Saturday night’s program at the Estevan Motor Speedway was the night for the first-time winners.
Three drivers – Dexter Saxon (hobby stocks), Keenan Glasser (sport mods) and Isaiah Geisel (modifieds) – won for the first time in their respective classes. Ryder Raynard (mini sprints) and Chris Hortness (stock cars) were the other winners; both had won their features on Friday night as well, as the speedway once again offered a doubleheader weekend for its fans.
In the hobby stock feature, Saxon passed Kaiden Tuchscherer to take the lead midway through the feature, and then fended off a challenge from Tuchscherer to win a thrilling feature. Kruz Eilson was third and Landon Runge was fourth in a feature that had just one caution.
Kayden Hjorteland was the class of the field early on, leading by several seconds before the caution, but ran into problems on the restart and wound up seventh.
Raynard won the slingshot feature for the fifth consecutive race. Jace Emmel was second and Cash Saxon came in third.
The sport mod feature was largely a clean race, and for most of the way, it appeared that Rylan Raynard, not Glasser, would be getting his first feature win. But then a series of cautions and incidents occurred, one of which forced Raynard to go to the pits and get a tire repaired. He would return and finish fourth.
Ultimately, it would be Glasser who would get the win, ahead of Mike Hudson in second and Adrian Dickie in third.
Hortness passed Jeremy Swanson with a couple of laps remaining, and then held him off to narrowly win the stock car feature. Chase Davidson was third and Gregg Mann came in fourth.
Geisel took the lead from Kale Peterson early on in the modified feature race and never officially relinquished top spot. Aaron Turnbull passed Geisel at one point, but the lead change was negated by a caution.
Kody Scholpp, who won Friday’s feature, came the closest to taking the lead, but Geisel pulled away to win the feature by a couple of seconds.
Aaron Turnbull was third and Tyson Turnbull came in fourth.
The top four finishers in each class on Friday night were as follows:
Hobby Stocks:Landon Runge, Tuchscherer, Wilson and Diezel Raynard;
Slingshots: Ryder Raynard, Cash Saxon, Jacek Ashworth and Jagger Ashworth;
Sport modifieds: Leevi Runge, Rylan Raynard, Kyle Scholpp and Dan Blackburn;
Stock cars: Hortness, Gregg Mann, Geoff Mann and Jeremy Istace;
Modifieds: Kody Scholpp, Les McLenehan, Tyson Turnbull and Kale Peterson.
In the overall standings, Landon Runge leads in the hobby stocks with 193 points. Dexter Saxon is next at 183, followed by Connor Hansen with 180 and Tuchscherer in fourth (179).
Glasser leads the sport mods division, but the top five drivers are separated by five points. Leevi Runge is second with 185 points, followed by Kyle Scholpp (184), Rylan Raynard (183) and Justin Fichter (181).
Hortness holds a four-point lead on Gregg Mann in the stock cars. Swanson is third at 184 and Davidson and Geoff Mann are tied for fourth at 175.
Kody Scholpp leads the modifieds with 188 points, two more than Les McLenehan and Tyson Turnbull. Kris Spence and Richie Mann are tied for fourth with 166.
Update standings for the slingshots were not available, but Ryder Raynard leads with 200 points, eight more than Cash Saxon with 192.
The next program at the speedway will be the late model double header on July 16 and 17. The speedway will be able to have a capacity crowd in the grandstand that night.
