SPORTS
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
East Oregonian
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ROUGHSTOCK: Cress wins saddle bronc in Round-Up debut
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much it means to win in this
arena.
“Indescribable,” he said.
“It never gets old winning
this. This is so cool. This has
always been the rodeo I want
to win again. It’s starting
to kind of come down to
the end of my career here
and it’s getting a little more
emotional.”
With age but mostly
injury playing a factor in
Peebles’ year, he didn’t start
riding until the end of spring
and he didn’t start qualifying
until July. He describes it as
one of the worst years in his
career.
“I was getting pretty
down about it but this dang
sure lifted my chin right up,”
Peebles said.
Winning at the Round-Up
takes luck, skill, and for
Peebles some home-state
support.
“It’s pretty neat to win this
in my home state,” he said.
“It’s a dang near a backyard
rodeo for me. I know quite
a few people in them stands
and it’s a pretty good honor
to win the Pendleton rodeo in
front of every body.”
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Bareback riding
First round: 1. Jake Vold, 85 points on
Wayne Vold Rodeo’s Dancing Queen,
$6,053; 2. David Peebles, 84, $4,641;
3. Shane O’Connell, 83, $3,430; 4. Orin
Larsen, 82.5, $2,220; 5. J.R. Vezain, 81.5,
$1,412; 6. Tim O’Connell, 80.5, $1,009; 7.
(tie) Caleb Bennett and Justin Miller, 80,
$706 each. Finals: 1. Steven Peebles, 89.5
points on Wayne Vold Rodeo’s Mucho Dine-
ro, $1,650; 2. Orin Larsen, 83.5, $1,250; 3.
Devan Reilly, 83, $900; 4. J.R. Vezain, 82.5,
$600; 5. Jake Vold, 82, $350; 6. Shane
O’Connell, 81, $250. Average: 1. Steven
Peebles, 168.5 points on two head, $6,053;
2. Jake Vold, 167, $4,641; 3. Orin Larsen,
166, $3,430; 4. (tie) J.R. Vezain and Shane
O’Connell, 164, $1,816 each; 6. David Pee-
bles, 163.5, $1,009; 7. Devan Reilly, 162,
$807; 8. (tie) Ty Breuer and Clayton Biglow,
160, $303 each.
SADDLE BRONC
The Pendleton Round-Up
and Cheyenne Frontier Days
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Brody Cress, of Hillsdale, Wyoming, rode Stampede
Warrior Saturday at the Pendleton Round-Up for a
score of 85 and a three-day total of 168 to win the sad-
dle bronc event.
are widely known in the
rodeo world as being two of
the biggest and best-paying
rodeos on the circuit.
And now in 2017, bronc
rider Brody Cress has walked
away from each place as the
winner. The 21-year-old from
Hillsdale, Wyoming, won the
107th Pendleton Round-Up
on Saturday afternoon with
168 points on two rides,
edging out CoBurn Brad-
shaw who had 167.5 points,
to earn the victory lap in his
very first trip to Pendleton.
Cress matched up with
Stampede Warrior from the
Calgary Stampede pen and
scored 85 points to earn the
victory. Coincidentally, Cress
rode the same horse just last
week at the Washington State
Fair Pro Rodeo in Puyallup,
Washington for 89 points
and a second place finish, so
he felt confident going into
Saturday’s ride.
“Stampede Warrior, that’s
my favorite horse of all time
... I was very excited to have
her again,” an excited Cress
said afterwards. “You feel
more comfortable, but with
those great horses you never
know what they’re going to
do. She was a little harder to
ride today than in Puyallup,
she had a few more moves
but I just stayed focused.”
A win at the Round-Up
is just another addition to
Ruger Piva, of Challis, Idaho, rides Perculator on Satur-
day at the Pendleton Round-Up to win the bull riding
championship.
what has been a career-year
for Cress. Last season, Cress
finished 98th in the world
standings with just over
$5,000 in earnings, and this
year he currently sits inside
the top 10 and is heading
towards his first trip to the
NFR with more than $90,000
in earnings this season.
Between placing in the long
and short round as well as
the overall winner, Cress
left Pendleton with a $8,891
check.
And after winning Pend-
leton in his first trip, Cress
said he’ll be back for years
to come.
“There’s so much history
behind this rodeo. Having the
element of the grass, it makes
it really wild and western,”
he said. “And it’s awesome
to be able to win this.”
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Saddle bronc riding
First round: 1. Hardy Braden, 85 points
on Sankey Pro Rodeo & Robinson Bulls’
Sheridan Wyo’s Tango, $4,989; 2. Ryder
Wright, 84.5, $3,825; 3. Brody Cress, 83,
$2,827; 4. Sterling Crawley, 82.5, $1,829;
5. (tie) Dylan Henson and Isaac Diaz, 82,
$998 each; 7. (tie) Clay Elliott and CoBurn
Bradshaw, 81.5, $582 each. Finals: 1.
CoBurn Bradshaw, 86 points on Korkow
Rodeos’ Kitty Whistle, $1,650; 2. (tie) Clay
Elliott and Brody Cress, 85, $1,075 each;
4. Heith DeMoss, 84.5, $600; 5. (tie) Zeke
Thurston and Hardy Braden, 82, $300 each.
Average: 1. Brody Cress, 168 points on two
head, $4,989; 2. CoBurn Bradshaw, 167.5,
$3,825; 3. Hardy Braden, 167, $2,827; 4.
Clay Elliott, 166.5, $1,829; 5. Heith DeM-
oss, 164.5, $1,164; 6. Zeke Thurston, 162.5,
$831; 7. Bradley Harter, 160, $665; 8. Cort
Scheer, 159, $499.
BULL RIDING
It was a high scoring
afair for the bull riders in the
Round-Up finals. All of the
riders who stayed on their
bull for the full eight seconds
received scores above 82,
and three of those were a
86.5 — the best score of the
day.
Back-to-back rides from
Dakota Louis and Ty Wallace
were the first two to get the
Saturday high score from the
judges, but after each entered
with an 81 and 81.5, respec-
tively, they were by no means
comfortably in the lead.
The final rider to score
an 86.5 was Challis, Idaho,
native Ruger Piva and it was
just enough to bump him up
the leader board and earn
him the 2017 Round-Up bull
riding title.
“It’s a lot of luck I would
say more than anything,”
he said after his win. “I got
a little nervous when I saw
the bull I drew today, it sure
worked out for me.”
Although Piva has lived
and mostly competed in the
northwest, it was his first
trip to Pendleton. He was
competing with favorites
like hometown boy Cody
Ford of Hermiston and Joe
Frost of Randlett, Utah.
So when it was his turn
to climb atop Sankey Pro
Rodeo & Robinson Bulls’
Perculator, there were one
of two outcomes. The first,
was to stay calm and trust his
instincts and the other was
to get too excited and risk
messing up. Piva is glad he
didn’t do the latter.
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First round: 1. Joe Frost, 84.5 points on
Korkow Rodeos’ Fire Dog, $4,975; 2. Steve
Woolsey, 84, $3,814; 3. (tie) Ruger Piva, Nic
Lica, Chase Robbins, Riley Blankenship and
Elliot Jacoby, 82.5, $1,459 each; 8. Ty Wal-
lace, 81.5, $497. Finals: 1. (tie) Ruger Piva,
on Sankey Pro Rodeo & Robinson Bulls’
Perculator, Ty Wallace, on Burch Rodeo’s
Scarface, and Dakota Louis, on Wayne Vold
Rodeo’s Mish Mash, 86.5 points, $1,267
each; 4. Steve Woolsey, 84, $600; 5. Chase
Robbins, 83, $350; 6. Cody Ford, 82, $250.
Average: 1. Ruger Piva, 169 points on two
head, $4,975; 2. (tie) Steve Woolsey and Ty
Wallace, 168, $3,316 each; 4. Dakota Louis,
167.5, $1,824; 5. Chase Robbins, 165.5,
$1,161; 6. Cody Ford, 162, $829; 7. Joe
Frost, 84.5 on one head, $663; 8. (tie) Elliot
Jacoby, Nic Lica and Riley Blankenship,
82.5, $166 each.
TIMED EVENTS: Kimmie Wall wins second Round-Up barrel racing title
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$644; 5. Timmy Sparing, 6.1, $414; 6. Josh
Peek, 6.8, $230. Average: 1. Clayton Hass,
19.8 seconds on three head, $5,773; 2.
J.D. Struxness, 19.9, $5,020; 3. Cameron
Morman, 20.3, $4,267; 4. Levi Rudd, 20.9,
$3,514; 5. Timmy Sparing, 21.3, $2,761; 6.
Josh Peek, 21.9, $2,008; 7. Blaine Jones,
29.4, $1,255; 8. Colin Wolfe, 37.7, $502.
BARREL RACING
The final event of the
107th Pendleton Round-Up
had one of the most familiar
names in barrel racing.
Kimmie Wall had asserted
her dominance early in the
week, and entered the short
go with a 0.14 second lead
over the rest of the field. Wall
has always enjoyed making
the trip to Round-Up arena,
and in 2015, it paid off with
a championship. This year it
did the same but this time it
was just a little bit sweeter.
“We’ve had a few more
struggles this year,” Wall
said. “Foxy has not been as
healthy this year as she has
been in years past. So for
her to come back and win
any rodeo, but the Pendleton
Round-Up and make two
runs on the green mile. It just
shows how much heart she
has.”
Foxy, the nine-year-old
horse Wall raised and trained,
made her fourth appearance
in the finals. Wall and Foxy
were up against a fast group
of cowgirls. Eight entered
with sub-29 second times to
date. But whether it was final
jitters or a long week on the
green mile, only two riders
clocked times within the 28
second mark.
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Barrel Racing
First round: 1. Kimmie Wall, 28.54
seconds, $4,850; 2. Teri Bangart, 28.68,
$4,157; 3. Sydni Blanchard, 28.81, $3,464; 4.
Jackie Ganter, 28.91, $3,002; 5. (tie) Ericka
Nelson and Italy Sheehan, 28.95, $2,079
each; 7. Courtney Frazier, 28.96, $1,386; 8.
Jody Tucker, 28.97, $924; 9. (tie) Ari-Anna
Flynn and Nicole Laurence, 29.08, $577
each. Finals: 1. Kimmie Wall, 28.78 seconds,
$2,053; 2. Teri Bangart, 28.80, $1,540; 3.
Jackie Ganter, 28.93, $1,026; 4. Tobi Rich-
ardson, 29.02, $513. Average: 1. Kimmie
Wall, 57.32 seconds on two head, $4,850;
2. Teri Bangart, 57.48, $4,157; 3. (tie) Jackie
Ganter and Sydni Blanchard, 57.84, $3,233
each; 5. Ericka Nelson, 58.05, $2,310; 6. Tobi
Richardson, 58.11, $1,848; 7. Italy Sheehan,
58.18, $1,386; 8. Nicole Laurence, 58.25,
$924; 9. Cheyenne Allan, 58.51, $693; 10.
Jody Tucker, 63.25, $462.
TEAM ROPING
For most of the summer
rodeo season, cowboy Trevor
McCoin has been at home in
Terrebonne helping his wife
take care of newborn twin
babies.
But while he was home,
he kept his eye on the rodeo
circuit, especially in his event
in team roping, One day in
late summer, he sent a text
message to Melba, Idaho,
roper Steven Duby to ask if
Duby would need a partner
by the time the Round-Up
rolled around. And then
the last day of registration,
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Steven Duby of Fortuna, California, and Trevor McCoin
of Terrebonne win team roping with a 5.9-second time
Saturday at the Pendeton Round-Up.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Kimmie Wall and her horse work their way through
the barrel racing course on Saturday at the Pendleton
Round-Up. Their 28.78-second run and 57.32-second
aggregate time was enough to nail down the title.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Shane Hanchey, of Sulpher, Louisiana, turns in an
8.4-second run on Saturday at the Pendleton Round-Up
for a three-day total of 27.8 seconds to win calf roping.
McCoin received a call from
Duby telling him that they
would run the Round-Up
together.
“We’d roped at a couple
jackpot team roping (events)
but that’s it,” McCoin said
of the pairs’ prior experience
together.
The last-minute pairing
paid off for the both of them,
as they roped in a blazing
fast 5.9 seconds in the short
round on Saturday and an
overall time of 22.7 seconds
on three head to win the
107th Round-Up.
“It’s sure a treat to win,”
McCoin said. “I’ve always
wanted to win this since I
was a little kid.”
For Duby, he was nearly
speechless that the two of
them pulled off the victory,
earning a total of $7,833 for
the rodeo.
“I love it here, I love the
grass. I wish we could run
more here every year,” he
said. “I didn’t think we were
going to make it back (for
Saturday), then we didn’t
draw a very good steer,
thought it was going to go
different than it did. I still
can’t believe that it worked
out like that.”
Duby and McCoin were
the second team of the 12
total to run on Saturday, going
in with the second-slowest
time of 16.8 seconds on two
— 3.1 seconds behind first
place. The pair was happy
with their time on Saturday,
but didn’t think it would last
as the 10 remaining teams
featured a lot of talent.
“It was tough watching,
because a lot of my friends
were right there that went and
I wanted them to do good but
I wanted to win too,” Duby
said.
But they watched as team
after team struggled with
steers, from two headers not
able to make the initial catch
or heelers having trouble with
the back of the steer. The last
team to go was Jake Stanley
(Hermiston) and Brent Falon
(Yakima, Washington) who
needed a time faster than
nine seconds to win the title.
Stanley got the head
caught early, but the steer
slipped after the catch which
slowed down Falon’s ability
to rope, resulting in a 12.9
second time.
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Team roping
First round: 1. Clayton Hass/John
Robertson, 5.6 seconds, $4,294 each; 2.
Tyler Milligan/Shank Edwards, 5.7, $3,734;
3. Riley Minor/Brady Minor, 6.1, $3,174; 4.
Austin Stafford/Dayton Stafford, 6.2, $2,613;
5. Jesse Northrop/Kurtis Barry, 6.3, $2,053;
6. David Temple/Tee Jay Brown, 6.4, $1,493;
7. Justin Farber/Garrett Busby, 6.7, $933; 8.
(tie) Rhett Anderson/Brady Ramone, Bryce
Palmer/Bo Patzke and Logan Olson/Kyle
Lockett, 6.8, $124 each. Second round: 1.
Jason Stewart/Bucky Campbell, 5.4 seconds,
$4,294 each; 2. Blake Teixeira/Monty Joe
Petska, 5.5, $3,734; 3. Erich Rogers/Cory
Petska, 5.6, $3,174; 4. (tie) Chad Masters/
Travis Graves and Brandon Beers/Cesar de la
Cruz, 5.7, $2,333 each; 6. Jake Stanley/Brent
Falon, 5.8, $1,493; 7. Chris McKoen/Jason
Duby, 6.0, $933; 8. Shay Carroll/Nano Garza,
6.3, $373. Finals: 1. Steven Duby/Trevor
McCoin, 5.9 seconds, $1,443 each; 2. Jesse
Northrop/Kurtis Barry, 8.5, $1,194; 3. Chad
Masters/Travis Graves, 9.1, $945; 4. Brett
Sheehan/Jared Parke, 11.6, $697; 5. Riley Mi-
nor/Brady Minor, 12.8, $448; 6. Jake Stanley/
Brent Falon, 12.9, $249. Average: 1. Steven
Duby/Trevor McCoin, 22.7 seconds on three
head, $6,440 each; 2. Chad Masters/Travis
Graves, 23.3, $5,600; 3. Jesse Northrop/
Kurtis Barry, 23.7, $4,760; 4. (tie) Riley Minor/
Brady Minor and Jake Stanley/Brent Falon,
26.6, $3,500 each; 6. Brett Sheehan/Jared
Parke, 26.8, $2,240; 7. Corey Fitze/Adam
Fitze, 29.9, $1,400; 8. Dale Benevides/Buck
McCay, 31.4, $560.
CALF ROPING
After Shane Hanchey took
his victory lap for the first
time at Round-Up arena on
Saturday, his voice cracked
as he shared what winning
the calf roping championship
meant to him.
“It’s hard not to get a little
cracked up and emotional just
because it’s one of the rodeos
that I have really wanted to
win my whole career,” he
said. “The atmosphere, the
committee, the rodeo — it’s
just a great deal. I have been
fortunate enough to win a lot
of rodeos in my young career,
and I’m so excited I get to
add this Pendleton saddle to
the trophy room.”
Hanchey was the last man
up on Saturday, as he entered
with the best average, 19.4
seconds. By the time he got
Si, his 11-year-old horse, into
the box, Brad Goodrich and
Matt Shiozawa shared first
place. Their shared average
of 32.1 gave Hanchey 12.7
seconds to work with. He
only needed 8.4 of them to
seal the deal.
His work on the grass
infield was impressive, but
he wouldn’t tell you that.
“I really got to give [Si]
the credit — all I did was
rope the calf and get him
down and tie him,” Hanchey
said. “My horse, you know
he’s the best horse here. I
think it’s pretty obvious I
won it by however much. He
just makes stuff happen for
me.”
They had been riding
and roping in the Northwest
recently, and the change of
scenery from his southern
roots wasn’t doing him any
favors.
“The Northwest the last
few weeks hasn’t been that
great,” Hanchey said, “but
winning Pendleton will
trump that any day of the
week.”
The time from his 8.4 go
to the victory lap that was so
long his hand got tired from
pumping his hat, Hanchey is
more than pleased with how
the 2017 season has shaped
up.
“It’s probably been the
best start to finish of my
career,” he said.
Now, for the first time
since May, he gets to travel
back home for some of his
mom’s cooking and Loui-
siana hospitality — all of
which he will do as a first
time Pendleton Round-Up
Champion.
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Calf roping
First round: 1. J.C. Malone, 8.5 seconds,
$3,597; 2. Tuf Cooper, 8.7, $3,128; 3. Hunter
Herrin, 9.6, $2,659; 4. Shane Hanchey,
9.9, $2,190; 5. (tie) Chad Finley and Jake
Pratt, 10.3, $1,486 each; 7. Justin Smith,
10.6, $782; 8. Jordan Ketscher, 10.7, $313.
Second round: 1. Alwin Bouchard, 9.3
seconds, $3,597; 2. Shane Hanchey, 9.5,
$3,128; 3. Dakota Eldridge, 9.6, $2,659; 4.
Trevor Brazile, 9.7, $2,190; 5. Matt Shiozawa,
10.0, $1,720; 6. Jason Schaffer, 10.4, $1,251;
7. (tie) Taylor Santos and Brad Goodrich, 10.7,
$547 each. Finals: 1. Shane Hanchey, 8.4
seconds, $972; 2. Brad Goodrich, 9.1, $804;
3. Matt Shiozawa, 9.2, $637; 4. Morgan
Grant, 9.7, $469; 5. Roger Nonella, 10.7,
$302; 6. (tie) Taylor Santos and Jared Parke,
12.2, $84 each. Average: 1. Shane Hanchey,
27.8 seconds on three head, $5,396; 2. (tie)
Brad Goodrich and Matt Shiozawa, 32.1,
$4,340 each; 4. Morgan Grant, 34.4, $3,285;
5. Ace Slone, 35.6, $2,581; 6. Roger Nonella,
35.7, $1,877; 7. Jared Parke, 36.4, $1,173; 8.
Taylor Santos, 37.2, $469.
STEER ROPING
It was a tough week at the
Pendleton Round-Up for the
steer ropers.
Just nine cowboys were
able to score two qualified
times to make the finals on
Saturday, with four more
being added with the top
times on one head. The
final round on Saturday was
another tough round for the
cowboys, as just four of the
13 recorded a time.
When all was said and
done,
Will
Gasperson
(Decatur, Texas) came out
on top after winning the final
round with 15.8 seconds
and the average with 49.0
seconds on three to win the
rodeo.
For the day alone,
Gasperson earned $6,741
plus another $2,294 for
placing fourth in the first
round to bring his total earn-
ings for the week to more
than $9,000.
Trevor Brazile (Decatur,
Texas) and Shay Good
(Midland, Texas) were
set up well in the steer
roping, as Brazile came into
Saturday with an average
of 26.7 on two head and
the fastest time of the week
with 12.7 seconds in the
second round, while Good
was second in average with
27.1 seconds. They were the
final two competitors to go
on Saturday, needing a time
faster than 22.7 seconds for
Good and 22.3 seconds for
Brazile to win the title.
However Good failed to
catch his steer with the rope,
while Brazile roped it but
the steer stayed too close to
Brazile and his horse to be
able to trip it, resulting in no
times for both cowboys.
The only other cowboys
to record times on Saturday
were Todd Dickson (Madras)
scored 17.6 seconds to finish
second in the average with
54.3 seconds, Scott Stickley
(Whitesboro, Texas) had
20.6 seconds to finish third
in average with 60.0 and
Kim Ziegelgruber had 21.2
seconds to finish sixth in the
average with 34.0 on two
head.
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Steer Roping
First round: 1. Tuf Cooper, 13.1 seconds,
$3,769; 2. Shay Good, 13.8, $3,277; 3. Trev-
or Brazile, 14.0, $2,786; 4. Will Gasperson,
14.8, $2,294; 5. Tim Tillard, 15.4, $1,802; 6.
Dave Sedar, 15.6, $1,311; 7. Roger Branch,
15.8, $819; 8. Shorty Garten, 15.9, $328.
Second round: 1. Trevor Brazile, 12.7 sec-
onds, $3,769; 2. Kim Ziegelgruber, 12.8,
$3,277; 3. (tie) Jason Stewart and Quay
Howard, 13.1, $2,540 each; 5. Shay Good,
13.3, $1,802; 6. Cody Lee, 13.5, $1,311; 7.
Bill Benson, 14.5, $819; 8. Russell Cardoza,
16.2, $328. Finals: 1. Will Gasperson, 15.8
seconds, $1,088; 2. Todd Dickson, 17.6,
$900; 3. Scott Stickley, 20.6, $713; 4. Kim
Ziegelgruber, 21.2, $525; no other qualified
runs. Average: 1. Will Gasperson, 49.0 sec-
onds on three head, $5,653; 2. Todd Dickson,
54.3, $4,916; 3. Scott Stickley, 60.0, $4,178;
4. Trevor Brazile, 26.7 on two head, $3,441;
5. Shay Good, 27.1, $2,704; 6. Kim Ziegel-
gruber, 34.0, $1,966; 7. Chris Glover, 35.1,
$1,229; 8. Gabe Richardson, 38.5, $492.