By TERRY PFEIFER

Special to The Hays Daily News

LA CROSSE (Aug. 2) -- Night No. 2 two of the Inaugural United Rebel Speedweek saw 32 cars checked in at the pit gate to do battle on the bull ring at the Rush County Fair. The tight ¼-mile track would make for close racing with 20 sprints on the track for the feature. When the battle was over, Quinter's C.J. Johnson would work his way through traffic to claim the win.

Jetmore's Randy Washburn led the field to the green and quickly jumped out to the lead with LaCrosse Kansas's Kirby Hagans claiming the runner up spot with Paul Flynn, Darren Bowman and Tanner Mullens rounding out the top five. Washburn would hold the top spot until lap three when Hagans took the position. Flynn turned up the pressure the leaders as he dogged the pair before taking the top spot on lap eight. Flynn stretched out his lead as CJ Johnson and Smokey Fairbank had made their way to the fourth and fifth spots respectively by lap nine.

Johnson battled Hagans for several laps until grabbing the runner up spot on lap fourteen and set his sights on the leader. Fairbank passed Washburn for the fourth position on lap fourteen and on lap fifteen, Fairbank took third from Hagans. Flynn's lead was slowly shrinking when on lap fifteen Johnson had pulled along side Flynn going into turn-three when Flynn's engine erupted with an oil fire to bring out the red flag ending his run for the night.

On the restart, Johnson jumped back out to the lead with Fairbank in pursuit. Back in the pack, the "Kansas Tornado" Jon Johnson had been working his way through the field from his 12th starting spot to grab the fourth spot from Washburn on lap 19. Behind Washburn a trio of URSS Young Guns were lurking in the shadows and steadily making their way through traffic as Taylor Velasquez, Tanner Mullins and Taylor Milton fought for the sixth, seventh and eight spot. Velasquez held Mullens off for the sixth position lap after lap as Brian Herbert joined the battle with Milton for the eighth spot.

As the checkered flag flew it was CJ Johnson picking up the win with Smokey Fairbank, Kirby Hagans, Jon Johnson and Randy Washburn rounding out the top five.

The Weld Racing Wheels "Hard Charger Award" went to CJ Johnson who came from his tenth starting position to claim the win.

Jon Johnson raced his way from his twelfth starting spot to finish fourth in the A-Main to pick up the Keizer Racing Wheels B-Main Award.

Heat Race winners were Kirby Hagans, Ty Williams, Brian Herbert, Smokey Fairbank and Paul Flynn.

A-Main: 1-CJ Johnson (45X), 2-Smokey Fairbank (2), 3-Kirby Hagans (4), 4-Jon Johnson (86), 5-Randy Washburn (0T), 6-Taylor Velasquez, 7-Tanner Mullens (02), 8-Brian Herbert (97), 9-Taylor Milton (91X), 10-Reed Bernbeck (C3), 11-Darren Bowman (9B), 12-Ken Lutters (79), 13-Kris Miller (33), 14-Richie Dewell (112), 15-Jeff Radcliffe (21R), 16-Ty Williams (1), 17-Corey Lutters (07), 18-Paul Flynn (92), 19-Ray Seemann (72), 20-Justin Schwien (76J)

Non Qualifier #1: 1-Justin Schwien, 2-Taylor Milton, 3-Richie Dewell, 4-Corey Lutters, 5-Ken Lutters, 6-Bill Hays, -Darren Berry, 8-Kasey Beckham, 9-Craig Jecha, 10-John Colbert, 11-Willie Wynn, 12-Michael Williams

Non-Qualifier #2: 1-Jon Johnson, 2-Taylor Velasquez, 3-Reed Bernbeck, 4-Kris Miller, 5-Jeff Radcliffe, 6-Cody Salem, 7-Randy Bantam, 8-Josh Fairbank, 9-Keefe Hemel, Shawn Radcliffe DNS