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Rodeo

Rodeo club ropes success at first spring competition

Janelle Kesterson

The Chadron State College’s rodeo club’s next competition in the region will be March 28-30 at Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington, and will be an opportunity for the competitors to carry over the success they had this past week at the Gillette College Rodeo held in Gillette, Wyo.

Chadron State had two event winners this past weekend: Amy Tierney, senior of Oral, S.D., in the goat tying, and Collin Chytka, senior of Broken Bow, in the steer wrestling.

Tierney was sixth in the first go-round of the goat tying in 8.4 seconds, and then was timed in 7.3 seconds, the fastest of the rodeo, in the finals on Sunday to win the event for the Eagles.

Chytka wrestled his steer in 4.5 seconds in the first go-round and flipped his second steer in 4.3 seconds to win the event.

Chytka also did well Sunday in the bareback riding. He won the championship go-round with a score of 73 points. However, his first go-round score of 61 points was too low to place him among the top six in the averages.

Nonetheless, Chytka was the runner-up in the rodeo’s all-around cowboy standings.

Teammate Russ Hipke, senior of Stuart, tied Chytka for top honors in the first go-round of steer wrestling in 4.5 seconds, but didn’t wrestle his second steer fast enough to place.

Several other CSC entries competed well including Shaylee Hance, junior of Circle, Mont., who placed second in goat tying with a time of 8.3 seconds in the first go-round and a time of 7.7 seconds and a second place finish in the finals to earn second in the averages.

Another CSC goat-tier, Abby Frye, sophomore of Crawfordville, Ind., won the first go-round in 8.1 seconds, but her second run of 11.3 seconds knocked her out of the averages.

However, the first go-round time marked a milestone for Frye as is was the first time she has earned a paycheck at a college rodeo.

One other CSC competitor that placed in the averages was Shelby Winchell, senior of Scottsbluff, finished breakaway roping in 3.6 seconds in the first go-round and 3.8 seconds in the finals to land herself fourth in the averages.