OSWEGO, N.Y. — An excellent field of 23 winged supermodifieds from the Midwest Supermodified Series and ISMA, showed up at Oswego Speedway’s Winged Challenge Saturday night.
When the dust finally settled on the rapid winged 50 lapper, the top three finishers were Trent Stephens, Michael McVetta and Kyle Edwards, all from the MSS contingent.
Trent earned $6,000 for the victory.
“That was an awesome race. Glad to end up here that’s for sure. The car was pretty good from the start and I hoped I could stay consistent and those guys may fall off a little bit,” he said. “I think Mike had that one won but that last caution helped us. I think I just had a better restart than he did. I don’t know if I was any faster but I think we were both pretty equal but I think he was a little better in traffic than I was. But man it was just an awesome race. It feels good to win here again. It’s been probably six years since the King of Wings win.”
McVetta, who has had less than good luck at Oswego appearances, was happy with his finish.
“It was about time I did well here,” McVetta said. “This car was fast all day. We came and practiced last night and it went well. I never thought we’d see our name on the top of the leaderboard.”
The race moved fast and furious with Edwards, McVetta and Trent Stephens keeping the pace out front of Otto Sitterly, Mike Lichty, Johnny Benson, Michael Barnes, Danny Connors, Russ Wood and more for an exciting quest for the lead and the win.
Eventually, it was two well-known Ohio runners battling up front. McVetta looked to be on his way to a first Oswego win. Trent Stephens, however, was still right behind with the 19, and was able to grab the lead from McVetta late in the going when a yellow flew with less than 10 to go for the 74 of Johnny Benson who came to a stop with apparent motor problems.
When the action resumed after Benson’s demise, with the checkered flag soon to fly, Trent Stephens gave it his all and got by leader McVetta in the waning laps with Edwards still fighting right behind.
Following the top three finishers across the line were Michael Barnes, Mike Lichty, Dan Connors, Russ Wood, Aric Iosue and Otto Sitterly finishing 50 laps.
The finish:
Feature (50 laps): 1. Trent Stephens 19, 2. Mike McVetta 22, 3 Kyle Edwards 11E, 4. Michael Barnes 11, 5. Mike Lichty 84, 6. Dan Connors 01, 7. Russ Wood 41, 8. Aric Iosue 27, 9. Otto Sitterly 7, 10. Moe Lilje 32, 11. Dan Bowes 25, 12. Mark Sammut 78, 13. Anthony Nocella 97, 14. Johnny Benson 74, 15. Talon Stephens 30, 16. Mike Ordway Jr. 61, 17. Rich Reid 55, 18. AJ Lesiecki 88, 19. Michael Muldoon 15, 20. Tim Snyder 0, 21 Lou LeVea Jr. 83, 22. Jonathan Lesiecki 8. Joe Gosek 00.