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Show !' r ... I.. s ;: ' , r-n' UTE HOOPSTER, Darian Abegglen, right, and a Rock Springs eager clash for the basketball. Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo stars nab honors in National Finals Nabbing first places in the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City were: bareback bronc riding, Bruce Ford, Kersey, Colo. ; steer wrestling, Paul Hughes, Kim, Colo.; team roping, Tee Woolman, Liano, Texas and Leo Caramillo, Lockford, Calif.; calf roping, Chris Lybbert, Coyote, Calif.; saddle bronc riding, Bobby Berger, Laxington, Okla,; bull riding, Ken Wilcox, Greenbrier, Ark., and barrel racing, Donna Krening, Eaton, Colo. Mickey Young of Ferron, Utah, place second in the bareback bronc riding event and J.C. Trujillo of Steamboat Springs, Colo., nabbed second place. Also placing in the finals were: steer wrestling, Butch Myers, Welda, Kan., second; Tom Ferguson, Miami, Okla., third; calf roping, Paul Tierney, Rapid Sity, S.D., second; Roy Cooper, Durant, Okla., third; saddle bronc riding, Clint Johnson, Spearfish, S.D., second; Bud Paulsey. Miles City, Mont., third; bull riding, Lyie Sankey, bauson, Mo. second; Boby DelV'ecchic. Bronx. N.Y., third: team roping, George Richards, Humboldt, Ariz., and Matt Si:eira, Nipomn, Calif., second; and Walt Woodward. Stockton. Calif . third ;md ' barrel racing, Lynn McKenzie. Shreveport, La., second and Martha Josey, Karnack, Texas, third. World champion cowboys are: Bruce Ford, bareback bronc riding, $69,392; Butch Myers, steer wrestling, $44,708; Tee Woolman, team roping, $49,983; Roy Cooper, calf roping, $77,027; Clint Johnson, saddle bronc riding, $44,711; Don Gay, Mesquite, Texas, bull riding, $60,639 and Martha Josey, Barrel racing, $45,883. Ford, the world champion and National Finals Rodeo champion in bareback bronc riding tied for first place in the event at the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo in Vernal, July .3, 4 and 5 at a score of 80 points with Lonnie Hall of Spearfish, S.D. Hughes, who nabbed first place in steer wrestling at the National Finals, placed first at the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo with a time of 4.8. The team roping team of Richards and Si'viera placed fifth in the r'Tvs.ir --'oundap Rodeo. Young and Cr.:r. an tic :Un competed in the Vernal roJfc. Other cowboys who have compote.1 in the Vernal rodeo are Truji.io Ferguson, Woolman, Wood-warj. Wood-warj. Cooper, Berger, Sankey and McKeniie. |