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Opening night proves historic at Eagle River Speedway Submitted: 05/23/2012
EAGLE RIVER - On Tuesday night at the season opener for Eagle River Speedway, Jared Cech turned in a 14.31 second lap early on in the Micro-Sprint 600 feature. Going close to 96 miles per hour, the Rhinelander driver ran away from the competition to win the feature.

Marenisco, MI driver Duane Dunbar held off the 3-time track champion, Eagle River's 'Racin' Jason Zdroik to wint he B-Mod feature. Jesse Aho of Toivola, MI finished third.


Eagle River's Ben Pitlik won the Street Stock feature in a car he had not driver before Tuesday night. Pitlik borrowed a car to race and got by fellow Eagle River driver, Jason Jenson with only a couple of laps to go. Rhinelander's Dan Schultz held off Eagle River's 'Flyin' Ryan Valeria to wint he Pure Stock feature.

Winning the Junior Sprint was a 'Springer,' however it wasn't last year's champion, Ty Springer. Instead it was Tommy Joe - Ty's younger sister. Parker Retzlaff of Eagle River led throughout the entire race, but on the final turn to the finish line, the 6-year old Springer passed Retzlaff. Ty however did wint he heat race earlier in the night, as did Retzlaff.

Jake Reif won the heat race in the Micro Sprints, Pitlik and Valeria won the heat races in Street Stock. Mickey Nosser and Dunbar won the B-Mod heat races, and Jason Melton won the Pure Stock heat race.

Racing over the holdiay weekend returns to Eagle River Speedway on Sunday Night. Hot Laps begin at 7 p.m., with racing to start at 7:30 p.m.


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