Home rodeo goes well for Rangers

By OAKLEE FIELDER

The men and women’s rodeo teams finished 3^rd in the Northwestern home rodeo over Halloween weekend at the new Salt Fork Event Center in Alva.

The men finished with 380 points, just under Panhandle State with 410 points. Fort Hays was the closest below with 260 points. The women finished with 130 points in a tight four-way finish for 2^nd place. Northeastern finished in 2^nd with 150 points, Kansas State finished 4^th with 125 points and Fort Hays was 5^th with 120 points.

Hazen Sparks finished 4^th in the tie down event. Carter Anderson finished 7^th.

In the breakaway event, Savannah Greenfield finished 2^nd. Waci Thomson finished 5^th and Laynee Ohm finished 6^th.

Nathan Duvall finished 1^st in the steer wrestling event, two seconds faster than 2^nd place Lindon Bemery from Connors State. Samuel Daly finished 5^th.

Payton Dingman finished 4^th in the goat tying event with a total time of 14.9.

In the team roping event, Payton Blank finished 4^th. Colter Snook finished 7^th.

Minda Woodward finished 4^th in the ladies’ barrel racing event. Sadie Rempel finished 6^th.

2026 is over for the rodeo team. They will not be competing against until next year in February. On the 18^th, they will be in Manhattan, Kansas to compete at Kansas State University.

So far, the Lady Rangers have not finished below the top five except for at Oklahoma State on Oct. 15-17. The men have finished 3^rd three times and 6^th once.

In the overall standings, the men sit 2^nd. Southeastern is 1^st with 2005 points, NWOSU has 1385. Below NWOSU is Fort Scott with 1335 points.

The women sit 3^rd in the overall standings with 576 points. Panhandle is below with 480 points and Fort Hays is above with 951 points.

Daly and Duvall are 2^nd and 3^rd in the steer wrestling overall standings. Daly is only behind 1^st by 10 points. In the team roping event, Blank is 2^nd in the heeling side of the event. He had 215 points against 1^st place’s 265.