BIG SPRING, Texas \u2014 Rayme Jones captured first place in goat tying and Hadley Tidwell took the barrel racing championship as Tarleton State University\u2019s women\u2019s rodeo team dominated in the weekend National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) Howard College Rodeo in Big Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tarleton State\u2019s women accumulated 345 points, more than doubling runner-up Frank Phillips College\u2019s 165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jones flashed an 8.4, tied for the top time in the long go with teammate Emily McDeavitt, then added an 8.6 in the finals for a 17.0 total. McDeavitt added a short-go 8.9 for a second-place 17.3. Tori Brower completed a top-3 sweep for Tarleton State with her 8.5-8.9\u201317.4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keni Labrum took sixth with her two-head 18.1 and Rylee Holt added a <\/sup>10th-place 18.5 to give Tarleton State five slots in the top-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tidwell\u2019s barrel racing event crown came with her 33.5 combined time which featured a 16.56 in the preliminary round and a 16.94 in the finals. Peyton Stone finished third with a 17.33-17.08\u00ad\u201334.41 and Acey Pinkston\u2019s 17.2-17.72\u201334.92 was good for fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tarleton State\u2019s men, led by saddle bronc rider Ira Dickinson\u2019s tie for the event title, finished second at Big Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dickinson scored a two-head 161.5, featuring a long-go best 81, to tie Western Texas College\u2019s Carson Bingham atop the saddle bronc leaderboard. Tarleton State teammates Lance Gaillard, who tallied a 158 combined score, and Bailey Small, who posted a 149.5 finished fourth and eighth in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roedy Farrell\u2019s 80-76.5\u2013156.5 was third in bareback riding; Mason Spain turned in a finals-best 82.5 in the bull riding finals for a third-place 157.5 on two head; and Teel Sikes\u2019 6.1-10.5\u201316.6 was seventh in steer wrestling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both teams are in first place in the NIRA Southwest Region standings heading into the final regular season rodeo, the Tarleton Stampede, this weekend in Stephenville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BIG SPRING, Texas \u2014 Rayme Jones captured first place in goat tying and Hadley Tidwell took the barrel racing championship as Tarleton State University\u2019s women\u2019s rodeo team dominated in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":49622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":382,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,425],"tags":[455],"class_list":["post-50757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-campus-community","tag-rodeo"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"priddle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/priddle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/10\/5797-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["_Homepage<\/a>","Campus & Community<\/a>"],"unlinked":["_Homepage<\/span>","Campus & Community<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Rodeo<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Rodeo<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 16, 2024","modified":"Updated on June 14, 2024"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 16, 2024 5:00 pm","modified":"Updated on June 14, 2024 4:36 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Purple Tarleton State University Rodeo Team jacket on a metal surface.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}