By John Rittenhouse
Last weekend was a good one for area race drivers competing at four different tracks.
Drivers from the Star Herald coverage area won a combined four feature races and four heat events while competing in Worthington, Rock Rapids, Iowa, Hartford and Brandon, S.D.
Local talent posted a pair of feature wins during Sunday’s races at Worthington Speedway.
Kanaranzi's Colter Deutsch took top honors in the A feature in the sportsman's class, and Luverne's Jason Wohlford won the B feature in the same class.
Luverne's Josh Reisch also made an appearance in Worthington, placing second in the modified feature.
The other feature wins produced by an area driver came at Sturdevant's I-90 Speedway in Hartford Saturday.
Ellsworth's Mark DeBoer posted a heat win and a feature win in the late model street stock class at the South Dakota track.
Luverne's Jesse Akkerman and Magnolia's Larry Kracht also raced in Hartford.
Kracht placed second in his heat race before winning the feature event in the hobby stock class.
Akkerman placed second in his heat race in the late model street stock class before transmission problems led to a seventh-place finish in the 21-car feature race.
Ellsworth's DeBoer also earned places at Rapid Speedway, Rock Rapids, Iowa, and Huset's Speedway, Brandon, S.D., Friday and Sunday respectively.
DeBoer was the lone area driver to pick up a place at Huset’s, finishing fourth in the late model street stock feature.
DeBoer placed third in the feature race in the late model street stock class at Rapid Speedway.
Darren Korthals, a Hills-Beaver Creek High School graduate who now lives in Rock Rapids, won a heat race and placed second in the feature event in the late model street stock class in Rock Rapids.
Adrian’s Brad Klaassen and Magnolia's Larry Kracht produced heat victories at Rapid Speedway.
Klaassen won his heat and placed second in the feature in the sportman's class. Rural Luverne's Scott Overgaard placed fourth in the feature race in the same class.
Kracht won his heat and placed fifth in the feature in the hobby stock class. Luverne's Anthony Mann placed fourth in the feature race in the same class.