CASPER, Wyo. \u2014 All four bronc riders on the Tarleton State University men\u2019s rodeo team posted top-10 scores in Sunday\u2019s \u201cBulls, Broncs and Breakaway,\u201d the official start of the College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR) in Casper, Wyo.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saddle bronc rider Gus Gaillard led the squad with a fourth-place 78.5 in the opening round, followed by Ira Dickinson\u2019s eighth-place 74 and a 73.5 from Bailey Small, good for ninth. Bareback rider Roedy Farrell\u2019s 78 earned seventh place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tarleton State\u2019s barrel racers Jordan Driver and Hadley Tidwell made their first appearances this morning in Casper. Driver\u2019s 14.39 in the cloverleaf, good for <\/sup>17th, was just a quarter-second off the pace set by Taycie Matthews of the University of West Alabama. Tarleton\u2019s Tidwell flashed a 14.97 on her opening run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Competition in Casper continues today as Small, Gaillard, Farrell, Tidwell and Driver take their second rides of the week. Tarleton State steer wrestler Landris White and goat tyers Rayme Jones and Tori Brower will make their first appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All performances of the CNFR, which runs through Saturday, will air on ESPN3, available on the ESPN app or on ESPN.com<\/a>. Performances will stream live and replay the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CASPER, Wyo. \u2014 All four bronc riders on the Tarleton State University men\u2019s rodeo team posted top-10 scores in Sunday\u2019s \u201cBulls, Broncs and Breakaway,\u201d the official start of the College …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":49770,"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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,425],"tags":[455],"class_list":["post-51060","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\/5797-1-300x200.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 June 10, 2024","modified":"Updated on August 15, 2024"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on June 10, 2024 12:01 pm","modified":"Updated on August 15, 2024 5:27 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Purple jacket with Tarleton State University Rodeo Team logo.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51060","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=51060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}