River Cities Recap: Pederson’s Nearly Sweep Action at River Cities

Schill and Anderson Score Tour Victories

Joey Pederson with daughter Kelsi.

Kyle Anderson - Street Stocks

Lance Schill - Midwest Mods

Kelsi Pederson - Lightning Sprints

By Mike Spieker

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (June 17, 2022) - It was a night to remember for the Pederson Racing camp of father, Joey, and his kids, Kelsi and Tucker. Joey raced to the victory in the Late Model feature while Kelsi picked up the Minn-Kota Lightning Sprint feature, presented by Olson Underground. Tucker nearly capped off the sweep with a win the Big Al’s Construction Street Stock main event, featuring the Steffe’s Street Stock Tour. 

It looked as though there would be a first time winner in the Cirrus Aircraft Late Models and sophomore driver Greg Friestad was strong early on. Friestad led without challenge for the first half of the race until a hard charging Joey Pederson came from sixth to battle Friestad for the point. 

Friestad ran the middle groove around the quarter-mile bullring while Pederson worked his patented low groove. The two drivers ran door-to-door for several laps without touching before Pederson eventually cleared for the lead. 

Pederson went on to take the win - his first of the season - while Brody Troftgruben, Brad Seng, Friestad and Lance Schill rounded out the top five. 

Kelsi Pederson took advantage of a late race caution to take the lead of the Minn-Kota Lightning Sprint feature. Pederson made the move around Weston Olson with four laps to go to take the point and earn a trip to RydellCars.com Victory Lane. 

The Big Al’s Construction Street Stocks, featuring the Steffe’s Street Stock Tour took the green for 25 big laps with a 23 car field. Tucker Pederson quickly took the lead on lap three from his third starting position and looked to be the class of the field. 

Pederson maintained a slim, yet comfortable lead for the majority of the feature as he attempted to keep the family streak alive. Unfortunately for Pederson, however, he cut a right rear tire with seven laps to go while leading to bring out the caution. That handed the lead over to Kyle Anderson who cruised to the checkered flag. 

Thirty Happy Harrys WISSOTA Midwest Mods were checked in for the first Rebel Midwest Mod Tour appearance of the season. The fastest 24 made up the grid for the feature. 

Lance Schill came into the night undefeated in Midwest Mod action and left River Cities Speedway on Friday night with that streak still in tact. Schill charged from sixth to take the lead on lap two and never looked back. 

Schill encountered heavy lapped traffic in the closing stages, which allowed Corey Storck to close in, but Schill went on to take the checkers. 


RESULTS:
Minn-Kota Lightning Sprints
A Feature (15 Laps): 1. 93-Kelsi Pederson[4]; 2. 27-Weston Olson[1]; 3. 100-Bryce Haugeberg[6]; 4. 4-Dylan Langevin[2]; 5. 24-Jake Haugeberg[10]; 6. 72-Kate Taves[7]; 7. 18-Hayden Koehmstedt[3]; 8. 30M-Parker Monroe[5]; 9. 1W-Mark Williams[8]; 10. 87-Matthew Taves[12]; 11. 99G-Brody Graham[11]; 12. 99-Rylie Stull[14]; 13. (DNF) 40-Cameron Veralrud[9]; 14. (DNS) 16E-Paul Ericson

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 93-Kelsi Pederson[3]; 2. 27-Weston Olson[2]; 3. 30M-Parker Monroe[5]; 4. 72-Kate Taves[4]; 5. 40-Cameron Veralrud[7]; 6. 99G-Brody Graham[6]; 7. (DNS) 16E-Paul Ericson

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 100-Bryce Haugeberg[2]; 2. 4-Dylan Langevin[7]; 3. 18-Hayden Koehmstedt[1]; 4. 1W-Mark Williams[3]; 5. 24-Jake Haugeberg[6]; 6. 87-Matthew Taves[5]; 7. 99-Rylie Stull[4]

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

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 14-Brody Troftgruben[4]; 2. 12F-Greg Friestad[2]; 3. T1-Tom Corcoran[1]; 4. F9-Brandon Fuller[6]; 5. 21S-John Seng[3]; 6. 14M-Greg Moore[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7P-Joey Pederson[1]; 2. 12S-Brad Seng[4]; 3. E85-Jason Strand[6]; 4. 17-Lance Schill[5]; 5. 42-Matthew Jarvis[2]; 6. 70-Jesse Teunis[3]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[3]; 2. C4-Ryan Corbett[5]; 3. 16S-Jeff Hapala[1]; 4. 54-Terry Nelson[2]; 5. 00C-Brandon Corbett[4]; 6. (DNF) 1M-Nicholas Minske[6]

Wissota Midwest Mods
A Feature  (25 Laps): 1. 17-Lance Schill[6]; 2. 57S-Corey Storck[4]; 3. 44-Austin Hunter[2]; 4. 29X-Brandon Bahr[7]; 5. 71-Nate Reinke[10]; 6. 2-Rusty Kollman[15]; 7. B0-Jory Berg[21]; 8. 2S-Matt Schow[18]; 9. 35-Tanner Theis[23]; 10. 4X-Phil Christlieb[20]; 11. 56-Laine Schwehr[9]; 12. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski[14]; 13. 39-Jamie Dietzler[5]; 14. 57-Nathan Raasakka[3]; 15. 87S-Reise Stenberg[11]; 16. 16-Brenden Luschinski[16]; 17. 1S-Scott Bintz[19]; 18. (DNF) 99-Jason Grimes[1]; 19. (DNF) 4B-Brandon Rehill[22]; 20. (DNF) 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[12]; 21. (DNF) 79-Levi Pfeifer[13]; 22. (DNF) 88-Paul Veert[8]; 23. (DNF) 12L-Kyle Leake[17]; 24. (DNF) 87-Chris Kruk[24]
B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. B0-Jory Berg[3]; 2. 4B-Brandon Rehill[4]; 3. 35-Tanner Theis[10]; 4. 87-Chris Kruk[2]; 5. 007-Alex Johnson[6]; 6. 22-Alex Minks[7]; 7. 23-Erik Johnson[5]; 8. 21-Joel Olson[9]; 9. (DNF) 19-Lucas Rodin[1]; 10. (DNF) 12-Jaden Varnson[8]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 57-Nathan Raasakka[1]; 2. 29X-Brandon Bahr[8]; 3. 56-Laine Schwehr[7]; 4. 79-Levi Pfeifer[4]; 5. 12L-Kyle Leake[6]; 6. (DNF) 12-Jaden Varnson[2]; 7. (DNF) 21-Joel Olson[3]; 8. (DNF) 35-Tanner Theis[5]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 39-Jamie Dietzler[2]; 2. 17-Lance Schill[8]; 3. 71-Nate Reinke[6]; 4. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski[5]; 5. 2S-Matt Schow[3]; 6. 19-Lucas Rodin[4]; 7. 4B-Brandon Rehill[7]; 8. 22-Alex Minks[1]

Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 99-Jason Grimes[4]; 2. 88-Paul Veert[6]; 3. 87S-Reise Stenberg[1]; 4. 2-Rusty Kollman[3]; 5. 1S-Scott Bintz[2]; 6. 87-Chris Kruk[5]; 7. 23-Erik Johnson[7]

Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 44-Austin Hunter[2]; 2. 57S-Corey Storck[1]; 3. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[6]; 4. 16-Brenden Luschinski[4]; 5. 4X-Phil Christlieb[3]; 6. B0-Jory Berg[7]; 7. 007-Alex Johnson[5]

Wissota Street Stocks:
A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 59-Kyle Anderson[4]; 2. 10V-Justin Vogel[1]; 3. 46-Jonny Carter[23]; 4. 26-Ty Agen[10]; 5. 19H-Hunter Carter[7]; 6. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[5]; 7. 28-Greg Jose[2]; 8. 30-Seth Klostreich[12]; 9. 67-Weston Ramsrud[13]; 10. 4-Trey Hess[17]; 11. 33-Daniel Aberle[16]; 12. 99R-Andy Rossow[8]; 13. 6-Joe Potter[20]; 14. 35-John Halvorson[9]; 15. 1S-Scott Bintz[18]; 16. 7-James Meagher[11]; 17. 37-Chris Ekren[19]; 18. (DNF) 27P-Tucker Pederson[3]; 19. (DNF) 3L-Zach Lee[21]; 20. (DNF) 29-Dan McNamee[14]; 21. (DNF) 99-Josh Barker[15]; 22. (DNF) 7B-David Barker[22]; 23. (DNS) 5-Royce Jawaski

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 10V-Justin Vogel[3]; 2. 19H-Hunter Carter[2]; 3. 99R-Andy Rossow[7]; 4. 26-Ty Agen[5]; 5. 67-Weston Ramsrud[6]; 6. 33-Daniel Aberle[8]; 7. 37-Chris Ekren[1]; 8. 7B-David Barker[4]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 35-John Halvorson[2]; 2. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[3]; 3. 5-Royce Jawaski[1]; 4. 7-James Meagher[4]; 5. 29-Dan McNamee[5]; 6. 4-Trey Hess[8]; 7. 6-Joe Potter[7]; 8. (DNF) 46-Jonny Carter[6]

Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 59-Kyle Anderson[2]; 2. 27P-Tucker Pederson[3]; 3. 28-Greg Jose[1]; 4. 30-Seth Klostreich[4]; 5. 99-Josh Barker[6]; 6. 1S-Scott Bintz[7]; 7. 3L-Zach Lee[5]