5/20/05
Lee Co. Speedway
Donnellson, IA
Sprint Invaders
34 cars
Justin Newberry clipped an infield tire and flipped, ending his night. Rager Phillips and Bobby Mincer were collected in the fray. Only Mincer was able to make the call for his heat race.
Heat one (started): 1. Jake Peters 57x (1) 2. Jesse Giannetto D1 (3) 3. Bobby Hawks 5H (4) 4. Matt Rogerson 45 (6) / 5. Mike Trent 41 (8) 6. Stevie Walsh 20 (7) 7. Matt Harms 53H (2) 8. Lucas Glasgow 19 (9) 9. Brian Hetrick 35 (5)
Peters led flag to flag in a stacked heat. The top two finishers in the eight lap heats went to the shake-up dash, the top four transferred to the feature. Hetrick went pitside after belching smoke on lap two. Rogerson moved up nicely to earn the final transfer.
Heat two (started): 1. Jon Agan 4 (2) 2. Mike Houseman Y2 (4) 3. Ryan Bunton 66 (1) 4. Tracy Nichols 19N (5) / 5. John Schulz 2 (6) 6. Mike Houseman Jr. Y5 (3) 7. Bart Andrews 9x (7) DNS - Phillips 9P, Newberry 36
Agan led teh distance. Nichols tried every effort to get around Bunton to no avail. The track was building a nice sized ledge in the corners about half-way up. A shaky start sent Schulz scrambling from the back. He would finish one spot out of a transfer.
Heat three (started): 1. Justin Parrish 4G (2) 2. Randy Martin 14 (6) 3. Matt Sutton (8) 4. Ryan Jamison 51J (3) / 5. Brett Mather 54 (7) 6. Josh Schneiderman 49 (5) 7. Mincer 10 (4) 8. Jayson Ditsworth 1 (1)
Parrish led throughout in a nice run. Ditsworth jumped the turn four cushion and flipped, ending his night. He was uninjured. Mincer bowed out at the same time, surrendering what at the time was a third place run. Martin and Sutton moved up nicely into transfer spots.
Heat four (started): 1. Nate Mosher 22N (1) 2. Nick Eastin 25 (4) 3. Johnny Anderson 7a (5) 4. Korey Weyant 99w (2) / 5. Randy Plath 14P (3) 6. Brent Antill 1A (8) 7. Manny Rockhold 4B (7) 8. Dave Anderson 53 (6)
Mosher led flag to flag. The best battle for position was between J. Anderson and Weyant for third.
Shake-up Dash (started): 1. Agan (2) 2. Peters (1) 3. Giannetto (5) 4. Mosher (4) 5. Parrish (3) 6. Eastin (8) 7. Martin (7) 8. Houseman (6)
Agan led throughout. Giannetto and Mosher put on a nice battle in the 6 lapper for third, with Giannetto moving under the 22N to take the spot. Agan drew a "five", starting him inside row three and giving the feature pole to Giannetto.
B main (started): 1. Trent (1) 2. Mather (3) 3. Schulz (2) 4. Antill (8) / 5. Houseman Jr. (6) 6. Mincer (11) 7. Rockhold (12) 8. Hetrick (15) 9. D. Anderson (16) 10. Plath (4) 11. Harms (9) 12. Andrews (10) 13. Phillips (14) 14. Schneiderman (7) 15. Glasgow (13) 16. Walsh (5) DNS - Ditsworth, Newberry
Walsh hit the wall before a lap could be completed and retired. Trent took the early advantage before Glasgow jumped the turn four cushion and flipped on lap four. Trent led Mather, Schneiderman (who had just passed Schulz), Schulz and Antill back to green. Two more laps were in the books when Schneiderman flipped in turn two while running fifth. Now Trent led Mather, Schulz, Antill and Houseman Jr. That would be the way they would finish the 12 lapper.
A main (started): 1. Peters (6) 2. Giannetto (1) 3. Rogerson (13) 4. Hawks (9) 5. Eastin (4) 6. Martin (7) 7. Sutton (11) 8. Schulz (19) 9. Mather (18) 10. Trent (17) 11. Parrish (3) 12. Antill (20) 13. J. Anderson (12) 14. Nichols (14) 15. Weyant (16) 16. Bunton (10) 17. Jamison (15) 18. Mosher (2) 19. Houseman (8) 20. Agan (5)
Agan flipped out of the ballpark in turn one before a lap could be completed. Mosher got too hot into turn three on the restart and took a nasty tumble as well. They were uninjured. Mosher's incident collected Houseman causing major damage to the wings. Both were done. J. Anderson and Nichols were also collected, but continued. Once the green finally fell, Jamison pulled in the infield and Giannetto took the point from his pole position in the 25 lapper. The race went non-stop into traffic. On lap 15, Peters slid by Giannetto to take the point for good. Peters was attempting to lap Nichols, when the latter got into the turn two fence, bringing out a caution. Peters led Giannetto, and Eastin and Parrish who were making nice runs. Hawks was fifth followed by Rogerson and Martin. Rogerson was a rocket on the restart, moving forward three positions to take a podium finish. Peters held his lead. Schulz led an impressive showing of the B main cars by earning hard-charger honors, moving up 11 spots. Peters win was his first of the year.