August 27, 2004; Unity, WI. - It was the Season Championship night at Monster Hall Raceway this past Friday with trophies being awarded to the top three finishers in each of the five divisions. The starting orders for the features were
determined by the final point standings, with the season Champions starting from the pole position. This year's Point Champions were Chris Oertel in the Modifieds, Adam Hensel in the SuperStocks, Roger Walker in the Street Stocks, Shane Halopka in the Midwest Modifieds and Ron/John Kunninger in the Two Man Cruisers.

Photo Highlights

Luke Schilling (#43) did all he could to to try and capture the WISSOTA Modified title at Monster Hall including winning the feature race on the final point night. Luke Schilling (#43) works past Chris Oertel (#51) on his way to winning the WISSOTA Modified feature, however it was Oertel who finished a conservative seventh who won the season point title. Jeff Spacek (#22) proved he had no trouble getting "bite" as he three-wheels around the track in his WISSOTA Modified. Jim Willner (#77) pulled out a victory in WISSOTA Super Stock feature action. Bill Schwantes (#77), Scott Geiger (#75) and Terry Kroening (#23) do a little close quarters racing in the WISSOTA Super Stock division. Shane Halopka (#3) puts some icing on the cake as he won the season point battle and captured the feature event this evening in the Midwest Modifieds. Mickey Nosser (#34) and Joe Bablick (#17x) battled down to the wire in the WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature.  Nosser would finish second with Bablick claiming third. Mike Molitor's car after being involved in a wreck that occurred during the Mid-West Modified Feature. Roger Walker wrapped up his WISSOTA Street Stock title with a feature win in the class on the final point night at Monster Hall Raceway.

The WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature got off to a shaky start when a five car pileup on the first lap sent several cars to the pits with severe damage. Once the race was restarted, Shane Halopka took the early lead and held on to it for the next 13 laps to score the win. Mickey Nosser worked his way around Joe Bablick for second on lap five but couldn't chase down Halopka and came across the line in second. Bablick finished third after holding off a strong charge from Dave Salzman in the closing laps. Randy Bargender rebounded from the back of the pack after an early caution to finish fifth.

Next up was the WISSOTA Street Stock feature with Roger Walker and Cory Crapser filling out the front row. Walker pulled out front at the start and led all the way to the checkered flag. Walker was hounded the entire distance by Crapser who got on the inside of Walker on several occasions but had to settle for second at the finish line. Steve Bangart had a solid run and came across the line in third ahead of Jared Loos and Butch Kummer.

The WISSOTA SuperStock feature had the most bizarre finish of the evening. It happened when Adam Hensel, who had led the first 19 laps spun coming out of turn four to take the checkered flag which gave the win to Jim Willner. Willner had run side by side with Hensel for much of the race and ended up with the win. Randy Spacek finished second after battling Paul Erickson in the closing laps. John Fiern took home fourth ahead of Scott Johnson.

A similar incident occurred in the WISSOTA Modified feature when race leader Chris Oertel spun with four laps remaining. This set up a sprint to the finish with Luke Schilling in the lead ahead of Jeff Spacek and Mark Baxter. After the restart Spacek jumped to the high side and nearly completed the pass, but Schilling found good bite down low and took back the lead and the win. Spacek stayed within striking distance in the final laps but couldn't make a move for the lead.

Mark Baxter had an impressive run in third ahead of Tim Isenberg and Ray Karl Jr.   The Two-Man Cruiser division Championship ended the season in a tie between Ron/John Kunninger and Davis/Fitzgerald. It was determined that whichever of those two cars finished further ahead in the feature they would be declared the Champion. Ron/John
Kunninger used the pole position to get the lead early on ahead of Davis/Fitzgerald and held it for the remainder of the event to get the win as well as the Season Championship. Davis/Fitzgerald finished in a close second ahead of Porter/Smazal.

Summary

WISSOTA Modifieds:
Feature - Luke Schilling, Jeff Spacek, Mark Baxter, Tim Isenberg, Ray Karl, Rob Genett, Chris Oertel, Roger Andres, Scott Duval, Mike Bauer
Heat1 - Isenberg, K. Baxter, Nordhaugen. M. Baxter
Heat 2 - Oertel, Spacek, Duval, Schilling

WISSOTA Super Stocks:
Feature - Jim Willner, Randy Spacek, Paul Erickson, John Fiern, Scott Johnson, Scott Geiger, Brian Rau, Adam Hensel, Terry Kroening, Ron Sischo
Heat 1 - Hensel, Gorst, Stender, Willner
Heat 2 - Spacek, Erickson, Johnson, Fiern

WISSOTA Street Stocks:
Feature - Roger Walker, Cory Crapser, Steve Bangart, Jared Loos, Butch Kummer, Dave Teatz, Brock Wright, Scott Miller, Jared Lindner, Jim Marshall
Heat 1 - Walker, T. Lindner, Crapser, J. Lindner
Heat 2 - Loos, Miller, Bangart, Andres

WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds:
Feature - Shane Halopka, Mickey Nosser, Joe Bablick, Dave Salzman, Randy Bargender, Jim Poyda, Jerome Kowalski, John Kowalski, Mike Molitor, Shannon Williams
Heat 1 - Nosser, Poyda, Salzman, Schoonover
Heat 2 - Bablick, Halopka, Molitor, Williams

Two-Man Cruisers:
Feature - Ron/John Kunninger, Davis/Fitzgerald, Porter/Smazal, Schubert/Delis, Lindner/Rosier
Heat 1 - Davis/Fitzgerald, Ron/John Kunninger, Schubert/Delis