The IMCA Late Models wrapped up their regular season of racing on Friday at the Marshalltown Speedway, during Shawn’s Custom Hay Grinding Night at the Races. Hometown hero Darrel DeFrance would claim the track title in the Late Models as well as winning the feature. Tom Berry continued his domination in the IMCA Modified division, and Johnathon Logue made it two in a row in the IMCA Northern SportMod class. Jeff Mueller got his second win of the season in the IMCA Stock Cars as well as getting his 100th career feature win. Solomon Bennett snagged his first ever win at Marshalltown in the IMCA Hobby Stocks, and Bryan Zehm got his second win of the season in the Mod Lites.

The Mod Lites went 15 laps for their main event. Joel Huggins was looking strong as he led from the drop of the green and was holding back the field until Bryan Zehm came calling at lap nine. The two ran closely for a couple of laps until Zehm made his move into the lead as they crossed the flagstand with just two laps remaining. Huggins tried, but was unable to regain the upper hand in the closing moments as Zehm took the checkers, with Huggins having to settle for second. Third went to Travis Stensland, Cory Sonner was fourth, and Mike Morrill finished fifth.

The yellow flag reared its ugly head often in the 18-lap IMCA Northern SportMod feature, but in the end of the stop and go contest, it was Johnathon Logue repeating his win for the second week in a row. Logue started eighth on the field, and passed then leader Kyle Olson on lap eight, and went on to the flying checkers. Brayton Carter started seventh, and finished a close second, giving Logue a challenge in the final laps. Travis Peterson, Kyle Olson, and Austin Schrage completed the top five. This was Logue’s third feature win of the 2020 season at the speedway.

A first time winner at the track came out of the 15-lap IMCA Hobby Stock class when Solomon Bennett took the win. Bennett started 10th, and had the lead by lap five, never to give it up. Braden Richards chased the winner most of the race to finish in second. Hard charger was Jacob Floyd, coming from twentieth to finish third. Aaron Martin and Scott Ellis went fourth and fifth respectively.

It was season championship night for the IMCA Late Models who wrapped up their regular season. The field started straight up by points with hometown favorite Darrel DeFrance holding a slim two point lead over rookie Logan Duffy after the earlier heat race finishes. The 20-lap feature would determine the final outcome, and DeFrance left no doubt in this one. He would lead from the drop of the green to the checkers in the 20-lap race that went non-stop. Duffy trailed DeFrance the entire circuits to finish second. Dalton Simonsen took third, Ben Seeman was fourth, and first timer at the track, Mitch Manternach, from Dyersville started 12th and finished fifth.

Jeff Mueller had to dig around the bottom of the track in the IMCA eighteen lap Stock Car feature to get the win, but he got the job done. Mueller started 12th, caught and passed rim riding Dallon Murty at lap 12 and held the lead to the finish. Dallon Murty came from 10th starting spot to take the runner-up position, his dad Damon Murty started 11th and finished third, Kyle Everts was fourth, and Tyler Pickett was fifth. This was Mueller’s second win at the track this season, this one a little extra sweet as it was his 100th IMCA Stock Car feature win.

There seems to be no stopping the hot streak of Tom Berry, Jr. in the IMCA Modifieds. Berry grabbed the lead away from Jared VanDeest on lap eight and then pulled away, slicing and dicing through traffic to take the easy win. VanDeest held second, Paul Nagle, Kollin Hibdon, and Scott Simatovich rounded out the top five. This was Berry’s seventh win at the High Banks this year.

Racing continues next Friday night for the Bob Harris Enterprises night and $1,000 to win for the IMCA Northern SportMods.

Marshalltown Speedway

Friday’s Race Results

(features only)

Dwarf

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 46Z-Bryan Zehm[7]; 2. X50-Joel Huggins[2]; 3. 89-Travis Stensland[5]; 4. 47-Cory Sonner[6]; 5. 6-Mike Morrill[4]; 6. 20-Jeff Stensland[13]; 7. 4-Matt Sorenson[12]; 8. 4B-Douglas Byers[1]; 9. 4G-Ben George[3]; 10. 20X-Cody Yaw[10]; 11. 17S-Chris Weir[11]; 12. 3-Austin Glick[14]; 13. (DNF) 31-Tim Glick[9]; 14. (DNF) 64-Randy Bryan[8]; 15. (DNF) 3T-Tanner Gannon[15]

IMCA Hobby Stock

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 11B-Solomon Bennett[10]; 2. 11R-Braden Richards[6]; 3. 14J-Jacob Floyd[20]; 4. 73-Aaron Martin[8]; 5. 40SE-Scott Ellis[2]; 6. 37G-Jeremiah Andrews[13]; 7. 4-Russ Olson[18]; 8. 47X-Darin DeZwarte[3]; 9. 20A-Steven Crees[14]; 10. 52-Carter Koop[11]; 11. 43-Kevin LeBeau[16]; 12. 11K-William Klosterman[4]; 13. 17-Andy Peck[17]; 14. 21P-Shane Palmer[22]; 15. 57C-Cory Ogden[15]; 16. 17X-Ben Newhouse `[5]; 17. (DNF) 20W-Matt Wahl[21]; 18. (DNF) 1K-Tom Killen Jr[7]; 19. (DNF) 81M-Travis Merical[12]; 20. (DNF) 28-Josh Killen[19]; 21. (DNF) 1-Kaden Reynolds[9]; 22. (DNF) 47-Ray Fees[1]

IMCA Modified

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 11X-Tom Berry Jr[10]; 2. 80J-Jared Van Deest[1]; 3. 05-Paul Nagle[4]; 4. 48K-Kollin Hibdon[8]; 5. 43S-Scott Simatovich[3]; 6. 5G-Gatlin Leytham[5]; 7. 10K-Ronn Lauritzen[7]; 8. 13-Anthony Hofbauer[14]; 9. 38T-Dylan Thornton[21]; 10. 77X-Austin Kuehl[2]; 11. 30-Josh Ruby[11]; 12. 2-Zack Rawlins[13]; 13. 16B-Randy Brown[15]; 14. 3W-Garett Wilson[16]; 15. 81-Jesse Belez[19]; 16. 42RH-Ronnie Hults[18]; 17. 12R-Bret Ramsey[17]; 18. 14-Cody Morgan[22]; 19. 40RC-Rod Clement[20]; 20. (DNF) 77-Jeff Aikey[12]; 21. (DNF) 82-Jake McBirnie[6]; 22. (DNF) 4TW-Tim Ward[9]

IMCA Northern SportMod

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 69JR-Johnathon Logue[8]; 2. 01-Brayton Carter[7]; 3. 25-Travis Peterson[3]; 4. K3-Kyle Olson[5]; 5. 14X-Austin Schrage[6]; 6. 1-Austin Kaplan[4]; 7. 17-Dylan VanWyk[9]; 8. 57R-Ryan King[2]; 9. 7L-Brian Lepa[1]; 10. 48S-Adam Shelman[10]; 11. 14-Brian Schrage[14]; 12. 11-Izac Mallicoat[22]; 13. K9-Brian Kauffman[15]; 14. 25R-Chad Ryerson[11]; 15. 95N-Garrett Nelson[21]; 16. 36H-David Hoover[20]; 17. (DNF) 44-Jenae Gustin[12]; 18. (DNF) 4J-Jared Dew[23]; 19. (DNF) 4T-Tyler Titus[13]; 20. (DNF) 98S-Dennis Stewart[24]; 21. (DNF) 19F-Fred Leytham[16]; 22. (DNF) 88N-Nate Albrant[19]; 23. (DNF) 4-Chance Titus[18]; 24. (DNF) 33J-Joseph Luethje[17]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 95N-Garrett Nelson[2]; 2. 11-Izac Mallicoat[6]; 3. 4J-Jared Dew[1]; 4. 98S-Dennis Stewart[3]; 5. (DNF) 93C-Craig Carpenter[7]; 6. (DNS) 16-Kaylin Lopez; 7. (DNS) T23-Tony Olson

IMCA Stock Car

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 77M-Jeff Mueller[12]; 2. 99-Dallon Murty[10]; 3. 99D-Damon Murty[11]; 4. 2K-Kyle Everts[7]; 5. 5A-Tyler Pickett[8]; 6. 22R-Todd Reitzler[18]; 7. 20V-Dustin Vis[16]; 8. 2-David Atcher[13]; 9. 4-Scott Rice[5]; 10. 3W-Jeffrey Wollam[9]; 11. 48G-Austin Gray[17]; 12. C2-Del Enos[21]; 13. (DNF) 7SR-Shawn Ritter[3]; 14. (DNF) 1X-Michael Peterson[6]; 15. (DNF) 94-Steve Meyer[14]; 16. (DNF) 5JR-Jami Ritter[2]; 17. (DNF) 121-Kenzie Ritter[4]; 18. (DNF) 56-Joseph Hofbauer[1]; 19. (DNS) 88-Shaw Weatherly; 20. (DNS) 42-Doug Russell; 21. (DNS) 13-Kelton Everts

IMCA Late Models

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[1]; 2. 14-Logan Duffy[2]; 3. 60X-Dalton Simonsen[6]; 4. 60-Ben Seemann[11]; 5. 1M-Mitch Manternach[12]; 6. P7-Eric Pollard[13]; 7. 301-Shawn Cooney[4]; 8. 22-Jill George[5]; 9. 66-Todd Johnson[7]; 10. 9-Bobby Hansen[10]; 11. 11-Randy Faux[8]; 12. (DNF) 32-Curtis Glover[3]; 13. (DNF) 7-Jenna Johnson[9]