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Neal Rides Marshalltown Top Side to Win Dale DeFrance Memorial

By Anthony Ainslie (Marshalltown, IA) -- The Haulin’ with Hoker Trucking Super Late Models East Series returned to action Friday night with the much-anticipated Dale DeFrance Memorial at Marshalltown Speedway.

After the race was rescheduled twice, the DeFrance Memorial took place for round ten of the East Series. A strong field of 37 late models from Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois made the trip to the high banked quarter-mile Marshalltown Speedway.

PHOTO CREDIT: Mike Ruefer

Andy Eckrich was Friday’s fastest qualifier with a 14.561 lap. The night’s four heat races were won by Joel Calahan, Ben Schaller, Bill Leighton Jr., and Corey Zeitner. After Matt Ryan and East Series Point Leader Justin Kay won the two B-Features, a field of 26 cars was assembled for the 44-lap main event.

Pole Sitter Tad Pospisil took the lead early on. Jake Neal gave chase on the inside line while Pospisil ran the outside line. Neal was able to poke his nose ahead of Pospisil for a few moments, but Pospisil was quick to answer back.

A couple of cautions slowed the race down as Chris Speaker slid off the track in turn one on lap eight, and then three laps later, Jeff Larson spun out on the front stretch. Speaker and Larson would finish 20th and 26th.

When racing resumed, Jake Neal managed to get around Pospisil for the lead with 31 laps remaining in the race. The Omaha, Nebraska driver began running the outside line. Meanwhile, Luke Goedert was making big strides toward the front. Before long, the defending Yankee Dirt Track Classic Winner ran the inside and was challenging for the race lead.

Neal and Goedert went back and forth for the lead. The two drivers ran two different lines. As the race went on, lapped traffic became an issue. Neal had to occasionally get off the top line to get around slower cars. That allowed Goedert to close in only for him to get behind someone on the low side.

When it was all said and done, it was Jake Neal taking home the big win. In only his third ever time driving a late model at Marshalltown Speedway, Neal captured the $4,400 victory. Neal now leads all drivers on the Haulin’ with Hoker Trucking East and Malvern Bank West tours with two wins on each tour. The win also put Neal into sixth on the all-time win list with his sixth career win.

Luke Goedert had to settle for second while the top qualifier, Andy Eckrich, came in third. Joel Calahan put together his career best finish with the East Series as he finished fourth, and Jeff Tharp rounded out the top five, his best finish on the tour this year.

The Haulin’ with Hoker Trucking East Series continues the weekend on Saturday with one of the richest races of the year. The tour heads to Independence Motor Speedway for the $7,200 to win Denny Osborn Memorial. After that, the Malvern Bank West tour returns to action on August 12th with a. visit to the Thayer County Speedway in Deshler, Nebraska.

RESULTS

Malvern Bank Hoker Trucking A Feature 1: 1. 1-Jake Neal[3]; 2. 44-Luke Goedert[5]; 3. 56-Andy Eckrich[6]; 4. 40-Joel Callahan[11]; 5. 10T-Jeff Tharp[2]; 6. 22C-Charlie McKenna[8]; 7. 24-Bill Leighton[12]; 8. 04-Tad Pospisil[1]; 9. 15K-Justin Kay[18]; 10. 07-Matt Ryan[17]; 11. 76H-Jason Hahne[4]; 12. 58-Dave Eckrich[20]; 13. 26JR-Corey Zeitner[14]; 14. 15C-Curt Schroeder[22]; 15. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[23]; 16. 30-Todd Cooney[19]; 17. 14-Logan Duffy[21]; 18. 32-Curtis Glover[25]; 19. 98-Ben Schaller[13]; 20. 56S-Chris Spieker[24]; 21. 74-Ron Boyse[26]; 22. 43-Derrick Stewart[15]; 23. 99-Luke Pestka[7]; 24. 4-JC Wyman[10]; 25. 77-Jeff Aikey[9]; 26. 99L-Jeff Larson[16]

Predator Custom Trailers B Feature 1: 1. 07-Matt Ryan[1]; 2. 30-Todd Cooney[2]; 3. 15C-Curt Schroeder[3]; 4. 14-Logan Duffy[4]; 5. 45-Curt Martin[5]; 6. 74-Ron Boyse[6]; 7. 32-Curtis Glover[7]; 8. 9-Bob Hansen[9]; 9. 17-Kirby Schultz[8]; 10. K1-Kyle Krampe[10]; 11. 7-Jenna Johnson[11]

Predator Custom Trailers B Feature 2: 1. 15K-Justin Kay[4]; 2. 58-Dave Eckrich[1]; 3. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[3]; 4. 56S-Chris Spieker[5]; 5. 42R-Fred Remley[7]; 6. 56W-Gary Webb[6]; 7. 73-Greg Kastli[8]; 8. 31-Corey Dripps[10]; 9. 42-Johnathan Huston[9]; 10. 32C-Chad Holladay[2]

Ideal Ready Mix Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 40-Joel Callahan[2]; 2. 32C-Chad Holladay[1]; 3. 07-Matt Ryan[3]; 4. 44-Luke Goedert[6]; 5. 43-Derrick Stewart[5]; 6. 15C-Curt Schroeder[4]; 7. 56S-Chris Spieker[7]; 8. 42R-Fred Remley[9]; 9. 9-Bob Hansen[8]; 10. 7-Jenna Johnson[10]

Ideal Ready Mix Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 98-Ben Schaller[2]; 2. 4-JC Wyman[3]; 3. 04-Tad Pospisil[5]; 4. 99L-Jeff Larson[4]; 5. 99-Luke Pestka[6]; 6. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[1]; 7. 74-Ron Boyse[7]; 8. 17-Kirby Schultz[9]; 9. 42-Johnathan Huston[8]

Ideal Ready Mix Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 24-Bill Leighton[2]; 2. 77-Jeff Aikey[3]; 3. 22C-Charlie McKenna[4]; 4. 76H-Jason Hahne[5]; 5. 56-Andy Eckrich[6]; 6. 15K-Justin Kay[7]; 7. 45-Curt Martin[1]; 8. 73-Greg Kastli[9]; 9. K1-Kyle Krampe[8]

Ideal Ready Mix Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 26JR-Corey Zeitner[2]; 2. 1-Jake Neal[6]; 3. 58-Dave Eckrich[3]; 4. 10T-Jeff Tharp[5]; 5. 30-Todd Cooney[4]; 6. 14-Logan Duffy[1]; 7. 56W-Gary Webb[7]; 8. 32-Curtis Glover[8]; 9. 31-Corey Dripps[9]

Qualifying A: 1. 44-Luke Goedert, 00:14.682[11]; 2. 99-Luke Pestka, 00:14.728[9]; 3. 43-Derrick Stewart, 00:14.777[19]; 4. 04-Tad Pospisil, 00:14.779[17]; 5. 15C-Curt Schroeder, 00:14.813[8]; 6. 99L-Jeff Larson, 00:14.836[5]; 7. 07-Matt Ryan, 00:14.839[13]; 8. 4-JC Wyman, 00:14.876[3]; 9. 40-Joel Callahan, 00:14.905[14]; 10. 98-Ben Schaller, 00:14.969[12]; 11. 32C-Chad Holladay, 00:14.998[2]; 12. 99D-Darrel DeFrance, 00:15.103[7]; 13. 56S-Chris Spieker, 00:15.144[16]; 14. 74-Ron Boyse, 00:15.203[15]; 15. 9-Bob Hansen, 00:15.225[6]; 16. 42-Johnathan Huston, 00:15.259[18]; 17. 42R-Fred Remley, 00:15.309[1]; 18. 17-Kirby Schultz, 00:15.458[10]; 19. 7-Jenna Johnson, 00:15.458[4]

Qualifying B: 1. 56-Andy Eckrich, 00:14.561[14]; 2. 1-Jake Neal, 00:14.594[13]; 3. 76H-Jason Hahne, 00:14.651[11]; 4. 10T-Jeff Tharp, 00:14.680[15]; 5. 22C-Charlie McKenna, 00:14.776[17]; 6. 30-Todd Cooney, 00:14.792[4]; 7. 77-Jeff Aikey, 00:14.872[1]; 8. 58-Dave Eckrich, 00:14.949[8]; 9. 24-Bill Leighton, 00:14.954[6]; 10. 26JR-Corey Zeitner, 00:14.999[18]; 11. 45-Curt Martin, 00:15.082[3]; 12. 14-Logan Duffy, 00:15.117[12]; 13. 15K-Justin Kay, 00:15.286[5]; 14. 56W-Gary Webb, 00:15.420[10]; 15. K1-Kyle Krampe, 00:15.594[2]; 16. 32-Curtis Glover, 00:15.714[16]; 17. 73-Greg Kastli, 00:15.870[7]; 18. 31-Corey Dripps, 00:16.475[9]

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IMCA SPORTMOD PRESENTED BY BIG 8 TYRE CENTER

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 53-Logan Anderson[7]; 2. 01-Brayton Carter[3]; 3. T23-Tony Olson[8]; 4. 11-Izac Mallicoat[6]; 5. 2X-Matt Avila[12]; 6. K3-Kyle Olson[2]; 7. 105-Taylor Bass[13]; 8. 16-Kaylin Lopez[11]; 9. 68-Will Wolf[9]; 10. 22JR-Brady Hilmer[10]; 11. 77JR-Rayc Mullen[17]; 12. 193-Jessiah Taylor[4]; 13. (DNF) 198-Sam Wieben[14]; 14. (DNF) 32S-Blair Simmons[16]; 15. (DNF) 15-Boe Jenkins[1]; 16. (DNF) 19J-Jenae Gustin[22]; 17. (DNF) CB25-Chris Burke[5]; 18. (DNF) 10C-Matt Beerbower[21]; 19. (DNF) 82I-Kadence Davenport[20]; 20. (DNF) 9J-Jeremiah Reed[15]; 21. (DNF) 128B-Curt Smeins[19]; 22. (DNS) 125-Duane Peterson

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 53-Logan Anderson[1]; 2. 01-Brayton Carter[5]; 3. 22JR-Brady Hilmer[3]; 4. 11-Izac Mallicoat[6]; 5. 105-Taylor Bass[8]; 6. 32S-Blair Simmons[2]; 7. 128B-Curt Smeins[4]; 8. (DNS) 19J-Jenae Gustin

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. T23-Tony Olson[1]; 2. 68-Will Wolf[3]; 3. 15-Boe Jenkins[2]; 4. 193-Jessiah Taylor[5]; 5. 198-Sam Wieben[6]; 6. 77JR-Rayc Mullen[4]; 7. 82I-Kadence Davenport[7]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2X-Matt Avila[2]; 2. CB25-Chris Burke[1]; 3. 16-Kaylin Lopez[4]; 4. K3-Kyle Olson[6]; 5. 9J-Jeremiah Reed[5]; 6. 125-Duane Peterson[7]; 7. (DNF) 10C-Matt Beerbower[3]

IMCA HOBBY STOCK

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 52-Joren Fisher[1]; 2. 12K-Eric Knutson[3]; 3. 14J-Jacob Floyd[10]; 4. 85-Seth Janssen[4]; 5. 2G-Bradly Graham[13]; 6. 96-Skylar Pruitt[9]; 7. 11B-Solomon Bennett[12]; 8. 64H-Mark Hidlebaugh[5]; 9. 22-Seth Butler[7]; 10. 55X-Corey VanDerwilt[17]; 11. 20W-Matt Wahl[18]; 12. 51-Michael Kimm[15]; 13. 12T-Tanner Jones[21]; 14. 3-Dalton Weepie[19]; 15. 11K-William Klosterman[6]; 16. 17-Andy Peck[22]; 17. 21P-Shane Palmer[24]; 18. 19-Kaitlyn Schuring[23]; 19. (DNF) 47-Darin DeZwarte[20]; 20. (DNF) 37G-Calvin Dhondt[14]; 21. (DNF) 3A-Kyle Parizek[8]; 22. (DNF) 47SW-Sam West[11]; 23. (DNF) 14T-Mitchell Thomas[16]; 24. (DNF) 17X-Ben Newhouse `[2]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 3-Dalton Weepie[2]; 2. 47-Darin DeZwarte[5]; 3. 12T-Tanner Jones[8]; 4. 17-Andy Peck[1]; 5. 19-Kaitlyn Schuring[3]; 6. 21P-Shane Palmer[4]; 7. 78N-Matt Nelson[6]; 8. 577-Cory Ogden[10]; 9. (DNF) 9-Logan Andrews[9]; 10. (DNS) 40SE-Scott Ellis

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 3A-Kyle Parizek[10]; 2. 85-Seth Janssen[2]; 3. 11B-Solomon Bennett[6]; 4. 64H-Mark Hidlebaugh[4]; 5. 2G-Bradly Graham[8]; 6. 14T-Mitchell Thomas[9]; 7. 17-Andy Peck[5]; 8. 21P-Shane Palmer[3]; 9. 40SE-Scott Ellis[7]; 10. 577-Cory Ogden[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17X-Ben Newhouse `[1]; 2. 11K-William Klosterman[2]; 3. 47SW-Sam West[4]; 4. 22-Seth Butler[3]; 5. 37G-Calvin Dhondt[6]; 6. 55X-Corey VanDerwilt[7]; 7. 3-Dalton Weepie[5]; 8. 47-Darin DeZwarte[8]; 9. 12T-Tanner Jones[9]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 12K-Eric Knutson[1]; 2. 52-Joren Fisher[2]; 3. 96-Skylar Pruitt[4]; 4. 14J-Jacob Floyd[5]; 5. 51-Michael Kimm[6]; 6. 20W-Matt Wahl[7]; 7. 19-Kaitlyn Schuring[3]; 8. 78N-Matt Nelson[8]; 9. 9-Logan Andrews[9]

IMCA STOCK CAR PRESENTED BY DRURY AUTOMOTIVE

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 99D-Damon Murty[6]; 2. KR1-Kaden Reynolds[5]; 3. 92-Buck Schafroth[3]; 4. 14C-Leah Wroten[4]; 5. 4-Scott Rice[12]; 6. 22D-Jared Daggett[10]; 7. 93-Michael Jaennette[1]; 8. 22R-Todd Reitzler[11]; 9. V31-Todd VanEaton[14]; 10. 8-Jeff Wollam[23]; 11. 8X-Austin Meiners[18]; 12. 96-Clinton Goff[15]; 13. 31-Michael Smith[19]; 14. 4JR-Russell Damme Jr[20]; 15. 37-Kylie Rawlins[16]; 16. 12B-Ed Thomas[22]; 17. 24-Austin Schuring[21]; 18. 55X-Brett Maasdam[24]; 19. (DNF) 19J-Jay Schmidt[17]; 20. (DNF) 89K-Taylor Kuehl[9]; 21. (DNF) 2-David Atcher[2]; 22. (DNF) 3T-Scooter Dulin[13]; 23. (DNF) 1-Austin Kaplan[7]; 24. (DNF) 94-Steve Meyer[8]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 22R-Todd Reitzler[7]; 2. 93-Michael Jaennette[6]; 3. 94-Steve Meyer[2]; 4. KR1-Kaden Reynolds[8]; 5. 3T-Scooter Dulin[3]; 6. 37-Kylie Rawlins[5]; 7. (DNF) 31-Michael Smith[4]; 8. (DNS) 12B-Ed Thomas

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 99D-Damon Murty[1]; 2. 1-Austin Kaplan[4]; 3. 2-David Atcher[7]; 4. 14C-Leah Wroten[8]; 5. V31-Todd VanEaton[2]; 6. 19J-Jay Schmidt[6]; 7. 4JR-Russell Damme Jr[5]; 8. 8-Jeff Wollam[3]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 92-Buck Schafroth[1]; 2. 89K-Taylor Kuehl[2]; 3. 22D-Jared Daggett[3]; 4. 4-Scott Rice[5]; 5. 96-Clinton Goff[8]; 6. 8X-Austin Meiners[4]; 7. 24-Austin Schuring[6]; 8. 55X-Brett Maasdam[7]

IMCA MODIFIED PRESENTED BY TIRE DEMON BY LOVE TAP

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 82-Jake McBirnie[1]; 2. 26J-Joel Rust[6]; 3. 4TW-Tim Ward[11]; 4. 77-Jeff Aikey[15]; 5. 5G-Gat Leytham[3]; 6. 2Z-Zack Rawlins[10]; 7. 48J-Jacob Murray[2]; 8. 30M-Maguire DeJong[4]; 9. 19-Jimmy Gustin[22]; 10. 69JR-Johnathon Logue[8]; 11. 38-Mitchell Hunt[9]; 12. B00K-Dylan Book[17]; 13. 63M-Matt McCahen[21]; 14. 43-Creston Williams[14]; 15. 12LF-Jonathan Mawhinney[16]; 16. 77X-Austin Kuehl[13]; 17. 12-Andrew Kinser[12]; 18. 40RC-Rod Clement[18]; 19. (DNF) 2B-Robert Moore[20]; 20. (DNF) 07-Chris Wilke[23]; 21. (DNF) 99X-Dallon Murty[7]; 22. (DNF) 43S-Scott Simatovich[5]; 23. (DNS) 19G-Richie Gustin

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 4TW-Tim Ward[2]; 2. 26J-Joel Rust[4]; 3. 82-Jake McBirnie[7]; 4. 5G-Gat Leytham[3]; 5. 77X-Austin Kuehl[5]; 6. 77-Jeff Aikey[1]; 7. 40RC-Rod Clement[8]; 8. (DNF) 63M-Matt McCahen[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 99X-Dallon Murty[3]; 2. 48J-Jacob Murray[5]; 3. 38-Mitchell Hunt[4]; 4. 12-Andrew Kinser[6]; 5. 07-Chris Wilke[8]; 6. (DNF) 12LF-Jonathan Mawhinney[2]; 7. (DNF) 19G-Richie Gustin[7]; 8. (DNF) 19-Jimmy Gustin[1]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 30M-Maguire DeJong[4]; 2. 69JR-Johnathon Logue[7]; 3. 43S-Scott Simatovich[2]; 4. 2Z-Zack Rawlins[6]; 5. 43-Creston Williams[3]; 6. B00K-Dylan Book[5]; 7. (DNF) 2B-Robert Moore[1]

KARL CHEVROLET DIRT TRUCKS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 17RT-Todd Cooney[1]; 2. 79-Shonn Mapes[9]; 3. 30-Shawn Cooney[6]; 4. 7X-Rick Clark[4]; 5. 40-Lucas Richardson[5]; 6. 57-Dennis Plain[3]; 7. 16-Justin Schroeder[7]; 8. 43-Shaun Clinger[10]; 9. 2-Del Enos[8]; 10. 57X-Terry May[11]; 11. (DNF) 9-Jeff Johnson[2]; 12. (DNS) 5-Brandon Bach

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 9-Jeff Johnson[1]; 2. 7X-Rick Clark[2]; 3. 40-Lucas Richardson[3]; 4. 16-Justin Schroeder[4]; 5. 79-Shonn Mapes[5]; 6. (DNS) 5-Brandon Bach

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 30-Shawn Cooney[3]; 2. 17RT-Todd Cooney[4]; 3. 57-Dennis Plain[1]; 4. 2-Del Enos[5]; 5. 43-Shaun Clinger[2]; 6. 57X-Terry May[6]

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