ProRodeo Sports News July 13, 2018

Tie-down roper Tyson Durfey prepares to compete at sunset during the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo on the Fourth of July. Riding into the sunset

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Multiple records fall during Christmas These are the runs cowboys – and the record books – remember. Over the course of Cowboy Christmas, several records fell or were tied at PRCA rodeos. Team ropers Dustin Egusquiza and Kory Koontz broke the rodeo record at the Oakley (Utah) Independence Day Rodeo with a time of 3.5 seconds July 6. The duo won the rodeo and each earned $3,946. Egusquiza and Koontz were the second team to break the rodeo record that day, as team ropers Jeff Flenniken/Jake Minor briefly held the best mark at 3.9 seconds before Egusquiza and Koontz’s run. “We just had a really good steer, and I got a good start and headed on him pretty fast,” Egusquiza said. “It just shaped up really fast. Kory heeled him as quick as possible. I’ve been 3.5 a few other times, but that’s the fastest I’ve ever been.” Before July 6, the Oakley City record in team roping was shared by three sets of team ropers at 4.1 seconds. Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira, and John Alley and Clark Adcock set the record in 2016. In 2017, Charly Crawford and Joseph Harrison tied the record. “Dustin got it on really fast and it worked good,” said Koontz, a 21-time qualifier for the Wrangler NFR. “That was more like an NFR time right there.” • Steer wrestler Will Lummus set the two-head average record at 7.0 seconds at the Rooftop Rodeo in Estes Park, Colo., and tied the rodeo record with a 3.2-second time in the second round while on K.C. Jones’ horse, Tebow. Kenny Coppini (2002) and Matt Reeves (2010) shared the previous record in the two-head average at 7.5 seconds. Lummus shares the Rooftop Rodeo 3.2-second record with John Lowry, who set the record in 1976, and Chad Hagan, who matched the time in 2002. “Honestly, I didn’t even know I did tie the record,” Lummus said after his

3.2-second run. “That’s the fastest I’ve ever been.” • Team ropers Tyler Wade and Tyler McKnight joined the record-breaking fray in Estes Park when they set the arena record at the Rooftop Rodeo. Wade and McKnight clocked a 4.0-second run July 10 to win the one- header and establish the record at the Rooftop Rodeo, which has been taking place since 1947. “It’s pretty awesome when you make a good run like that,” Wade said. “I don’t think you can go after one like that, I think it is just going to happen.” McKnight concurred. “Tyler told me our steer was good,” he said. “I tried to lead him pretty straight, so he had a good throw to throw fast, and he handled perfect and made it easy for me.” Wade and McKnight broke the record that was held by three sets of team ropers at 4.1 seconds. Brady Tryan and York Gill set the record in 2012, as did Paul David Tierney and Cody Doescher. Egusquiza and Clint Summers matched the record in 2016. • Rowdy Parrott, who was riding Tyler Pearson’s American Quarter Horse, Bobby, and had three-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier Kyle Irwin as his hazer, broke the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo steer wrestling record with a 3.4- second run July 4. “It was very exciting to know I had just broken the arena record,” Parrott said. “It’s the first arena record I have.” The Mamou, La., cowboy topped the previous record of 3.5 seconds that was set by Mike Fuller in 1986 and matched by Luke Branquinho (2002) and Shawn Greenfield (2016). • Also, at the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, team ropers Steven Duby/Evan Arnold tied the rodeo record with a 4.1-second run in the first round. Charly Crawford and Joseph Harrison set the St. Paul record of 4.1 seconds in 2017.

$22,417,673

MONEYWON BY PRCA COWBOYS SO FAR IN 2018

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