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Sixth Annual Border Battle Off to Strong Start

SUPERIOR, Wisc. (07/01/22) - Friday served as the first day of the Annual Border Battle held at the very beginning of the Fourth of July weekend, this night being the first day of the sixth edition of the two-day event held at the Gondik Law Speedway. Since we are so close to the Canadian Border, we, as a matter of course, draw many Canadian fans as well as Canadian racers, hence, "Border Battle".

This edition was for WISSOTA Modifieds, Midwest Modifieds, Super Stocks, Pure Stocks and Hornets. It is a special event aimed specifically at the "Big Mods" paying a whopping $10,000 to win for the class. Of course, the Modifieds have to work harder than the other divisions invited. Theirs takes two days, the first spent qualifying for the "Big" Money" by running two rounds of heat races. After these two rounds are completed participants then have to wait to find out who the top sixteen recipients of "Passing Points" are as they are locked into the main event. The rest of the participants then have to go through B Features and more hoops to find out who will move on to the big show which pays $1000 to start.

But that occurs on Saturday the second of July. This format usually brings out the Modifieds that fill the bill and make it worth their while to make the attempt. The format always brings out a strong field of Modifieds. This time a nice group of 47 Modifieds participated, besides the Modifieds the rest of the field brings WISSOTA Super Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, Pure Stocks and Hornets. This year's group totaled 78 more cars bringing the total to 102 entries.

First on the docket was the two rounds of WISSOTA Modified heat races to determine who will be locked in and who will face more qualifying the second day. The rest of the participants not only had to run heat races that day, but also a feature event.

The Midwest Modifieds ran three heats and a B Feature were up first. Cory Mehrwerth won the B Feature and Brady Uotinen, Cole Boston and Ashley Mehrwerth won the three heats. The WISSOTA Super Stocks raced three heats won by Dexton Koch, Dylan Nelson and Nick Oreskovich. Shane Sabraski won the feature event. As he is prone to do, Cory Jorgensen led the small contingent of WISSOTA Pure Stocks winning the first of two heats and coming back to win the feature while Aaron Bernick won the other heat race. The Hornet class had such a small turnout that only a single heat race was necessary. It was won by Paul George. Justin Schelitzche topped the 12-lap feature race.

In the first round of heat races in the Modifieds, Jody Bellefeuille, Daniel Bargender, Don Eischens, Bob Broking and Dan Ebert were the winners. In the second round Kelly Estey, Johnny Broking, Jody Bellefeuille (again) Mike Anderson and Darrell Nelson won heat races.
WISSOTA MODIFIEDS

Feature (50 Laps): 1. 11-Jody Bellefeuille[1]; 2. 9E-Don Eischens[6]; 3. 81-Ashley Anderson[7]; 4. 7A-Shane Sabraski[5]; 5. 20-Rodney Sanders[3]; 6. 10-Daniel Bargender[4]; 7. 60-Dan Ebert[9]; 8. 45J-Johnny Broking[8]; 9. 57-Mike Anderson[10]; 10. 98-Al Uotinen[2]; 11. 2C-Dave Cain[13]; 12. 9-Billy Kendall III[17]; 13. 24-Brandon Dolman[15]; 14. 173-Andy Jones[18]; 15. 22-Brandon Copp[20]; 16. 14W-Clayton Wagamon[22]; 17. 10W-Ward Imrie[19]; 18. 26G-Ryan Gierke[16]; 19. 37-Kelly Estey[11]; 20. T23-John Toppozini[12]; 21. 45-Bob Broking[14]; 22. (DNF) 44-Darrell Nelson[21]; 23. (DNF) L1-Shane Howell[24]; 24. (DNF) 22(S)-Cole Spacek[23]
Semi Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 9-Billy Kendall III[1]; 2. 10W-Ward Imrie[10]; 3. 44-Darrell Nelson[2]; 4. 22(S)-Cole Spacek[8]; 5. 22(J)-Jeff Spacek[9]; 6. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[3]; 7. 4A-Hunter Anderson[15]; 8. 9(D)-Duane Dale[14]; 9. 50-Brady Caul[13]; 10. 32C-Curtis Stieh[12]; 11. (DNF) 95-Rick Rivord[5]; 12. (DNF) 21D-Cory Sersha[6]; 13. (DNF) 55-Jeff Wood[4]; 14. (DNF) 212-Mike Klippenstein[11]; 15. (DNS) 19J-Jack Rivord; 16. (DNS) 41-Alex Van Natta
Semi Feature 2 (15 Laps): 1. 173-Andy Jones[1]; 2. 22-Brandon Copp[2]; 3. 14W-Clayton Wagamon[4]; 4. L1-Shane Howell[7]; 5. 68K-Dan Kingsley[5]; 6. 88(L)-Eric Lamm[8]; 7. 24JR-Jeffrey Lien Jr[11]; 8. 7T-Corky Thomas[9]; 9. 55W-Jeffrey Wood[3]; 10. 224-Cody Wolkowski[14]; 11. 05-Mark Prueser[10]; 12. (DNF) 27P-Parker Anderson[13]; 13. (DNF) 04JR-Adam Ayotte[6]; 14. (DNS) 442-Aaron Johnson; 15. (DNS) 9(M)-Riley Matthews
Heat 1 (Round 1) (10 Laps): 1. 11-Jody Bellefeuille[9]; 2. 224-Cody Wolkowski[2]; 3. 7A-Shane Sabraski[8]; 4. 95-Rick Rivord[5]; 5. 22(J)-Jeff Spacek[3]; 6. 05-Mark Prueser[7]; 7. 32C-Curtis Stieh[1]; 8. (DNF) 50-Brady Caul[4]; 9. (DNF) 7T-Corky Thomas[6]; 10. (DNS) 9(M)-Riley Matthews
Heat 2 (Round 1) (10 Laps): 1. 10-Daniel Bargender[2]; 2. 14W-Clayton Wagamon[3]; 3. 98-Al Uotinen[1]; 4. 9-Billy Kendall III[5]; 5. 22(S)-Cole Spacek[7]; 6. 04JR-Adam Ayotte[8]; 7. 55-Jeff Wood[9]; 8. L1-Shane Howell[4]; 9. 27P-Parker Anderson[6]; 10. (DNS) 41-Alex Van Natta
Heat 3 (Round 1) (10 Laps): 1. 9E-Don Eischens[1]; 2. 20-Rodney Sanders[3]; 3. 81-Ashley Anderson[6]; 4. 45J-Johnny Broking[7]; 5. T23-John Toppozini[2]; 6. 55W-Jeffrey Wood[4]; 7. 24JR-Jeffrey Lien Jr[5]; 8. 212-Mike Klippenstein[9]; 9. 9(D)-Duane Dale[8]
Heat 4 (Round 1) (10 Laps): 1. 45-Bob Broking[5]; 2. 26G-Ryan Gierke[4]; 3. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[2]; 4. 2C-Dave Cain[9]; 5. 37-Kelly Estey[7]; 6. 21D-Cory Sersha[3]; 7. (DNF) 44-Darrell Nelson[8]; 8. (DNF) 4A-Hunter Anderson[1]; 9. (DNF) 442-Aaron Johnson[6]
Heat 5 (Round 1) (10 Laps): 1. 60-Dan Ebert[3]; 2. 22-Brandon Copp[4]; 3. 173-Andy Jones[5]; 4. 24-Brandon Dolman[6]; 5. 57-Mike Anderson[8]; 6. 88(L)-Eric Lamm[1]; 7. 68K-Dan Kingsley[7]; 8. 19J-Jack Rivord[9]; 9. 10W-Ward Imrie[2]
Heat 1 (Round 2) (10 Laps): 1. 37-Kelly Estey[2]; 2. 20-Rodney Sanders[6]; 3. 24-Brandon Dolman[3]; 4. 9-Billy Kendall III[5]; 5. 7T-Corky Thomas[4]; 6. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[7]; 7. 88(L)-Eric Lamm[8]; 8. 9(D)-Duane Dale[1]; 9. 32C-Curtis Stieh[9]; 10. (DNS) 41-Alex Van Natta
Heat 2 (Round 2) (10 Laps): 1. 45J-Johnny Broking[2]; 2. T23-John Toppozini[7]; 3. 55-Jeff Wood[1]; 4. L1-Shane Howell[6]; 5. 173-Andy Jones[4]; 6. (DNF) 95-Rick Rivord[5]; 7. (DNF) 442-Aaron Johnson[3]; 8. (DNS) 4A-Hunter Anderson; 9. (DNS) 9(M)-Riley Matthews
Heat 3 (Round 2) (10 Laps): 1. 11-Jody Bellefeuille[2]; 2. 81-Ashley Anderson[4]; 3. 19J-Jack Rivord[1]; 4. 9E-Don Eischens[9]; 5. 04JR-Adam Ayotte[3]; 6. 45-Bob Broking[5]; 7. 22-Brandon Copp[6]; 8. 14W-Clayton Wagamon[8]; 9. 50-Brady Caul[7]
Heat 4 (Round 2) (10 Laps): 1. 57-Mike Anderson[2]; 2. 7A-Shane Sabraski[3]; 3. 2C-Dave Cain[1]; 4. 10-Daniel Bargender[9]; 5. 60-Dan Ebert[7]; 6. 26G-Ryan Gierke[6]; 7. 22(S)-Cole Spacek[4]; 8. 24JR-Jeffrey Lien Jr[5]; 9. 22(J)-Jeff Spacek[8]
Heat 5 (Round 2) (10 Laps): 1. 44-Darrell Nelson[2]; 2. 98-Al Uotinen[10]; 3. 68K-Dan Kingsley[3]; 4. 55W-Jeffrey Wood[6]; 5. 21D-Cory Sersha[7]; 6. 10W-Ward Imrie[8]; 7. 212-Mike Klippenstein[1]; 8. 27P-Parker Anderson[5]; 9. 05-Mark Prueser[4]; 10. (DNS) 224-Cody Wolkowski
WISSOTA SUPER STOCK

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 7A-Shane Sabraski[1]; 2. 26-Kyle Copp[7]; 3. 25-Dylan Nelson[2]; 4. 11A-Jordan Henkemeyer[3]; 5. 12K-Duane (DJ) Keeler[11]; 6. 78K-Dexton Koch[4]; 7. 21F-Nick Oreskovich[5]; 8. 24-Andy Grymala[6]; 9. 77-Scott Lawrence[8]; 10. 7-Andrew Mackey[12]; 11. 9-Dylan Kromschroeder[9]; 12. 36-Darin Meierotto[10]; 13. 57-Dalton Carlson[17]; 14. 24(L)-Jase Lien[16]; 15. 10X-Josh Schmidt[23]; 16. 63-Jake Froemke[14]; 17. 34-Taylor Madrinich[18]; 18. 30(S)-Dan Severson[13]; 19. 61-Tom Smart[22]; 20. 4K-Larry Both[21]; 21. 11R-Rita Anderson[25]; 22. 20-Chris Johnson[24]; 23. (DNF) 3-Thomas Karaba[20]; 24. (DNF) 6-Dan Peterson[26]; 25. (DNF) 19-Tristan LaBarge[15]; 26. (DNF) 176-Matt Koski[19]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 78K-Dexton Koch[3]; 2. 26-Kyle Copp[2]; 3. 24-Andy Grymala[9]; 4. 77-Scott Lawrence[8]; 5. 30(S)-Dan Severson[6]; 6. 34-Taylor Madrinich[4]; 7. 4K-Larry Both[7]; 8. 61-Tom Smart[5]; 9. 20-Chris Johnson[1]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Dylan Nelson[5]; 2. 7A-Shane Sabraski[9]; 3. 9-Dylan Kromschroeder[1]; 4. 12K-Duane (DJ) Keeler[6]; 5. 19-Tristan LaBarge[3]; 6. 24(L)-Jase Lien[7]; 7. 176-Matt Koski[4]; 8. 10X-Josh Schmidt[8]; 9. 11R-Rita Anderson[2]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 21F-Nick Oreskovich[3]; 2. 11A-Jordan Henkemeyer[7]; 3. 36-Darin Meierotto[1]; 4. 7-Andrew Mackey[4]; 5. 63-Jake Froemke[6]; 6. 57-Dalton Carlson[2]; 7. 3-Thomas Karaba[5]; 8. (DNF) 6-Dan Peterson[8]
WISSOTA MIDWEST MODS

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 16-Ryan Savoy[6]; 2. 32III-Cody Carlson[11]; 3. 17-Ashley Mehrwerth[5]; 4. 11JR-Andrew Inman[19]; 5. 7-Brandon Mehrwerth[8]; 6. 11-Ashton Schulte[1]; 7. 04N-Nick Ayotte[2]; 8. 21-Wyatt Boyum[22]; 9. 2(S)-Scott Splittstoesser[9]; 10. 24-Cole Elton[12]; 11. 95-Jason VandeKamp[16]; 12. 64-Evan Checkalski[20]; 13. 87-William Moelter[24]; 14. 15-James Vendela[18]; 15. 4W-Joey Wagamon[15]; 16. (DNF) 1W1-Skeeter Estey[7]; 17. (DNF) 12-Derek Stanoch[21]; 18. (DNF) 33C-Cole Boston[4]; 19. (DNF) 9-Brady Uotinen[3]; 20. (DNF) 9(B)-Chris Bretting[23]; 21. (DNF) 2-Tanner Gehl[13]; 22. (DNF) 17B-Zach Benson[10]; 23. (DNF) 27-Corey Mehrwerth[17]; 24. (DNS) 18S-Kennedy Swan
Semi Feature (12 Laps): 1. 27-Corey Mehrwerth[2]; 2. 15-James Vendela[4]; 3. 11JR-Andrew Inman[13]; 4. 64-Evan Checkalski[3]; 5. 12-Derek Stanoch[9]; 6. 21-Wyatt Boyum[1]; 7. 9(B)-Chris Bretting[5]; 8. 87-William Moelter[12]; 9. 34-Taylor Madrinich[6]; 10. 55-Jesse Polson[10]; 11. 11X-Scott Thompson[8]; 12. 26-Paul Hari[11]; 13. (DNF) 15(G)-Eric Gadach[7]; 14. (DNS) EZ1-Randy Laage
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 9-Brady Uotinen[2]; 2. 7-Brandon Mehrwerth[1]; 3. 16-Ryan Savoy[7]; 4. 32III-Cody Carlson[5]; 5. 95-Jason VandeKamp[3]; 6. 18S-Kennedy Swan[9]; 7. 27-Corey Mehrwerth[10]; 8. 15(G)-Eric Gadach[4]; 9. 12-Derek Stanoch[8]; 10. 26-Paul Hari[6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Boston[2]; 2. 11-Ashton Schulte[10]; 3. 04N-Nick Ayotte[9]; 4. 2-Tanner Gehl[4]; 5. 4W-Joey Wagamon[1]; 6. 64-Evan Checkalski[5]; 7. 9(B)-Chris Bretting[3]; 8. (DNF) 87-William Moelter[6]; 9. (DNF) 11JR-Andrew Inman[7]; 10. (DNF) EZ1-Randy Laage[8]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Ashley Mehrwerth[1]; 2. 1W1-Skeeter Estey[3]; 3. 2(S)-Scott Splittstoesser[5]; 4. 17B-Zach Benson[6]; 5. 24-Cole Elton[8]; 6. 21-Wyatt Boyum[7]; 7. 15-James Vendela[9]; 8. 34-Taylor Madrinich[2]; 9. 11X-Scott Thompson[10]; 10. 55-Jesse Polson[4]
WISSOTA PURE STOCK

Feature (15 Laps): 1. 16-Cory Jorgensen[1]; 2. 26-Tyler Kachinske[4]; 3. 23R-James Rahn[5]; 4. 57-Austin Carlson[6]; 5. 11E-Dylan Shelton[3]; 6. 17-Aaron Bernick[2]; 7. 00Z-Bryar Zimmerman[8]; 8. 101-Michael Grover[10]; 9. 31-Tom Treviranus[14]; 10. 9W-Anthony Woodhull[9]; 11. 5Z-Zene Anderson[13]; 12. (DNF) 64-David Pederson[11]; 13. (DNF) 131-Jessie Limberios[7]; 14. (DNF) 25-kat luretig[12]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 16-Cory Jorgensen[6]; 2. 23R-James Rahn[2]; 3. 11E-Dylan Shelton[7]; 4. 00Z-Bryar Zimmerman[5]; 5. 101-Michael Grover[4]; 6. (DNF) 5Z-Zene Anderson[3]; 7. (DNF) 31-Tom Treviranus[1]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Aaron Bernick[5]; 2. 26-Tyler Kachinske[1]; 3. 57-Austin Carlson[4]; 4. 131-Jessie Limberios[7]; 5. 9W-Anthony Woodhull[2]; 6. 64-David Pederson[3]; 7. 25-kat luretig[6]
8 entries
WISSOTA HORNET

Feature (12 Laps): 1. 14-Justin Schelitzche[4]; 2. 07-Carter Matthews[1]; 3. 21(G)-Paul George[2]; 4. 14A-AJ House[3]; 5. 20D-Derek Dunbar[5]; 6. 11B-Rachel Boston[6]; 7. 21-Blake Hawker[7]; 8. 9-Lucas Lillo[8]
Heat (8 Laps): 1. 21(G)-Paul George[1]; 2. 07-Carter Matthews[5]; 3. 14A-AJ House[6]; 4. 14-Justin Schelitzche[8]; 5. 20D-Derek Dunbar[2]; 6. 11B-Rachel Boston[4]; 7. 21-Blake Hawker[7]; 8. 9-Lucas Lillo[3]

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