RAM Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo Results

Reprinted Courtesy Of PRCA

     A year ago at this time Cody Teel wasn’t at the Ram Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo, earning paychecks and being presented buckles. He was sitting home in Kountze, Texas, “under doctors’ orders to do nothing,” while recovering from a ruptured small intestine.
     “It was pretty boring,” Teel said. “They wouldn’t even let me lift anything until the middle of January, so I just kind of stayed around the house watching old NFR tapes.”
     This January is better. This January, Teel is getting to live out the most vivid day dreams he might have imagined in his couch riding days of a winter ago.
Teel placed in all three rounds at the Extraco Events Center Jan. 6-7 – he was the only bull rider to have three qualified rides – and easily won the average title with 239 points to earn $4,139.
     When he closed out his weekend with an 87-point ride good enough to share second place in Round 3, Teel was also assured of the year-end title in bull riding and the Texas Circuit’s overall Rookie of the Year Award.
     And that brings us back to the wretched way Teel started his 2011 season… and what might have been.
     Teel bought his card in September 2010, just three months after his 18th birthday, and was looking forward to a season-long battle with friend and fellow Texan Chandler Bownds for the PRCA Resistol Bull Riding Rookie of the Year Award.
     But while competing in a college rodeo for Sam Houston State in November 2010, Teel was struck in the stomach by the head of the bull he was riding, suffering a ruptured Duodenum – the first section of his small intestine.
     Teel required two surgeries, lost 18 pounds, and was sidelined for three months; he was off form for another month after that.
     “At the point when I got hurt, I’d already won two (PRCA) rodeos and I was riding the way I wanted to,” Teel said. “It all came to a standstill real quick. You can let it bother you or you can let it motivate you. What happened happened. There’s no changing that.
      “A lot of my buddies said, ‘If you had those lost months back you would have made the National Finals Rodeo,’ but if I had ridden well in August I might still have made it. You can ‘what if’ things to death. At the end of the year, I was happy with how it went. I learned a lot and had some good experiences. It’s all in God’s plan.”
Even with that interruption to his season, Teel managed to win at least a share of six regular-season PRCA rodeos, won the College National Finals Rodeo, finished second to Bownds in the rookie race and was 20th in the world standings.
     He added a bit of cachet to his season by winning the All American ProRodeo Finals in Waco last October, also in the Extraco Events Center.
“It is something to build on,” Teel said. “I’m pumped and ready to go.”
     Which is a good deal more than he could say last January.
     Teel was one of four contestants to sweep both the Ram TCFR and Texas Circuit Year-End championships, being joined by nine-time World Champion All-Around Cowboy Trevor Brazile, three-time World Champion Bareback Rider Will Lowe and reigning World Champion Tie-Down Roper Tuf Cooper.
     Brazile earned checks in all three roping events, a total of $4,478, to win the all-around in Waco and add to his $25,000 lead in the regular-season standings he held over Caleb Smidt at the start of the week.
     Lowe shared the Round 3 bareback riding win with Chris Harris to finish with 249 points, five ahead of Wes Stevenson, who won Rounds 1 and 2.
     Cooper placed in all three rounds of the tie-down roping – going 8.7, 8.0 and 7.8 – to edge his eldest brother, Clint Cooper, by two-tenths of a second, 24.5 to 24.7.
     The other champions in Waco were steer wrestler Logan Gledhill (14.5 seconds on three head), team ropers Luke Brown and Martin Lucero (24.5 seconds on three head), saddle bronc rider Jacobs Crawley (235 points on three head), steer roper Kim Ziegelgruber (36.9 seconds on three head) and barrel racer Shelley Morgan (48.80 seconds on three runs).

Ram Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo — Waco, Texas, Jan. 6-7
All-around cowboy: Trevor Brazile, $4,478, team roping, tie-down roping and steer roping.
Bareback riding
First round: 1. Wes Steven-son, 84 points on Carr Pro Rodeo’s Island Girl, $1,439; 2. (tie) Jared Smith and Will Lowe, 83, $900 each; 4. Win Ratliff, 80, $360.
Second round: 1. Wes Stevenson, 81 points on Rafter G Rodeo’s Assault, $1,439; 2. Will Lowe, 80, $1,079; 3. Evan Jayne, 78, $720; 4. (tie) Chris Harris and Winn Ratliff, 76, $180 each.
Third round: 1. (tie) Chris Harris on Carr Pro Rodeo’s Riverboat Annie, and Will Lowe, on Lancaster & Pickett’s Top Flight, 86 points, $1,259 each; 3. Matt Bright, 84, $720; 4. Winn Ratliff, 81, $360.
Average: 1. Will Lowe, 249 points on three head, $2,159; 2. Wes Stevenson, 244, $1,619; 3. Winn Ratliff, 237, $1,079; 4. Chris Harris, 236, $540.
Steer wrestling
First round: 1. Justin Blaine Davis, 4.1 seconds, $1,439; 2. Dru Melvin, 5.0, $1,079; 3. (tie) Zack Cobb and Logan Gledhill, 5.1, $540 each.
Second round: 1. Logan Gledhill, 4.4 seconds, $1,439; 2. Darrell Petry, 4.9, $1,079; 3. (tie) Zack Cobb and Clayton Hass, 5.1, $540 each.
Third round: 1. Monty Eakin, 4.2 seconds, $1,439; 2. (tie) Ben Goodman and Jack Hodges, 4.6, $900 each; 4. Zack Cobb, 4.7, $360.
Average: 1. Logan Gledhill, 14.5 seconds on three head, $2,159; 2. Zack Cobb, 14.9, $1,619; 3. Brent Lassetter, 22.8, $1,079; 4. Clayton Hass, 32.2, $540.
Team roping
First round: 1. Nathan McWhorter/Twister Cain, 5.0 seconds, $1,439 each; 2. Nick Rawlings/Kinney Harrell, 5.4, $1,079; 3. Justin Lovell/Tyler McKnight, 6.2, $720; 4. Jake Kropik/J.C. Williams, 6.5, $360.
Second round: 1. Caleb Mitchell/Justin Copp, 4.4 seconds, $1,439 each; 2. Tommy Edens/Justin Hendrick, 5.1, $1,079; 3. Luke Brown/Martin Lucero, 5.5, $720; 4. David Key/Ryan Motes, 5.8, $360.
Third round: 1. Trevor Brazile/Patrick Smith, 5.0 seconds, $1,439 each; 2. David Key/Ryan Motes, 5.1, $1,079; 3. Jake Kropik/J.C. Williams, 7.0, $720; 4. Justin Lovell/Tyler McKnight, 10.0, $360.
Average: 1. Luke Brown/Martin Lucero, 24.5 seconds on three head, $2,159 each; 2. Jake Kropik/J.C. Williams, 24.6, $1,619; 3. Nick Rawlings/Kinney Harrell, 26.0, $1,079; 4. Tommy Edens/Justin Hendrick, 34.4, $540.
Saddle bronc riding
First round: 1. Tol Cawley, 79 points on Carr Pro Rodeo’s Trail Dust, $1,439; 2. Cody Anthony, 77, $1,079; 3. Bradley Harter, 76, $720; 4. Jake Halverson, 75, $360.
Second round: 1. Jacobs Crawley, 80 points on Andrews Rodeo’s Magic Moment, $1,439; 2. Jake Halverson, 77, $1,079; 3. Cody Anthony, 76, $720; 4. Tol Cawley, 71, $360.
Third round: 1. Jacobs Crawley, 86 points on Stace Smith Pro Rodeos’ Big Jet, $1,439; 2. Bradley Harter, 85, $1,079; 3. Jake Halverson, 82, $720; 4. Travis Edwards, 78, $360.
Average: 1. Jacobs Crawley, 236 points on three head, $2,159; 2. Jake Halverson, 235, $1,619; 3. Bradley Harter, 230, $1,079; 4. Cody Anthony, 227, $540.
Tie-down roping
First round: 1. E.J. Roberts, 8.6, $1,439; 2. Tuf Cooper, 8.7, $1,079; 3. Trevor Brazile, 8.9, $720; 4. Justin Maass, 9.3, $360.
Second round: 1. Cimarron Boardman, 7.5 seconds, $1,439; 2. Clint Cooper, 7.7, $1,079; 3. Tuf Cooper, 8.0, $720; 4. E.J. Roberts, 8.5, $360.
Third round: 1. (tie) Sterling Smith and Trevor Brazile, 7.5 seconds, $1,259 each; 3. Clint Cooper, 7.6, $720; 4. Tuf Cooper, 7.8, $360.
Average: 1. Tuf Cooper, 24.5 seconds on three head, $2,159; 2. Clint Cooper, 24.7, $1,619; 3. E.J. Roberts, 26.3, $1,079; 4. Trevor Brazile, 26.8, $540.

Barrel racing
First round: 1. Jana Bean, 16.23 seconds, $1,439; 2. Robyn Herring, 16.33, $1,079; 3. Markay Carmeans, 16.35, $720; 4. Kenna Squires, 16.36, $360.
Second round: 1. (tie) Annesa Self and Kenna Squires, 16.20 seconds, $1,259 each; 3. Shelley Morgan, 16.29, $720; 4. Lee Ann Rust, 16.34, $360.
Third round: 1. Shelley Morgan, 16.12 seconds, $1,439; 2. Robyn Herring, 16.16, $1,079; 3. Callie Chamberlain, 16.31, $720; 4. Brittany Pozzi, 16.38, $360.
Average: 1. Shelley Morgan, 48.80 seconds on three runs, $2,159; 2. Robyn Herring, 48.87, $1,619; 3. Lee Ann Rust, 49.20, $1,079; 4. Callie Chamberlain, 49.32, $540.
Steer roping
First round: 1. Trevor Brazile, 10.1 seconds, $520; 2. J. Tom Fisher, 10.6, $390; 3. Lawson Plemons, 11.5, $260; 4. Landon McClaugherty, 11.9, $130.
Second round: 1. Lawson Plemons, 9.5 seconds, $520; 2. Vin Fisher Jr., 9.7, $390; 3. Kim Ziegelgruber, 12.6, $260; 4. Bryce Davis, 12.9, $130.
Third round: 1. J. Tom Fisher, 9.8 seconds, $520; 2. Scott Snedecor, 10.0, $390; 3. Vin Fisher Jr., 10.9, $260; 4. Bryce Davis, 11.3, $130.
Average: 1. Kim Ziegelgruber, 36.9 seconds on three head, $781; 2. Landon McClaugherty, 40.7, $586; 3. Paul Patton, 40.9, $390; 4. J. Tom Fisher, 20.4 on two head, $195.
Bull riding
First round: 1. Ryan Shanklin, 83 points on Stace Smith Pro Rodeos’ Monkey Moves, $1,439; 2. Trey Benton III, 81, $1,079; 3. Cody Rostockyj, 79, $720; 4. Cody Teel, 76, $360.
Second round: 1. Luke Haught, 81 points on Andrews Rodeo’s Floyd, $1,439; 2. Chandler Bownds, 79, $1,079; 3. Cody Teel, 76, $720; 4. Dalton Votaw, 72, $360.
Third round: 1. Cody Rostockyj, 89 points on Andrews Rodeo’s Outlaw, $1,439; 2. (tie) Cody Teel and Ryan Shanklin, 87, $900 each; 4. Trey Benton III, 86, $360.
Average: 1. Cody Teel, 239 points on three head, $2,159; 2. Ryan Shanklin, 170 on two head, $1,619; 3. Cody Rostockyj, 168, $1,079; 4. Trey Benton III, 167, $540.