Travis Peery led virtually start to finish and outlasted several challengers to claim victory in the modified feature at Estevan Motor Speedway on Friday.
Peery fought off Aaron Turnbull down the stretch. Turnbull had a flat tire with a couple of laps left, and Peery went on to take the checkered flag.
"The car worked good and I just put it right on the edge, right on the top, and that's where the groove was," said Peery, who is originally from Yreka, Calif., near the Oregon border.
"Aaron Turnbull got by once when I hit the cushion and I felt like I was going to just about flip, and then the caution came out, I got my spot back and finished off the win."
Peery also fended off the likes of Jim Harris, who started alongside him in the front row, as well as Ed Turnbull, Joren Boyce and Les McLenehan over the course of the race.
A red flag came out with nine laps left after a big collision involving Eric Sinness, Kelly Bauman and another driver. That was one of many cautions in the race.
"Oh man, all the cautions. I was looking at the lap board and it was like, nine to go, eight to go, caution, we had to go back and do it all over again," said Peery.
He added that he was happy to be able to win the battle against Turnbull.
"I have a lot of respect for Aaron Turnbull. I raced against him in Arizona and Las Vegas. He's a top notch guy, probably one of the best in the nation, so it makes me feel pretty good to actually get a victory, even though he got a flat tire."
Jeremy Swanson of Corning, Iowa, won the stock feature Friday. Swanson is working in Estevan and is taking advantage of that to get some dirt track racing in.
"I just try to be consistent and do the same thing lap after lap," he said.
Swanson grabbed the lead early in the race and never let go. Despite three late cautions, the finish wasn't even close, as Swanson quickly built a large lead on each restart.
Gregg Mann, who won at the Speedway's season opener May 4, took second place.
"I knew that (Mann) won the (race) before. He beat me in the heat race the (race) before too, so I knew he was tough," said Swanson.
"I knew he was probably there. But when you're up front, you just do your thing and try to mind your Ps & Qs and keep going the same direction."
In the hobby stock feature, the Beeter brothers continued their early dominance this season, as Brock Beeter finished first and his brother Brandon took second.
"He won up here the last (race), and then I won (May 11) in Williston, and he finished second, so that's two 1-2 (finishes) in a row for me and my brother. I happened to come out on top in this one," said Brock Beeter.
Destiny Klym and Brad King had led for stretches earlier in the feature, but the Beeter brothers worked their way toward the front in the second half of the race.
King still led when a yellow flag came out with six laps left, with Brock and Brandon behind him, respectively.
By the time the next caution happened with two laps left, King had slipped to third, with Brock in first and Brandon in second.
"We've been doing it pretty much since we started racing," Brock said of the rivalry between the brothers.
"It's always been a good battle. We never run into each other, we never race each other rough. We give each other room and we have give and take, because we do still go back to the same shop. We still work on each other's cars.
"He's more of a laid-back, let the race come to him kind of driver, and I'm more aggressive. I want to get up to the front as fast as I can."
Several members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders were on hand for the event to sign autographs.
The Speedway's next race night is June 1.
