ProRodeo Sports News - April 6, 2018

Teaming Up

BY MATT NABER A s one of the 10 highest-paying rodeos of the year, the impact of Rodeo Austin (Texas) can set the course for the season for many cowboys. For team ropers Marcus Theriot and Cody Doescher, winning Austin was a much-needed change of pace after a dry winter run. “I was thinking the other day, I’ve won a lot in my career and I’ve won a lot of rodeos, but I’ve never won a prestigious rodeo like that and it’s great,” Theriot said. “It means a lot to win Austin.” Doescher competed at Rodeo Austin several times before in steer wrestling and team roping, but this was his first time winning the rodeo. Theriot and Doescher win Austin one year after partnering together

“I’d wanted to win that rodeo a long time,” said Doescher, 27. “It’s pretty awesome, really. With the timing of it, it really puts us back in the running and caught back up.” Theriot and Doescher initially teamed up at Rodeo Austin one year ago and went on to have a successful summer, so they’ve roped together for the majority of the 2018 season. “We have good chemistry, and he ropes fast and my heel horse catches up, so our styles match well,” Doescher said. Theriot and Doescher tied for 10th in the first round with a 5.2-second run and placed fifth in the semifinals in 5.6. They won the final round with a 4.8-second run and left Austin with $10,846 each. “It was all or nothing for us because we hadn’t had a good winter and wanted to make up for it,” saidTheriot, 20. Although they hadn’t roped together the entire season, both ropers had won only one rodeo each before Austin. Theriot won at the Florida Gateway Pro Rodeo in mid-March, while Doescher’s win was in his home state, at the Tulsa (Okla.) State Fair PRCA Rodeo in early October.

TOPS AT AUSTIN — March 11-25

BAREBACK RIDING 1. Caleb Bennett ........................... 87 pts. 2. Tilden Hooper ............................... 86.5 3. Orin Larsen ...................................... 86 4. Mason Clements ........................... 85.5

STEER WRESTLING 1. (tie) Cole Edge ........................ 4.0 sec. Josh Garner ............................. 4.0 3. Taz Olson ........................................ 4.1 4. Two tied at ...................................... 4.2

TEAM ROPING 1. M. Theriot/C. Doescher ........... 4.8 sec. 2. C. Crawford/C. Summers ................ 5.0 3. B. Buckaloo/T. Woodard ................. 5.1 4. J. Austin/D. Rampy ......................... 6.4

SADDLE BRONC RIDING 1. Clay Elliott ............................. 89.5 pts. 2. Isaac Diaz ..................................... 85.5 3. Peter White II .................................. 85 4. Dawson Hay .................................... 84

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