Sports : Hogan in three-way battle for Modified points championship at BCS

With three nights of racing left in the season, Vinton Modified driver Scott Hogan finds himself in the middle of a three-way battle for the Benton County Speedway points championship. The top three in the IMCA Modified standings this season at the BCS are as follows: 71 Troy Cordes, 442 points 33D Scott Hogan, 442 20L Zach Less, 440 Cordes currently holds the track championship tie-breaker with Hogan. Both drivers have won twice and Cordes has three runner-up finishes. Hogan has none. Less currently has one feature win and one runner-up finish. Sunday results: Brown earns first Hobby Stock win of the season

Although he’s faced his share of struggles this season, Matt Brown had a reason to smile Sunday night. The IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock driver raced to his first win of the season at Benton County Speedway.

Brown took the lead at the drop of the green and fought off pressure from Leah Wroten and Bill Bonnett throughout much of the 15-lapper. He was able to open up some breathing room when lapped cars slowed the progress of his pursuers with four laps to go.

It was also heavy traffic that nearly prevented Brown from making his way to victory lane a short time later.

Brett Vanous slipped past both Wroten and Bonnett in traffic with three laps to go while Brown extended his advantage. Those backmarkers, however, allowed Vanous to close on Brown in the waning moments.

Brown worked the top side off of turn four on the final lap in traffic to secure the win a few feet ahead of Vanous. Nathan Ballard completed the top three.

Brown has now won at least one Hobby Stock feature in eight of the last nine seasons in Vinton.

Fellow Dysart driver Joe Docekal also visited victory lane Sunday night following the 20-lap Cassill Motors IMCA Modified feature.

Docekal took the lead from Jerry Dedrick following a lap one caution and drove away on the restart to take the checkers by a full straightaway ahead of Mike Burbridge and Troy Cordes. It was Docekal’s second win of the year.

Damon Murty raced to his eighth local win of the season in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car division.

Murty worked past Kevin Rose just past the midway point of that 16-lapper and then held off late pressure from Scott Pippert to take the win by less than a car-length. Rose finished third.

Danny Dvorak raced his way around Dan Drury near the midway point of the 16-lap Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod feature en route to his second win of the year. Drury held off Dave Schulze for runner-up honors.

Robby Decker drove to his first career win in the Micro Mod division. Decker took advantage of a late restart to slip past A.J. Witten on his way to the milestone win in that 12-lapper. Witten and Scott Beaty completed the top three.

The INEX Legends made their second appearance of the season on the Vinton quarter-mile and it was Marty Diercks taking the win in that 20-lap event. Mike Miller ran a strong second ahead of Craig Peekenschneider.

RESULTS

IMCA MODIFIED

Feature – 1. 12D Joe Docekal, Dysart; 2. 11B Mike Burbridge, Delhi; 3. 71C Troy Cordes, Dunkerton; 4. 20L Zach Less, Manchester; 5. 33D Scott Hogan, Vinton; 6. F7 Patrick Flannagan, Cedar Rapids; 7. 80 Jerry Dedrick, Vinton; 8. 11X Tom Berry, Medford, Ore.; 9. 4 Ryan Maitland, Denver; 10. CH19 Colby Heishman, Brooklyn; 11. 2 Brandon Maitland, Denver; 12. 57B Dennis Betzer, Central City; 13. 5B Austin Bishop, Manchester; 14. 14 Tom Hanson, Vinton; 15. 8 Tony Snyder, Readlyn.

First heat – 1. Dedrick; 2. R. Maitland; 3. Burbridge; 4. Hogan; 5. Less; 6. Betzer; 7. Hanson; 8. Bishop.

Second heat – 1. Docekal; 2. Cordes; 3. Berry; 4. Heishman; 5. Flannagan; 6. B. Maitland; 7. Snyder.

IMCA STOCK CAR

Feature – 1. 99D Damon Murty, Chelsea; 2. 47 Scott Pippert, Elberon; 3. 22K Kevin Rose, Waterloo; 4. 56T Justin Temeyer, Independence; 5. 15 Norman Chesmore, Rowley; 6. 8 Curtis Roster, Vinton; 7. 67 Justin Stander, Shellsburg; 8. 99 Erick Knutsen, Cedar Rapids; 9. 76 Mike Galli, Urbana.

Heat – 1. Roster; 2. Chesmore; 3. Rose; 4. Pippert; 5. Stander; 6. Murty; 7. Temeyer; 8. Knutsen; 9. Galli.

IMCA HOBBY STOCK

Feature – 1. 78 Matt Brown, Dysart; 2. 357 Brett Vanous, Quasqueton; 3. 29 Nathan Ballard, Marengo; 4. 19 Bill Bonnett, Knoxville; 5. 14C Leah Wroten, Independence; 6. 4P Matt Pohlman, Keystone; 7. 48 Adam Petrzelka, Norway; 8. 46 Brian Happel, Vinton; 9. 45 Justin Wacha, Vinton; 10. 717 Zach Swanson, Waterloo; 11. 23 Andrew Torkelson, Lisbon; 12. 77X Jim Hanson, Cedar Rapids; 13. 51 Mike Kimm, Cedar Rapids; 14. 14J Jacob Floyd, Cedar Rapids; 15. M35 Chad Mannion, Waterloo; 16. 707 Derrick Thran, Grundy Center; 17. K12 Cody Swanson, Waterloo.

First heat – 1. Bonnett; 2. Wroten; 3. Ballard; 4. Brown; 5. Happel; 6. Hanson; 7. C. Swanson; 8. Torkelson; 9. Kimm.

Second heat – 1. Vanous; 2. Pohlman; 3. Petrzelka; 4. Wacha; 5. Floyd; 6. Mannion; 7. Thran; 8. Z. Swanson.

IMCA NORTHERN SPORTMOD

Feature – 1. 3R Danny Dvorak, Vinton; 2. 21D Dan Drury, Eldora; 3. J2 Dave Schulze, Keystone; 4. 17 Dawn Krall, Evansdale; 5. 15B Troy Burkhart, Urbana; 6. 22H Curt Hilmer, Dysart; 7. 7D Dakoda Sellers, Waverly; 8. 22 Matt Petrzelka, Norway; 9. 6K Mike McNeal, Vinton; 10. 11M Mike Mitchell, Cedar Rapids; 11. 224 Dan Swank, Pella; 12. T23 Tony Olson, Cedar Rapids.

First heat – 1. Olson; 2. Dvorak; 3. Schulze; 4. Sellers; 5. Mitchell; DQ Swank.

Second heat – 1. Hilmer; 2. Drury; 3. Krall; 4. Petrzelka; 5. Burkhart; 6. McNeal.

BCS MICRO MOD

Feature – 1. 16 Robby Decker, Waterloo; 2. 111A A.J. Witten, Cedar Rapids; 3. 13 Scott Beaty, Urbana; 4. 71 Tristan Cordes, Dunkerton; 5. 51 Cole McNeal, Dysart; 6. 99D Dallon Murty, Chelsea; 7. 75S Cole Suckow, Cresco; 8. 17 Brady Kohrs, Independence; 9. 1R Russ Olson, Cedar Rapids; 10. J111 Jason Hard, Hiawatha; 11. 111 Buster Pate, Hiawatha; 12. 6E Don Erger, Brandon; 13. 64 Matt Post, Walker; DQ 18 Jeff Davis, La Porte City.

First heat – 1. Murty; 2. Erger; 3. Hard; 4. Witten; 5. McNeal; 6. Kohrs; 7. Cordes.

Second heat – 1. Pate; 2. Davis; 3. Post; 4. Decker; 5. Beaty; 6. Olson; 7. Suckow.

INEX LEGEND

Feature – 1. 5D Marty Diercks, Bettendorf; 2. 95 Mike Miller, Waupon, Wis.; 3. 80 Craig Peekenschneider, Davenport; 4. 6 Aaron Meyer, Cedar Rapids; 5. 74 Brock Haines, Fairfield; 6. B52 Kevin Korsmo, Cedar Rapids; 7. 5 Dave Eberle, Freeport, Ill.; 8. 53 Keith Meyer, Cedar Rapids; 9. 77 Al Diercks, Bettendorf; 10. 66 Gary Dyer, Blue Grass; 11. 18 Ryan Sullivan, Waupon, Wis.; 12. 16 Merv Slabaugh, Kalona; 13. 25 Cole O’Brien, Cedar Rapids.

First heat – 1. Miller; 2. Eberle; 3. A. Meyer; 4. Haines; 5. A. Diercks; 6. Dyer.

Second heat – 1. M. Diercks; 2. Peekenschneider; 3. Korsmo; 4. K. Meyer; 5. O’Brien; 6. Slabaugh; 7. Sullivan.