Oberlin driver nearly takes first at Speedway

Tuesday, June 26, 2018
David Murray of Oberlin, Kan. (right) gave champion Brandon Clough from Wallace a close race during Dawson County Raceway action in Lexington on Sunday.
Kelly Ninas

LEXINGTON, Neb. — Doing their best to brighten the skies and keep the storms away were the competitors that lit up the race track on Sunday evening at Dawson County Raceway in Lexington.

Stepping into the spotlight after driving into the winners circle as feature victors were the quartet of Brandon Clough, Jacob Olmstead, Mike Nichols and Luke Wassom.

Lining up on the outside of the front row was just the starting position that Brandon Clough of Wallace needed to run away and hide by riding the cushion with great success on his way to winning the IMCA Modified Feature event.

Clough was able to build up a lead and have breathing room between him and the rest of the field during the non-stop action of the modified feature.

Wasting no time at all to make it into the lead group, Anthony Roth of Columbus was able to work from his third row starting position to the podium in the early going.

Roth was doing his best to dent the deficit that he faced while chasing Clough, but it wasn’t enough in the end as Roth settled with a runner-up finish.

Veteran wheelman David Murray Jr of Oberlin, Kan., started on the outside of the second row and was able to work around the bottom of the track as well as on the cushion in the final circuits to earn the third place accolades in the feature.

Rounding out the top five finishers in the feature were Eddyville Flyer Chuck Stryker and Cale Osborn of Cozad in fourth and fifth place overall.

--IMCA Modified Feature: 1. 20b-Brandon Clough; 2. 60iv-Anthony Roth; 3. 97m-David Murray Jr; 4 19-Chuck Stryker; 5. 6c-Cale Osborn; 6. XII-Jay Steffens; 7. 50-Scott Smith; 8. 0hp-Bryan Herrick; 9. 50s-Kale Smith.

--IMCA Northern SportModified Feature: 1. 88j-Jacob Olmstead; 2. 01-Jacob Wolsleben; 3. 88-Eric Kackmeister; 4. 68-Craig Howard; 5. 59-Tyler Radjl; 6. 8-Andrew Rayburn; 7. 24j-Dennis Price Jr, 8. 15d-Jacob Slough.

--IMCA Stock Car Feature: 1. 63-Mike Nichols; 2. 16w-Jeff Whiting; 3. 45-Mikey Dancer; 4. 11k-Kyle Clough; 5. 84-James Sheldon; 6. 2x-Travis Kernick; 7. 53e-Tyler Easterday; 8. 19-Dana Morgan; 9. 57x-Scott Stoll; 10. 57-Dan Stoll.

--IMCA Hobby Stock Feature: 1. 2w-Luke Wassom; 2. 1-Tanner Clough; 3. 99m-Allyn Myers; 4. 12t-Tanner Jones; 5. 20b-Brady Henderson; 6. 88k-Jeremy Kinsey; 7. 5-Chuck Ledbetter; 8. 88m-TC McKain; 9. 96k-Sean Miller.

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