ProRodeo Sports News - Feb. 21, 2020

FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW & RODEO

Ullery, Edwards pair up for first time to win Fort Worth Unlikely Champs BY TRACY RENCK T hings usually don’t happen this way in rodeo. However, team ropers Clay Ullery and Jake Edwards were thrilled they did. Ullery and Edwards had never roped together before the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. All they did was walk away as champions with a 4.9-second time in the final round at Dickies Arena, Feb. 8. Ullery’s partner was drawn out of the rodeo. So Ullery was left looking for a heeler. He put in a call to PROCOM. was going to show up. I just went out there to head the steer and I heard he (Edwards) heels pretty good. I figured I’d just head them and let him heel.” That’s what they did – and they left Fort Worth after earning $23,200 each. They won money in every round at Fort Worth. Ullery is from Valleyview, Alberta, and Edwards grew up in Fort Ann, N.Y., but now lives in Ocala, Fla. “I had a feeling this was maybe meant to be,” said Edwards, who was raised in a rodeo family. “I never met (Clay), but sometimes I do better like that when I rope with somebody different and I don’t expect anything. I just back in there and try and do my job which is heel the steer as fast as I can. I tried to do that all four nights (in Fort Worth). There’s no telling where (Clay) and I are going to end up (this season).” Ullery was thrilled to have such a big payday. “They gave me Jake,” Ullery said. “Neither one of us had ever heard of each other so we both looked each other up on the Internet and we had one phone call. Then he texted me right before we roped here to make sure I

ALL-AROUND COWBOY Caleb McMillan, $2,988, bull riding and tie-down roping

BAREBACK RIDING 1. Tilden Hooper ........ 91.5 pts 2. Wyatt Bloom ................ 87.5 3. Jamie Howlett ................. 87

STEER WRESTLING 1. Jacob Talley ........... 4.0 sec. 2. Ty Erickson ................... 4.3 3. Two tied at .................... 4.8

TEAM ROPING 1. Ullery/Edwards ....... 4.9 sec. 2. C. Smith/J. Corkill .......... 5.1 3. Two tied at ..................... 5.6

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