Women’s rodeo team finishes second in Torrington

The Chadron State Women’s  Rodeo team came in second with 2105 points, just 210 points behind the first place team from Gillette, Wyo., at the Eastern Wyoming College Rodeo, Torrington, this weekend.  The Men’s Rodeo team came in seventh with 985 points.

There were six Chadron State College contestants who placed among the top four in the averages.

There was one CSC athlete to place first.

Shaylee Hance, junior of Circle, Mont., won the goat tying event. She placed third in the opening go-round in 7.3 seconds and won the championship go-round on Sunday in 7.0 seconds.

Also placing in the goat tying was runner-up Shelby Winchell, senior of Scottsbluff. She was fourth in the first go-round in 7.4 seconds and third in the second session in 7.3 seconds. Hance and Winchell are ranked 1-2, respectively, in the goat tying standing for this year with only three rodeos left in the regular season.

Amy Tierney, senior of Oral, S.D., completed her first run in the goat tying in 7.6 seconds, but took a no time on her second run. However, Tierney remains in strong contention for third place in the region’s goat tying standings for the year behind her two teammates.

Two other contestants that placed in the top four for CSC were barrel racer Katie Loughran, junior of Broken Bow, and steer wrestler Kelby Bond, junior of Avondale, Colo.

Loughran won the first go-round of the barrels in 15.65 seconds. She placed fifth during her second run the barrels in 16.14 seconds, and ended second in the averages.

Bond tied for seventh place with his first run in the steer wrestling in 10.0 seconds, but was second on Sunday in 6.8 seconds and second overall.

Another CSC steer wrestler, Russell Hipke, senior of Stuart, was seventh in the opening go-round in  9.1 seconds.  He completed his second run in 7.8 seconds to place third in both the go-round and the averages.

Amy Deichert, junior of Spearfish, S.D., rounded out the top six CSC finishers with a fourth place in the barrels with times of 15.80 and 16.16 seconds.  She was fourth on her first run and sixth in the finals go-round.

There were several other contestants to compete in the finals on Sunday after placing in the top 10 finishers in their events.

Next week the CSC Rodeo team rides away to the Colorado State University Rodeo at Fort Collins.