This year, the Motokazie Delaer Series has expanded to three tracks. Besides the mainstays of Elko and Mankato, the series now runs at Midway Motocross Park, located in the southeastern corner of Minnesota. The owners of that track are taking a year off to attend to other matters, leaving the track in the capable hands of Motokazie.

So far this year, Sunday precipitation has been the constant. The first event at Midway was snowed out. The next event there saw rain all day on Sunday, leading to a muddy and shortened day. At Elko, after a beautiful week of sunny warm weather, the storm clouds headed in on Sunday morning and it rained in varying degrees for the rest of the day. They were able to get the first set of motos in, but much to the relief of all the mechanics and most of the riders, they decided to call off the second set.

Knowing the track would get worse as the day went on, the first race of the day was called to the line as soon as possible. The second race of the day, 250 C, was the first race for Hagen. Providing anecdotal evidence to the “Testosterone does not help your starts” theory, Jessica Hadler grabbed the early lead over Jeremy Dewall, while Hagen fought through the roost towards the front. By the end of lap two, he was in the lead and pulling away to victory. Hadler, who would later win the Women’s class, was a solid second over Hillclimb star Aaron Prebe, Jimmy Heidebrink, and Conner Cunningham.

With only a race between, Hagen went to the line for the 14-24 C moto, where he again quickly made his way to the front on his Berms and Blacktop supported Yamaha, this time finishing in front of Cunningham, Prebe, Anthony Suarez, and Tyler Sandback. The Open C moto was a few races later, where he completed the three-class sweep.

The smaller bikes had to work that much harder in the mud, but that didn’t seem to lessen the turn-out of the 85cc classes. In Supermini 12-15, third generation district rider, Devin Donaho, pulled the holeshot with his Pat’s Auto Collision/GPS racing YZ85, to keep clean early. Jacob Martin thumped into the lead by the end of lap one and pulled away for the win. Donaho stayed solidly in second, followed by Clare, Iowa’s Daniel Fliehe, Chase Becker, and William Dorow.

No one else was able to win three classes, but several riders did the double. Garret Strege won 65cc 7-9 and 65cc 7-11, Shane Rhode topped Schoolboy 12-16 and 125 12+, Joe Perron took 250 A and Open A honors, Andrew Rutledge won 250 B and 14-24 B, and Robert Kohl sloshed to wins in 25+ A and 30+ A.

The series is supported by sponsors Ziegler Cat, Cities Edge Sports, Delano Sports Center, Hitching Post Motorsports, and Waconia Powersports The next round is May 17, back at Elko, where hopefully, the wet day/dry day ratio will begin to even itself out.

Photos provided by Leslie Vanderwerf

Jessica Hansen was still getting airborne in the mud, on her way to second in the Women’s class.

All the way from South Dakota, Jeffery Schreurs won 40+ B and was second in 45+.

Results:
50cc Multi-Speed 4-8:
1.Dustin Zanoth (KTM); 2.Gavin Janovsky (KTM); 3.Cade Downey (KTM); 4.Brennen Berends (Hon);

50cc Oil Injected 4-8:
1.Gavin Tilford (KTM); 2.Dustin Zanoth (KTM); 3.Cade Downey (KTM); 4.Cort Carlson (KTM); 5.Connor Klemenhagen (COB);

50cc Pre-Mix 4-6:
1.Gavin Janovsky (KTM); 2.Gavin Tilford (KTM); 3.Connor Klemenhagen (COB); 4.Jaxon Opitz (KTM);

50cc Pre-Mix 7-8:
1.Bailey Kroone (COB); 2.Toni Jahnz (PLN); 3.Kaleb Carmen (KTM); 4.Josh Boaz (KTM); 5.Dustin Zanoth (KTM); 6.Aaron Boatman (KTM); 7.Seth Carpenter (COB); 8.Devin Wahlberg (KTM);

65cc 7-9:
1.Garret Strege (Kaw); 2.Alex Ingalls (KTM); 3.Cody Wichmann (Kaw); 4.Devin Stang (KTM);

65cc 7-11:
1.Garret Strege (Kaw); 2.Jack Martin (Kaw); 3.Devin Stang (KTM);

65cc 10-11:
1.Ben Adamson (KTM); 2.Cody Wroe (Kaw); 3.Hunter Yocom (KTM); 4.Seth Fischer (COB);

Girls 9-13:
1.Jacqueline Riess (Suz); 2.Katie Vanderwerf (Suz);

85cc 9-11:
1.Ben Adamson (Suz); 2.Nick Schnagl (Suz); 3.Mario Eiden (Suz); 4.Cody Wroe (Kaw); 5.Jacqueline Riess (Suz); 6.George Hodkinson (Yam); 7.Mitch Hallet (Suz); 8.Alex Ingalls (Suz);

85cc 9-12:
1.Max Royalty (Kaw); 2.Nick Schnagl (Suz); 3.Wyatt Krampitz (Yam); 4.Brent Quigley (Suz); 5.Trevor Archibald (Kaw); 6.Aaron Sperling (Suz); 7.Logan Osland (KTM); 8.Mario Eiden (Suz);

85cc 12-15:
1.Wyatt Krampitz (Yam); 2.Chase Becker (Suz); 3.Devin Donaho (Yam); 4.Max Royalty (Kaw); 5.Trevor Archibald (Kaw); 6.Aaron Sperling (Suz); 7.William Dorow (Yam);

Supermini 12-15:
1.Jacob Martin (Hon); 2.Devin Donaho (Yam); 3.Daniel Fliehe (Kaw); 4.Chase Becker (Suz); 5.William Dorow (Hon);

Schoolboy 12-16:
1.Shane Rhode (Yam); 2.Jacob Martin (Hon); 3.Connor Stoker (Yam);

126-250 Jr. 14-16:
1.Riley Kroone (Kaw); 2.Jake Chmielewski (Hon); 3.Issac Tuvman (Kaw);

122-125cc 12 and up:
1.Shane Rhode (Yam); 2.Scott Archibald (Hon);

122-250 A:
1.Joe Perron (Yam); 2.James Carsten (Hon); 3.Jeremy Hullett (Hon);

122-250 B:
1.Andrew Rutledge (Hon); 2.Sean Castle (Yam); 3.Derek Hullett (Hon); 4.William Doane (Yam); 5.Kevin Rodel (Suz);

122-250 C:
1.Collin Hagen (Yam); 2.Jessica Hadler (Hon); 3.Jacob Prebe (Kaw); 4.Jimmy Heidebrink (Hon); 5.Conner Cunningham (Hon); 6.Jeremy Dewall (Hon); 7.Jake Chmielewski (Hon); 8.Dallas Milks (Kaw);

Open A:
1.Joe Perron (Yam);

Open B:
1.Zac Bongers (Yam); 2.Tyler Hinrichs (Hon); 3.Jeff Kline (Yam); 4.William Doane (Yam); 5.Nick Oeltjen (Hon); 6.Kyle Johnson (Hon);

Open C:
1.Collin Hagen (Yam); 2.Conner Cunningham (Hon); 3.Aaron Prebe (Yam); 4.Anthony Suarez (Hon); 5.Tyler Sandback (Hon); 6.Jake Tastad (KTM); 7.Chris Vogel (Hon); 8.Mitchell Schoenoff (Yam);

14-24 B:
1.Andrew Rutledge (Hon); 2.Tyler Hinrichs (Hon); 3.Nick Oeltjen (Hon); 4.William Doane (Yam); 5.Brandon Stewart (Kaw); 6.Kyle Johnson (Hon);

14-24 C:
1.Collin Hagen (Yam); 2.Jake Chmielewski (Hon); 3.Wade Reinke (Yam); 4.Dustin Webinger (Hon); 5.Nathyn Trenary (Hon); 6.Jake Tastad (KTM); 7.Jeff Anderson (Yam); 8.Tim Schmitt (Yam);

+25 A:
1.Robert Kohl (Kaw); 2.Levi Mcmains (Kaw);

+25 B:
1.Josh Cherro (Yam); 2.Jeff Kline (Yam); 3.Landon Carlson (Kaw); 4.Joe Crosby (Kaw); 5.Matt Dohrn (Kaw); 6.David O'keeffe (Hon); 7.Jay Slattery (Hon); 8.Darin Anderson (Hon);

+25 C:
1.Aaron Prebe (Hon); 2.Nick Osowski (Hon); 3.Beau Boerner (Yam); 4.Josh Creamer (Hon); 5.Caleb Bolton (Yam); 6.William Wells (Yam);

+30 A:
1.Robert Kohl (Kaw); 2.Brad Cunningham (Hon); 3.Levi Mcmains (Kaw);

+30 B:
1.Richard Ziebell (Hon); 2.Chris Nelson (Hon); 3.David O'keeffe (Hon); 4.Kristopher Griese (Kaw);

+30 C:
1.Justin Schultz (Yam); 2.Taylor Carlson (Yam); 3.Josh Creamer (Hon); 4.Joel Young (Yam); 5.Scott Archibald (Hon); 6.William Wells (Yam);

+40 A:
1.Brad Cunningham (Hon);

+40 B:
1.Jeffrey Schreurs (Yam); 2.Richard Ziebell (Hon);

+40 C:
1.Timothy Boe (Yam); 2.Mark Vanderwerf (Yam);

+45 A:
1.Tim Hanson (Hon); 2.Jerry Schulze (Yam);

+45 B/C:
1.Wayne Sorenson (Yam); 2.Jeffrey Schreurs (Yam); 3.Jon Holtz (Yam);

+50:
1.Jerry Schulze (Yam); 2.Randy Simmer (Suz);

Women:
1.Jessica Hadler (Hon); 2.Jessica Hansen (Hon); 3.Katelyn Stewart (Kaw);

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