All-around cowboy honors go to McMillan

OTHELLO —An Odessa-Soap Lake area cowboy took home all-around honors from the Othello PRCA rodeo Friday and Saturday, Sept. 13 and 14.

Caleb McMillan took home $998 after competing in bull riding, tie-down roping and steer wrestling.

McMillan was fifth in steer wrestling with a time of 6.3 seconds, good enough for an $817 takehome.

He was also eighth in tie-down roping, completing the task in 12.6 seconds and taking home $181.

He also competed in bull riding, but did not get a score.

McMillan was also one of the pickup men, when he wasn’t competing.

Here are the official results of the two-day rodeo:

Bareback riding: 1. (tie) Caleb Bennett, on Big Bend Rodeo’s Burnt River, and Clay Jorgenson, on Big Bend Rodeo’s No. 826, 82 points, $2,361 each; 3. Richmond Champion, 80.5, $1,515; 4. (tie) Colton Clemens and Tristan Hansen, 77, $802 each; 6. Taylor Broussard, 76, $446; 7. Dylan Riggins, 75, $356; 8. Bodee Lammers, 74, $267.

Steer wrestling: 1. Jacob Stacy, 3.8 seconds, $1,708; 2. Cody Devers, 4.6, $1,485; 3. Cody Cabral, 5.2, $1,262; 4. Scott Guenthner, 5.7, $1,040; 5. Caleb McMillan, 6.3, $817; 6. Gus McGinn, 7.2, $594; 7. Cord Gomes, 8.1, $371; 8. Newt Novich, 8.8, $149.

Team roping: 1. Jake Clay/Trey Yates, 4.3 seconds, $2,201 each; 2. Coy Rahlmann/Ross Ashford, 4.7, $1,942; 3. Brayden Schmidt/Bucky Campbell, 4.8, $1,683; 4. Riley Minor/Brady Minor, 5.1, $1,424; 5. Jack Fischer/Phoenix Everano, 5.2, $1,295; 6. Derrick Begay/Colter Todd, 5.6, $1,165; 7. Jeff Flenniken/Jake Minor, 5.9, $1,036; 8. Cody Snow/Hunter Koch, 10.1, $906; 9. Tanner Patzke/Quade Patzke, 11.0, $777; 10. Dale Benevides/Shane Crossley, 11.3, $518.

Saddle bronc riding: 1. Ryder Sanford, 85.5 points on Flying 5 Rodeo’s Spring Tunes, $2,876; 2. Weston Patterson, 83, $2,205; 3. Tim Ditrich, 77, $1,630; 4. Roman Reyes, 76.5, $1,055; 5. Ryan Verling, 75, $671; 6. Nick Joyce, 73, $479; 7. Joe Harper, 67, $384; 8. Charlie Barker, 66, $288.

Tie-down roping: 1. Paden Bray, 9.2 seconds, $2,086; 2. Chad Finley, 9.3, $1,814; 3. Kyle Sloan, 10.2, $1,542; 4. Kass Kayser, 10.7, $1,270; 5. (tie) Jason Andersen and Sam Mundell, 11.9, $862 each; 7. Brad Goodrich, 12.2, $454; 8. Caleb McMillan, 12.6, $181.

Barrel racing: 1. Lisa Lockhart, 17.26 seconds, $1,893; 2. LaTricia Duke, 17.46, $1,623; 3. Tayla Moeykens, 17.47, $1,352; 4. Summer Kosel, 17.49, $1,172; 5. Megan McLeod-Sprague, 17.52, $901; 6. Makenna Shook, 17.53, $721; 7. Jackie Lynch, 17.70, $541; 8. Lacy Diefenbach, 17.76, $361; 9. Britni Carlson, 17.92, $270; 10. Cheyenne Allan, 17.99, $180.

Bull riding: 1. T.J. Gray, 84 points on Flying 5 Rodeo’s Breakdown, $2,651; 2. Tyler Bingham, 70, $2,032; no other qualified rides.

Overall, $80,644 was paid out in prize money.

The rodeo stock contractor was Big Bend Rodeo, with Aces Wild Pro Rodeo and Flying 5 Rodeo participating as subcontractors.