River Cities Recap: Dobmeier Wins Blazin Challenge and Point Title in Near Record Finish

Dobmeier's Win By .049 Over Hastings is Second Closest in Recorded Sprint History

Grand Forks, N.D. (September 22, 2022) - The 2022 season ended with a bang Friday night, as Mark Dobmeier won the Buffalo Wild Wings NOSA Sprint Blazin' Challenge and the track points title over Jade Hastings in the second closest Sprint feature finish in track history since transponders started being used at the speedway in 2006.

Following his win in the King of the Hill, where eight drivers went head to head in an elimination style tournament to set the starting lineup, Mark Dobmeier's consecutive victories with 9.7 second laps gave him the first option to take the Blazin' Challenge, which sends drivers to the back of the starting lineup in exchange for more prize money if they can still win the race.

Dobmeier was one of six drivers that took the challenge, leaving track point leader Jade Hastings and Zach Omdahl with the front row starting spots to start the 35 lap season finale.

Hastings needed every spot he could get following a DNF's at the previous Saturday's Wayne Anderson Cup finale, and earlier in the night in his heat race. Those results totally erased his point lead, needing to beat Dobmeier in the feature to win the title.

Things looked good for him early, as he led until lap 22 when Tim Estenson lost an engine. Estenson was ok, even though his No. 14T was briefly on fire.

On the restart, Dobmeier, who had climbed from 17th to second, swapped the lead with Hastings throughout the closing laps of the race.

Negotiating through lapped traffic as the white flag flew, the pair crossed the finish line nearly dead even, initiating a scoring review.

Upon further review between track and NOSA series officials, it was determined Dobmeier was the winner of the race and with it the track points title. The margin of victory, by .049 seconds, is the second closest in recorded history. The closest is Bobby Martin over Thomas Kennedy in July 2010 at .043 seconds. 

​Blake Egeland charged from 15th to third, while 14th starting Brendan Mullen and Shane Roemeling completed the top five.

ARCA series regular Bryce Haugeberg and Alan Truscinski led the field to green in the sixth and final POWRi Minn-Kota Lightning Sprint feature of the season.
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Alan Truscinski led through a caution just before the midway points, holding off his son Alex on the restart, and pulling away late to score the victory. Dylan Langevin, Dexter Dvergsten, and Matthew Taves rounded out the top five.

Adam Sobolik and Myles Tomlinson led the Renegade Non Wing Sprints to green, with Sobolik leading fifth starting Jeremy Lizakowski through a lap six caution.

Lizakowski, a former Happy Harry's Midwest Mod winner at the speedway, took a couple peeks to the inside of Sobolik in the first laps following the restart, but Sobolik pulled away late for the win.
Tomlinson, Doug McCambridge, and Colin Severance were third through fifth.

Paul Colvin and Landon Maatz kicked off feature competition for the evening, leading the IMCA SportMod feature to the green. Third starting Erik Laudenschlager of Minot hunted down Maatz, who led the first three laps, and took the lead on lap four.

Laudenschlager went on to victory over eight starting Rich Pavlicek, Kevin Veralrud, Scott Jacobson, and Maatz.

Brodee Eckerdt and Andrea Jacobson led the IMCA Hobby Stocks to green, but it was third starting Jay Loughman leading all 12 caution free laps, winning the season finale in the class for the second consecutive year. Hudson Hooker, Eckerdt, Christopher Rangeloff, and Jacobson completed the order.

Keaten Froemke left the left front wheel at home, and the competition behind, winning the IMCA Stock Car feature over Kelly Jacobson and Brody Carlsrud.

NOSA SPRINTS
A Feature (35 Laps): 1. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[17]; 2. 8H-Jade Hastings[2]; 3. 26-Blake Egeland[15]; 4. 11M-Brendan Mullen[14]; 5. 31-Shane Roemeling[4]; 6. 20A-Jordan Adams[16]; 7. 2A-Austin Pierce[11]; 8. 8-Jack Croaker[12]; 9. 0-Nick Omdahl[10]; 10. 17-Zach Omdahl[1]; 11. ​9N-Wade Nygaard[13]; 12. 99-Jordan Graham[3]; 13. 41-Travis Strandell[6]; 14. 42-Rick Bates[7]; 15. (DNF) 14T-Tim Estenson[5]; 16. (DNF) 4-Colton Young[8]; 17. (DNF) 14-Tom Egeland[9]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 20A-Jordan Adams[1]; 2. 2A-Austin Pierce[2]; 3. 99-Jordan Graham[3]; 4. 31-Shane Roemeling[4]; 5. 14T-Tim Estenson[6]; 6. 41-Travis Strandell[7]; 7. 42-Rick Bates[8]; 8. 4-Colton Young[9]; 9. (DNS) 14-Tom Egeland

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 11M-Brendan Mullen[2]; 2. 13JT-Mark Dobmeier[3]; 3. 9N-Wade Nygaard[1]; 4. 8-Jack Croaker[7]; 5. 0-Nick Omdahl[5]; 6. 26-Blake Egeland[8]; 7. 17-Zach Omdahl[6]; 8. (DNF) 8H-Jade Hastings[4]

King of the Hill 1: Dobmeier over N. Omdahl
King of the Hill 2: Dobmeier over Pierce
King of the Hill 3: Dobmeier over Croaker
King of the Hill 4: Dobmeier over Nygaard
King of the Hill 5: Dobmeier over Mullen
King of the Hill 6: Dobmeier over B. Egeland
King of the Hill 7: Dobmeier over Adams 

LIGHTNING SPRINTS
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 13-Alan Truscinski[2]; 2. 10-Alex Truscinski[4]; 3. 4-Dylan Langevin[3]; 4. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[5]; 5. 87-Matthew Taves[10]; 6. 93-Kelsi Pederson[9]; 7. 18-Hayden Koehmstedt[7]; 8. 72-Kate Taves[11]; 9. 1W-Mark Williams[15]; 10. 5G-Garrison Miller[8]; 11. 12-Loki Bjerke[14]; 12. (DNF) 27-Weston Olson[6]; 13. (DNF) 100-Jason Berg[13]; 14. (DNF) 22-Bryce Haugeberg[1]; 15. (DNF) 40-Evan Yanish[12]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[6]; 2. 22-Bryce Haugeberg[2]; 3. 10-Alex Truscinski[3]; 4. 18-Hayden Koehmstedt[4]; 5. 93-Kelsi Pederson[7]; 6. 72-Kate Taves[1]; 7. 100-Jason Berg[5]; 8. (DNF) 1W-Mark Williams[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 27-Weston Olson[2]; 2. 13-Alan Truscinski[6]; 3. 4-Dylan Langevin[1]; 4. 5G-Garrison Miller[7]; 5. 87-Matthew Taves[3]; 6. 40-Evan Yanish[4]; 7. 12-Loki Bjerke[5]

IMCA NORTHERN SPORTMOD
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 49-Erik Laudenschlager[3]; 2. 17-Rich Pavlicek[8]; 3. 66-Kevin Veralrud[5]; 4. 5-Scott Jacobson[10]; 5. 22M-Landon Maatz[2]; 6. 9-Torey Fischer[4]; 7. 69Z-Christopher Zenz[7]; 8. 13C-Paul Colvin[1]; 9. 15P-Dean Precht[9]; 10. 17K-Kamey Leedom[6]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 9-Torey Fischer[2]; 2. 13C-Paul Colvin[1]; 3. 66-Kevin Veralrud[3]; 4. 5-Scott Jacobson[5]; 5. 15P-Dean Precht[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Rich Pavlicek[2]; 2. 69Z-Christopher Zenz[4]; 3. 49-Erik Laudenschlager[5]; 4. 22M-Landon Maatz[3]; 5. 17K-Kamey Leedom[1]

IMCA HOBBY STOCKS
A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 7-Jay Loughman[3]; 2. 004-Hudson Hooker[4]; 3. B2-Brodee Eckerdt[1]; 4. #9-Christopher Rangeloff[5]; 5. 15-Andrea Jacobson[2]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. #9-Christopher Rangeloff[1]; 2. B2-Brodee Eckerdt[2]; 3. 004-Hudson Hooker[3]; 4. 7-Jay Loughman[5]; 5. 15-Andrea Jacobson[4]

NORTHERN RENEGADE WINGLESS SPRINTS
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 52-Adam Sobolik[1]; 2. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski[5]; 3. 15T-Myles Tomlinson[2]; 4. 15B-Doug Mccambridge[4]; 5. 1-Colin Severance[6]; 6. 85-Brenton Wiesz[8]; 7. 2-Tee Young[10]; 8. 25-Eric Guyot[3]; 9. 69-Tom Cummings[7]; 10. 49-Kim Young[9]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 52-Adam Sobolik[3]; 2. 15T-Myles Tomlinson[2]; 3. 25-Eric Guyot[4]; 4. 69-Tom Cummings[1]; 5. 49-Kim Young[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski[2]; 2. 15B-Doug Mccambridge[1]; 3. 2-Tee Young[5]; 4. 1-Colin Severance[3]; 5. 85-Brenton Wiesz[4]

IMCA STOCK CAR
A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 88K-Keaten Froemke[2]; 2. 17-Kelly Jacobson[3]; 3. B1-Brody Carlsrud[1]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 88K-Keaten Froemke[2]; 2. 17-Kelly Jacobson[1]; 3. B1-Brody Carlsrud[3]