By:  Rolfe Otterness

John Martin and his gang of trusty minions closed down the ’21 Super Series with a District 23 Featured Event at the ultra-cool Spring Creek Park.   The event proved tempting enough to pull almost 700 entries with nice,warm weather for a fall day.   For a little change-up  there were a couple of jumps added along the base of Mount Martin.   This was the last chance for riders to improve their standings in the ’21 series so that added some extra urgency along with it being a District 23 Featured Event.

The Open A class was quite an exciting spectacle with a decent turnout of riders attacking the track.  Josh Boaz has been crushing it in this division all year long but found some competition from wily, retired, snocross star Tucker Hibbert as they ran 1-2 in both motos while Dan Benham, a current snocross star, provided support in third place.   Hibbert showed good form and speed as he worked to keep Boaz in sight although the much younger rider managed to hang tough for the wins.  Benham was solid for third with Cole Harrington and Max Earley also snaring top five finishes.

Carson Johanningmeier has been dominate in the 14-24C class this year, winning every time he was on the track.   He shot off the line in moto one to lead the surge of riders around turn one and put the hurt on the field as he ran off for the win.  Jaxon Nagel held second for lap one but soon Dustin White slipped by and held on to the runner-up spot to the checkered.   Nagel stabilized position then and led Bryce Rauner up the finish line jump for third.  Spencer Hein was shortly through for fifth.

Koby Turner turned first around turn one in moto two to lead briefly but Johanningmeier was by in short order to claim his customary place out front.   Drew Freeland snared second position for the first three laps of the moto but biffed it and dropped way back, giving up the spot to White for the last circuit of the track after he moved up steadily through the top five to trail Johanningmeier at the flag.  Nagel reprised his earlier third-place once again with Hein improving to fourth and Kameron Steindl  jumping  up from his first moto sixth to fifth.

Noah Miesen led the pack from the line in moto one of 14-24 B class but Ronnie Orres displaced him early in the first lap and was destined to lead all the way to the finish as he gapped the field.   Miesen held steady to take second over Dominic Lindquist and Levi Dertien.   Orres pulled off a similar feat in moto two to take the win by a big lead over Marcus Koester.   Third went to Trevor Bonnicksen while Miesen ran in for fourth over Linquist as the cross the line.

Bentlee Walker showed his mastery of the track as the led the field of riders all throughout the first moto of the 65cc 7-11 class.   Carson Wittman settled into second with pursuit provided by Cash Anderson and Jaxon Arends.   That running order prevailed throughout the race with Walker winning by a good margin.

Walker snapped up the lead through turn one to again lead the way in the next moto.  Wittman established his place in second once again and he put on a good pursuit but saw Walker eventually edge away to a 10 second lead by the time the checkers flew.  Arends grabbed third this time around with Lincoln Nielsen taking fourth by a bike-length after a long battle with Colin Megaw.