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Lauzon And Breckenridge Take
Home Trailers From WCRA Finals

By Steve Simons • Special To Ropers Sports News

WCRA 2011 Finals – #3.5 champions Bruce Lauritzen, left, and Flint Sweet, right.

The opening of Fall signaled the closing of another successful year of the West Coast Roping Association. Once again ropers and their families found their way to S Bar J Arena in Sanger, Calif. After all the preparations had been completed the 2011 finals were off to a wonderful start. Lynette and Toni Wooten took charge of the office and ran it beautifully. It’s amazing how these ladies can do so many different jobs and always smile. Cathy Birch and Audra Fagundes answered the call to duty as announcers and did a wonderful job running nearly 2400 teams. Accepting the challenge of flagging were Lee Legasey and Bill Butler. Thanks to all of these wonderful people for helping this roping run so smoothly.  Mike Owens was in charge of the environmental conditions and provided everyone a dust free week. Unfortunately he has informed us that he will not be able to accommodate us next year as he plans on being sick. A huge thanks goes out to Danny Schmidt for doing such a wonderful job as parking attendant and hall monitor.

 With nearly $60,000 in prizes up for grabs, you would imagine the competition to be fierce. Looking back it brings a smile to my face when I think of a friend of mine, Steve Obau, that was going to win one of the trailers. He was the point leader by 200 points going into high teams of the last pot on the last day. We were standing next to each other  as Trent Breckenridge came around the corner and roped a steer on his first hop. Heeling steers has never been Trent’s problem, but sometimes dallying has. After a few tense seconds and stretching ropes, Trent locked down on a leg and secured  a spot in the money. When the points were awarded Trent had passed up Steve in the high point standings and won the trailer.  The great part was that Steve was just as happy that Trent had won the trailer. It makes my job so rewarding when dealing with such great people. Congratulations to the Super #7 trailer winner, Jon Lauzon,  as well as Trent, who won the #3.5 incentive trailer. 

The awards this year were wonderful:  trailers by Circle J and the Trailer Specialists, saddles by Running P Saddlery, and buckles by Bob Berg. We are very fortunate to deal with these professionals and their design staff. They did an exceptional job. A special thanks goes to Duck and Monica Burgess for coordinating all of the wonderful awards. I have many more stories about the great people and ropers of WCRA but not enough space to tell them. This is wishing everyone all the best and I hope to see you next season.

 Results are as follows (payoffs are per team):

SEPTEMBER 15

55 & OVER: 3 for $30, 45 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Buster Berna and David Gill 7.07, $250.

Average: 1st. Mike Silviera and Buster Berna 26.99, $720. 2nd. Randal Shepherd and Jim Taber 28.29, $430. 3rd. Barbara Kenney and Orral Block 32.50, $290.

MIXED ROPING: 3 for $30, 77 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Fallon Avery and Cord Forzano 7.36, $260. 2nd. Barbara Kenney and Chris Smith 7.56, $180.

Average: 1st. Sandy Perez and Tom Hardin Sr. 23.43, $850. 2nd./3rd. (tie) Nicole Sanders and Scott Childers, 24.01, $524; and Brittany Dias and Frank Perez  24.01, $524. 4th. Nicole Sanders and Jason Sanders 24.39, $350. 5th. Karen Dias and Kevin Dias 24.65, $250.

#8 HDCP.: 4 for $40, 130 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Cody Cowden and Virgil Williams 6.15, $520. 2nd. Justin Wood and Tristan Luther 6.54, $310. 3rd. Bobby Blaswich and Jordan Wright 6.93, $210.

Average: 1st. Sandy Perez and Frank Perez 34.67, $1,770. 2nd. Bodi Dodds and David Gill 34.85, $1,470. 3rd. Cody Cowden and Chris Wooten 36.01, $1,000. 4th. Sandy Perez and David Gill 37.03, $760. 5th. Larry Carter and Andy Holcomb 37.32, $530. 6th. Scott Jones and Don McCaslin 37.74, $370.

SEPTEMBER 16

SUPER 6 TRAILER ROPING: 3 for $40, 377 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Buck Cardoza and Paul Devine 6.77, $500. 2nd. Howard Christensen and Tom Hardin Sr. 7.04, $400. 3rd. Cyle Hayhurst and Seth Mielke 7.48, $300. 4th. Robert Freeman and Seth Mielke 7.74, $200. 5th. Jon Lauzon and Erik Johnston 7.94, $100.

Average: 1st. Jon Lauzon and Erik Johnston 24.75, $2,800. 2nd. Jon Lauzon and Jared Bailey 24.97, $2,460. 3rd. Jerry Wooten and Summer Tex 25.15, $2,140. 4th. Randal Shepherd and Seth Keosheyan 25.36, $1,800. 5th. Jessica Cardoza and Clayton Cowden 25.87, $1,600. 6th. Cole Dodds and Frank Perez 27.01, $1,450. 7th. Jerry Wooten and Jeremiah Unfried 27.44, $1,250. 8th. Cody Yeary and Tristan Luther 27.84, $1,100. 9th. Jon Lauzon and Scott Childers 27.87, $950. 10th. Doug O’Bannon and Don McCaslin 27.94, $850. 11th. Stan Sanders and John Borba 28.10, $750. 12th. Brad Butler and Buster Berna 28.27, $650.

INCENTIVE #6 HDCP.: 3 for $30, 250 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Randal Shepherd and Alan Pettit 7.03, $500. 2nd. Jessica Cardoza and Ron Rogers 7.21, $400. 3rd. Adam Simmons and Jason Nearn 7.30, $300. 4th. Brad Butler and Drue Lauritzen 7.53, $150.

Average: 1st. Randal Shepherd and Alan Pettit 27.96, $1,550. 2nd. Cobie Dodds and Brett Dodds 28.02, $1,380. 3rd. Brad Butler and Drue Lauritzen 28.34, $1,160. 4th. Ashley Hagens and Jason Sanders 28.37, $960. 5th. Mike Machado and Jason Sanders 28.93, $890. 6th. Donald Ornellas and Dicky Tuson 29.01, $730. 7th. John Smith and Buster Berna 29.10, $650. 8th. Luke Cardoza and Kevin Dias 29.87, $490. 9th. Hank Brown and Charlie Hagens 29.99, $400.

ALL GIRL #8 HDCP.: 3 for $30, 59 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Sara Jay and Summer Tex 8.25, $200. 2nd. Ashley Hagens and Rikki Perezchica 9.53, $130.

Average: 1st. Nicole Burk and Summer Tex 26.03, $760. 2nd. Shelby Stansbury and Sara Jay 29.39, $570. 3rd. Karen Dias and Wendy Frazier 30.04, $380. 4th. Nicole Sanders and Sara Jay 32.27, $190.

SEPTEMBER 17

#5.5 ROPING: 3 for $30, 299 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Howard Christensen and Buster Berna 7.25, $600. 2nd. Cole Dodds and Seth Mielke 7.39, $500. 3rd. Brittany Dias and Luke Cardoza 7.52, $340. 4th. Nicole Sanders and Jared Bailey 7.77, $$170.

Average: 1st. Jack Batey and Beau Pereira 27.07, $1,950. 2nd. Chelsie James and Bob O’Brien 27.15, $1,700. 3rd. Sandy Perez and Ben Britten 27.36, $1,460. 4th. Ian Valdez and Charlie Hagens 27.50, $1,070. 5th. Mike Gipson and Luke Cardoza 27.88, $870. 6th. Debra Belich and Buster Berna 28.01, $780. 7th. Joey Pereira and Seth Mielke 28.26, $680. 8th. Troy Hyder and Tim Peltzer 28.32, $580. 9th. Cyle Hayhurst and Seth Mielke 28.57, $490. 10th. Mike McGhee and Taylor Ward 28.78, $290.

#7 HDCP.: 3 for $30, 227 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Buck Cardoza and Erik Johnston 5.48, $600. 2nd. Travis Pursley and Don McCaslin 5.66, $370. 3rd. Bodi Dodds and Cord Forzano 5.75, $260.

Average: 1st. Aaron Chavez and Randy Pennebaker 19.69, $1,860. 2nd. Chris Phillips and Seth Mielke 22.09, $1,570. 3rd. Orral Block and Jared Bailey 22.50, $1,200. 4th. Bodi Dodds and Buster Berna 22.86, $970. 5th. John Smith and David Gill 24.06, $820. 6th. Mario Bianchi and Mike Jay 24.23, $740. 7th. Flint Sweet and Tom Hardin Sr. 24.59, $400.

CENTURY #8 HDCP.: 3 for $30, 121 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Buster Berna and Tom Hardin Sr. 6.38, $390. 2nd. Mike Silviera and Ron Rogers 6.43, $260.

Average: 1st. Buster Berna and Jim Taber 21.94, $1,430. 2nd. Randal Shepherd and Virgil Williams 21.96, $950. 3rd. Bob Mattos and Ron Rogers 22.03, $700. 4th./5th. (tie) Buster Berna and Tom Hardin Sr. , 25.02, $464; and John Pereira and John Borba 25.02, $464.

SEPTEMBER 18

#4.5 ROPING: 3 for $30, 371 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Joey Pereira and Andrew Texiera 5.86, $500. 2nd. Danell Daniel and Jim Yarbrough 6.70, $400; 3rd. Cody Barnes and Jason Small 6.76, $300. 4th. Terry Summers and Nathan Smith 7.01, $200.

Average: 1st. Chase Hayhurst and Buster Berna 24.64, $2,100. 2nd. Mark Carreiro and Justin Wilkenson 26.94, $1,900. 3rd. Shelby Stansbury and Dusty Worsham 27.79, $1,700. 4th. Jane Peltzer and Tim Peltzer 28.80, $1,450. 5th. Brad Butler and Steve O’Bar 29.15, $1,250. 6th. Del Van Sickel and Steve O’Bar 29.62, $1,050. 7th. Randal Shepherd and Trent Breckenridge 32.05, $900. 8th. Trent Woodard and Pat Wright, 32.53, $700. 9th. Tony Perry and Randy Pennebaker 32.66, $600. 10th. Robert Litton and Justin Farr 34.08, $500. 11th. Charles Allen and Chris Hansen 34.24, $400. 12th. Ashley Hagens and Les Wideman 34.61, $300.

#3.5 ROPING: 3 for $30, 273 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Brad Butler and Troy Galloway 5.92, $400. 2nd. Jon Lauzon and Trent Breckenridge 7.01, $300. 3rd. Mike McGhee and Jason Small 7.52, $200.

Average: 1st. Flint Sweet and Brian Ellison 27.69, $1,900. 2nd./3rd. (tie) Robert Freeman and Arnold Caldeira/, 29.92, $1,524; and Donald Ornellas  and Drue Lauritzen, 29.92, $1,524. 4th. Charles Allen and Chris Hansen 33.44, $1,150. 5th. Mitch Brown and Trent Breckenridge 33.83, $1,000. 6th. Daryl Lewis and Dicky Tuson 38.37, $830. 7th. Bud Cole and Tom Brown 40.12, $700. 8th. Thelma Yeary and Turner Houston 43.10, $530. 9th. Orral Block and Pat Block 44.33, $400.

Duck Burgess (left) and Steve Simons (right) present a new horse trailer to Trent Breckenridge (with his family) at the 2011 WCRA Finals.

Steve Simons of WCRA (right) presents a new horse trailer to Jon Lauzon (with his family) at the 2011 WCRA Finals.