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Strand steals the show to kick off the 18th John Seitz Memorial

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (September 5, 2024) – Dustin Strand’s incredible year got even better on Thursday night at River Cities Speedway for the Prelude to the Johnny, featuring the fourth annual Howie Schill Memorial and the NLRA Late Model season championship.

It looked as though race-long leader Michael Greseth had the field covered in the closing stages of the Cirrus Aircraft WISSOTA NLRA Late Model feature until Dustin Strand found his groove on the low side of the speedway. Strand slowly inched his way closer to Greseth on the wide, slick and smooth high-banked quarter-mile, pulling alongside the three-time and defending NLRA champion with two to go. Strand and Greseth ran the entire circuit door-to-door before Strand rocketed to the point coming to the white flag.

With lapped traffic on his nose, Strand carefully maneuvered around the Bullring one final time to come around and take the checkers.

The win was Strand’s first Howie Schill Memorial title. The event traditionally has been contested as a two-day show at Red River Valley Speedway in West Fargo, but six inches of rain leading up to the event forced the postponement and relocation to River Cities.

The stats kept stacking up for Strand as the win was also Strand’s ninth of the year overall at River Cities, his 18th in a Late Model and his 21st win overall this season. The East Grand Forks, Minnesota driver currently sits second in the WISSOTA National point standings and collected his fifth career NLRA series championship.

Tyler Peterson led all 25 laps of the WISSOTA Modified feature, holding off Ward Imrie and Dale Ames at the checkers. Cayden Schmeling and Jordan Duray completed the top five.

Cole Greseth won the Big Al’s Construction WISSOTA Street Stock main event, featuring the Dirt Race Central Street Stock Tour, from the front row in a relatively uncontested 20 laps.

Greseth never checked out, but was never seriously challenged from second place runner Braden Brauer of Eyota, Minnesota. Greseth withstood a pair of restarts to go on and win over Brauer, Parker Anderson, Hunter Carter who drove from 22nd to fourth, and Seth Klostreich.

The win for Greseth was his first with the Street Stock Tour.

Ninth-place starter Matt Schow picked his way through the field during the Happy Harry’s Midwest Modified feature just to have the left rear wheel come off a half lap after taking the lead from Blake Adams.

The incident immediately drew a caution and Adams regained his spot in the lead while Schow was hooked up to the wrecker and done for the night.

With just six laps remaining, Adams put his No. 40 machine on cruise control after taking the green flag as he went on to take the win. Twelfth-starting Aaron Blacklance came home second, followed by Reise Stenberg who went 19th to third. John Halvorson and Austin Hunter rounded out the top five.

185 cars were signed in for action on Thursday night. The John Seitz Memorial continues Friday and Saturday.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:
A Feature (30 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[4]; 2. 17-Mike Greseth[1]; 3. 21T-Aaron Turnbull[3]; 4. 28-Sam Mars[5]; 5. 12-Chad Becker[11]; 6. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[6]; 7. 6M-Jeff Massingill[2]; 8. 58-AJ Diemel[12]; 9. 37-Scott Ward[14]; 10. 12S-Brad Seng[8]; 11. 27-Jake Redetzke[18]; 12. 14-Brody Troftgruben[16]; 13. 2-Cole Babcock[15]; 14. 55C-Chad Mahder[17]; 15. 2M-Dave Mass[9]; 16. 10C-Cole Searing[22]; 17. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[13]; 18. 2S-Josh Skorczewski[27]; 19. 7P-Joey Pederson[25]; 20. 5G-Scott Greer[21]; 21. 2-Rusty Kollman[24]; 22. 44-Cole Schill[19]; 23. (DNF) 5E-Shane Edginton[10]; 24. (DNF) 21-Todd Frank[20]; 25. (DNF) 33-Ryan Dahl[26]; 26. (DNF) 4C-Brandon Corbett[23]; 27. (DNF) 21S-John Seng[7]

B Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 55C-Chad Mahder[4]; 2. 21-Todd Frank[2]; 3. 7P-Joey Pederson[3]; 4. 37JR-Morgan Ward Grosz[1]; 5. 17S-Lance Schill[8]; 6. 5-Josh Zimpel[7]; 7. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[6]; 8. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[15]; 9. 11JR-Shane Holden[11]; 10. 27P-Tucker Pederson[5]; 11. 33-Ryan Dahl[9]; 12. 9-Steve Anderson[10]; 13. 81X-Matt Sparby[12]; 14. 13-Bryan LePier[14]; 15. (DNF) 42-Matthew Jarvis[13]

B Feature 2 (15 Laps): 1. 27-Jake Redetzke[2]; 2. 5G-Scott Greer[8]; 3. 42S-Don Shaw[3]; 4. 4J-Lee Grosz[6]; 5. 00-Mitch Johnson[7]; 6. 02-Dan Dowling[5]; 7. 4C-Brandon Corbett[1]; 8. 2-Rusty Kollman[12]; 9. 25-Jamie Trautner[10]; 10. 88-Steve Hucovski[14]; 11. 56-Laine Schwehr[13]; 12. (DNF) 21F-Gunner Frank[4]; 13. (DNF) 57-Blake Higginbotham[15]; 14. (DNF) 97-Dan McNamee[9]; 15. (DNF) F9-Brandon Fuller[11]

B Feature 3 (15 Laps): 1. 44*-Cole Schill[1]; 2. 10C-Cole Searing[4]; 3. 20-Trevor Anderson[9]; 4. 2S-Josh Skorczewski[2]; 5. E85-Jason Strand[8]; 6. 85-Jayson Good[5]; 7. 11S-Casey Stremick[12]; 8. 50-Ryan Corbett[3]; 9. 12F-Greg Friestad[11]; 10. 77-Corey Seckerson[6]; 11. 57H-Nathan Higginbotham[14]; 12. 11-Troy Schill[10]; 13. 13B-John Buchner[13]; 14. (DNF) 6R-Nate Reynolds[7]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 28-Sam Mars[2]; 2. 2*-Cole Babcock[1]; 3. 27-Jake Redetzke[3]; 4. 37-Scott Ward[9]; 5. 27P-Tucker Pederson[4]; 6. 00-Mitch Johnson[6]; 7. 4J-Lee Grosz[10]; 8. F9-Brandon Fuller[7]; 9. 42-Matthew Jarvis[8]; 10. 13-Bryan LePier[5]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 71-Dustin Strand[3]; 2. 21S-John Seng[5]; 3. 37JR-Morgan Ward Grosz[1]; 4. 12-Chad Becker[10]; 5. 02-Dan Dowling[4]; 6. 6R-Nate Reynolds[6]; 7. 97-Dan McNamee[7]; 8. 9-Steve Anderson[9]; 9. 56-Laine Schwehr[8]; 10. (DNF) 29K-Ryan Kereluk[2]
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 17-Mike Greseth[4]; 2. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[3]; 3. 4C-Brandon Corbett[1]; 4. 2S-Josh Skorczewski[6]; 5. 85-Jayson Good[5]; 6. 10C-Cole Searing[9]; 7. E85-Jason Strand[8]; 8. 20-Trevor Anderson[10]; 9. 12F-Greg Friestad[7]; 10. 13B-John Buchner[2]

Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[2]; 2. 12S-Brad Seng[5]; 3. 44*-Cole Schill[1]; 4. 58-AJ Diemel[10]; 5. 42S-Don Shaw[8]; 6. 77-Corey Seckerson[3]; 7. 17S-Lance Schill[9]; 8. 11-Troy Schill[4]; 9. 81X-Matt Sparby[7]; 10. 88-Steve Hucovski[6]

Heat 5 (10 Laps): 1. 5E-Shane Edginton[1]; 2. 2M-Dave Mass[5]; 3. 21-Todd Frank[2]; 4. 55C-Chad Mahder[4]; 5. 21F-Gunner Frank[6]; 6. 15-Laela Eisenschenk[8]; 7. 5G-Scott Greer[9]; 8. 25-Jamie Trautner[3]; 9. 2-Rusty Kollman[7]; 10. 57H-Nathan Higginbotham[10]

Heat 6 (10 Laps): 1. 6M-Jeff Massingill[4]; 2. 14-Brody Troftgruben[1]; 3. 21T-Aaron Turnbull[10]; 4. 50-Ryan Corbett[3]; 5. 7P-Joey Pederson[9]; 6. 5-Josh Zimpel[5]; 7. 33-Ryan Dahl[2]; 8. 11JR-Shane Holden[6]; 9. 11S-Casey Stremick[7]; 10. (DNF) 57-Blake Higginbotham[8]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 40D-Blake Adams[1]; 2. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[12]; 3. 87S-Reise Stenberg[19]; 4. 111-Jason Halverson[2]; 5. 44-Austin Hunter[10]; 6. 17S-Lance Schill[17]; 7. 4B-Brandon Rehill[8]; 8. 39-Jamie Dietzler[13]; 9. 11R-Landyn Randt[16]; 10. 15R-MaKenna Romuld[24]; 11. 29-Cylen Vargason[22]; 12. 29X-Brandon Bahr[15]; 13. 4-Phil Christlieb[3]; 14. 188-Hunter Hougard[21]; 15. 18XX-Connor Drewry[23]; 16. 7T-Connor Graff[6]; 17. 7B-Bailey Cousins[7]; 18. (DNF) 2S-Matt Schow[9]; 19. (DNF) 16-Skyler Smith[11]; 20. (DNF) 33A-Austin Overwater[4]; 21. (DNF) 1Z-Dawson Zabel[18]; 22. (DNF) 15G-Landon Gross[5]; 23. (DNF) 8S-Jason Schuh[14]; 24. (DNF) 73-Onyx Johnson[20]

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 17S-Lance Schill[2]; 2. 87S-Reise Stenberg[3]; 3. 188-Hunter Hougard[4]; 4. 18XX-Connor Drewry[6]; 5. 35-Tanner Theis[12]; 6. 169-Justin Olson[1]; 7. 23-Scott Vasichek[8]; 8. 007-Alex Johnson[14]; 9. 77JR-Brody Kraft[9]; 10. 07HD-Jesse Mckuski[13]; 11. 15TRX-Chris Edmonds[7]; 12. 20-Nick Audette[5]; 13. 25-Josh Ostenson[10]; 14. 710-Michael Jacobson[11]; 15. 27-Adam Unrau[15]

B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 1Z-Dawson Zabel[1]; 2. 73-Onyx Johnson[4]; 3. 29-Cylen Vargason[5]; 4. 15R-MaKenna Romuld[2]; 5. 77X-Dylan McCaughan[6]; 6. 30-Cole Neset[13]; 7. 24Z-David Hangsleben[10]; 8. (DNF) 77B-Logan Bauer[9]; 9. (DNF) 19-Darrin Lawler[3]; 10. (DNF) 16L-Brenden Luschinski[7]; 11. (DNF) 15-Glen Manning[12]; 12. (DNF) 47-Memphis Klassen[8]; 13. (DNF) 28S-Ryan Schow[14]; 14. (DNF) 11K-Travis Klein[11]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 2S-Matt Schow[1]; 2. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[2]; 3. 39-Jamie Dietzler[5]; 4. 29X-Brandon Bahr[7]; 5. 17S-Lance Schill[8]; 6. 77X-Dylan McCaughan[3]; 7. 23-Scott Vasichek[9]; 8. 35-Tanner Theis[6]; 9. 007-Alex Johnson[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 111-Jason Halverson[2]; 2. 44-Austin Hunter[4]; 3. 169-Justin Olson[3]; 4. 1Z-Dawson Zabel[6]; 5. 73-Onyx Johnson[7]; 6. 15TRX-Chris Edmonds[5]; 7. 47-Memphis Klassen[9]; 8. 15-Glen Manning[8]; 9. 07HD-Jesse Mckuski[1]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Phil Christlieb[2]; 2. 7T-Connor Graff[5]; 3. 40D-Blake Adams[9]; 4. 19-Darrin Lawler[3]; 5. 15R-MaKenna Romuld[8]; 6. 18XX-Connor Drewry[7]; 7. 25-Josh Ostenson[6]; 8. 710-Michael Jacobson[4]; 9. (DNF) 27-Adam Unrau[1]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 33A-Austin Overwater[2]; 2. 16-Skyler Smith[4]; 3. 4B-Brandon Rehill[8]; 4. 188-Hunter Hougard[3]; 5. 20-Nick Audette[6]; 6. 29-Cylen Vargason[9]; 7. 77B-Logan Bauer[1]; 8. 11K-Travis Klein[5]; 9. 28S-Ryan Schow[7]

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 15G-Landon Gross[2]; 2. 7B-Bailey Cousins[5]; 3. 8S-Jason Schuh[4]; 4. 11R-Landyn Randt[7]; 5. 87S-Reise Stenberg[8]; 6. 16L-Brenden Luschinski[6]; 7. 77JR-Brody Kraft[9]; 8. 24Z-David Hangsleben[3]; 9. 30-Cole Neset[1]

WISSOTA Street Stocks
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 19-Cole Greseth[1]; 2. 34JR-Braden Brauer[2]; 3. 127-Parker Anderson[14]; 4. 19H-Hunter Carter[22]; 5. 30-Seth Klostreich[4]; 6. 20JR-Jayden Bogh[9]; 7. 4-Trey Hess[17]; 8. 2U-Kasey Ussatis[12]; 9. 28-Greg Jose[13]; 10. 13-Devyn Weleski[21]; 11. 26-Ty Agen[20]; 12. 0007H-Austin Dueck[10]; 13. 10V-Justin Vogel[18]; 14. 18J-Justin Peterson[15]; 15. 24-Ashley Wampler[24]; 16. 35-John Halvorson[19]; 17. 10T-Darek Turner[3]; 18. 91-Shane Swenson[11]; 19. (DNF) 17-Nick Shumansky[5]; 20. (DNF) 11JR-Jeff Ekdahl[8]; 21. (DNF) 11-Levi Randt[7]; 22. (DNF) 69-Stoney Kruk[6]; 23. (DNF) 11D-Kyle Dykhoff[16]; 24. (DNF) 34-Billy Binkley[23]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 4-Trey Hess[3]; 2. 35-John Halvorson[1]; 3. 13-Devyn Weleski[6]; 4. 34-Billy Binkley[2]; 5. 62-Jayson Bronk[8]; 6. 29-Rachael McNamee[7]; 7. 37-Chris Ekren[5]; 8. (DNF) 7-James Meagher[4]; 9. (DNS) 20-Andrew Hanson

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 10V-Justin Vogel[4]; 2. 26-Ty Agen[2]; 3. 19H-Hunter Carter[3]; 4. 24-Ashley Wampler[1]; 5. 99-Josh Barker[5]; 6. 01-Chris Serr[6]; 7. 14-Lindsay Durocher[7]; 8. 49-Rodney Hulst[8]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 30-Seth Klostreich[1]; 2. 10T-Darek Turner[5]; 3. 69-Stoney Kruk[7]; 4. 18J-Justin Peterson[6]; 5. 34-Billy Binkley[4]; 6. 24-Ashley Wampler[9]; 7. 37-Chris Ekren[8]; 8. 29-Rachael McNamee[2]; 9. (DNF) 20-Andrew Hanson[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 34JR-Braden Brauer[3]; 2. 20JR-Jayden Bogh[1]; 3. 127-Parker Anderson[2]; 4. 11D-Kyle Dykhoff[6]; 5. 26-Ty Agen[4]; 6. 19H-Hunter Carter[7]; 7. 13-Devyn Weleski[5]; 8. 49-Rodney Hulst[8]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Nick Shumansky[1]; 2. 11JR-Jeff Ekdahl[3]; 3. 11-Levi Randt[7]; 4. 91-Shane Swenson[8]; 5. 4-Trey Hess[4]; 6. 10V-Justin Vogel[6]; 7. 01-Chris Serr[5]; 8. 14-Lindsay Durocher[2]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Cole Greseth[5]; 2. 0007H-Austin Dueck[2]; 3. 28-Greg Jose[4]; 4. 2U-Kasey Ussatis[8]; 5. 35-John Halvorson[6]; 6. 7-James Meagher[1]; 7. 99-Josh Barker[3]; 8. 62-Jayson Bronk[7]

WISSOTA Modifieds
A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[1]; 2. 10W-Ward Imrie[5]; 3. 6-Dale Ames[8]; 4. 13-Cayden Schmeling[9]; 5. 81-Jordan Duray[3]; 6. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[18]; 7. 33C-Cole Chernosky[10]; 8. 12D-Mike Stearns[15]; 9. 6X-Zach Johnson[13]; 10. 26G-Ryan Gierke[7]; 11. 5C-Preston Carr[16]; 12. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[4]; 13. 16-Brenden Luschinski[22]; 14. 22B-Josh Beaulieu[17]; 15. 39-Shawn Teunis[19]; 16. 22-Davey Mills[24]; 17. 77R-Ryan Schroeder[23]; 18. (DNF) 2G-Brock Gronwold[2]; 19. (DNF) 74-Dustin Wahl[6]; 20. (DNF) 40A-Kevin Adams[14]; 21. (DNF) E85-Jason Strand[20]; 22. (DNF) 33-Jeff Nelson[21]; 23. (DNF) 1R-Rick Delaine[12]; 24. (DNF) 71-Dustin Strand[11]

B Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 22B-Josh Beaulieu[2]; 2. 39-Shawn Teunis[3]; 3. 33-Jeff Nelson[1]; 4. 77R-Ryan Schroeder[6]; 5. 12-Tony Caissie[5]; 6. 12P-Brandon Pelepetz[7]; 7. 25-Ryan Johnson[8]; 8. 57-Michael Tiani[10]; 9. (DNS) 37-Scott Ward; 10. (DNS) 27-Chris Unrau

B Feature 2 (15 Laps): 1. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[1]; 2. E85-Jason Strand[3]; 3. 16-Brenden Luschinski[4]; 4. 22-Davey Mills[6]; 5. 36-Ryan Cousins[5]; 6. (DNF) 121-Dano Ostrander[9]; 7. (DNF) 11Z-Dylan Zabel[2]; 8. (DNS) 5H-James Hanley; 9. (DNS) 32-Jesse Young

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[3]; 2. 74-Dustin Wahl[5]; 3. 26G-Ryan Gierke[7]; 4. 33-Jeff Nelson[2]; 5. 12D-Mike Stearns[9]; 6. 39-Shawn Teunis[8]; 7. 77R-Ryan Schroeder[4]; 8. (DNF) 27-Chris Unrau[6]; 9. (DNS) 57-Michael Tiani

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 10W-Ward Imrie[2]; 2. 33C-Cole Chernosky[1]; 3. 6X-Zach Johnson[3]; 4. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[4]; 5. 22B-Josh Beaulieu[6]; 6. E85-Jason Strand[8]; 7. 12-Tony Caissie[9]; 8. 5H-James Hanley[7]; 9. (DNF) 121-Dano Ostrander[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[5]; 2. 13-Cayden Schmeling[3]; 3. 6-Dale Ames[7]; 4. 71-Dustin Strand[8]; 5. 5C-Preston Carr[9]; 6. 16-Brenden Luschinski[6]; 7. 22-Davey Mills[4]; 8. 12P-Brandon Pelepetz[2]; 9. 25-Ryan Johnson[1]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 2G-Brock Gronwold[5]; 2. 81-Jordan Duray[7]; 3. 40A-Kevin Adams[3]; 4. 1R-Rick Delaine[8]; 5. 11Z-Dylan Zabel[6]; 6. 37-Scott Ward[4]; 7. 36-Ryan Cousins[2]; 8. (DNF) 32-Jesse Young[1]

WISSOTA Super Stocks
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 71-Trevor Nelson[5]; 2. 65-Ron Reed[1]; 3. 81B-Doug Bolt[4]; 4. (DNS) 2-Dave Mass; 5. (DNS) 4A-Allan Cleveland; 6. (DNS) 22-Terran Spacek; 7. (DNS) 26M-Garrett Masurka

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11A-Jordan Henkemeyer[2]; 2. 20-Jeremy North[3]; 3. T26-Nic Lewis[1]; 4. 81X-Matt Sparby[6]; 5. 5-Jason Havel[4]; 6. 76-Doug Koski[5]

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