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The Newcastle Raceway has provided an outlet for speed
demons of all ages this summer, and while last week's
Sagebrush Shootout was the year's biggest racing event, it
wasn't the last as there will be one more night of racing on
August 22 before they season is officially concluded. (Alexis
Shultz/NLJ)
Bob Bonnar
NLJ Editor
Logan Hershey has had
his share of bad breaks in the
follow-up to being named the
Black Hills Mini Sprint Tour's
2014 co-champion, but he sal-
vaged the 2015 season when
he outran racers from four dif-
ferent states to claim the title of
Sagebrush Shootout Champion
in Newcastle last weekend.
The Newcastle Speedway
hosted the second annual
Shootout last weekend, and
that allowed the Hoosier Tire's
Black Hills Mini Sprint Tour to
offer a full weekend of racing in
Wyoming.
BHMST Race Director Doug
Napier explained that this year's
shootout was an invitational that
attracted some of the best drivers
from the Miniakota Micros, a
series that draws drivers from
eastern South Dakota, Iowa, and
Minnesota.
Hershey set himself for a
good run in the Challenge Race
by posting the second fastest
time in the time trials, and
fmishing third in the official
BHMST Feature Race on both
Friday and Saturday night. That
set the stage for his champion-
ship run on Saturday night.
In the weekend's Main
Event, Napier reports that
Hershey caught the winner of the
Saturday night feature, Reggie
Schrank (who was also the only
driver to outpace Hershey in
the time trials) halfway through
the 20-lap race, and held off the
pack for ten more laps to claim
the crown.
"Hershey, who has battled
'gremlins' all season -- from
fuel pump problems to accidents
and 3 blown motors -- would
be able to keep his #20 at the
front of the field, and take home
the coveted Shootout trophy,"
Napier announced, noting
that the second comer of the
track took out a pair of drivers,
including another Newcastle
racer.
Shane Fick (Brandon, South
Dakota) and Ron Fulk would
both drive over the top and end
up getting upside down. Fick
would be able to drive away
from his accident and finish his
heat race, but Fuik took a much
harder ride, destroying his car,"
Napier reported, indicating that
the fourth turn on the track had
claimed a pair of victims on
Friday night, but that race conS.
ditions were overall pretty good
for Newcastle's biggest races of
the season.
"The weather and the racin
was hot and thankfully dry for
the 23 cars that took the tracl
for the weekend," Napier said.
As for Fulk, he didn't leavd
the track empty-handed, having
claimed the SpeedMart Har(l
Charger award in the fir~
feature race on Saturday night
with his 15th place finish. -
The Hoosier Tire's Blacl
Hills Mini Sprint Tour will wrai
up its season at the Newcastle
Speedway on Aug. 22, and
races will start at 7:00 p.m
that evening. Newcastle's Tom
Peterson is still in the running for
the 2015 BHMST points cham~
pionship, and will beattempting
to overtake John Garrigan Jr.
the t'male. Peterson is currently,
in third place in the point stand-
ings with 1,129, while Garrigart
is sitting at 1,133 and Blaynd
Brink is in second place witia
1,130 points.
from page 9
his and he had no affection for humans.
Animal rights groups are condemning the
dentist for hunting and killing this lion, but
I'm not so sure the people of Zimbabwe
are all that upset. Lions are a threat to their
daily lives and I would venture to guess
that if there was one less lion to worry
about, they wouldn't be all that worked up
about it.
Not only is it now no longer necessary
to fear this predator, but the big game
hunters who come .to their country drop
a great deal of money into the economy
before they leave. In addition, the meat of
these animals stays in the country by law,
so the people have food as well at the end
of the hunt.
The dentist did not go to Zimbabwe to
hunt Cecil. He paid a hefty fee and was
guided by locals who were not even aware
that the lion in his sights was this well-
known cat. Because of the public attacks
on the doctor, he has had to close his prac-
tice and because of death threats he has
had to go into hiding. I'm not sure that the
punishment necessarily fits this "crime".
Recently on a trip to the Field Museum
in Chicago, I made a point to visit the Lions
of Tsavo exhibit where the two maneless
lions depicted in the movie The Ghost and
the Darkness are on display. These two
lions ravaged a bridge construction camp
in Kenya in the late 1800s, killing 140
workers before they were finally slain.
I also saw an exhibit of the Lion of
Mfuwe who killed at least six villagers in
Zambia's Luangwa River Valley in 1991
and even walked right down the middle
of the street roaring, carrying a bloody
¢!othing bag that it had carried off from a
hut that he had broken into, killing one of
the residents.
These are only two examples of lions
who have terrorized people in Africa
and Asia. There are many others that are
known by name, but many more that are
nameless. While I love the big cats, I really
don't want one threatening my life. I hate
the fact that mountain lions have been seen
a block away from where I live in town. I
can't imagine having to be on the lookotit
for the even bigger ones as those who lix~e
in Africa must do. ="
I think it could be time for all of us
stop looking for reasons to be offended
at what everyone else does. I don't know
about you, but I think that there are better
things out there that we could be worrie d
about besides whether or not a 13-year-old
lion in Zimbabwe was killed.
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