CASPER, Wyo. Havre's Troy Solomon, representing the Montana State University-Bozeman rodeo team, is 11th in bareback riding entering the final round of the College National Finals Rodeo.
His total of 200.5 points is 31 points behind leader Clint Evers of Fort Scott C.C. Solomon was sixth overall at one point but slid back to 11th after the other competitors in the event finished their third-round rides.
Josh Cole of Northeast Texas C.C. and Solomon's teammate, Andy Bolich, are second and third overall with overall scores of 217 and 215, respectively.
TEAM RESULTS
Men 1, Western Texas College, 450. 2, College of Southern Idaho, 395. 3, Fort Scott Community College, 280. 4, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 230.
Women 1, University of Wyoming, 330. 2, Oklahoma State University, 270. 3, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 260. 4, Tarleton State University, 230.
ALL-AROUND
Men 1, Cody Demers, College of Southern Idaho, 210. 2, Jet McCoy, Southwestern Oklahoma State University 120. 3/4, Jarrod Senior, Wharton County Junior College, and Barry Kriekemeier, University of Wyoming, 100.
Women 1, Jill Childers, Tarleton State University, 165. 2, Sunnie Fish, University of Wyoming, 155. 3, Tiffany Wagner, Western Montana College, 95. 4, Mandy Sproul, Cochise Community College, 80.
STEER WRESTLING (third round) 1, Luke Lancaster, West Hills College, 3.9. 2, Robert Kelly, Northeast Oklahoma A & M College, 4.1. 3, Stockton Graves, Northwest Oklahoma State University, 4.2. 4, Beau Franzen, Dawson Community College, 4.3. 5/6, Dallas Rasmussen, Western Montana College, and Andrew Brower, Idaho State University, 4.4. (total on three) 1/2, Dale Smith, Central Arizona College, and Thomas Miller, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 14.0. 3, Jonathan Ragatz, National American University, 14.1. 4/5, Justin Robb, Utah State University - Uintah, and Franzen, 14.9. 6, Bobby Harter, Tarleton State University, 16.0.
BAREBACK RIDING (third round) 1, Clint Evers, Fort Scott Community College, 80 points. 2/3, Josh Cole, Northeast Texas Community College, and Dustin Murray, Southwest Oklahoma State University, 76.5. 4, Jason Maddox, Tarleton State University, 72.0. 5/6, Monte Vawter, Northeastern Junior College, and Joshua Arnall, Murray State University, 71.5. (total on three) 1, Evers, 231.5. 2, Cole, 217.0. 3, Andy Bolich, Montana State University, 215.5. 4/5, Trevor LaValley, Western Texas College, and Murray, 215. 6, Nick Alderson, National American University, 7, Maddox, 208.5.
GOAT TYING (third round) 1, Suzanne Montero, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 6.7. 2, Josey Stubblefield, Hill College, 6.9. 3, Jennifer Heisman, Southwest Oklahoma State University, 7.0. 4, Lee Bingham, Weber State College, 7.1. 5-7. Jill Childers, Tarleton State University; Kelly Singleton, Sam Houston State Univerisyt; and Annie Boettcher, Colby County Community College, 7.2. (total on three) 1, Montero, 20.5. 2, Stubblefield, 21.6. 3, Blue Stone Ogilvie, University of Montana, 22.3. 4, Heisman, 22.8. 5, Kriston Looper, Hill College, 23.3. 6, Kriston Looper, Hill College, 23.3.
CALF ROPING (third round) 1, Houston Hutto, Western Texas College, 8.5. 2, Brady Brower, Idaho State University, 8.9. 3/4, Scott Kormos, Hill College, and Tyler Bronkhorst, Walla Walla Community College, 9.0. 5, Scott McCulloch, California State University - Fresno, 9.5. 6, Troy Murray, Cal Poly State University - San Luis Obispo, 10.2. (total on three) 1, Hutto, 27.1. 2, McCulloch, 30.7. 3, Kormos, 31.5. 4, Beau Franzen, Dawson County Community College, 32.4. 5, Bill Snure, Central Arizona College, 33.2. 6, Wil Cronchich, University of Tennessee - Martin, 33.4.
BREAKAWAY ROPING (third round) 1, Tibba Smith, Western Texas College, 2.1. 2-4; Michelle Alley, Tarleton State University; Jill McFadin, Southwest Texas Junior College; and Stacy Gaston, Garden City Community College, 2.5. 5, Melanie Martin, Cal Poly State University - San Luis Obispo, 2.6. 6/7, Jill Childers, Tarleton State University and Amy Ray, Sam Houston State University, 2.7. (total on three) 1, Kelly McGee, University of West Alabama, 9.4. 2/3, Tracey Currey, Montana State University, and Nora Hunt, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 9.8. 4, Rebecca Boothe, Cal Poly State University, 10.5. 5, Kini Wright, College of Southern Idaho, 10.9. 6, Patricia Alexander, University of Arizona, 13.6.
TEAM ROPING (third round) 1, Toby Sadler, Texas A & M University - Commerce and Rusty Barnett, Hill College, 5.6. 2, Benny Barnes Oklahoma State University and Justen Nokes, Southwest Oklahoma State University, 5.7. 3, Chad Smith, Tarleton State University and Shandon Stalls, Texas Tech University - Lubbock, 6.5. 4, Casey Kerstiens and Devin McGrath, National American University, 6.8. 5/6, Ted Williams and Adam Young, Idaho State University, and Hubert Jones and Ronnie Davis, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, 7.6. (total on three) 1, Josh Canant, Panhandle State University and Spud Pratt, Fort Hays State University, 23.6. 2, Trey Miller and Jason Thomas, West Texas A & M University, 25.6. 3, Landon Watkins and Justant Truman, Southwest Missouri State University, 25.9. 4, Kerstiens and McGrath, 26.4. 5, Jarrod Senior and Trey Cruz, Wharton County Community College, 30.9. 6, Bubba Strait and Jacob McCallister, Texas A & M University.
SADDLE BRONC RIDING (third round) 1, Jet McCoy, Southwest Oklahoma State University, 72.0. 2/3, Cody Demers, College of Southern Idaho and Jess Jones, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 71.5. 4, Bryce Miller, Casper Community College, 71.0. 5, Jeremy Meeks, Fort Scott Community College, 70.5. 6, John Robbins, Western Montana College, 69. total on three) 1, Cody Demers, College of Southern Idaho, 224. 2, Miler, 210. 3, Jerad McFarlane, Blue Mountain Community Collegee, 209.5. 4, Matt Elliott, Panhandle State University, 204.5. 5, Jones, 203.5. 6/7, Matthew Mangis, Miles City Community College, and McCoy, 199.
BARREL RACING (third round) 1, Janae Ward, Oklahoma State University, 13.81. 2, Julia Warner, Oklahoma State University, 13.92. 3, MacKenzie Wood, Southern Utah University, 13.94. 4, Holly Hayworth, Western Montana College, 14.02. 5, Jessica Whipp, University of Wyoming, 14.10. 6, Tiffany Wagner, Western Montana College, 14.18. (total on three) 1, Warner, 42.34. 2, Ward, 42.47. 3, Whipp, 42.66. 4, Wood, 42.81, 5, Gretchen BenBenek, Oklahoma State University, 14.37. 6, Stacey Harris, Kansas State University, 43.56.
BULL RIDING (third round) 1, Dustin Elliott, Chadron State College, 79.0. 2, Cameron Mulrony, University of Idaho, 74.0. 3, Spencer Slaughter, McNeece State University, 71. 4, Jay Bean, Treasure Valley Community College, 65. (total on threeonly one qualified) 1, Elliott, 211.5. (on two) 2, Trevor Williford, University of Tennessee - Martin, 147. 3, Matt Peak, Dodge City Community College, 142. 4, Michael Willingham, Western Texas College, 140.5. 5, Cory Melton, Hill College, 138.5. 6, Shawn Silcox, Utah Valley State College, 131.
