(Editor’s note: This story will be updated later tonight with more details.)

SPRING VALLEY — The Gopher 50 charity Late Model race has been held in southeastern Minnesota for the past 42 years.

Only three times prior to Saturday had a driver won the prestigious race — promoted since its inception by the Blooming Prairie Lions Club — in consecutive years.

Make that four times.

Oakwood, Ill., Late Model driver Bobby Pierce left the 3/8-mile high-banked dirt track on Saturday night the same way he left it a year ago — $50,000 richer.

Saturday, Pierce beat a star-studded and talented field to win the Gopher 50 A Main and join Steve Kosiski (1981-82), Billy Moyer (2000-01) and Darrell Lanigan (2013-15) as the only drivers to win the main feature at the Gopher in consecutive years.

Brandon Sheppard (the 2019 Gopher 50 champion), Tyler Erb, Ryan Gustin and Nick Hoffman rounded out the top five finishers.

Rochester native Dustin Sorensen finished 11th, after starting 17th.

• Jake O’Neil captured the 35-lap USRA Modifieds A Main on Saturday night.

Hayfield’s Brandon Davis finished as the runner-up, while Jake Timm (Winona), Joe Chisholm (Osage, Iowa) and Rodney Sanders (Happy, Texas) rounded out the top five in the 30-car field.

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HAMMOND, Ind. (WLS) — Crews were be back out on Lake Michigan Saturday morning looking for two missing Illinois men. The search was suspended again for a second day, and it will resume again on Sunday.

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The search was suspended Friday night because of dangerous water conditions.

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The Indiana Department of Natural Resources posted an update about the water search to their Facebook page Saturday.

Authorities said there were 12 people on the boat around 2:30 p.m. Friday. A men went missing after he off a boat to go swimming near Hammond, Indiana, officials told ABC7.

When the swimmer began to struggle in the water, two others jumped in to help.

“Because of the wind and the waves all three individuals and the boat got separated so they began to drift in the water,” said Indiana Conservation Officer Alex Neel.

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Police said the third person who jumped in was the only one wearing a life jacket. He was later rescued by the coast guard and will be okay.

ABC7 was told one missing man is from Elk Grove Village and the other is from Mount Prospect.

Police said no foul play is suspected and they do not believe alcohol was a factor; it was simply because of the dangerous water conditions. They ask everyone to pay attention to forecasts before heading out into Lake Michigan.