Mancos Excessive Faculty senior Rhiley Morgan-Montoya, proven in April together with her household, indicators a letter of intent to compete for the Cisco School Wranglers rodeo staff in fall. She’s going to compete within the goat tying occasion on the nationwide highschool competitors in Wyoming. (Courtesy photograph)
Ignacio’s Bodie Hine and accomplice advance in staff roping occasion
Apparently able to journey and cord on the subsequent stage for Lamar Neighborhood School, Ignacio’s Bodie Hine shall be taking the scenic route out to campus in Prowers County later this summer season, needing to first make a cease in Gillette, Wyoming.
Yearnin’ to be returnin’ to the Nationwide Excessive Faculty Finals Rodeo, Hine and accomplice Brayden Fillmore of Penrose shall be within the staff roping combine on the 2021-22 season’s supreme spectacle, scheduled to run July 17-23 on the CAM-PLEX Occasion Middle.
Succeeding on two of three makes an attempt on the latest Colorado State Excessive Faculty Rodeo Affiliation Finals (Might 26-30 in Craig) and inserting third, the duo upped their season factors whole to a second-place 101, simply forward of Kersey-based, state-winning twin brothers Rowdy and Roan Weil, who racked up 99.5.
Additionally requalifying for the NHSFR was breakaway roper Teryn McWhirter of Ignacio. Her third-place time of 28.750 seconds on three head on the Moffat County Fairgrounds upped her year-end factors to a State-best 85, seven greater than Yuma-reared Cassidy Evans – whose 12.400/3 figures in Craig received the typical (posting 22.570/3, Cassidy Shea of Olathe got here in second) – of Fort Provide, Oklahoma.
A non-qualifying sixth place in breakaway (60 factors), Hesperus’ Rhiley Morgan-Montoya greater than punched her ticket in goat tying by profitable each the typical (24.210/3) at state in addition to the factors title. And as future – or humor – would have it, her whole of 132 was pursued closest by nationals-bound sister Quincy, who totaled 119 after ending fifth within the common (27.630/3) in Craig.
Ignacio’s Bodie Hine competes throughout a 2019 meet in Arizona. Hine is heading to the Nationwide Excessive Faculty Finals Rodeo July 17-23 in Gillette, Wyoming. (Courtesy Katie Taylor)
Steer wrestler Caleb Lake of Bayfield earned his journey to Gillette by ending second in factors. He positioned third (44.080/3) on the MCFG and ended up with 113 factors in 2021-22 and trailed solely state runner-up Sam Gallagher (129) of Brighton.
4 Corners-region competitor Mitchell Story of Aztec received the CSHSRA finals saddle-bronc common with 148 factors (73-75-0) on two head and paced the ultimate factors standings with 128 in clinching a Nationals reberth. In a position to cowl one horse in Craig for a 53-point journey, Wyatt Bartel of Ignacio ranked a qualifying fourth in year-end factors with 29.5.
Barrel racer Hannah Belvin of Durango got here up in need of a nationals return. Putting tenth within the occasion common (57.926/3) at state, she ended up tallying 55 factors and tying Grand Junction’s Adalie Hansen for eleventh within the year-end standings, whereas Evans held off Colorado Springs’ Savannah Roberts, 112 to 110, within the race for first.
Belvin additionally ended up tying for seventeenth in pole bending, totaling 18 factors for the season.
Shut calls
Carson Miller of Kirtland, New Mexico, completed fifth in CSHSRA factors (29) for bull driving, with Ignacio’s Luke Mackey (28) sixth. Ignacio’s Kyle Rima completed sixth in rifle capturing, totaling 82.5 factors, and ninth (9 factors) in entice capturing. Nice View’s Cy Lanier ended up seventh in reined cow horse factors with 58.
Honorable mentions
Jori Polich, Cortez (eleventh, breakaway, 51 factors); Luke Mackey, Ignacio (twelfth, reined cow horse, 27, and T-Twenty sixth, staff roping, 30); Kourtney Schurman, Ignacio (thirteenth, breakaway, 46, and fifteenth, goat tying, 19); Quincy Morgan-Montoya, Hesperus (14th, breakaway, 42); Liesl Chenowith, Bayfield (fifteenth, barrel racing, 37); Springsky Chee, Cortez (fifteenth, pole bending, 23); Cy Lanier, Nice View (seventeenth, rifle capturing, 6); Ashley Anstead, Ignacio (twenty second barrel racing, 10.5); Teagan Taylor, Bayfield (twenty fifth, staff roping, 33).