Cowboys capture 1st in Wyoming

This  weekend the Chadron State rodeo team traveled to Torrington, Wyoming, and the men’s team rode away with their second consecutive team title.

The Chadron State men’s team now has 2,715 points, 25 more than Gillette College, which is enough to bump them into the leading spot in the Central Rocky Mountain Region with only three rodeos remaining in the season.

The team scored 465 points at Torrington. They failed to finish any cowboys in first place, but three cowboys earned a second place finish.

One of them, steer wrestler Lane Day, senior of Bartlett, earned second in both go-rounds with times of 6.1 and 5.6 which was enough to earn him runner-up honors in the average.

“I was pretty happy with how the steer wrestling went,” Day said. “I have been riding (teammate) Taz Olson’s good horse, Amiga, and she worked great making my job rather easy. Placing second is always a little bittersweet, but I’m grateful I was fortunate enough to place and help my team out.”

The other second place finishes came from Wyatt Clark, graduate student of Wellfleet, who competed in bareback riding with scores of 81 and 69 points; and Chasen Cole, freshman of Hermosa, South Dakota, who competed in the bull riding.

Cole tied for first place in the first go-round with a score of 73, but was thrown off in the second go-round. However, all of the other cowboys except Chance Engelbert, of Laramie County Community College, were thrown too, so Cole kept his place in the average.

CSC also had three cowboys that earned fifth place finishes. Prestyn Novak, freshman of Newell, South Dakota, in the tie-down roping; Nate McFadden, senior of Elsmere, in the bareback riding; and Jedd Rice, sophomore of Boise, Idaho, in the saddle bronc riding.

Jeff Cover, senior of Ashby, was sixth in the saddle bronc riding, and Clark finished seventh in the team roping.

For the women’s team, Amy Deichert, senior of Spearfish, South Dakota, placed in two events. She finished fourth in barrel racing and sixth in the goat tying. Abbie Frey, junior of Crawfordville, Indiana, finished fifth in goat tying and Kadi McFadden, junior of Elsmere, finished fifth in breakaway roping.

The next CSC rodeo action will take place at Colorado State University in Fort Collins,  April 10-12.