Trey Hess claims first Street Stock win of 2020 at River Cities

By Mike Spieker

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (July 19, 2020) – Friday’s racing event at River Cities Speedway, featuring the World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Models was postponed to Sunday evening due to severe weather Friday night. 

The WISSOTA Street Stocks, presented by Big Al’s Construction, were on hand with 15 competitors checked in. 

James Meagher and Dan McNamee led the field to the green flag for the 15-lap feature, but fourth-place starter Trey Hess took the point on the opening lap while a four-wide battle for second ensued behind him. 

Following a restart on lap eight, a race for second broke out between Tucker Pederson and Aaron Blacklance. After a six-lap battle, Blacklance cleared Pederson to take the position, but he was well behind leader Hess.

Hess cruised to the win – his first of the season at River Cities. Blacklance, Pederson, Ryan Johnson and Potter rounded out the top five. 

Jade Hastings outlasted Austin Pierce in the Buffalo Wild Wings NOSA Sprint Car feature to claim his third consecutive win. 

Two-time NLRA series champion, Ricky Weiss, put on a strong showing in his homecoming to River Cities Speedway with the World of Outlaws Late Models. Weiss led 31 of the 50 laps in the main event, but finished second to Brandon Sheppard. 

Three-time NLRA series champion, Dustin Strand, also gave the hometown fans something to cheer about. Strand charged from 14th to score his first career top five with the World of Outlaws. Following a top 10 finish the night before at Red River Valley Speedway in West Fargo, Donny Schatz finished sixth in the main event on Sunday. 

Racing returns to River Cities Speedway next Friday night, featuring the Buffalo Wild Wings NOSA Sprints, Performance Auto NLRA Late Models, Happy Harry’s Bottle Shops WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds and Big Al’s Construction WISSOTA Street Stocks. 

SUMMARY
WISSOTA Street Stocks:
A Feature (15 Laps): 1. 4-Trey Hess[4]; 2. 539-Aaron Blacklance[5]; 3. 27-Tucker Pederson[6]; 4. 25-Ryan Johnson[7]; 5. 10-Joe Potter[2]; 6. 87-Alan Lane[15]; 7. 35-John Halvorson[8]; 8. 28-Greg Jose[9]; 9. 00-Brandon Corbett[14]; 10. 1M-Nicholas Minske[10]; 11. 30-Seth Klostreich[11]; 12. 91-Shane Swenson[13]; 13. 29-Dan McNamee[1]; 14. (DNF) 3L-Zach Lee[12]; 15. (DNF) 7-James Meagher[3]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10-Joe Potter[3]; 2. 539-Aaron Blacklance[8]; 3. 35-John Halvorson[1]; 4. 7-James Meagher[2]; 5. 28-Greg Jose[4]; 6. 30-Seth Klostreich[7]; 7. 91-Shane Swenson[5]; 8. (DNF) 87-Alan Lane[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 29-Dan McNamee[1]; 2. 4-Trey Hess[3]; 3. 25-Ryan Johnson[5]; 4. 27-Tucker Pederson[6]; 5. 1M-Nicholas Minske[2]; 6. 3L-Zach Lee[4]; 7. 00-Brandon Corbett[7]

NOSA Sprints:
A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 8H-Jade Hastings[2]; 2. 8BALL-Jack Croaker[9]; 3. 11M-Brendan Mullen[5]; 4. 20A-Jordan Adams[10]; 5. 31-Shane Roemeling[8]; 6. 0-Nick Omdahl[4]; 7. 14-Tom Egeland[14]; 8. 99-Jordan Graham[13]; 9. 35-Brenden Wilde[12]; 10. 10TRB-Bob Martin[3]; 11. 26-Blake Egeland[16]; 12. 2K-Kevin Ingle[15]; 13. (DNF) 2A-Austin Pierce[1]; 14. (DNF) 14T-Tim Estenson[17]; 15. (DNF) 9N-Wade Nygaard[6]; 16. (DNF) 55-Nick Ranten[7]; 17. (DNF) 17-Zach Omdahl[11]; 18. (DNF) 6-Zach Wilde[18]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 0-Nick Omdahl[2]; 2. 11M-Brendan Mullen[4]; 3. 8H-Jade Hastings[8]; 4. 55-Nick Ranten[6]; 5. 8BALL-Jack Croaker[7]; 6. 17-Zach Omdahl[9]; 7. 14-Tom Egeland[3]; 8. 26-Blake Egeland[1]; 9. (DNF) 14T-Tim Estenson[5]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 10TRB-Bob Martin[3]; 2. 2A-Austin Pierce[9]; 3. 9N-Wade Nygaard[4]; 4. 31-Shane Roemeling[6]; 5. 35-Brenden Wilde[2]; 6. 20A-Jordan Adams[8]; 7. 99-Jordan Graham[7]; 8. 2K-Kevin Ingle[5]; 9. (DNF) 6-Zach Wilde[1]

World of Outlaws Late Models:
1-Brandon Sheppard [2]; 2. 97-Cade Dillard [3]; 3. 7-Ricky Weiss [1]; 4. 28-Dennis Erb [5]; 5. 71-Dustin Strand [14]; 6. 15-Donny Schatz [8]; 7. 18-Chase Junghans [6]; 8. 29v-Darrell Lanigan [11]; 9. 12s-Brad Seng [16]; 10. 12-Ashton Winger [7]; 11. 55c-Chad Mahder [15]; 12. 0-Scott Bloomquist [10]; 13. B1-Brent Larson [21]; 14. 6m-Jeff Massingill [13]; 15. 74-Mitch McGrath [4]; 16. 44-Cole Schill [12]; 17. 17-Lance Schill [19]; 18. 14-Brody Troftgruben [23]; 19. 56-Colton Horner [18]; 20. 7p-Joey Pederson [17]; 21. 16s-Jeff Hapala [24]; 22. 99b-Boom Briggs [9]; 23. C4-Ryan Corbett [20]; 24. T1-Tom Corcoran [22]