Paul picks up season’s first win

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Defending Southwest Speedway IMCA Modifieds champion Eric Paul won his first feature race of the season Saturday night.

The Dickinson drive held off a huge and talented field to claim the victory.

Spencer Wilson and John Gartner, two of western North Dakota’s top Modified drivers but non-regulars at the rural Dickinson race track, came in second and third, respectively.

Dickinson’s Travis Ulmer was less than a second ahead of Zach Frederick.

Zach Johnson hit speeds of more than 68 miles an hour to win the DART Late Model Series 40-lap feature race. Johnson edged Pat Doar.

Roy Erickson won the Pure Stocks feature despite not finishing in his heat race.

Gladstone’s Kendall Booke won his heat and his feature race in the Thunder 4’s.

The next races are scheduled for Saturday, June 25.

Pure Stocks

Heat 1: 1, Darren Kruger. 2, Terry Zastoupil. 3, Eugene Halverson. 4, Terry Davenport. 5, Mark Selle. 6, Casey Vernon. 7, Schaun Olheiser, DNF.

Heat 2: 1, Cole Lewis. 2, Chad Jahner. 3, Hunter Domagala. 4, Lester Iverson. 5, Craig Hoff. 6, Roy Erickson, DNF.

Feature: 1, Erickson. 2, Lewis. 3, Halverson. 4, Selle. 5, Jahner. 6, Zastoupil. 7, Kruger. 8, Vernon. 9, Iverson. 10, Davenport, DNF. 11, Domagala, DNF. 12, Olheiser, DNF. 13, Hoff, DNS.

Thunder 4’s

Heat: 1, Kendall Booke. 2, Derek Nitschke. 3, Cody Hulse. 4, Cory Reisenauer. 5, Scott Hagemeister. 6, Devon Wandler. 7, Steve Jahner, DNF. 8, Jamie Schalfmann, DNF.

Feature: 1, Booke. 2, Nitschke. 3, Hulse. 4, Wandler. 5, Hagemeister. 6, Schlafmann, DNF. 7, Reisenauer, DNF. 8, Jahner, DNF.

Wissota Street Stocks

Heat 1: 1, Zach Frederick. 2, Bill Miller. 3, Monte Gawryluk. 4, Travis Ulmer. 5, Hailey Jordan. 6, Shawn Volk, DNS.

Heat 2: 1, Terry Zastoupil. 2, T.C. Shelhamer. 3, Rick Johnson. 4, Steve Johnson. 5, J.D. Kuntz, DNF.

Feature: 1, Ulmer. 2, Frederick. 3, Miller. 4, R. Johnson. 5, Zastoupil. 6, S. Johnson. 7, Jordan. 8, Gawryluk, DNF. 9, Shelhamer, DNF. 10, Kuntz, DNF.

DART Late Model

Heat 1: 1, Eric Breeschoten. 2, Steve Laursen. 3, Curt Gelling. 4, Dave Smith. 5, Hank Berry. 6, Wayne Johnson. 7, Adam Hensel. 8, Steve Pfeifer, DNS.

Heat 2: 1, John Kaanta. 2, Joel Cryderman. 3, Jake Redetzke. 4, Chad Becker. 5, Jeff Wildung. 6, Marshall Fegers. 7, Mike Balcaen, DNF. 8, Pat Doar, DNF.

Heat 3: 1, Justin Fegers. 2, Zach Johnson. 3, Lance Matthees. 4, Mike Stadel. 5, Paul Mueller. 6, Jeremy Keller. 7, Kelly Hample. 8, Corey Seckerson, DNF.

Feature: 1, Johnson. 2, Doar. 3, Redetzke. 4, Becker. 5, Laursen. 6, Kaanta. 7, M. Fegers. 7, Keller. 9, Breeschoten. 10, Fegers. 11, Cryderman. 12, Berry. 13, Matthees. 14, Smith. 15, Hample. 16, Hensel. 17, Stadel. 18, Johnson, DNF. 19, Wildung, DNF. 20, Pfeifer, DNF. 21, Seckerson, DNF. 22, Gelling, DNF. 23, Mueller, DNF. 24, Balcaen, DNS.

IMCA Modifieds

Heat 1: 1, John Gartner. 2, Marlyn Seidler. 3, Jeff Decker. 4, Allan Frederick. 5, Travis Olheiser. 6, Brian Miller. 7, Darin Wendt. 8, Josh Jones, DNF.

Heat 2: 1, Jason Wolla. 2, Fran Martin. 3, Randy Burwick. 4, Dale Burwick. 5, Steven Kuntz. 6, Dwight Burwick. 7, Kirk Wojahn. 8, Cole LaMontagne.

Heat 3: 1, Spencer Wilson. 2, Joren Boyce. 3, Eric Paul. 4, Tracey Domagala. 5, Tim Perkins. 6, Anthony Miller, DNF. 7, Lonny Magstadt, DNF.

Heat 4: 1, Steven Pfeifer. 2, Brent Schlafman. 3, Brian Brennan. 4, Travis Ulmer. 5, Lenny Makowski. 6, Bob Miller. 7, Wyatt Dinius, DNF.

Consolation: 1, Perkins. 2, Kuntz. 3, Jones. 4, Dw. Burwick. 5, Br. Miller. 6, Olheiser. 7, LaMontagne. 8, Makowksi. 9, A. Miller. 10, Wendt. 11, Dinius. 12, Magstadt, DNF. 13, Bob Miller, DNF. 14, Wojahn, DNF.

Feature: 1, Paul. 2, Wilson. 3, Gartner. 4, Domagala. 5, Seidler. 6, Boyce. 7, R. Burwick. 8, Kuntz. 9, Jones. 10, Olheiser. 11, Dw. Burwick. 12, Br. Miller. 13, Schlafmann. 14, Makowski. 15, LaMontagne. 16, Martin, DNF. 17, Frederick, DNF. 18, Brennan, DNF. 19, Wolla, DNF. 20, Pfeifer, DNF. 21, A. Miller, DNF. 22, Ulmer, DNF. 23, Da. Burwick, DNF. 24, Decker, DNF. 25, Perkins, DNF.

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