" I fought Tony at the end, I thought that he was going to have me, I felt that I had a tire going down but I was able to hold on !" Fransen jumped into an early battle for the lead with John Zimmerman (Markesan). Fransen tried to get around Zimmerman as the caution flag came out for an accident following a spin by Jeff Kendall (Montello) coming out turn 4, collecting the car of fast qualifier David Prunty (Lomira)Mike Egan (Slinger) and Lowell Bennett (Neenah). On the restart it was a side by side battle again between Fransen and Zimmerman, with Fransen on the outside. The pair raced door handle to door handle for the next 30 laps as the rest of the field began to gain on the leaders. As Tony Strupp and Al Schill, worked their way behind the leaders Conrad Morgan (Waukesha) began to close in. When the second caution of the night waved when Cindy Peterson (Butler) broke and hit the turn 3 wall.

When the race resumed Fransen pulled away with Strupp. The two battled for the remainder of the race as Morgan closed in on the pair but just ran out of time. The win ends Conrad Morgan’s win streak at five straight features , but the bonus money will continue to anyone who can pass Morgan and win the feature.

In the Late Model Semi-feature Mike Strupp (Theresa) walked away with the 30 lap event, over Wayne Freimund (West Allis). Strupp jumped to an early lead from his front row starting position. Strupp looking much like the son of the 4 time track champion as he pulled to a 6 car lentgh lead and the victory. There was a heated battle for second between Wayne Freimund (West Allis) and Charlie Thon Jr. (Germantown) who placed third.

Steve Lurvey (Dousman) held off a hard charging Al Schill (Franklin) to win the 30 lap Midwest Modified main event. Lurvey took the lead on lap 2 and was followed closely by Schill who moved into the second position just past the halfway point. Schill stayed glued to Lurvey’s rear bumper as the fourth and final caution flag flew on lap 27 for an incident involving fast qualifier Florian Wisinski (Greenfield) and Larry Reihbrandt (Wauwatosa), setting up a three lap dash for the win. Schill pulled alongside Lurvey on the final lap but fell inches short at the finish line as Lurvey scored his third feature win of the season. Dale Prunty (Allenton) finished third ahead of Chris Peterson (Cedarburg) and Lenny Gallenberg III (Kewaskum).

In the Slinger Stinger action Bill Shavlik held off point leader Pete Wiedmeyer to win the 16 lap Slinger Stinger feature. Shavlik passed early leader John Henning on lap 11 and then maneuvered his way through lapped traffic to hold off Wiedmeyer for the win. Dan Miller finished third while Henning and Scott Asher rounded out the top five.

In other action, Mark Ritger (St. Cloud) won the Figure eight feature with a four car length lead over second place Willie Van Camp (Appleton).