Five goat tyers finished in the top 10 of the event to lead the Tarleton State University women’s rodeo team to a fourth-place finish in the Odessa College National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association stop over the weekend.
The OC was the opener for the NIRA Southwest Region spring season.
Keni Labrum posted a first go 7.2 time and followed with a 7.0 in the finals for second place in goat tying. Teammate Tori Brower was third with her 6.7-7.5–14.2, Mary Risse was fourth with her two-head 14.3, Rayme Jones’ 14.6 was fifth, and Timber Kelly flashed a 14.8 on two runs for seventh.
Barrel racer Bryanne Cude contributed a six-place finish with her 29.02 clocking on runs of 14.15 and 14.87.
Tarleton’s men took 10th in Odessa, led by fourth-place efforts from bareback bronc rider Payton Lackey, saddle bronc riders Ira Dickinson and Gus Gaillard, and team roper Garrett Dickey.
Lackey finished with a two-head 147.5, including a 76.5 in the finals; Dickinson’s 157.5 total featured an 80.5 in the short go, Gaillard tied Dickinson with rides of 79 and 78.5, and Dickey flashed two sub-7-second runs for a two-calf 13.4.
Bull riders Riggen Hughes and Jacob Carige each made the finals with first-round 73s.
Both Tarleton teams returns to action March 23-25 at the Ranger College Rodeo in Sweetwater.
