CSC cowboys win team title again; take regional lead

The latest championship was at the Eastern Wyoming College rodeo in Torrington. While their margin of victory wasn’t as large as it was the previous weekend at the Gillette College rodeo, it allowed the CSC cowboys to take the regional lead for the season.

Chadron State scored 465 points at Torrington, while Casper College was second with 435, the University of Wyoming third with 390 and Gillette fourth with 375.

The Chadron State team now has 2,715 points for the season, 25 more than Gillette. Casper is third with 2,575 and Wyoming is fourth with 2,495. The top two teams at the end of the season advance to the College National Finals Rodeo in June.

“We’ve done really well at the first two rodeos this spring,” CSC rodeo coach Dustin Luper noted. “But the competition is so close. There’s still got a long ways to go.”

Three rodeos remain on the schedule.

At least one Chadron State entry placed among the top six in eight of the nine events at the EWC rodeo. The exception was team roping, and a CSC cowboy, Wyatt Clark, was a member of the duo that finished seventh in it.

CSC didn’t have any event winners, but three cowboys earned seconds at the rodeo in Torrington.

One of them was Lane Day of Bartlett, Neb., in steer wrestling. He was second in both go-rounds with times of 6.1 and 5.6 seconds to secure the runner-up honors. Last week at the Gillette rodeo, Day won the tie down roping.

The other seconds went to Clark, whose home is at Wellfleet, Neb., in bareback riding with scores of 81 and 69 points and Chasen Cole of Hermosa, S.D., in bull riding. Clark’s first score tied for top honors in the go-round.

Cole also shared first place in the opening go-round of bull riding with 73 points. He was thrown off by his second bull, but so were all the other finalists except Chance Engelbert of Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne.

Three Chadron State cowboys placed fifth in events. They are Prestyn Novak of Newell, S.D., tie down roping; Nate McFadden of Elsmere, Neb., bareback riding; and Jedd Rice of Boise, Idaho, saddle bronc riding. Jeff Cover of Ashby was sixth in the latter event.

CSC senior Amy Deichert of Spearfish, S.D., placed in two events. She was fourth in barrel racing and sixth in goat tying. Abbie Frey of Crawfordville, Ind., finished fifth in goat tying and Kaci McFadden of Elsmere was fifth in breakaway roping.

The next rodeo in the region will be at Colorado State in Fort Collins April 10-12.

 

—Con Marshall