing everyone in April of 2023 for another exciting racing season.
Musco Lighting Fall Challenge, Southern Iowa Speedway
Friday, & Saturday, October 14 & 15
Feature Results (top 5)
Night 1
Midstate Machine Stock Cars
52 Nathan Wood-Sigourney
14 Derrick Agee-Moberly, MO
22 Todd Reitzler-Grinnell
1X Cayden Carter-Oskaloosa
85 Jason McDaniel-Eldon
Night 2
52 Wood
14 Agee
1X Brayton Carter-Oskaloosa
29 Nathan Ballard-Marengo
81D Scott Davis-Madrid
Night 1
Oskaloosa Quality Rentals Sportmods
30 M Maguire DeJong-Montezuma
1V Curtis VanDerwal-Oskaloosa
01 Brayton Carter-Oskaloosa
7V Carter VanDenberg-Oskaloosa
66 Tim Plummer-Norway
Night 2
30M DeJong
117 Dylan VanWyk-Oskaloosa
66 Zach VanDerbeek-New Sharon
1V VanDerwal
7V VanDenberg
Night 1
Parker Tree Service Hobby Stocks
17L Luke Ramsey-Bedford
73 Aaron Martin-Delta
4 John Watson-DesMoines
7B Eric Stanton-Carlisle
27 Clint Nelson-Baxter
Night 2
10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
4 Watson
7B Stanton
1R Rick VanDusseldorp-Oskaloosa
73 Martin
Night 1
Dirt N Asphalt Sport Compacts
9 Kolby Sabin-Des Moines
63B Terry Bickford-Shannon City
2A Brandon Allison-Oskaloosa
746 Garrett Porter-Libertyville
0 Bob Hayes-New Sharon
Night 2
746 Porter
2m Matt Moore-Ottumwa
63B Bickford
9 Sabin
48 Chuck Fullenkamp-West Point
Night 1
Clow Valve Company Non-Wing Sprints
12 Doug Sylvester-Ottumwa
93 Buddy Parker-Wichita Falls, TX
17 Kelly Graham-Hedrick
T4 Tyler Graves-Chariton
7X Lance Silvers-Ottumwa
Night 2
11B Ben Woods-Newton
12 Sylvester
93 Parker
T4 Graves
7J Nathan James-Russell
