River Cities Recap: California's Sexton Wins Lightning Sprint Shootout

Pierce, Strand, Schill, and Pederson Also Winners

Grand Forks, N.D. (August 12, 2022) - With drivers from every time-zone, as far apart as San Diego, Calif. and Montreal, Canada, the POWRi Minn-Kota Lightning Sprint Summer Shootout added to another exciting night of action at the Bullring, as California native Brent Sexton went on to win night two of the series. Austin Pierce went back-to-back in the Buffalo Wild Wings NOSA Sprints, while Dustin Strand, Lance Schill, and Tucker Pederson all returned to RydellCars.com victory lane.

Brent Sexton and Kelsi Pederson brought night two of the POWRi Minn-Kota Lightning Sprint Summer Shootout to green. Sexton led early over Colorado natives Andy Flood and Chris Crowder as Pederson slipped back to fourth.

Flood reeled in Sexton and took the lead in lapped traffic on lap eight, leading through the midpoint of the 25 lap event.

With ten circuits left on the scoreboard, Crowder stalked Flood in thick lapped traffic, hoping for a sneak to the inside to gain the top spot.

Flood kept the lead, as Crowder fell back to fourth before a caution with five to go. Alex Truscinski took the lead the following lap, and was about to take the white flag, when another caution bunched the field back together for another restart.

Flood ran out of luck on the restart, as he spun and headed to the rear of the field, moving Alex's dad Alan Truscinski onto the podium.

The final restart saw Lakeside, California's Brent Sexton rip the cushion around the outside of Alex Truscinski, taking the lead as the white flag flew, and continued on to victory.

Kelsi Pederson moved back up to fourth, while Val Joli, Quebec, Canada racer Eric Sunborg took fourth, with Alan Truscinski finishing fifth.

The Summer Shootout continues this weekend at Greenbush Race Park and Buffalo River Speedway.

Austin Pierce made short work of the 20 lap Buffalo Wild Wings NOSA Sprint feature. Pierce started on the pole, and led every lap, holding off Wade Nygaard on a lap ten restart for his fourth win of 2022.

Blake Egeland, the cause of the lap ten caution, rebounded to finish third ahead of Shane Roemeling and Tom Egeland.

For the second straight week, the Cirrus Aircraft Late Model saw two drivers on the front row looking for their first Bullring wins. Brandon Fuller and Ryan Kereluk led the 20 lapper to the initial start, with Fuller taking the point, and Dustin Strand moving into second.

Jason Strand had a pass of Kereluk, then a battle with Dustin Strand erased by a lap four caution. On the restart, Dustin Strand went door-to-door to Fuller's inside for a pair of laps, taking the lead on lap five.

One lap later, another reset saw Brody Troftgruben join the un-related Strand duo in the top three. The new lead trio remained close through the midway point, as Troftgruben moved into the runner-up spot, looking for win number three on the year.

Jason Strand took second back in the closing laps of the race, running door-to-door with Dustin Strand in a last gasp effort for his second win in three weeks.

Dustin Strand used lapped traffic as perfect picks, continuing on to his second win of the season. Lance Schill and Joey Pederson were fourth and fifth.

Nate Raasakka and Lance Schill brough the Happy Harry's Midwest Mod 20 lapper to green. Schill led through an early caution, and began to open up a straightaway advantage halfway through the race.

Schill remained untested in the second half of the race, scoring his sixth win of the year. Raasakka and Reise Stenberg completed the podium, and were followed by Thunder Bay, Ontario runner David Simpson and Bryan Kakela.

Tucker Pederson and Daniel Aberle made up the front row in the Big Al's Construction Street Stock feature, which saw nearly half the field eliminated due to accidents before one lap went in the books.

Pederson took the race lead and held it through another caution on lap three, holding off Trey Hess and Dan McNamee. Aaron Blacklance eventually replaced McNamee inside the top three, as Pederson built an advantage through the midway point.

The podium remained the same despite one final restart with four to go, and puffs of smoke from Pederson's mount, as he went on to win his third feature of the year. McNamee and Halvorson were fourth and fifth.

NOSA SPRINTS
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 2A-Austin Pierce[1]; 2. 9N-Wade Nygaard[2]; 3. 26-Blake Egeland[4]; 4. 31-Shane Roemeling[3]; 5. 14-Tom Egeland[5]; 6. 41-Travis Strandell[6]; 7. (DNF) 37-Sye Anderson[7]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 2A-Austin Pierce[3]; 2. 26-Blake Egeland[2]; 3. 9N-Wade Nygaard[5]; 4. 31-Shane Roemeling[7]; 5. 14-Tom Egeland[4]; 6. 41-Travis Strandell[6]; 7. 37-Sye Anderson[1]

LIGHTNING SPRINTS
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 44-Brent Sexton[1]; 2. 10-Alex Truscinski[7]; 3. 93-Kelsi Pederson[2]; 4. 16S-Eric Sunborg[11]; 5. 13-Alan Truscinski[10]; 6. 26-Chris Crowder[6]; 7. 100-Jason Berg[12]; 8. 4-Dylan Langevin[3]; 9. 3-Grant Sexton[5]; 10. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[20]; 11. 18-Dalton Sexton[9]; 12. 13J-Josiah King[15]; 13. 27-Weston Olson[18]; 14. 72-Kate Taves[13]; 15. 27H-Jake Haugeberg[23]; 16. 21-Steve Hildebrand[17]; 17. 40-Lawrence Veralrud[19]; 18. 9F-Andy Flood[14]; 19. 87-Matthew Taves[16]; 20. (DNF) 7-Josh Flood[4]; 21. (DNF) 91-Mike Tindell[21]; 22. (DNF) 29S-Stephane St Laurent[8]; 23. (DNF) 10C-Chasity Younger[24]; 24. (DNF) 18K-Hayden Koehmstedt[22]; 25. (DNS) 71C-Jeff Bard; 26. (DNS) 22-Bryce Haugeberg

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7-Josh Flood[2]; 2. 44-Brent Sexton[1]; 3. 13-Alan Truscinski[3]; 4. 16S-Eric Sunborg[5]; 5. 13J-Josiah King[7]; 6. 72-Kate Taves[9]; 7. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[6]; 8. 18K-Hayden Koehmstedt[4]; 9. (DNF) 10C-Chasity Younger[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 10-Alex Truscinski[4]; 2. 3-Grant Sexton[5]; 3. 29S-Stephane St Laurent[9]; 4. 18-Dalton Sexton[6]; 5. 87-Matthew Taves[1]; 6. 27-Weston Olson[2]; 7. 21-Steve Hildebrand[8]; 8. 27H-Jake Haugeberg[3]; 9. (DNF) 71C-Jeff Bard[7]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 26-Chris Crowder[5]; 2. 4-Dylan Langevin[2]; 3. 93-Kelsi Pederson[6]; 4. 9F-Andy Flood[4]; 5. 100-Jason Berg[8]; 6. 40-Lawrence Veralrud[1]; 7. 91-Mike Tindell[7]; 8. (DNS) 22-Bryce Haugeberg

WISSOTA LATE MODEL
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 71S-Dustin Strand[3]; 2. E85-Jason Strand[5]; 3. 14-Brody Troftgruben[4]; 4. 17-Lance Schill[6]; 5. 7P-Joey Pederson[7]; 6. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[2]; 7. 12S-Brad Seng[9]; 8. 10C-Eric Haugland[8]; 9. 70-Jesse Teunis[11]; 10. 4D-Logan Dowson[10]; 11. 33-Ryan Dahl[16]; 12. F9-Brandon Fuller[1]; 13. T1-Tom Corcoran[23]; 14. 2*-Cole Babcock[12]; 15. 9A-Blake Anderson[13]; 16. 16S-Jeff Hapala[19]; 17. 42-Matthew Jarvis[15]; 18. 21S-John Seng[21]; 19. 00-Brandon Corbett[22]; 20. 1M-Nicholas Minske[14]; 21. 54-Terry Nelson[18]; 22. (DNF) 57-Blake Higginbotham[17]; 23. (DNF) C4-Ryan Corbett[20]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7P-Joey Pederson[1]; 2. F9-Brandon Fuller[2]; 3. 71S-Dustin Strand[4]; 4. 4D-Logan Dowson[3]; 5. 9A-Blake Anderson[6]; 6. 33-Ryan Dahl[8]; 7. 16S-Jeff Hapala[5]; 8. (DNF) T1-Tom Corcoran[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Lance Schill[3]; 2. 12S-Brad Seng[1]; 3. 14-Brody Troftgruben[6]; 4. 70-Jesse Teunis[7]; 5. 1M-Nicholas Minske[4]; 6. 57-Blake Higginbotham[8]; 7. C4-Ryan Corbett[5]; 8. 00-Brandon Corbett[2]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[3]; 2. E85-Jason Strand[6]; 3. 10C-Eric Haugland[2]; 4. 2*-Cole Babcock[4]; 5. 42-Matthew Jarvis[1]; 6. 54-Terry Nelson[7]; 7. 21S-John Seng[5]

WISSOTA MIDWEST MODS
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 17-Lance Schill[2]; 2. 57-Nathan Raasakka[1]; 3. 87S-Reise Stenberg[3]; 4. 70-David Simpson[5]; 5. 11-Bryan Kakela[6]; 6. B0-Jory Berg[7]; 7. 39-Jamie Dietzler[4]; 8. 28S-Ryan Schow[13]; 9. 40-Patrick Sobolik[10]; 10. 29-Cylen Vargason[12]; 11. (DNF) 111-Jason Halverson[11]; 12. (DNF) 2S-Matt Schow[8]; 13. (DNF) 44-Austin Hunter[9]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 39-Jamie Dietzler[1]; 2. 70-David Simpson[2]; 3. 2S-Matt Schow[6]; 4. 87S-Reise Stenberg[7]; 5. 44-Austin Hunter[3]; 6. 111-Jason Halverson[4]; 7. 28S-Ryan Schow[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11-Bryan Kakela[3]; 2. 17-Lance Schill[4]; 3. 57-Nathan Raasakka[2]; 4. B0-Jory Berg[6]; 5. 40-Patrick Sobolik[5]; 6. 29-Cylen Vargason[1]

WISSOTA STREET STOCK
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 27P-Tucker Pederson[1]; 2. 4-Trey Hess[4]; 3. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[8]; 4. 29-Dan McNamee[3]; 5. 35-John Halvorson[7]; 6. 33-Daniel Aberle[2]; 7. 7-James Meagher[14]; 8. 3L-Zach Lee[12]; 9. 37-Chris Ekren[9]; 10. (DNF) 6-Joe Potter[13]; 11. (DNF) 99-Josh Barker[11]; 12. (DNF) 30-Seth Klostreich[6]; 13. (DNF) 67-Weston Ramsrud[10]; 14. (DNF) 28-Greg Jose[5]; 15. (DNS) 1M-Nicholas Minske

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[4]; 2. 4-Trey Hess[5]; 3. 33-Daniel Aberle[3]; 4. 35-John Halvorson[6]; 5. 37-Chris Ekren[7]; 6. (DNF) 6-Joe Potter[2]; 7. (DNF) 7-James Meagher[8]; 8. (DNF) 1M-Nicholas Minske[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 28-Greg Jose[2]; 2. 27P-Tucker Pederson[5]; 3. 29-Dan McNamee[1]; 4. 30-Seth Klostreich[3]; 5. 67-Weston Ramsrud[6]; 6. 99-Josh Barker[7]; 7. 3L-Zach Lee[4]