Pierce Wins Thriller at Devils Lake Speedway

CRARY, N.D. (July 14, 2018) – The Buffalo Wild Wings NOSA Sprints, along with the Canadian-American Outlaw Sprints, were back at Devils Lake Speedway on Saturday night. Solid car counts in each of the five classes made for a great night of racing at the high-banked quarter-mile oval. ​

Pierce lined up behind Kennedy for the restart, but Kennedy powered away as the green flag flew. Pierce ran in the moisture on the low side of the speedway and was able to reel in the No. 21K of Kennedy. As the white flag flew, Pierce threw a slide job in turn one and momentarily took the lead. Kennedy countered with a crossover move to regain the lead down the back straightaway. Kennedy ran low in turns three and four to take Pierce’s line away, but he missed the moisture exiting the corner, which allowed Pierce to make the winning pass at the flag stand.

​NOSA Sprints:
A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 2A-Austin Pierce, 09:04.923[5]; 2. 21K-Thomas Kennedy, 09:05.273[3]; 3. 0-Nick Omdahl, 09:07.082[7]; 4. 9N-Wade Nygaard, 09:08.068[1]; 5. 8H-Jade Hastings, 09:08.412[2]; 6. 6N-Greg Nikitenko, 09:08.540[4]; 7. 26-Blake Egeland, 09:09.398[6]; 8. 21-Ryder Olson, 09:09.573[8]; 9. 8BALL-Jack Croaker, 09:10.603[10]; 10. 55-Nick Ranten, 09:10.709[17]; 11. 99-Jordan Graham, 09:11.411[15]; 12. 10TRB-Bob Martin, 09:11.474[12]; 13. 20L-Dusty Lawson, 09:12.428[9]; 14. 20-Kevin Lawson, 09:14.094[14]; 15. 31-Shane Roemeling, 09:14.301[13]; 16. 55T-Sam Miller, 09:15.005[18]; 17. 12-Brayden Pengilly, 09:15.616[16]; 18. 4-Colton Young, 09:08.346[19]; 19. (DNF) 14-Tom Egeland, 02:52.876[11]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 9N-Wade Nygaard, 02:13.500[5]; 2. 26-Blake Egeland, 02:15.421[1]; 3. 20L-Dusty Lawson, 02:23.439[2]; 4. 14-Tom Egeland, 02:24.727[4]; 5. 8BALL-Jack Croaker, 02:25.157[7]; 6. 12-Brayden Pengilly, 02:18.424[6]; 7. 55T-Sam Miller, 02:20.315[3]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 21K-Thomas Kennedy, 02:06.867[3]; 2. 0-Nick Omdahl, 02:09.903[1]; 3. 2A-Austin Pierce, 02:14.547[5]; 4. 10TRB-Bob Martin, 02:15.776[4]; 5. 99-Jordan Graham, 02:20.228[2]; 6. 4-Colton Young, 02:24.095[6]

Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 8H-Jade Hastings, 02:35.287[4]; 2. 21-Ryder Olson, 02:37.897[1]; 3. 6N-Greg Nikitenko, 02:40.736[6]; 4. 31-Shane Roemeling, 02:40.767[2]; 5. 20-Kevin Lawson, 02:47.221[3]; 6. 55-Nick Ranten, 02:47.964[5]