By Tracey Scott
Special To Ropers Sports News

The 2013 CHSRA State Finals are just around the corner. Bishop, Calif. will welcome contestants and their families on Sat., June 8, and the second annual CHSRA Scholarship Golf Tournament will be held Sun., June 9 at noon. The performances begin on Tues., June 11, and the short round finals will be Fri., June 14. The Top 5 in each district will compete in Bishop and the Top 4 in each event will qualify for the California rodeo team that will compete at the National High School Finals Rodeo to be held in Rock Springs, Wyo. on July 14-20.

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CHSRA District #3 All-Around Cowgirl Cheyanne Carpenter (l) and All-Around Cowboy Clayton Brum.

Listed below are the champions in each event for each high school district:

CHSRA Dist. #1

All-Around Cowboy and Cowgirl: Colton Campbell and Chelsey Bushnell.

Bareback Riding: Cody Ellis.

Bull Riding: Dalton Alvis.

Saddle Bronc: Quincy Crum.

Steer Wrestling: Sterling Humphry.

Tie Down Roping: Colton Campbell.

Boy’s Cutting: Colton Campbell.

Team Roping — Header: Sterling Humphry.

Team Roping — Heeler: Colton Campbell.

Barrel Racing: Keeley Vaughan.

Breakaway Roping: Chelsey Bushnell.

Pole Bending: Cara Hencraft.

Goat Tying: Courtney Wood.

Girl’s Cutting: Jesse Stratton.

CHSRA Dist. #2

All-Around Cowboy and Cowgirl: Russ Jackson and Gianna Cianfichi.

Bareback Riding: Nathaniel Lentz.

Bull Riding: J.J. Mullen and Nathaniel Lentz.

Saddle Bronc: David Wells.

Steer Wrestling: Kelly O’Day.

Tie Down Roping: Russ Jackson

Boy’s Cutting: Russ Jackson.

Team Roping — Header: Carson Parker.

Team Roping — Heeler: Rosie Emmerson.

Barrel Racing: Gianna Cianfichi.

Breakaway Roping: Olivia Armstrong.

Pole Bending: Cheyenne Emmerson.

Goat Tying: Rebecca Pa-chie.

Girl’s Cutting: Cierra Hubbard.

CHSRA Dist. #3

All-Around Cowboy and Cowgirl: Clayton Brum and Cheyanne Carpenter.

Bareback Riding: Clayton Biglow.

Bull Riding: Clayton Brum.

Saddle Bronc: Clayton Brum.

Steer Wrestling: Luke Pfister.

Tie Down Roping: Clayton Brum.

Boy’s Cutting: Clayton Biglow.

Team Roping — Header: Seth Adams.

Team Roping — Heeler: Wyatt Adams.

Barrel Racing: Coral Alberi.

Breakaway Roping: Katie Rice.

Pole Bending: Alex Carpenter.

Goat Tying: Katie Rice.

Girl’s Cutting: Cheyanne Carpenter.

CHSRA Dist. #4

All-Around Cowboy and Cowgirl: Cash Robinson and Taylor Hurley.

Bareback Riding: Tommy Ford

Bull Riding: Cash Robinson.

Saddle Bronc: Cash Robinson

Tie Down Roping: Justin Strickland.

Boy’s Cutting: Justin Strickland.

Team Roping — Header: Justin Strickland.

Team Roping — Heeler: Wyatt Naccarato.

Barrel Racing: Christina Roberts.

Breakaway Roping: Mikael Bernadette.

Pole Bending: Victoria Thorton.

Goat Tying: Taylor Hurley.

Girl’s Cutting: Taylor Hurley.

CHSRA Dist. #5

All-Around Cowboy and Cowgirl: Colton Farquer and Gianna Toso.

Bareback Riding: Alex Guzman.

Bull Riding: Wyatt Hammond.

Saddle Bronc: Nolan Brennan.

Steer Wrestling: Wade Grimshaw.

Tie Down Roping: Colton Farquer.

Team Roping — Header: Tanner Kent.

Team Roping — Heeler: Case Hirdes.

Barrel Racing: Gianna Toso.

Breakaway Roping: Blayne Weaver.

Pole Bending: Taylor Flaherty.

Goat Tying: Hannah Bergman.

Girl’s Cutting: Jesse Stratton.

CHSRA Dist. #6

All-Around Cowboy and Cowgirl: Cody Moody and Billie Holman.

Bareback Riding: Chase Bowen.

Bull Riding: Lane Selz.

Saddle Bronc: Cody Moody.

Steer Wrestling: Tanner James.

Tie Down Roping: Bodi Dodds.

Boy’s Cutting: Cody Moody.

Team Roping — Header: Brittany Dias.

Team Roping — Heeler: Tanner James.

Barrel Racing: Billie Holman.

Breakaway Roping: Brittany Dias.

Pole Bending: Brooke White.

Goat Tying: Billie Holman.

Girl’s Cutting: Billie Holman.

CHSRA Dist. #7

All-Around Cowboy and Cowgirl: Taylor Santos Karney and Cheyenne Rey.

Bareback Riding: Jacob Lees.

Bull Riding: Jacob Lees.

Saddle Bronc: Dillon Machado.

Steer Wrestling: Taylor Santos Karney.

Tie Down Roping: Tyler Forsberg.

Boy’s Cutting: Taylor Santos Karney.

Team Roping — Header: J.T. Prather.

Team Roping — Heeler: Dalton Pearce.

Barrel Racing: Emily Mangione.

Breakaway Roping: Cersten Branquinho.

Pole Bending: Sage Massey.

Goat Tying: Cheyenne Rey.

Girl’s Cutting: Kimmy Ferrante.

CHSRA Dist. #8

All-Around Cowboy and Cowgirl: Edgar Machado and Jessica Bates.

Bull Riding: Tommy Denny.

Steer Wrestling: Logan Trumbo.

Tie Down Roping: Edgar Machado.

Boy’s Cutting: David Stark.

Team Roping — Header: Ben Dukes.

Team Roping — Heeler: McKena Treasure

Barrel Racing: Heather Eckman.

Breakaway Roping: Cassidy Barnes.

Pole Bending: Jessica Bates.

Goat Tying: Jess Burdett.

Girl’s Cutting: Chrissy Madgwick.

CHSRA Dist. #9

All-Around Cowboy and Cowgirl: Dakota Haarsager and Victoria Covert.

Bull Riding: Robert Cameron.

Tie Down Roping: Dakota Haarsager.

Team Roping — Header: Dakota Haarsager.

Team Roping — Heeler: Juliann Jones.

Barrel Racing: Victoria Covert.

Breakaway Roping: Victoria Covert.

Pole Bending: Alyssa Conklin;

Goat Tying: Julie Donovan.

Girl’s Cutting: Tiffany Lujan.

See more photos in the June issue of Ropers Sports News!

By Betty J. Estep
President - Wild West Stampede

Another year has come and gone for the 16th Annual Wild West Stampede “Big Friday” Jackpot Team Roping. Once again, the Wild West Stampede Board of Directors were very surprised at the team count a little over 400 teams. With team counts down throughout the state, we are always thankful for our ropers to take a vacation day to attend our roping.  Thank you ropers!  

Our business partners, Hansen Bros of Grass Valley and the Bar 7S Arena, coupled with our sponsors, DuMor Fire Systems and Rich Ruef, PRCA Photographer, continue to make this a very enjoyable day. The Board would like to thank Allen Sanders, Penni Utterback, Bonnie Miller and the Bar 7S ground crew, Kyle, Cassie and Brandon for your hard work. Special thanks to Fritz Morrill for the many years of continued added money sponsorship. We cannot forget to thank Jennifer Cheddester and John Atkinson for cooking up that fantastic tri-tip lunch…yum!

The Wild West Stampede and the Bar 7S Arena sponsored the beautiful Gist buckles this year. Our Gist buckle winners this year were Lynnette Krantz, Rick Lederer, Judie Nielsen, Jim Parker, Erica Krantz, Grant Strong, Dick McWilliams, John Freeman, Waco VonTour, Rory Pierce, James Miller and Jesse Clark.

The Wild West Stampede invites 10 teams to come back to participate in the Wild West Stampede Local Roper Team event during our Saturday performance of our PRCA rodeo. Teams are picked either by winning a pot during the Friday Jackpot or selected by the Board to showcase the sport of team roping to the general public. The winners are given $200 cash from the Bar 7S Arena and Gist Silversmith sponsors two beautiful “Heritage” buckles. This year there was a TIE! Vicky Benedetti and Ken Cook tied with Katie and KC Morgan with a 9.0 second run. We couldn’t rope it off, so we made a management decision that the buckles go to the Morgan kids and the money goes to Vicky and Ken. It was a great way to show the public that team roping is a family sport.

On Wednesday night before the rodeo, we have our Magnussen’s Dodge Kickoff Party and the Wrangler Kids Dummy Roping. Our AWWS Committee Chairs, Daphne VanStavern, Britt Strong, and our “KDR Official,” Ty Morrill, did their normal wonderful job! WWS thanks all our Wrangler Kids Dummy Roping.

Richard Ruef, our local PRCA photographer, clicked over 500 pictures at our week’s events. His pictures from the PRCA rodeo, Kid’s Dummy Roping, Special Kid’s Rodeo, Muttin’ Bustin can be viewed at www.webshot.com search for Auburn Wild West Stampede.

The AWWS Board would like to thank you, again, DuMor Fire Systems, Hansen Bros., the Bar 7S Arena and of course, our ropers! The AWWS is a non-profit organization with 100% of the profits being returned to produce the rodeo and provide monetary support to community programs. Without the support of our sponsors and ropers, we would have nothing to return to the local people and programs that AWWS supports. If you are interested in providing sponsorship to this local event, please contact a Wild West Stampede Director.

Lynnette Krantz and Rick Lederer, #6 Roping winners. (Betty Estep photo)

Jim Parker and Judie Nielsen, Handicap Draw Pot winners. (Betty Estep photo)

Results are as follows (payoffs are per roper):

#6 ROPING: 3 for $25, 72 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Waco VonTour and Grant Strong, 7.48, $73. 2nd. Garrett Parsons and Felipe Furtado, 8.05, $49.

Average: 1st. Lynnette Krantz and Rick Lederer, 29.35, $329. 2nd. Wayne Grist and John Freeman, 30.05, $274. 3rd. J.T. Bradley and Doug Young, 30.82, $219. 4th. J.T. Bradley and Larry Martin, 32.22, $164. 5th. Trevor Messersmith and Clayton Graham, 35.32, $110.

HDCP. DRAW #1: 3 for $25, 105/106 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Connor Rawlins and John Freeman, 7.09, $87. 2nd. Connor Rawlins and Greg Nielsen, 7.24, $52. 3rd. J.T. Bradley and Ty Morrill, 7.27, $35.

Average: 1st. Judie Nielsen and Jim Parker, 19.12, $454. 2nd. Joe Worrell III and Ty Morrill, 23.82, $375. 3rd. Garrett Parsons and Billy Holland, 25.43, $297. 4th. Steve Waldron and Rick Lederer, 25.95, $219. 5th. Denise VonTour and Ryan Fowler, 27.08, $141. 6th. David Walters and Walt Rodman, 29.23, $78.

#5 ROPING: 3 for $25, 97 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Larry King and Larry Martin, 7.12, $81. 2nd. Waco VonTour and Rory Pierce, 7.27, $48. 3rd. Ray Miller and Denise VonTour, 7.51, $32.

Average: 1st. Erica Krantz and Grant Strong, 28.97, $420. 2nd. Greg Risse and Allen Sanders, 30.09, $348. 3rd. Norm Witt and Todd McWilliams, 30.76, $276. 4th. Lynnette Krantz and Chris Nielsen, 31.71, $203. 5th. Lisa Potts and Ryan Fowler, 34.21, $131. 6th. Ray Miller and Denise VonTour, 35.29, $73.

HDCP. CENTURY PICK #7: 4 for $50, 36 teams.

1st. go: 1st. J.T. Bradley and Doug Young, 7.11, $112.

Average: 1st. Dick McWilliams and John Freeman, 32.98, $403. 2nd. Dustin Nordman and Chris Nielsen, 25.12 on 3, $302. 3rd. Steve Waldron and Ty Morrill, 17.07 on 2, $202. 4th. Wayne Grist and Ty Morrill, 19.06 on 2, $101.

HDCP. DRAW #2: 3 for $25, 43.5/44 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Waco VonTour and Rory Pierce, 6.39, $46. 2nd. Waco VonTour and Dustin Nordman, 6.52, $31.

Average: 1st. Waco VonTour and Rory Pierce, 22.72, $208. 2nd. Todd Kell and Marshall Zavat, 27.62, $173. 3rd. Ray Miller and Dustin Nordman, 31.63, $139. 4th. James Mil-ler and Kathy Roberts, 72.79, $104. 5th. Ray Miller and Allen Sanders, 11.88 on 2, $69.

#4 ROPING: 3 for $25, 47 teams.

1st. go: 1st. Michael Bullivant and Grant Strong, 6.08, $49. 2nd. John Saunders and Jared Esteves, 8.31, $33.

Average: 1st. James Miller and Jesse Clark, 37.23, $223. 2nd. J.T. Bradley and Larry Martin, 38.54, $186. 3rd. Todd Kell and Doug Young, 47.09, $148. 4th. John Saunders and Jared Esteves, 23.09 on 2, $111. 5th. John Fanini and Brad Fanini, 26.53 on 2, $74.

Grant Strong and Erica Krantz were the winners of the #5 Roping. (Betty Estep photo)

See more photos in the June issue of Ropers Sports News!

The 16th annual Wes Whitlock Memorial Team Roping was held May 4 at the Riverside Rancheros Arena in Riverside, Calif.

Winners of the fully tooled rope bags were high point headers Arturo Chavez and Chad Gibbons, and high point heeler Wade Hooker. Trophy buckles were awarded to the winning header and heeler in each pot.

#8 Hdcp. Pick & Draw winners Lynn Devenport and Nolan Riley. Jeff Whitlock, center, presenting.

Results are as follows; payoffs are per man:

#4 DRAW POT: 2 for $25.

1st. go: 1st. Mitch Jacobs and Mario Aguilar, 7.76, $85. 2nd. Bill Harrington and Pat Freeman, 7.87, $50. 3rd. Dillon Ishman ad Tim Zigrang, 8.13, $30.

Average: 1st. Cobb Oxford and Jeff Lira, 17.87, $450. 2nd. Mike Hubbs and Tom Hayes, 21.02, $370. 3rd. Joe Bell and Randy Shoshone, 24.43, $300. 4th. Neil Forgues and Ed Schaefer, 24.74, $220. 5th. Joe Bell and Scott Slayton, 26.01, $150.

#5 HDCP. PICK & DRAW: 3 for $30.

1st. go: 1st. Chad Gibbons and Doug Basolo, 7.32, $120. 2nd. Brooke Carter and Jerry Schvaneveldt, 7.56, $75. 3rd. Keith Smith and Art Belis, 7.83, $50.

Average: 1st. Keith Smith and Art Belis, 28.78, $640. 2nd. Chad Gibbons and Dalton Curley, 34.29, $530. 3rd. Bailey Coates and Tom Gibson, 35.05, $425. 4th. Brooke Carter and Scott Slayton, 38.06, $320. 5th. Alex Israel and Chris Snow, 39.98, $210.

OPEN: 4 for $75.

1st. go: 1st. George Ishman Jr. and Nate Preuit, 5.28, $80.

Average: 1st. Blaine Lina-weaver and Wade Hooker, 25.09, $500. 2nd. Blaine Linawea-ver and John Taylor Jr., 28.29, $300. 3rd. Travis Gorham and Nate Preuit, 31.67, $200.

#8 HDCP. PICK & DRAW: 3 for $40.

1st. go: 1st. Shawn Howell and Bobby Waller, 5.52, $120. 2nd. George Ishman Jr. and Art Belis, 5.56, $70. 3rd. Lynn Devenport and Wade Hooker, 6.21, $50.

Average: 1st. Lynn Devenport and Nolan Riley, 20.43, $650. 2nd. Bailey Bishop and Brad Bishop, 20.85, $540. 3rd. Arturo Chavez and Brian Arave, 21.24, $430. 4th. Arturo Chavez and Shawn Howell, 21.88, $320. 5th. Lynn Devenport and Wade Hooker, 22.33, $220.

#5 Hdcp. Pick & Draw winners Keith Smith and Art Belis. Jeff Whitlock, center, presenting.