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Posted: Dec 09, 2022 7:27 AMUpdated: Dec 09, 2022 7:27 AM
NFR Round 8 Roundup
Tom Davis
ROUND 8 – DECEMBER 8, 2022
| 2022 WNFR | Thomas & Mack Arena | Thu | Dec 8, 2022 | Las Vegas |
| BAREBACK RIDING | ||||
| Contestant | Home Town | Score | Stock | Notes |
| Leighton Berry | Weatherford, TX | 88.0 | Knot So Foxy | Horse circles to the right. Long full spur strokes |
| Cole Franks | Clarendon, TX | 87.0 | Girl Crush | Great ride for Cole |
| R.C. Landingham | Hat Creek, CA | 87.0 | Preifert’s Pretty Woman | RC is having a great WNFR. He is 8/8 and sitting in the top 5 of the average |
| Jesse Pope | Waverly, KS | 87.0 | Pejuta Haka | Jess is currently leading the average and the World standings. |
| Tanner Aus | Granite Falls, MN | 85.0 | Annual News | Hung up for a moment and went under the bucking horse. |
| Tilden Hooper | Carthage, TX | 83.0 | Full Baggage | Horse goes down the pen slightly left and he bucked off right at the buzzer but made the 8 |
| Tim O’Connell | Zwingle, IA | 82.5 | Tip Off | 8/8 |
| Caleb Bennett | Corvallis, MT | 82.5 | Virgil | Caleb had a great start on Virgil, Caleb makes the 8. |
| Ty Breuer | Mandan, ND | 80.5 | Angel Eyes | Horse bobs and weaves at the start then circles to the left |
| Kaycee Feild | Genola, UT | 77.0 | Deep Springs | Kaycee missed a few spur strokes |
| Cole Reiner | Buffalo, WY | 76.0 | Nutrena’s Bad Influence | Horse goes left tight to the chutes., |
| George Shadbolt | Merriman, NE | 71.0 | Record Rack’s Boomerang? | Garrett struggled to be in control during the ride |
| Clayton Biglow | Clements, CA | NS | Snap Chat | |
| Rocker Steiner | Weatherford, TX | NS | Masterhand Milling Ghost Town | Had to double-grab midway through. |
| Orin Larsen | Inglis, MB | |||
| STEER WRESTLING | ||||
| Contestant | Home Town | |||
| Will Lummus | Byhalia, MS | 3.6 | A FAST run for Will!!! He was right on the barrier! | |
| Tyler Waguespack | Gonzales, LA | 3.6 | We have a tie at the top | |
| Nick Guy | Sparta, WI | 4.1 | ||
| Kyle Irwin | Robertsdale, AL | 4.2 | Smooth run | |
| Dirk Tavenner | Rigby, ID | 4.2 | A great run for Drik who is working through an injury | |
| Stetson Jorgensen | Blackfoot, ID | 4.3 | Hard running steer quick on the ground | |
| Dakota Eldridge | Elko, NV | 4.3 | 33.60/7 | |
| JD Struxness | Milan, MN | 4.3 | Steer hung up a little on the throw | |
| Tim Sparing | Helena, MT | 4.5 | Great start | |
| Tristan Martin | Sulphur, LA | 4.6 | He was quick on the gound but just farther down the arena | |
| Hunter Cure | Holliday, TX | 4.8 | Hard running steer made it almost to the chutes | |
| Jesse Brown | Baker City, OR | 5.8 | ||
| Tanner Brunner | Ramona, KS | 5.8 | Steer stuck on the throw | |
| Ty Erickson | Helena, MT | 25.3 | (Broken barrier) Ty lost the momentum and had a hard time with the throw. | |
| Rowdy Parrott | Mamou, LA | NT | Steer set up and he missed it. | |
| TEAM ROPING | ||||
| Contestant | Score | Notes | ||
| Proctor / Medlin | 3.5 | CLEAN!!!!!! only two tenths off the arena record | ||
| Equsquiza / Graves | 3.8 | Great run 6 of 8 steers caught | ||
| Snow / Thorp | 3.9 | Clean run for Snow and Thorp. | ||
| Dees / Lord | 3.9 | Fast run and boy were they pumped | ||
| Driggers / Nogueira | 4.0 | Sitting first in the world. | ||
| Tryan / Corkill | 4.0 | A clean run will get them in the money tonight | ||
| Tomlinson / Smith | 4.1 | Leading the average. Only team good on 8 head. | ||
| Ward / Hawkins | 4.5 | Got to close to the corner and cost some time getting straight | ||
| Minor / Minor | 5.5 | Clean but got deep in the corner and it cost them time | ||
| Orman / Crites | 9.2 | |||
| Masters / Harrison | 19.0 | Broken barrier and slipped a leg | ||
| Aguilera / Torres | NT | Threw a lot of rope but it didn’t work | ||
| Wade / Yates | NT | Steer followed around funny missed heel shot | ||
| Richard / Buhler | NT | |||
| Smith / Long | NT | |||
| SADDLE BRONC | ||||
| Contestant | Home Town | Score | Stock | Notes |
| Stetson Wright | Milford, UT | 90.5 | Hell Boy | One heck of a nice ride by the Utah cowboy on a Utah horse |
| Zeke Thurston | Big Valley, AB | 89.0 | Pendleton Roundup’s Marquee | What a pretty saddle bronc ride. |
| Lefty Holman | Visalia, CA | 88.0 | Weekend Departure | Lefty is having an amazing WNFR!! He has placed in all but one round |
| Dawson Hay | wildwood, AB | 87.5 | Flirtacious | The Canadian stuck the landing after a great ride! |
| Chase Brooks | Deer Lodge, MT | 87.0 | Uptuck | The big horse circles around to the left. He is so long the everything looks flashy |
| Logan Hay | Wildwood, AB | 87.0 | Ragin’ Lunatic | Logan is riding with so much confidence, as he should be. |
| Ryder Wright | Beaver, UT | 86.5 | Lunatic From Hell | Great ride did spur over his reign on the world champion bucking horse. |
| Kade Bruno | Challis, ID | 85.5 | In The Lu | Nice matchup for Kade. |
| Sage Newman | Melstone, MT | 85.0 | Painted Commotion | Nice ride for Sage. |
| Layton Green | Millarville, AB | 84.5 | Kitty Whistle | Straight out of the chute and then circles around to the right |
| Kolby Wanchuk | Sherwood Park, AB | 83.5 | Kangaroo Lou | Horse cuts across the bucking chutes staying tight to them almost wiping him off on the fence |
| Kole Ashbacher | Arrowwood, AB | 79.5 | Resistol’s Downtown | Kole seems to be riding a little forward in his saddle. He did have a knee injury in round 6 |
| Tanner Butner | Daniel, WY | 76.5 | Alberta Moon | Alberta Moon had some nice jumps at the back end |
| Brody Cress | Hillsdale, WY | 69.0 | Diamond Fever | horse out of the chutes and down the left side of the pen |
| Wyatt Casper | Miami, TX | 69.0 | Charlie’s Angel | |
| TIE-DOWN ROPING | ||||
| Contestant | Home Town | Score | Notes | |
| Hunter Herrin | Apache, OK | 7.2 | Fast on the ground! His fastest time yet | |
| Zach Jongbloed | iowa, LA | 7.6 | Great run for the WNFR Rookie who is currently 78.3/8 | |
| Tuf Cooper | Decatur, TX | 7.8 | His 14th National Finals Rodeo | |
| Caleb Smidt | Bellville, TX | 8.0 | Caleb is the picture of consistency. He is sitting number 1 in the average and the world standings | |
| Cory Solomon | Prairie View, TX | 8.5 | Cory can make up a lot of time on the ground | |
| Shad Mayfield | Clovis, NM | 8.6 | lost a little time on the flank | |
| Tyler Milligan | Pawhuska, OK | 9.3 | Hard running calf covered a lot of ground | |
| Marty Yates | Stephenville, TX | 9.4 | ||
| John Douch | Huntsville, TX | 9.7 | Had to regathre lost time. | |
| Ty Harris | San Angelo, TX | 13.2 | ||
| Shane Hanchey | Sulphur, LA | 16.5 | Missed with first rope caught with the second. Stays good on 8. | |
| Haven Meged | Miles City, MT | 16.7 | Catch as catch can came into play tonight. He flanked and tied his calf after having to remove his rope. | |
| Macon Murphy | Keatchie, LA | 17.6 | Missed with first loop, caught with the second | |
| Kincade Henry | Mount Pleasant, TX | NT | Hard running calf. Missed and not packing a second loop | |
| Riley Webb | Denton, TX | NT | Missed with first loop. Packing a second, caught but didn’t make the time limit | |
| BARREL RACING | ||||
| Contestant | Home Town | Score | Notes | |
| Leslie Smalygo | Skiatook, OK | 13.41 | Fastest time of the whole 2022 WNFR to start the night | |
| Emily Beisel | Weatherford, OK | 13.43 | FAST run | |
| Lisa Lockhart | Oelrichs, SD | 13.49 | $17,000 run | |
| Hailey Kinsel | Cotulla, TX | 13.54 | wide on 1st barrel | |
| Kassie Mowry | Dublin, TX | 13.56 | Clean run | |
| Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi | Lampasas, TX | 13.58 | Sitting 5th in the round with 2 to go | |
| Jessica Routier | Buffalo, SD | 13.58 | Splitting 5/6 | |
| Jordon Briggs | Tolar, TX | 13.59 | Clean run | |
| Stevi Hillman | Granbury, TX | 13.60 | Tonight is her fastest run yet | |
| Shelley Morgan | Eustace, TX | 13.65 | Clean run | |
| Bayleigh Choate | Fort Worth, TX | 13.67 | Clean run | |
| Margo Crowther | North Fort Myers, FL | 18.54 | 5 second penalty, hit third barrel | |
| Sissy Winn | Chapman Ranch, TX | 18.71 | 5 second penalty, hit third barrel | |
| Dona Rule | Minco, OK | 18.85 | 5 second penalty, hit third barrel | |
| Wenda Johnson | Pawhuska, OK | 18.89 | 5 second penalty, hit third barrel | |
| BULL RIDING | ||||
| Contestant | Home Town | Score | Stock | Notes |
| Ky Hamilton | Mackay, QL | 90.0 | Tool Box | Bull spins to the left and switches back to the right |
| Stetson Wright | Milford, UT | 90.0 | Black Magic | The Utah cowboy wins his second round of the night on Utah stock! |
| Trey Kimzey | Strong City, OK | 86.0 | Under The Influence | Great ride for Trey. He was pumped |
| Trey Holston | Fort Scott, KS | 86.0 | Blanco Dice | Little bull spun fast to the left. |
| Josh Frost | Randlett, UT | 85.5 | Preifert’s Time Bomb | Made the 8 second horn. That was all try on the right spinning bull |
| Creek Young | Rogersville, MO | NS | Pookie Holler | Was down quick |
| Garrett Smith | Rexburg, ID | NS | Tc | Has been trying to ride through some injuries |
| Cole Fischer | Jefferson City, MO | NS | Vitalix Exodus | He got down into the well and couldn’t get back out |
| Jared Parsonage | Maple Creek, SK | NS | Vitalix Center Fold | Bull spun to the right and he just got to far over his rope and went down |
| Maverick Potter | Waxahachie, TX | NS | Pickup Man | Bull kept switching direction and got maverick off his rope |
| Trevor Kastner | Roff, OK | NS | Midnight Rider | Over anticipated the bulls next move and then he was down |
| Jeff Askey | Athens, TX | NS | Big Hat | Bull spins to the right and drops his outside shoulder and sends Jeff off over it. |
| Tristen Hutchings | Monteview, ID | NS | Jag Metals Grand Theft | Bull was not a typical spinner and his moves got the best of Tristan |
| Lukasey Morris | Union City, OK | – | Arctic Assassin | Concussion protocol |
| JR Stratford | Byers, KS | – | ||
| Reid Oftedahl | Raymond, MN | – | ||
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