Ok here we go… first round at Caldwell is over with all the new partnerships taken off! First we need to catch up a little from last week. Lovington, New Mexicio - great rodeo! Back-to-back where you run both steers the same day. Three of the first four holes were won in the first set - just to show that all sets are fair. Turtle Powell placed in both rounds and won the average. We went in the last set were 7 1 on the first one and 5 0. Won the second round and fifth in average. Derrick won second, Luke Brown third, Jody Pinkert fourth. Hermiston was won by Speed and Al. Joel Bach won second, we placed in the first round and last in the average with one foot in the second go. Turtle Powell also won a big one-header in Missoula, Montana, 2,800 was a 4.5. Justin Yosy and Jory Levy were 4.4 in the second go at Hermiston - arena record. Colter and Cesar were 3.8 at Lawton, Oklahoma - arena record there. Ty Blaster and Cody Hintz placed in both rounds and won the average. Ty is 16th and has a good chance at the finals with a good finish. Caldwell first round was in slack yesterday - now we all come back in the perfs the next four days. First place was a tie between Derrick Flemming and Cody Cowden with Jake and Jim Cooper, third was split with Jake Stanley and Jade Corkhill roping together at the tours with Spencer Mitchell and Joseph Shawnego. First was 5.2, third was 5.3.
New teams at the tours: Clay and Kory Koontz were 5.8 - good run. Travis and Walt were 4.7 with one foot. Dave Key and Marty Becker waved off head loop. Chad and Mike Jones 5 something - smooth. Good Run. Colter no good. Kevin Daniels no good, Derrick Begay no good, Logan Olson no good, Speed 5.9 runner, Garrett Tonozzi 6 something – smooth. Nick and Wren - no good. Trevor B 6 something. Me and Randon 6.8 - bad run missed the barrier - a little steer tried. Need to make a good run and we might be ok. Minors - no good. Lot of guys need to get points here to get on to the next tours or chances start to get slimmer. Rodeo count starting to wind down so everything else is heating up.
FYI - last guy out in the calf roping, Seth Hopper 8.5, wo the round. Micheal Atero was second 9.0. Cody Ohl did not make the tours.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Partner Update
One more update - Mike Jones will be roping with Chad masters. Don't know what jade is going to do yet.
See the end of my last entry for the full scoop on all the recent partner changes. Also check out http://www.theamericanroper.com/ for the latest roping news and events.
See the end of my last entry for the full scoop on all the recent partner changes. Also check out http://www.theamericanroper.com/ for the latest roping news and events.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Lots of News in the Team Roping World
Lots of news in the team roping world. The week of Casper, Sheridan, Colorado Springs, and Vernal was a week of tough go rounds and easy averages. Sheridan was the only average that stayed tough. We were 4.9, won 4th in the first round. 4.7 in the 2nd round, won second in the second round and ended up splitting 2nd and 3rd in the average.
Travis Woodard was 5.0 then 4.6 to win the average. 10.5 won 8th in the ave. Both rounds at Colorado Springs were won with a 4.2 Derrick Begay 1st round Travis Tryan 2nd round. Garrett Tonozzi won the average - 11.1 - only 4 teams caught smooth on two. Same scenario in Casper. We won 4th in the first round then I missed the second steer to win the average. Had to be 4 to place in both rounds, average fell apart. Turtle Powell won the average at Vernal 4.9 4.5 placing in both rounds. Coopers won 2nd. Jodi Pinkerd won 3rd. We were plus 5 on the first steer, then 5.5 and won 5th in the 2nd go.
Nampa started on the 14th, only 11 teams caught two to make the short round. We were 5.1 to win 3rd in the first round. Came back Saturday afternoon in the 2nd round, only 7 teams had caught two. All we had to do was catch to make it back. We were 5.4 coming back high team.
After the first round at Nampa we drove to Salt Lake City for slack on Tuesday. No time on the first steer for us. Derrick Begay won the first round 4.6 Jojo Lemond won 2nd 4.8. Drove to Cheyenne for slack on Wednesday. 9.5 with a hickey on horn so no time. Logan Olsen won the round with a 7.3 6,200.00 hit. Derrick Begay won 2nd with a 7.6. Big checks for both teams.
Short go for Cheyenne on the 27th. We turned the 2nd one out at Cheyenne to go to Salinas. Jojo and Matin won the average. Cody McMin and Travis Woodard won 2nd. Missed every one at Salinas. Wished I would have stayed in Cheyenne. Sorry Randon
Flew from Salinas to Nampa to rope in the 2nd and short rounds. Speed and Al won Nampa - the only team to catch all doubles. We were 2nd with a leg in the short round. A barrier won 4th.
Some poor roping lately has lead to some good teams splitting up. Here is the latest that I know about - Clay and Walt - done. Walt is going home. Dave Key and Kory Koontz - done. Clay Tryan and Kory Koontz together. Jake Stanley and Marty Becker - done. David Key and Marty Becker. Travis Tryan Micheal Jones winning the world - done. Walt Woodard never made it home. Travis Tryan and Walt together.
We will see how it goes and keep you posted. Be sure to check out http://www.theamericanroper.com/ for the latest in team roping. Have questions about life on the road? You can email me at matt@theamericanroper.com
Travis Woodard was 5.0 then 4.6 to win the average. 10.5 won 8th in the ave. Both rounds at Colorado Springs were won with a 4.2 Derrick Begay 1st round Travis Tryan 2nd round. Garrett Tonozzi won the average - 11.1 - only 4 teams caught smooth on two. Same scenario in Casper. We won 4th in the first round then I missed the second steer to win the average. Had to be 4 to place in both rounds, average fell apart. Turtle Powell won the average at Vernal 4.9 4.5 placing in both rounds. Coopers won 2nd. Jodi Pinkerd won 3rd. We were plus 5 on the first steer, then 5.5 and won 5th in the 2nd go.
Nampa started on the 14th, only 11 teams caught two to make the short round. We were 5.1 to win 3rd in the first round. Came back Saturday afternoon in the 2nd round, only 7 teams had caught two. All we had to do was catch to make it back. We were 5.4 coming back high team.
After the first round at Nampa we drove to Salt Lake City for slack on Tuesday. No time on the first steer for us. Derrick Begay won the first round 4.6 Jojo Lemond won 2nd 4.8. Drove to Cheyenne for slack on Wednesday. 9.5 with a hickey on horn so no time. Logan Olsen won the round with a 7.3 6,200.00 hit. Derrick Begay won 2nd with a 7.6. Big checks for both teams.
Short go for Cheyenne on the 27th. We turned the 2nd one out at Cheyenne to go to Salinas. Jojo and Matin won the average. Cody McMin and Travis Woodard won 2nd. Missed every one at Salinas. Wished I would have stayed in Cheyenne. Sorry Randon
Flew from Salinas to Nampa to rope in the 2nd and short rounds. Speed and Al won Nampa - the only team to catch all doubles. We were 2nd with a leg in the short round. A barrier won 4th.
Some poor roping lately has lead to some good teams splitting up. Here is the latest that I know about - Clay and Walt - done. Walt is going home. Dave Key and Kory Koontz - done. Clay Tryan and Kory Koontz together. Jake Stanley and Marty Becker - done. David Key and Marty Becker. Travis Tryan Micheal Jones winning the world - done. Walt Woodard never made it home. Travis Tryan and Walt together.
We will see how it goes and keep you posted. Be sure to check out http://www.theamericanroper.com/ for the latest in team roping. Have questions about life on the road? You can email me at matt@theamericanroper.com
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Keep Movin'...
ok here we go with the forth of july update…
Kevin Daniels and Cory Petska did fantastic - one of the high-money winning teams placed in both rounds and average at Greeley, CO, second at Livingston, Montana were their big wins. Nick Sartain and Wren Richard were the big winners - they won Livingston $5,300 dollars placed at Window Rock, placed really high at Cody in a round and the average about 14,000 put them both in the top 15 in the world.
Luke brown and Monty Jo Petska won great also placing good at Greeley, CO and Livingston, moving them way up to the top 10. Ty Blasingame and Cody Hintz also did great - moving into the top 15.
For us, I roped so poorly everywhere that I dont know how we are even still in the top 15 much less 50. First was Greeley - waved it off to win the round - good steer. Drove to Cody, good steer good start, one horn to win the round. Window rock missed to do really good, flew to Livingston - 5.1. Ended up 11th no money. Flew from there to Oakley - 5.2 - won second in the first round. Drove to Greeley for second one - 5.1 plus 5 - would have won the second round.
Wednesday night in Window Rock for the second one - turned him but he followed me around and got into the fence - no time. Back to Cody for the second one - got out ran. Flew to Prescott, drew the best steer again, missed to win the first round, got out ran on the second one, turned him to long for money. Flew to Molalla, OR, now it is Saturday. We got there at 3:00, slack started at 8:00am. Roped the first steer in about 6.5 but they missed our time which was to long for any money so we had to rerun. Came back with a 4.8 - won the round. 5.4 on the second one - fifth in that round and won the average about $6,000 all together. Went straight to St. Paul - missed the first one to win the first round. 4.8 on the second one - 4th in the round - $1,800.
Flew straight to Oakley, UT for the second one. Got there about 5 minutes before the team roping started - 6.3 - won the average - ended up with about $11,000 for the fourth. Hung out there for the day and went to Casper. We were 5.1 - won fourth on the first one. Vernal on Tuesday - 5.1 plus 5. Went to Sheridan on Wednesday - 4.9 - fourth on the first one. Drove to Colorado Springs for the first one - got out a little late - 5.8 - no money but sitting ok for average. Drove back to Sheridan for Thursday night - 4.7 - ended up second in second round and second in average. Travis Woodard was 5.0 on first one - came back with 4.5 won second round and average. Two great runs!
Drove all night back to Colorado Springs, tuned one there to place in average - got one foot. That rodeo fell apart. I think only 5 or 6 teams caught two steers smooth. We went back to Casper on Wednesday night on the way to the springs and I missed a great steer that would have won the average there. That rodeo got really easy in the average also. Drove back to Vernal sat night, was 5.5 - won fourth in the second round there and got to Idaho about 3:00am this morning.
You see the need for these rodeos to be back-to-back so we don’t have to keep driving back to these same towns over and over again. We won about $6,500 this week, which should give us about $55,000 in the standing, which is pretty exciting for us. Nobody just dominated this week - it is pretty spread out. Tomorrow is Nampa, then to Salt Lake City, then to Cheyenne, then four days in Salinas, so we are enjoying our Sunday at home in Idaho!
Kevin Daniels and Cory Petska did fantastic - one of the high-money winning teams placed in both rounds and average at Greeley, CO, second at Livingston, Montana were their big wins. Nick Sartain and Wren Richard were the big winners - they won Livingston $5,300 dollars placed at Window Rock, placed really high at Cody in a round and the average about 14,000 put them both in the top 15 in the world.
Luke brown and Monty Jo Petska won great also placing good at Greeley, CO and Livingston, moving them way up to the top 10. Ty Blasingame and Cody Hintz also did great - moving into the top 15.
For us, I roped so poorly everywhere that I dont know how we are even still in the top 15 much less 50. First was Greeley - waved it off to win the round - good steer. Drove to Cody, good steer good start, one horn to win the round. Window rock missed to do really good, flew to Livingston - 5.1. Ended up 11th no money. Flew from there to Oakley - 5.2 - won second in the first round. Drove to Greeley for second one - 5.1 plus 5 - would have won the second round.
Wednesday night in Window Rock for the second one - turned him but he followed me around and got into the fence - no time. Back to Cody for the second one - got out ran. Flew to Prescott, drew the best steer again, missed to win the first round, got out ran on the second one, turned him to long for money. Flew to Molalla, OR, now it is Saturday. We got there at 3:00, slack started at 8:00am. Roped the first steer in about 6.5 but they missed our time which was to long for any money so we had to rerun. Came back with a 4.8 - won the round. 5.4 on the second one - fifth in that round and won the average about $6,000 all together. Went straight to St. Paul - missed the first one to win the first round. 4.8 on the second one - 4th in the round - $1,800.
Flew straight to Oakley, UT for the second one. Got there about 5 minutes before the team roping started - 6.3 - won the average - ended up with about $11,000 for the fourth. Hung out there for the day and went to Casper. We were 5.1 - won fourth on the first one. Vernal on Tuesday - 5.1 plus 5. Went to Sheridan on Wednesday - 4.9 - fourth on the first one. Drove to Colorado Springs for the first one - got out a little late - 5.8 - no money but sitting ok for average. Drove back to Sheridan for Thursday night - 4.7 - ended up second in second round and second in average. Travis Woodard was 5.0 on first one - came back with 4.5 won second round and average. Two great runs!
Drove all night back to Colorado Springs, tuned one there to place in average - got one foot. That rodeo fell apart. I think only 5 or 6 teams caught two steers smooth. We went back to Casper on Wednesday night on the way to the springs and I missed a great steer that would have won the average there. That rodeo got really easy in the average also. Drove back to Vernal sat night, was 5.5 - won fourth in the second round there and got to Idaho about 3:00am this morning.
You see the need for these rodeos to be back-to-back so we don’t have to keep driving back to these same towns over and over again. We won about $6,500 this week, which should give us about $55,000 in the standing, which is pretty exciting for us. Nobody just dominated this week - it is pretty spread out. Tomorrow is Nampa, then to Salt Lake City, then to Cheyenne, then four days in Salinas, so we are enjoying our Sunday at home in Idaho!
Friday, June 27, 2008
First Round at Reno
First round at Reno is over. Speed and Al’s 5 5 ended up third. There were two awesome runs - JoJo Lemond and Martin Lucero were 4 9 first, Ty Blasingame and Ryon Tittle were 5 0. Fourth was Pat Boyle and Jonnie Chavez 5 6, fifth 5 7 Nick Sartain and Wren Richard, sixth david key and Kory Koontz 5 8 Matt Sherwood and Randon Adams seventh 5 9. 8th was Jimmie Edens and Ryon Motes 6 0. probably ten to fifteen teams were in the sixes slack again tomorrow. We’ll see what happens to make the short go times will not be as fast as usual longer barrier and harder running steers this year.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
World's Great Roper Event and BFI
The Worlds Greatest Roper event was held on Saturday and Sunday. K. C. Jones was the most consistent roper all day. He won it pretty easily I’d say! Dan Green came to the short go in second with a chance to catch him but got a front leg in the heading and that was it for him.
Marty Becker won second, Chad Masters was third, Trevor Brazile was fourth, and Dan Green was fifth. Seems like it was a good turn out and a good time. Nobody will win the extra $100,000 because K.C. is not entered in the other two events.
The BFI was today. The steers were not as good as they usually are, which made for a lot of really fast times and a lot of no times. Clay Tryan and Walt Woodard were the champs - they were a little long in the beginning then made some great runs in the last three rounds. They came back third high team with Speed and Al in the lead and the Minors were second high team. Brady roped a leg on a tough steer and ended up fifth. Speed and Al got a barrier and a leg on a pretty good steer which seemed like should not have been in the short go. Scored good but didn’t look like he thought they would put a loper in the short go - just my take on it.
Brandon Beers and Arky Rogers won second by 4/100 out of first on a tough second steer - roped an awesome roping. Tee and Rich won third - they drew a couple of tough steers. Cody Odell and J.W. Borrego won fourth. They had a leg on the third one and roped back in it. The Minors were fifth and Colby Schneeman and Tommy Zuniga were 15th call back and won the short go and ended up sixth.
Slack at Reno rodeo starts tomorrow. Speed and Al went in the performance tonight. Went 5.5 winning the round - might have made him mad today. That’s bad for the rest of us. Everybody else goes tomorrow and Wednesday. We’ll see what happens…
Marty Becker won second, Chad Masters was third, Trevor Brazile was fourth, and Dan Green was fifth. Seems like it was a good turn out and a good time. Nobody will win the extra $100,000 because K.C. is not entered in the other two events.
The BFI was today. The steers were not as good as they usually are, which made for a lot of really fast times and a lot of no times. Clay Tryan and Walt Woodard were the champs - they were a little long in the beginning then made some great runs in the last three rounds. They came back third high team with Speed and Al in the lead and the Minors were second high team. Brady roped a leg on a tough steer and ended up fifth. Speed and Al got a barrier and a leg on a pretty good steer which seemed like should not have been in the short go. Scored good but didn’t look like he thought they would put a loper in the short go - just my take on it.
Brandon Beers and Arky Rogers won second by 4/100 out of first on a tough second steer - roped an awesome roping. Tee and Rich won third - they drew a couple of tough steers. Cody Odell and J.W. Borrego won fourth. They had a leg on the third one and roped back in it. The Minors were fifth and Colby Schneeman and Tommy Zuniga were 15th call back and won the short go and ended up sixth.
Slack at Reno rodeo starts tomorrow. Speed and Al went in the performance tonight. Went 5.5 winning the round - might have made him mad today. That’s bad for the rest of us. Everybody else goes tomorrow and Wednesday. We’ll see what happens…
Sunday, June 22, 2008
4th of July
This is Matt Sherwood giving you the rodeo thoughts over the Fourth of July and on. The Fourth really starts about the middle of May when you start getting the ProRodeo Sports News with the rodoes. This is when you find out when slack is going to be at all the rodeos and start looking at the schedule to see what you can get to by driving or flying, and how many horses you have and will be able to get where.
Obviously, the bigger the rodeo the more important it is to have you good horse, but that good horse can’t be everywhere! So you got to pick and choose, plus you don’t want to go to so many all-nighters in the trailer that they won’t work that good when you get there. With all that garbage said, here we go…
Books start closing for everything on the first of June, and as you find out how you get up, then that dictates how much else you can enter. You get up bad, it’s like missing the loper. some guys who got up good will get to run 1st and 2nd round steers on the same day. Other guys will run one and then have to come back later in the week to run the 2nd.
So our schedule looks like this from here out: Pleasant Grove, Utah, Wednesday night the 18th - we were 5 2. Then Logan, Utah on Thursday night - we were 6 0, back to Pleasant Grove for the second round. Friday morning we were 5 2 again. Now we are driving to Reno where we will rope Saturday and Sunday in the World’s Greatest Roper four head. We’ll be at the BFI all day Monday, slack at Reno on Tuesday and Wednesday, and drive back to Salt Lake City and head up to Canada on Thursday. We rope in Ponoka on Friday afternoon, then Airdrie that night. The short round at Reno is Saturday night, if we are not in that then we are up in Lehi, Utah on Saturday night. Then we head to the first round at Greeley, Colorado on Sunday the 29th, and on to Cody, Wyoming on Monday. We fly to Window Rock, Arizona for slack Tues morning, head to Livingston, Montana that afternoon at 3:00 slack, then off to Oakley, Utah.
That night we’ll have to fly that night from Oakley back to Greeley (the PRCA is misguided or you would never have to go back to the same city twice - all 2 headers should be back to back). From Greeley, we fly back to Window Rock for that night, then Thursday night we will rope at the performance in Red Lodge, Montana at 6:00. Then in Cody, the second round at 8:00 and fly Friday morning to Prescott, Arizona to rope the 2nd steer at 7:30pm. That night we fly to Oregon to rope in Mollala - both steers that morning in slack, then drive to St. Paul for both steers that afternoon at 3:00. Then we fly to Oakley for the performance that night at 8:00 and we end there.
After all that, I’ll finally get to hang out with the family on Sunday and start again in Casper, Wyoming on Monday morning. That week will be super busy. I’ll keep you posted on how things go and who all is winning! Stay tuned!
Be sure to check out http://www.theamericanroper.com/ for the latest in team roping. Have questions about life on the road? You can email me at matt@theamericanroper.com!
Obviously, the bigger the rodeo the more important it is to have you good horse, but that good horse can’t be everywhere! So you got to pick and choose, plus you don’t want to go to so many all-nighters in the trailer that they won’t work that good when you get there. With all that garbage said, here we go…
Books start closing for everything on the first of June, and as you find out how you get up, then that dictates how much else you can enter. You get up bad, it’s like missing the loper. some guys who got up good will get to run 1st and 2nd round steers on the same day. Other guys will run one and then have to come back later in the week to run the 2nd.
So our schedule looks like this from here out: Pleasant Grove, Utah, Wednesday night the 18th - we were 5 2. Then Logan, Utah on Thursday night - we were 6 0, back to Pleasant Grove for the second round. Friday morning we were 5 2 again. Now we are driving to Reno where we will rope Saturday and Sunday in the World’s Greatest Roper four head. We’ll be at the BFI all day Monday, slack at Reno on Tuesday and Wednesday, and drive back to Salt Lake City and head up to Canada on Thursday. We rope in Ponoka on Friday afternoon, then Airdrie that night. The short round at Reno is Saturday night, if we are not in that then we are up in Lehi, Utah on Saturday night. Then we head to the first round at Greeley, Colorado on Sunday the 29th, and on to Cody, Wyoming on Monday. We fly to Window Rock, Arizona for slack Tues morning, head to Livingston, Montana that afternoon at 3:00 slack, then off to Oakley, Utah.
That night we’ll have to fly that night from Oakley back to Greeley (the PRCA is misguided or you would never have to go back to the same city twice - all 2 headers should be back to back). From Greeley, we fly back to Window Rock for that night, then Thursday night we will rope at the performance in Red Lodge, Montana at 6:00. Then in Cody, the second round at 8:00 and fly Friday morning to Prescott, Arizona to rope the 2nd steer at 7:30pm. That night we fly to Oregon to rope in Mollala - both steers that morning in slack, then drive to St. Paul for both steers that afternoon at 3:00. Then we fly to Oakley for the performance that night at 8:00 and we end there.
After all that, I’ll finally get to hang out with the family on Sunday and start again in Casper, Wyoming on Monday morning. That week will be super busy. I’ll keep you posted on how things go and who all is winning! Stay tuned!
Be sure to check out http://www.theamericanroper.com/ for the latest in team roping. Have questions about life on the road? You can email me at matt@theamericanroper.com!
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