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Rodeo

Rodeo team lopes in to CSU

Spike Jordan

It’s been two weeks since the Gillete Rodeo, but the Eagle Rodeo Team has had no time to relax. The team has been practicing and will be hitting the road to compete in their second spring rodeo this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Fort Collins, Colo.

With four rodeos left in the spring season,  the Women’s team looks optimistic at fourth and 1000 points in the Central Rocky Mountain Region.

Rebeka Bodine, sophomore of Bennett, Colo., races out into the barrel event in a rodeo last season. — Photo by Kinley Q. Nichols
Rebeka Bodine, sophomore of Bennett, Colo., races out into the barrel event in a rodeo last season. — Photo by Kinley Q. Nichols

However, the men’s team, especially the rough-stock cowboys, are going to have to put in some good rides at the Colorado State University rodeo in order  to get themselves out of their eighth place slot.

Jace Blackwell, junior of Rapid City, S.D., is seventh in the region in sadle bronc riding, with 180 points, and Colton Blanchard, junior of Sulphur, La., also occupies a number seven spot in bareback riding with 320 points.

For the men’s timed events, 3 CSC cowboys are ranked in Tie Down roping.  Mitch McAddow, senior of Littleton, Co. is ranked third with 285 points; Lane Day, sophomore of Bartlett, is eighth with 160 points; and Kourt Starr, of Dupre, S.D., is eleventh with 120 points.  Russell Hipke, junior of Stuart, is tied in Steer Wrestling with Tyler Thorson of Eastern Wyoming Junior College.  Both cowboys occupy the fourteen slot with 110 points.

Be on the lookout for Team roper’s Clinton Lambrecht, senior of Wood River, and Derek Powers, freshman of Arthur. They are ranked twelfth with a hundred points each.