Hatton Nears Badger Title With Victory
By Bryan Gapinski Sun Prairie, Wis., Aug. 14 - Scott Hatton took a major step towards his second straight Badger Midget Auto Racing Association Championship, by capturing the 25-lap feature Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway.
Aaron Fiscus jumped into the lead at the start and paced the first two laps before Nick Lundgreen escaped injury in a minor flip in turn one. On the restart Hatton moved into second place with Jerry Coons, Jr. passing Hatton for second place one lap later. The caution flag appeared for stalled cars on laps five and ten, each time setting up passes for the lead on the restarts. Coons passed Fiscus for the lead on lap seven and paced the next four laps before Hatton took the took the top position on lap 11. 
One lap later former series champion Kevin Doty flipped violently entering turn four. The series of flips ended with Doty's cars bouncing off the top of the wall and landing on the entrance road to the track outside the turn four wall. Doty was transported to University Hospital for treatment of undisclosed injuries.
On the restart Hatton pulled away from the field and spent the final five laps of the event in heavy lapped traffic. Hatton driving the Huston Solution Racing Stealth/Mopar#15 finished 1.43 seconds ahead of Coons, Brad Kuhn, Davey Ray and Aaron Fiscus. Hatton's sixth feature win of the season coupled with Danny Stratton's 20th place finish increases Hatton's series point lead to 208 points over Stratton with three races remaining.

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 23 COONS 14.731 1 JENKINS 1 COONS 1 HATTON
2 1AU TOWNSEND 14.911 2 GOUGH 2 FISCUS 2 COONS
3 74 KUHN 14.926 3 LUEBKE 3 MUELLER 3 KUHN
4 88 BOORSE 14.953 4 CLAAS 4 JENKINS 4 RAY
5 99 WEISENEL 14.994 5 CAREY 5 WALTERS 5 FISCUS
6 15 HATTON 15.019 HT 2 6 STROEHLE 6 BOORSE
7 2 STRATTON 15.041 1 HEISS 7 LABROSSE 7 MUELLER
8 87 SLOTTEN 15.046 2 KUHN 8 GOUGH 8 SLOTTEN
9 5 RAY 15.083 3 HATTON 9 WEISENSEL 9 STROEHLE
10 43NZ QUINN 15.125 4 RAY 10 SOMMERFELD 10 TOWNSEND
11 7 FISCUS 15.191 5 LUNDGREEN 11 CLAAS 11 WALTER
12 22 MUELLER 15.216 HT 3 12 LUEBKE 12 JENKINS
13 21K MAYHEW 15.235 1 DESELLE 13 MAYHEW 13 LEJEUNE
14 6 DESELLE 15.280 2 LeJEUNE 14 PERKINS 14 RAMSTACK
15 40 LUNGREEN 15.35 3 RAMSTACK 15 CAREY 15 SHREFFLER
16 50 DOTY 15.363 4 SLOTTEN 16 KEELAN 16 HEISS
17 ,02 RAMSTACK 15.366 5 TOWNSEND     17 LABROSSE
18 5W WALTERS 15.388 HT 4     18 QUINN
19 63 PERKINS 15.429 1 DOTY     19 DOTY
20 34 LeJEUNE 15.455 2 BOORSE     20 STRATTON
21 93 LAROSSE 15.476 3 STRATTON     21 DESELLE
22 21S SHREFFLER 15.481 4 SHREFFLER     22 LUNGREEN
23 49 SOMMERFELD 15.561 5 QUINN        
24 00 HEISS 15.563 DASH    
25 99X CLAAS 15.627 1 COONS    
26 30 CAREY 15.628 2 HATTON    
27 43 LUEBKE 15.698 3 KUHN    
28 97 HOEGTED 15.783 4 WEISENSEL    
29 3A JENKINS 16.184 5 BOORSE    
30 87X DREHER 16.329 6 TOWNSEND    
31 2X STROEHLE 16.706    
32 2X SCHMIDT 17.249      
33 57 GOUGH 23.688        
34 19 STROEHLE NT        
35 17 KEELAN NT        

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 8/14/05
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS

1 SCOTT HATTON 1619 81 15 DWIGHT HUSTON 1476
2 DANNY STRATTON 1411 46 5 RAJO WILKE PAK 1394
3 DAVEY RAY 1325 51 2 HANS LEIN 1393
4 BRANDON WAELTI 1321 65 74 BRAD KUHN 1287
5 BRAD KUHN 1287 67 3 WAELTI-SCHULENBERG 1201
6 CHAD DESELLE 1019 57 6 JIM FISCUS 979
7 RICK MUELLER 886 31 22 MUELLER RACING 886
8 NICK LUNDGREEN 726 23 40 WES CARNER 726
9 AARON FISCUS 709 60 7 JIM FISCUS 640
10 HARLEY SLOTTEN 589 7 87 TOM & TAMMY BONG 624
11 DAN BOORSE 558 33 88 DON BOORSE 558
12 KEVIN DOTY 551 60 23 KARL WARNKE 549
13 JERRY COONS JR 549 32 93 DEBBIE LABROSSE 546
14 RICK LABROSSE 546 24 21 BERNIE SHREFFLER 519
15 BOB SHREFFLER 519 24 21 KURT MAYHEW 454
16 CODY WEISENSEL 489 1 43 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 442
17 KURT MAYHEW 454 20 02 BRIAN RAMSTACK 440
18 BUDDY LUEBKE 442 24 59 KELLY JORDAN 434
19 BRIAN RAMSTACK   ** 440 19 43 MICHAEL QUIN 403
20 JEFF FLESHER 434 82 17 ROB KEELAN 385
21 JIMI QUIN 425 0 20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 384
22 ROB KEELAN 395 15 30 BK MOTORSPORTS 372
23 CRAIG CAREY 377 0 99 BUTCH DAHLKE 339
24 DAVID GOUGH 319 31 1au HAWK RACING 317
25 BRYON WALTERS 297 22 50 BUD DOTY 315
26 MICHAEL PICKENS 283 12 5 BRYON WALTERS 297
27 JOHN JONES 279 22 57 RANDY REISDORF 295
28 BRIAN CLAAS 244 15 21 JONES MOTORSPORTS 279
29 JON LEJEUNE 213 10 34 JON LEJEUNE 213
30 JASON DULL 176 4 6H JIM FISCUS 208
31 CHAD DREHER    ** 171 17 18 CHAD DREHER 171
32 JIMMY LIGHT 162 21 99x BUTCH DAHLKE 171
33 PATRICK JONES 149 6 56 KEN DULL 162
34 NICK SOMMERFELD  ** 135 15 4 JIMMY LIGHT 162
35 KRIS HOEGSTED 123 11 2X HANS LEIN 161
36 KEVIN OLSON 107 0 97 MARY HOEGSTED 161
37 MIKE STROEHLE 106 13 29 TONI MORGAN-JONES 149
38 DOUG JORDAN  ** 103 4 39 LEE BECKWITH 134
39 EDDIE SAUER  95 3 79 RANDY POLEWCZYNSKI 131
40 LEE BECKWITH   ** 94 7 82 GLEN WINDSTRUP 130
41 ALEX COONAN 85 4 87X TOM & TAMMY BONG 117
42 MIKE HEISS 85 8 8 DOUG JORDAN 103
43 MIKE DIBARK 74 1 96 EDDIE SAUER 95
44 PAUL PERKINS 59 0 5X WILKE PAK 89
45 KEN DULL 49 8 94 AMANDA COONAN 85
46 A.J. FIKE 30 0 0 MIKE HEISS 85
47 BOBBY GUESS 28 6 11 WILKE PAK 82
48 DEAN ERFURTH 19 0 9 PAT SOMMERFELD 79
49 23 STEPHANIE MEENTS 74
50 63 PAUL/ANGIE PERKINS 59
51 19 PAT GEHLER-RICK IMHOFF 55
52 99 BOB GUESS 28
** ROOKIE 9x BUTCH DAHLKE 19
 

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