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Gropp, Soares, and Heflin Garner Corey Imm Memorial Victories at Washington Speedway!

Photo Credit: Ashton Tackwell
WASHINGTON, Kan. (Sept. 2, 2024) - Ava Gropp, Hank Soares, and Kyle Heflin garnered their respective fields on Saturday for the Corey Imm Memorial at Washington Speedway with NOW600 Jayhusker Region.

A field of 72 entries made the call featuring 32-NOW600 Non-Wing Micros, 23-NOW600 A-Class Micros, and 17-NOW600 Restricted Micros.

Ava Gropp topped the Stock Non-Wing feature event. Garett Hake crossed in second with Trey Zorn rounding out the podium from 10th. Hank Soares charged from 16th to finish fourth with Landon Graham making up the top five.

Garett Hake, John Riley Nicholson, Tristan Mikesell, and Jackson Kounkel each won heat races. Daniel Shaffer and Jesse Pate were winners of the B-Mains.

Hank Soares won the A-Class feature event. Trey Zorn finished in the runner up spot with Cody Berkenmeier making up the top three. Matthew Laflin was fourth with the top five rounding out with Jackson Kounkel.

Kamden Gossard, Cody Berkenmeier, and Keegan Osantowski each topped Heat races. Matthew Laflin won the lone B-Main.

Kyle Heflin picked up the win in Restricted. Kasen Zorn was second at the line with Taver West making up the podium. Sawyer Zimmerman finished in fourth with Gavyn Bolt the top five.

Kasen Zorn and Kyle Heflin won the two heat races.

RACE RESULTS >>
8/31/2024 at Washington Speedway - Washington, KS
NOW600 Jayhusker Region
Corey Imm Memorial

NOW600 NON-WING MICROS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 5A-Ava Gropp[8]; 2. 1G-Garett Hake[5]; 3. 3Z-Trey Zorn[10]; 4. 22-Hank Soares[16]; 5. 5G-Landon Graham[7]; 6. 24C-Cale Lagroon[9]; 7. 78S-Daniel Shaffer[13]; 8. 63JR-John Riley Nicholson[4]; 9. 22X-Jesse Pate[14]; 10. 4G-Landon Gasseling[20]; 11. 14-Tristan Mikesell[6]; 12. 70-Micah Becker[17]; 13. 1N-Slayde Nuss[19]; 14. 4C-Cole McDaniel[15]; 15. 28H-Hunter Finney[18]; 16. 45-Skyler Burns[12]; 17. 21-Keegan Osantowski[11]; 18. (DNF) 22A-Carson Anderson[2]; 19. (DNF) 38-Jackson Kounkel[3]; 20. (DNF) 7J-Jacob Latta[1]

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 78S-Daniel Shaffer[3]; 2. 4C-Cole McDaniel[7]; 3. 70-Micah Becker[6]; 4. 1N-Slayde Nuss[1]; 5. 52-Reid Shipman[8]; 6. 02R-Kaitlyn Russell[9]; 7. (DNF) 4J-Kruz Jelinek[4]; 8. (DNS) 53-Dan Canady; 9. (DNS) 319-Haidyn Hansen; 10. (DNS) 98-Matthew Laflin

B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 22X-Jesse Pate[1]; 2. 22-Hank Soares[4]; 3. 28H-Hunter Finney[3]; 4. 4G-Landon Gasseling[2]; 5. 26-Jacob Pierson[6]; 6. 8-Cody Berkenmeier[5]; 7. 2-Fox Funk[9]; 8. 38R-Bo Ready[7]; 9. 1-Skyler Jacobs[8]; 10. (DNF) 35W-Caleb Woodard[10]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 1G-Garett Hake[1]; 2. 5G-Landon Graham[3]; 3. 24C-Cale Lagroon[5]; 4. 78S-Daniel Shaffer[4]; 5. 22X-Jesse Pate[8]; 6. 22-Hank Soares[7]; 7. 4C-Cole McDaniel[6]; 8. 1-Skyler Jacobs[2]; 9. 63JR-John Riley Nicholson

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 63JR-John Riley Nicholson[1]; 2. 21-Keegan Osantowski[2]; 3. 319-Haidyn Hansen[3]; 4. 3Z-Trey Zorn[7]; 5. 4J-Kruz Jelinek[4]; 6. 8-Cody Berkenmeier[5]; 7. 38R-Bo Ready[6]; 8. 52-Reid Shipman[8]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 14-Tristan Mikesell[1]; 2. 5A-Ava Gropp[3]; 3. 7J-Jacob Latta[6]; 4. 28H-Hunter Finney[4]; 5. 4G-Landon Gasseling[7]; 6. 70-Micah Becker[5]; 7. 26-Jacob Pierson[8]; 8. 02R-Kaitlyn Russell[2]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 38-Jackson Kounkel[5]; 2. 45-Skyler Burns[1]; 3. 22A-Carson Anderson[7]; 4. 1N-Slayde Nuss[6]; 5. 53-Dan Canady[2]; 6. (DNF) 98-Matthew Laflin[3]; 7. (DNS) 2-Fox Funk

23 entries
NOW600 A-CLASS MICROS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 22-Hank Soares[3]; 2. 3Z-Trey Zorn[11]; 3. 8T-Cody Berkenmeier[1]; 4. 98-Matthew Laflin[13]; 5. 38K-Jackson Kounkel[8]; 6. 11D-Dominic White[16]; 7. 38-Keegan Osantowski[5]; 8. 24C-Cale Lagroon[14]; 9. 22J-Jesse Pate[7]; 10. 319-Haidyn Hansen[12]; 11. 5KX-Ollie Geiger[4]; 12. 8Z-Kasen Zorn[19]; 13. 70-Micah Becker[10]; 14. 1N-Slayde Nuss[15]; 15. (DNF) 14K-Kamden Gossard[2]; 16. (DNF) 46-Peyton White[6]; 17. (DNF) 91-Sam Kaller[9]; 18. (DNF) 30-Gavyn Bolt[18]; 19. (DNS) 22A-Carson Anderson; 20. (DNS) 4J-Kruz Jelinek

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 98-Matthew Laflin[2]; 2. 24C-Cale Lagroon[3]; 3. 1N-Slayde Nuss[1]; 4. 11D-Dominic White[11]; 5. 22A-Carson Anderson[10]; 6. 30-Gavyn Bolt[5]; 7. 8Z-Kasen Zorn[8]; 8. 4J-Kruz Jelinek[7]; 9. 63-Todd Odle[9]; 10. (DNF) 1X-Reid Shipman[6]; 11. (DQ) 2R-Remmi Butolph[4]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 14K-Kamden Gossard[1]; 2. 5KX-Ollie Geiger[6]; 3. 91-Sam Kaller[4]; 4. 38K-Jackson Kounkel[7]; 5. 2R-Remmi Butolph[2]; 6. 1X-Reid Shipman[3]; 7. 8Z-Kasen Zorn[5]; 8. 63-Todd Odle[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 8T-Cody Berkenmeier[1]; 2. 46-Peyton White[3]; 3. 22J-Jesse Pate[5]; 4. 319-Haidyn Hansen[4]; 5. 3Z-Trey Zorn[7]; 6. 24C-Cale Lagroon[8]; 7. 22A-Carson Anderson[2]; 8. 11D-Dominic White[6]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 38-Keegan Osantowski[1]; 2. 22-Hank Soares[4]; 3. 70-Micah Becker[2]; 4. 1N-Slayde Nuss[3]; 5. 98-Matthew Laflin[6]; 6. 30-Gavyn Bolt[5]; 7. 4J-Kruz Jelinek[7]

17 entries
NOW600 RESTRICTED MICROS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 12K-Kyle Heflin[2]; 2. 8Z-Kasen Zorn[4]; 3. 39-Taver West[8]; 4. 31Z-Sawyer Zimmerman[6]; 5. 75-Gavyn Bolt[1]; 6. 30-Kyler Bearce[5]; 7. 18K-Keegan Gasseling[10]; 8. 319-Haidyn Hansen[3]; 9. 11B-DJ Beach[15]; 10. 12-Paisley West[12]; 11. 87C-Nash Edwards[11]; 12. 3J-Josie Imm[16]; 13. (DNF) 100-Ellie Duros[13]; 14. (DNF) 7G-Ollie Geiger[7]; 15. (DNF) 98P-Paul Westfall[14]; 16. (DNF) 28W-Blainey Woods[9]; 17. (DNF) 7C-Charlie Wolbeck[17]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 8Z-Kasen Zorn[4]; 2. 319-Haidyn Hansen[5]; 3. 28W-Blainey Woods[1]; 4. 18K-Keegan Gasseling[3]; 5. 7G-Ollie Geiger[8]; 6. 12-Paisley West[2]; 7. 100-Ellie Duros[6]; 8. 98P-Paul Westfall[7]; 9. 7C-Charlie Wolbeck[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 12K-Kyle Heflin[2]; 2. 75-Gavyn Bolt[3]; 3. 31Z-Sawyer Zimmerman[4]; 4. 30-Kyler Bearce[7]; 5. 39-Taver West[8]; 6. 87C-Nash Edwards[5]; 7. (DNF) 11B-DJ Beach[6]; 8. (DNF) 3J-Josie Imm[1]

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