Mass wins pole dash, Peterson scores Modified win, Pierce collects 6th consecutive

GRAND FORKS, N.D. September 10 - Dave Mass of East Bethel, MN won the 'Go Hard or Go Home' pole dash during the opening night of the John Seitz Memorial for WISSOTA Late Models at River Cities Speedway Friday night.

Chad Mahder led the first eight laps of the 15 lap event. Mass took the point on lap nine to win the pole for Saturday's 92 lap finale. AJ Diemel also got past Mahder late in the race to join Mass on the front row.

Diemel, Mass, Shane Edginton, Dustin Strand, and Mahder were the heat winners, while Diemel won the past champions race to close out the night.

Tyler Peterson and Matt Aukland shared the front row for the 25 lap WISSOTA Modified feature. Peterson led from the drop of the green and went on to a three second win over Mike Stearns and Zach Johnson.

Austin Pierce won his sixth straight Buffalo Wild Wings NOSA Sprint Car feature.

WISSOTA Late Models:
Go Hard or Go Home Pole Dash (15 Laps): 1. 2-Dave Mass[3]; 2. 58-AJ Diemel[6]; 3. 55C-Chad Mahder[1]; 4. 5E-Shane Edginton[2]; 5. 32-Jordan Tollakson[7]; 6. 20-Trevor Anderson[5]; 7. 4-Troy Schill[4]; 8. (DNF) 71S-Dustin Strand[8]

Heat 1 (15 Laps): 1. 58-AJ Diemel[7]; 2. 44-Cole Schill[3]; 3. 42S-Don Shaw[5]; 4. 1 2-Bryce Sward[9]; 5. 17G-Mike Greseth[8]; 6. 17-Lance Schill[4]; 7. 7P-Joey Pederson[10]; 8. 28-Jeff Provinzino[6]; 9. 16S-Jeff Hapala[2]; 10. (DNF) 9R-Erik Robertson[1]

Heat 2 (15 Laps): 1. 2-Dave Mass[2]; 2. 32-Jordan Tollakson[8]; 3. 14-Brody Troftgruben[1]; 4. 37-Scott Ward[4]; 5. 37JR-Morgan Ward[9]; 6. 11M-Paul Mueller[7]; 7. 42-Matthew Jarvis[5]; 8. 3-Clarence Washburn[6]; 9. (DNF) 28D-Cory Dumpert[3]; 10. (DNS) 47-Kreig Kasin

Heat 3 (15 Laps): 1. 5E-Shane Edginton[3]; 2. 20-Trevor Anderson[4]; 3. 10-Mike Balcaen[2]; 4. 73-David Carlson[6]; 5. T1-Tom Corcoran[9]; 6. 9-Steve Anderson[1]; 7. 14M-Greg Moore[5]; 8. 9A-Blake Anderson[7]; 9. (DNF) 2D-Don Platow[8]

Heat 4 (15 Laps): 1. 71S-Dustin Strand[7]; 2. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[2]; 3. 12S-Brad Seng[6]; 4. 27-Jake Redetzke[3]; 5. 15*-Ryan Mikkelson[8]; 6. 2*-Cole Babcock[5]; 7. 10R-Kevin Robertson[4]; 8. 5S-Chris Smeby[9]; 9. (DNF) C4-Ryan Corbett[1]

Heat 5 (15 Laps): 1. 55C-Chad Mahder[7]; 2. 4-Troy Schill[5]; 3. 10S-Cole Searing[6]; 4. 21-Aaron Turnbull[2]; 5. F9-Brandon Fuller[1]; 6. 71-Steffen Snare[4]; 7. 35-George Ledin Jr[8]; 8. 1M-Nicholas Minske[3]; 9. 12F-Greg Friestad[9]

Past Champions (12 Laps): 1. 42S-Don Shaw[2]; 2. 55C-Chad Mahder[1]; 3. 58-AJ Diemel[3]; 4. 12S-Brad Seng[4]; 5. 27-Jake Redetzke[8]; 6. 17-Lance Schill[7]; 7. (DNF) 21-Aaron Turnbull[6]; 8. (DNS) 71S-Dustin Strand

WISSOTA Modifieds:
A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[1]; 2. 24S-Mike Stearns[4]; 3. 6X-Zach Johnson[7]; 4. 12-Matt Aukland[2]; 5. 22B-Josh Beaulieu[8]; 6. 7T-Joseph Thomas[5]; 7. 81-Jordan Duray[15]; 8. 6-Dale Ames[11]; 9. 74-Dustin Wahl[9]; 10. 23-Matt Gilbertson[6]; 11. 2-Aaron Holtan[14]; 12. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[10]; 13. 32-Jon Tollakson[16]; 14. 53-Ryan Damm[18]; 15. 96-Erv Grossman[21]; 16. 33-Ryan Hagen[17]; 17. (DNF) 48-Brent Dutenhoffer[3]; 18. (DNF) 37-Scott Ward[12]; 19. (DNF) 51T-Tim Thomas[13]; 20. (DNF) 57-Michael Tiani[22]; 21. (DNS) 22-Davey Mills; 22. (DNS) 39-Shawn Teunis

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 24S-Mike Stearns[1]; 2. 6X-Zach Johnson[3]; 3. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[2]; 4. 22B-Josh Beaulieu[8]; 5. 37-Scott Ward[7]; 6. 2-Aaron Holtan[6]; 7. 32-Jon Tollakson[4]; 8. 53-Ryan Damm[5]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[3]; 2. 7T-Joseph Thomas[4]; 3. 23-Matt Gilbertson[7]; 4. 6-Dale Ames[6]; 5. 51T-Tim Thomas[1]; 6. 81-Jordan Duray[2]; 7. 33-Ryan Hagen[5]

Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 12-Matt Aukland[2]; 2. 48-Brent Dutenhoffer[5]; 3. 74-Dustin Wahl[4]; 4. (DNF) 22-Davey Mills[1]; 5. (DNS) 39-Shawn Teunis; 6. (DQ) 57-Michael Tiani[7]; 7. (DQ) 96-Erv Grossman[6]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:
B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 3L-Logan Salazar[1]; 2. 77R-Ryan Schroeder[5]; 3. 169-Justin Olson[3]; 4. 8-Jason Schuh[2]; 5. 35-Tanner Theis[4]; 6. 54-Terry Nelson[6]; 7. 33G-Connor Graff[7]; 8. 33-Jeff Nelson[11]; 9. 88-Chad Puschinsky[9]; 10. 007-Alex Johnson[12]; 11. 18X-Connor Drewry[14]; 12. 12-Jaden Varnson[15]; 13. 77B-Logan Bauer[10]; 14. 21-Joel Olson[8]; 15. (DNS) 91-Richard Reed

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 5C-Preston Carr[2]; 2. 39-Jamie Dietzler[7]; 3. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[5]; 4. 3L-Logan Salazar[1]; 5. 87S-Reise Stenberg[8]; 6. 54-Terry Nelson[3]; 7. 33-Jeff Nelson[4]; 8. 91-Richard Reed[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 57-Nathan Raasakka[1]; 2. 2S-Matt Schow[3]; 3. 2-Rusty Kollman[5]; 4. B0-Jory Berg[6]; 5. 27-Les Schoon[8]; 6. 77R-Ryan Schroeder[7]; 7. 77B-Logan Bauer[2]; 8. (DNF) 12-Jaden Varnson[4]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 86C-Darren Pfau[1]; 2. 29X-Brandon Bahr[5]; 3. 71-Trent Grager[6]; 4. 8-Jason Schuh[2]; 5. 87-Chris Kruk[8]; 6. 33G-Connor Graff[3]; 7. 007-Alex Johnson[4]; 8. 18X-Connor Drewry[7]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 111-Jason Halverson[4]; 2. 16-Randy Thompson[2]; 3. 2G-Brock Gronwold[6]; 4. 169-Justin Olson[3]; 5. 35-Tanner Theis[7]; 6. 21-Joel Olson[5]; 7. 88-Chad Puschinsky[1]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10V-Justin Vogel[2]; 2. 35-John Halvorson[3]; 3. 29-Dan McNamee[1]; 4. 65-Jerome Berger[4]; 5. 79-Jeff Nowak[7]; 6. 31-Jason Marko[9]; 7. 27-Parker Anderson[5]; 8. 19-Cole Greseth[6]; 9. 51L-Justin Lundeen[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Trey Hess[3]; 2. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[6]; 3. 10-Joe Potter[1]; 4. 99-Josh Barker[7]; 5. 1J-Cody Armstrong[4]; 6. 22-Alex Minks[2]; 7. 7-James Meagher[8]; 8. 21J-Brian Johanson[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 33-Daniel Aberle[5]; 2. 25-Ryan Johnson[6]; 3. 69-Stoney Kruk[1]; 4. 12X1-Kurt Becken[8]; 5. 87-Alan Lane[4]; 6. 10T-Darek Turner[7]; 7. 0-Chad Hagen[2]; 8. (DNF) 18-Scotty Messner[3]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 34-Ryne Uhrich[1]; 2. 27P-Tucker Pederson[2]; 3. 30-Seth Klostreich[8]; 4. 48-Chase Boen[6]; 5. 00-Terry Blacklance[4]; 6. 8T-Doug VanMill[5]; 7. 1CJ-Jason Halverson[3]; 8. 03-Bryce Reimer[7]

NOSA Sprints:
A Feature (30 Laps): 1. 2A-Austin Pierce[1]; 2. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[8]; 3. 11M-Brendan Mullen[4]; 4. 8H-Jade Hastings[6]; 5. 9N-Wade Nygaard[7]; 6. 55-Nick Ranten[3]; 7. 10TRB-Bob Martin[9]; 8. 14T-Tim Estenson[17]; 9. 26-Blake Egeland[5]; 10. 0-Nick Omdahl[11]; 11. 99-Jordan Graham[12]; 12. 17-Zach Omdahl[16]; 13. 14-Tom Egeland[10]; 14. 8BALL-Jack Croaker[2]; 15. 41-Travis Strandell[13]; 16. 10S-Josh Swangler[18]; 17. 42-Rick Bates[20]; 18. 6-Zach Wilde[19]; 19. (DNF) 20A-Jordan Adams[14]; 20. (DNF) 31-Shane Roemeling[15]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 8H-Jade Hastings[1]; 2. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[3]; 3. 11M-Brendan Mullen[4]; 4. 8BALL-Jack Croaker[2]; 5. 14-Tom Egeland[8]; 6. 0-Nick Omdahl[6]; 7. 41-Travis Strandell[9]; 8. 31-Shane Roemeling[7]; 9. 14T-Tim Estenson[5]; 10. 6-Zach Wilde[10]

​Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 26-Blake Egeland[5]; 2. 9N-Wade Nygaard[3]; 3. 55-Nick Ranten[1]; 4. 10TRB-Bob Martin[7]; 5. 2A-Austin Pierce[4]; 6. 99-Jordan Graham[6]; 7. 20A-Jordan Adams[2]; 8. 17-Zach Omdahl[8]; 9. 10S-Josh Swangler[9]; 10. 42-Rick Bates[10]