ESCANABA — Despite rain showers throughout the night and morning forcing an hour delay, the Upper Peninsula International Raceway was still able to fit in another night of racing Saturday night in Escanaba.

Putting another win — his fourth of the year — under his belt in the Super Vintage Modifieds was Scott Degnan (Escanaba) who had his hands full with Jesse Denome (Escanaba) in the closing stages of the race after coming from the rear of the field.

While the win was good, Degnan was also excited about being able to race against son Drake.

“It felt good coming from the back,” Scott Degnan said. “Racing with Drake for a lap or two, that was fun. We’re getting his car dialed in, and it won’t be too long and he’ll be battling up there with me, too.”

Deganan also commented on the clean but competitive nature of the Super Vintage Modified division.

“Jesse, Don (Peterson), they’re all great to race with. Matt (Valiquette), you know, everybody,” he said. “It’s just a lot of fun racing these cars, and I really enjoy them. … It’s a lot of fun racing guys with a lot of respect. We’re not banging into each other; we’re actually running.”

Matt Valiquette (Rapid River) followed Scott Degnan and Denome in third.

In the other Vintage Modified class, Jamie Iverson (Escanaba) copped the win ahead of Kevin Lustila (Germfask) and Allan Yelle (Sands).

Both Vintage Mod features ran without a single caution, as did the Riverside Auto Group Youth Micro Sprint, Sportsman Micro Sprint and 600 Micro Sprint features.

In the Youth Micro Sprints, Griffin Iverson (Escanaba) led Carson Artley (Escanaba) and Karl Warm (Escanaba) across the line. After postrace inspection, however, Warm was declared the winner, as the two did not pass inspection.

Brennan Swanson (Menominee) took the Sportsman win — his second of the year — ahead of Tyler Demars (Green Bay, Wis.) and Ethan Manninen (Cornell).

The third place was Manninen’s best since making the move from the Youth Micro Sprints — where he was a track champion — to the Sportsman division at the start of this year.

In the 600 Micro Sprint feature, Logan Getzloff (Wilson) led flag to flag to take the win.

Getzloff noted the increased pressure of holding off the field from the front row.

“I think there is more pressure when you start in the front honestly because at this point it is my race to lose, and no one wants to get passed when they start on the pole,” Getzloff said. “It is a lot harder when you have to start farther back, but I think it is not as stressful because you can see the cars ahead of you.”

With his second win in the division, Getzloff commented on how tough it is to win in the class.

“It feels pretty good to get feature win number two being that there are so many winners in our class this year,” he said. “The 600 class has been very challenging this year, being that everybody is so even in this class.”

The Escanaba pair of Kevin Warm and Matt Peterson finished second and third.

While it was Jason Piron (Escanaba) across the line first in the Street Stock division, Neil Aaberg (Escanaba) was crowned the winner after Piron was disqualified (inspection).

Paul Wagner (Gladstone) and Ron Jenshak (Escanaba) each moved up into the remaining podium positions.

For the second week in a row, a rash of cautions brought the Bink’s Coca-Cola Sport Modified feature to an early end with Matt Valiquette (Rapid River) getting the win with Jamie Iverson (Escanaba) second and Rick Gustavson (Norway) with a strong run all night — that included a heat win — in third.

For the second time in three weeks, Trever Cronick (Faithorn) found himself in a terrifying series of barrel rolls. Entering the third turn Cronick hooked a rut, sending him tumbling side over side into a pirouette on his nose before landing right side up.

Cronick was ok and climbed from the car mere seconds after it came to rest.

Zach Gazda (Vulcan) earned the win with Tom Waselesky (Harvey) in second and Avry Corrigan (Escanaba) in third.

Next week, the Upper Peninsula International Raceway pays tribute to the late Christian Groleau with the second annual Christian Groleau Memorial Race. In conjunction with End the Silence, the race will raise funds and awareness for suicide prevention.

Last year, Logan Getzloff won the Groleau Memorial for his first feature win in the 600 Micro Sprint Division which Groleau competed and won several championships.

” After my first ever win being on this night last year, I am very excited going into this race this year,” said Getzloff. “It would mean a lot to me to win this race again this year back to back. I remember racing with Christian, and he never skipped a beat and was always at the front of the pack at the end of the races.

“He was a blast to race with and definitely someone to look up to. It would mean a lot to me to win this race and carry on all of his great mentalities.”

Green flag is scheduled for 6 p.m. EST Saturday night.