EMERSON, NELSON, TARDY, LAVATO AND DAVIS NOTCH PROCTOR OPENER WINS
By Jerry O'Brien

123 cars in five divisions, clear but cool weather and a smooth, fast race track and an appearance at intermission by three time champion Monster Truck Bare Foot made for one of the  best Proctor Speedway openers in recent memory. After the qualifying heats were run it was feature time. 

First up were the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds with Wayne Engen grabbing the early lead from the front row. The front runners quickly fell into a single file order through the top ten ahead of a gaggle of cars fighting for 11th. Engen and the rest of the front four including Nick Lavato, Monte Hall, and Greg Chesley broke away form the rest as the half way mark was quickly reached. Just past the midpoint Engen suddenly fell off the pace and rode slowly around the top and out of the event leaving the point to Lavato. A couple of laps later Chesley spun in turn one trying to take second from Hall. No caution was thrown and Chesley was out of the hunt ending up with a DNF in 16th place. Lavato went on to record feature number one over Hall, Tom Smart, Mark Kangas and Willie Thompson. 

The WISSOTA Late Models were next for their 20 lap main event. It was a shaky start for the "Big Dogs" as pole sitter Danny Young was judged to have jumped the start and was put back to the second row for the second try. Caley Emerson inherited the pole and made the most of the opportunity as he would lead every lap for the popular win. It soon became obvious that there was no traction in the top groove as everyone was stuck on the bottom. With restarts lined up side by side until halfway, the only chance to make a move appeared to be during those restarts. Only two caution periods marred the run, the first for John Massingill who spun at the half way mark in turn four after running in the third spot up to that point. The second caution came with three laps remaining when DC Miller looped in the same spot. Front running Danny Young and John Massingill were out at this point leaving Emerson to fend off Darrell Nelson, Jeff broking, Andrew McKay and Jeff Provinzino for the win. 

Kevin Montieth started the WISSOTA Modified feature from the pole and quickly took the lead over Jad Carlson, Darrell Nelson, Tim Danielson and Don Copp. Modified rookie Riley Matthews crossed up in the first turn stacking up several cars, mortally wounded in the mele was the number 37 of perennial contender Kelly Estey. Three more caution flags would fly before the half way point. Montieth was able to hold on to the lead at each restart as passing was at a premium but Copp was able to take advantage of Montieth to squirt past into the lead. At the half way point it was Copp, Carlson, Nelson Montieth who had been shuffled back to fourth and Danielson. Shortly thereafter a Jamie Davis spin set up a shootout between the veteran drivers Copp and Nelson who had gotten by Carlson into second. As the field was headed toward the third turn for the restart, Copp pulled into the infield as he was unable to get the transmission into high gear. With Copp in the infield Nelson cruised to the win over Carlson, Montieth, Jeff Lien and Duane Dale. 

Jeff Tardy weathered a four caution slowed 15 lap WISSOTA Super Stock feature to take his first win. Starting from the pole, Tardy took the lead with Sam Skalsky, Kyle Peterlin, Jay Kuras and Ryan Aho trailing. A caution and two failures to get started later, Tardy still held the lead over Skalsky, Peterlin, Jay Kintner and Aho. Half way through Tardy still led with Kintner now second ahead of Skalsky, Peterlin and Aho. Aho moved up to the top groove in an effort to find some traction, but despite two more caution flags, he could never make it work and lost a position to finish sixth. Tardy held on to take the win over Kintner, Skalsky, Peterlin and Kuras. 

Butch Butcher had a great drive from the seventh row to finish seventh. Ricky Davis was coming off a first time feature win Saturday and was looking for his second career win in a row. He wasted little time blasting through for the lead from inside the second row with Rick Kesty following through to second with Chad Carlson third, Pete Ciurleo fourth and Tom Morinville fifth. The laps quickly went by as there were no caution flags for the entire event. At the mid point Davis was holding off Carlson who had moved into second past Kestey. Carlson caught up with Davis and the two battled for the top spot with Carlson edging into the  lead off turn two. Carlson looked to have the win sewed up but faltered and pulled off leaving Davis with the lead and the eventual win over Kestey, Glen Dammer, Pete Ciurleo and Morinville.

Caley Emerson - WISSOTA Late Models	Jeff Tardy - WISSOTA Super Stocks
Darrell Nelson - WISSOTA Modifieds	Nick Lavato - WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds
Ricky Davis - Proctor Pure Stocks

Results

WISSOTA Late Model (20 cars) 
Heat 1: Danny Young, Caley Emerson, Andrew McKay, Harry Hanson, Tom Waseleski, jr. 
Heat 2: John Massingill, Darrell Nelson, Jeff Broking, Jeff Provinzino, Tom Waseleski, sr. 
Feature (20 laps): Emerson, Nelson, Broking, McKay, Provinzino, Hanson, Waseleski, sr, Aaron Lillo, Waseleski, jr, Jeff Massingill

WISSOTA Modified (22 cars)
Heat 1: Kevin Montieth, Darrell Nelson, Jayme Lautigar, Kelly Estey, Duane Dale 
Heat 2: Jad Carlson, Jeff Lien, Matt Sorenson, Cory Jorgenson, Jody Bellefeuille (DNF) 
Heat 3: Tim Danielson, Don Copp, Riley Matthews, Jamie Davis, Robbie Lore 
Feature (20 laps) Nelson, Carlson, Montieth, Lien, Dale, Lautigar, Matthews, Sorenson, Joey Galloway, Justin Jones. 

WISSOTA Super Stock (26 cars) 
Heat 1: Jeff Tardy, Jay Kuras, Wayne Stricker, Kevin Salin, Dave Mass 
Heat 2: Destin Lorimor, Ryan Aho, Steve Van House, Peter Jokinen, Butch Butcher 
Heat 3: Kyle Peterlin, Sam Skalsky, Jay Kintner, Eric Nelson, Scott Lawrence 
B Feature: Dave Flynn, Tom Treviranus, Jeff Lindsey, Dan Yrjanson, Robbie Cooper 
Feature (15 laps): Tardy, Jay Kintner, Skalsky, Peterlin, Kuras, Aho, Butcher, Lawrence, Tim Johnson, Nelson

WISSOTA Midwest Modified (27 cars) 
Heat 1: Jori Hughes, Nick Lavato, Mark Kangas, D J Severin, Jeremy Hall 
Heat 2: Wayne Engen, Tom Smart, JJ Thompson, Al M cDougall, Loren Inman 
B Feature: Deven Van House, Brad Anderson, Josh Loucks, Jim Lowinski, John Sharpnack 
Feature (15 laps) Lavato, M Hall, Smart, Kangas, W Thompson, Chad Larson, Jim Lowinski, Hughes, JJ Thompson, Loucks.