Girdley, Schroeder, Brown, Phillips and VanDerWal Victorious on Season Championship Night
Girdley, Schroeder, Brown, Phillips and VanDerWal Victorious on
Season Championship Night
By Jeremy Fox
Oskaloosa, Iowa (September
17th, 2014) �Wednesday night track points wrapped up at the Southern Iowa
Speedway on Pepsi Cola Mahaska Bottling and KBOE Radio Season Championships.
Fans were able to see the stars driving the hot rods because there was out of
the car introductions before the features. Track Champions determined and one
driver had a special surprise for somebody in victory lane.
First feature of the night was the IMCA Sport Compacts ten lap feature and Matt
Girdley jumped into the lead. Girdley would pull away and take his first win at
Osky. Track Champion Bill Whalen Jr came home in the runner up spot. John
Whalen finished third, Matt Moore was fourth and Nick Van Hamert was fifth.
Racing Veteran Jerry Pilcher grabbed the early lead in the 16 lap Musco
Lighting IMCA Modifieds feature. Rookie AJ Johnson and Tyler Groenendyk each
tried to get by Pilcher but was unsuccesful meanwhile Track Champion Andrew
Schroeder was working his way through the field. Schroeder took second away on
lap 11 and when Pilcher left the door open on lap 12 it was Schroeder taking
the lead. Schroeder went on to take the win over Pilcher, Johnson, Groenendyk
and Brandon Banks.
In the Pepsi Cola IMCA Hobby Stocks 15 lap feature, Mike Kincaid grabbed the
lead early but shortly after lap two was scored the caution came out for Mike
Hughes and Adam Bonnett getting together in turn two. Kincaid continued to lead
until he slipped up on lap nine allowing Craig Brown to sneak on by. Brown lead
the remaining laps despite a hard charging Mike Hughes to take his third win of
the season at Osky. Hughes finished second, Brad Stephens was third, Kincaid
fell back to fourth and Track Champion Dustin Griffiths came across in fifth.
Todd Phillips started on the pole in the 18 lap Budweiser IMCA Stock Cars
feature and he took advantage grabbing the lead. Phillips had his handsful the
entire distance battling with Louis Lynch for the seven laps. Lynch experienced
troubles on lap eight resulting in the only caution. Phillips then saw Corey
Stout behind him but still manage to hold off the challenges and held off late
race challenges from Gary Harward to take the win. For Phillips it was not the
only victory of the night as after his victory lane interview he proposed to
his girlfriend Krystal and she accepted. Harward, Nathan Wood, Shane Weller and
Stout rounded out the top five. Track Champion was Cayden Carter.
Final Feature of the night was 16 lap KBOE Radio IMCA SportMods feature and it
was Colton Livezey grabbing the early lead which he held on to until Curtis VanDerWal
worked his way up to take the lead away on lap six. VanDerWal lead the
remaining laps despite a caution on lap eight to take his six win at Osky in
2014. Corey Van Zante was second, Tony Johnson was third, Charlie Weber was
fourth and Livezey was fifth.
Track points may have come to and end but racing at the Southern Iowa Speedway
is not done yet as the speedway will host the 28th Annual Musco Lighting Fall
Challenge on Friday and Saturday October 3rd and 4th.
Modifieds, Stock Cars, Hobby Stocks and SportMods all race for a top prize of
$1,000 both Friday and Saturday. Sport Compacts are $250 to win both nights and
the Iowa Sportsman Series is on the card as well. Friday October 3rd, Hot Laps
at 6:45pm and Racing to Follow meanwhile on Saturday October 4th, Hot Laps at
6pm and Racing to Follow.
For More information check out oskyspeedway.com or call Mike Van Genderen at
641-521-0330.