River Cities Recap: Jason Strand Scores First Late Model Win

Blacklance and Schill Continue Strong Seasons

Grand Forks, N.D. (July 30, 2022) - The month of July is now complete at the Bullring, and among Friday's stories of triumph include Portland, N.D. hotshoe Jason Strand, who picked up his first Cirrus Aircraft Late Model feature win, while Aaron Blacklance and Lance Schill continued hot streaks.

Jason Strand and Ryan Corbett brought the NLRA Late Model feature to green following an opening lap pileup. Corbett took the early lead, and had built a reasonably solid lead in front of the field through five laps.

From there, Strand started reeling in the veteran Corbett, taking the lead on the ninth lap.
As Strand worked lapped traffic, eighth starting Brad Seng made it past Joey Pederson for third, and reeled in Corbett for the runner-up spot in the closing circuits.

Strand continued on to his first Late Model win at the Bullring over Seng, Corbett, Pederson, and Brody Troftgruben.

Jeremy Lizakowski and Austin Hunter paced the Happy Harry's Midwest Mods at the beginning of their 20 lap main event. Hunter got the early lead, bringing Lance Schill with him into the second spot.

​Schill immediately moved to Hunter's inside, going door-to-door with the Manitoba native for the lead for a couple laps.

Schill held the lead as he worked lapped traffic past the halfway point of the race, and continued on to his fifth Midwest Mod win of the season.

Nate Raasakka, Jamie Dietzler, and Matt Schow made up the rest of the top five in the green-to-checker event that went just five minutes and 44 seconds.

Alex Truscinski and Colorado's Chris Crowder led the POWRi Minn-Kota Lightning sprints at the start of their fourth appearance at the Bullring in 2022.

Third time's the charm getting a good clean lap in the books as Truscinski led Crowder and Kelsi Pederson.

Truscinski kept the top spot while working lapped traffic through the halfway mark of the 20 lapper.

Truscinski continued on to victory over Pederson, who made the pass on Crowder for second in the closing laps. Dexter Dvergsten and Dylan Langevin were fourth and fifth.

Aaron Blacklance and Seth Klostreich led the 20 lap Big Al's Construction Street Stock feature to green, and it was Klostreich leading nearly the entire first half of the race.

A three wide battle between Klostreich, Blacklance, and John Halvorson saw Blacklance take the top spot with 10 down and 10 remaining.

From that point on, Blacklance cruised to victory over Halvorson and Klostreich. Greg Jose and Dan McNamee completed the top five.

LIGHTNING SPRINTS
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 10-Alex Truscinski[1]; 2. 93-Kelsi Pederson[3]; 3. 26-Chris Crowder[2]; 4. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[9]; 5. 4-Dylan Langevin[5]; 6. 100-Jason Berg[14]; 7. 72-Kate Taves[6]; 8. 13-Alan Truscinski[16]; 9. 5G-Garrison Miller[12]; 10. 87-Matthew Taves[15]; 11. 1W-Mark Williams[10]; 12. 99-Brody Graham[8]; 13. 18-Hayden Koehmstedt[18]; 14. 07-Vance Bennett[11]; 15. 23-Gerald Hatlestadt[13]; 16. 12-Loki Bjerke[17]; 17. (DNF) 30M-Parker Monroe[4]; 18. (DNF) 27-Weston Olson[7]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10-Alex Truscinski[3]; 2. 26-Chris Crowder[4]; 3. 27-Weston Olson[5]; 4. 1W-Mark Williams[1]; 5. (DNF) 13-Alan Truscinski[6]; 6. (DNF) 12-Loki Bjerke[2]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Dylan Langevin[3]; 2. 30M-Parker Monroe[1]; 3. 99-Brody Graham[6]; 4. 07-Vance Bennett[2]; 5. 23-Gerald Hatlestadt[5]; 6. (DNF) 18-Hayden Koehmstedt[4]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 93-Kelsi Pederson[1]; 2. 72-Kate Taves[3]; 3. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[5]; 4. 5G-Garrison Miller[4]; 5. 100-Jason Berg[6]; 6. 87-Matthew Taves[2]

NLRA LATE MODEL
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. E85-Jason Strand[1]; 2. 17-Lance Schill[6]; 3. 12S-Brad Seng[8]; 4. C4-Ryan Corbett[2]; 5. 7P-Joey Pederson[4]; 6. 14-Brody Troftgruben[9]; 7. 5E-Shane Edginton[7]; 8. T1-Tom Corcoran[3]; 9. 16S-Jeff Hapala[11]; 10. 70-Jesse Teunis[5]; 11. F9-Brandon Fuller[12]; 12. 1M-Nicholas Minske[14]; 13. 00C-Brandon Corbett[15]; 14. (DNF) 42-Matthew Jarvis[16]; 15. (DNF) 54-Terry Nelson[17]; 16. (DNF) 21S-John Seng[13]; 17. (DNF) 2*-Cole Babcock[10]; 18. (DNS) 29K-Ryan Kereluk

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Lance Schill[2]; 2. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[1]; 3. 7P-Joey Pederson[4]; 4. 14-Brody Troftgruben[5]; 5. F9-Brandon Fuller[3]; 6. 00C-Brandon Corbett[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 12S-Brad Seng[3]; 2. 70-Jesse Teunis[1]; 3. E85-Jason Strand[5]; 4. 2*-Cole Babcock[4]; 5. 21S-John Seng[6]; 6. 42-Matthew Jarvis[2]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 5E-Shane Edginton[1]; 2. T1-Tom Corcoran[2]; 3. C4-Ryan Corbett[6]; 4. 16S-Jeff Hapala[3]; 5. 1M-Nicholas Minske[4]; 6. 54-Terry Nelson[5]

WISSOTA MIDWEST MODS
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 17-Lance Schill[4]; 2. 44-Austin Hunter[2]; 3. 57-Nathan Raasakka[7]; 4. 39-Jamie Dietzler[3]; 5. 2S-Matt Schow[10]; 6. B0-Jory Berg[9]; 7. 12-Jaden Varnson[6]; 8. 88V-Paul Veert[8]; 9. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski[1]; 10. 16-Randy Thompson[12]; 11. 35-Tanner Theis[5]; 12. 15C-Chris Edmonds[13]; 13. 88-Chad Puschinsky[15]; 14. 77B-Logan Bauer[14]; 15. (DNF) 87S-Reise Stenberg[11]; 16. (DNS) 28S-Ryan Schow

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Austin Hunter[2]; 2. 39-Jamie Dietzler[1]; 3. 35-Tanner Theis[3]; 4. 17-Lance Schill[7]; 5. B0-Jory Berg[8]; 6. 87S-Reise Stenberg[4]; 7. 15C-Chris Edmonds[6]; 8. (DNF) 28S-Ryan Schow[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 88V-Paul Veert[1]; 2. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski[2]; 3. 57-Nathan Raasakka[4]; 4. 12-Jaden Varnson[8]; 5. 2S-Matt Schow[7]; 6. 16-Randy Thompson[5]; 7. 77B-Logan Bauer[3]; 8. 88-Chad Puschinsky[6]

WISSOTA STREET STOCK
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[1]; 2. 35-John Halvorson[4]; 3. 30-Seth Klostreich[2]; 4. 28-Greg Jose[3]; 5. 29-Dan McNamee[5]; 6. 67-Weston Ramsrud[7]; 7. (DNF) 27P-Tucker Pederson[6]; 8. (DNF) 25-Ryan Johnson[11]; 9. (DNF) 7-James Meagher[8]; 10. (DNF) 37-Chris Ekren[10]; 11. (DNF) 1M-Nicholas Minske[9]; 12. (DNF) 7X-Waylon Poitra[12]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[4]; 2. 67-Weston Ramsrud[2]; 3. 35-John Halvorson[1]; 4. 27P-Tucker Pederson[6]; 5. 1M-Nicholas Minske[3]; 6. 25-Ryan Johnson[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 28-Greg Jose[1]; 2. 30-Seth Klostreich[5]; 3. 29-Dan McNamee[6]; 4. 7-James Meagher[4]; 5. 37-Chris Ekren[2]; 6. (DNS) 7X-Waylon Poitra