ProRodeo Sports News - August 2, 2019

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Finals Rodeo-qualifying steer wrestler Trevor Knowles, passed away July 27 in a single-car crash on Highway 26 east of Mitchell, Ore. Drew Knowles was 36. Knowles was born Sept. 28, 1982. In the PRCA, he was listed as a steer wrestler, tie- down roper, team roper and steer roper. Amemorial service for Knowles will be Aug. 10, at 11 a.m. (PT) at the Oxbow Ranch, Prairie City, Ore. A reception will follow directly afterwards at 67142 Reynolds Road, Prairie City. Memorial contributions may be made to “The Sons of Drew Knowles Memorial Fund” through the Bank of Eastern Oregon or through Driskill Memorial Chapel.

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Hobdey continued to rodeo for more than 60 years. He was influential in forming the Idaho Cowboy Association and served as the organization’s first president. His term of ICA president was short, as he joined the PRCA not long afterward. During his rodeo career, Hobdey competed in bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping and team roping. He also spent years as a rodeo judge. After Hobdey cut his rodeoing to part time, he did other forms of work to supplement his income. He drove logging trucks in northern Idaho with his father. He also became a housing manager in Southern California. While in California, he attended Cal-Poly and earned a certificate in corrective horseshoeing. Afterwards, he moved his family to Boise, Idaho, and started a horseshoeing business. He became one of the most sought-after farriers in the Treasure Valley. He later moved to Nampa where he continued to run his business. Hobdey was preceded in death by his wife; parents; brothers, Marsland E. “Sonny/ Gene” Hobdey and Verlon R. Hobdey; sisters, Donna Maxine Greene and Betty Jo Greene. He is survived by his children, Logan (Lisa) Hobdey and Lynda (David) Rupert; eight grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

DARYL JOE HOBDEY

Daryl Joe Hobdey, a three-time qualifier for the National Finals Rodeo in bareback

riding, passed away July 15. He was 87. Hobdey qualified for the NFR in 1960, ’65 and ’66. He finished 10th in 1960, and 13th and 15th in 1965 and ’66, respectively. Hobdey was born on May 24,

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1932, in Twin Falls, Idaho, to Arthur “Art” Alfred and Myrtle Jane Farnsworth Hobdey. Hobdey was the fifth of five children. He spent his childhood inWendell, Idaho. It was there that his love of horses began. When Hobdey was 15, his parents moved to northern Idaho. Hobdey opted to stay in Gooding, Idaho, with his oldest sister, Donna. It was in Gooding where Hobdey met Geraldine “Geri” Stephens. Hobdey and Geri were married on Oct. 10, 1954, in Gooding, Idaho, and were later sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on April 23, 1976. Also, in Gooding, at the age of 19, Hobdey entered the bareback riding event at his

CAYMBREE KATE PROCTOR A girl, born July 29 to team roping header Coleman Proctor and his wife, Stephanie, of Pryor, Okla. Caymbree

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weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. Caymbree was welcomed home by older sister, Stella, 1.

DrewThomas Knowles, of Mount Vernon, Ore., a former PRCAmember and the younger brother of Wrangler National

my lung was collapsed and I broke three ribs. I went straight to the hospital, and they put a chest tube in to get my lung back to normal.” Melancon plans on taking off about three weeks. Get tickets, rooms for 2019 Clem McSpadden National Finals Rodeo The 2019 Clem McSpadden National Finals Steer Roping is Nov. 22-23 at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane. The Top 15 steer ropers in the PRCA | RAM World Standings at the end of the regular season head to the NFSR, which is separate from the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. (CT). Competition begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets from $28 plus taxes and convenience fees. To book tickets go to http://bit.ly/2Z6IX2B. To book your 2019 NFSR room and ticket package visit http://bit.ly/30RVRSF. Pendleton Round-Up tops nation in Readers’ Choice best rodeo award USA TODAY’S 2019 10 Best Readers’ Choice for Best Rodeo was recently announced and the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up was the winner. The rest of the Top 10 on the rodeo list were: San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo; World’s Oldest Rodeo in Prescott, Ariz.; Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo; NEBRASKAland Days in North Platte; Davie (Fla.) Pro Rodeo; Greeley (Colo.) Stampede; La Fiesta de los Vaqueros in Tucson, Ariz.; the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo; and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

BRIEFS Cole Melancon out with injuries

PRCA NOTES Injuries have put Cole Melancon’s quest for a third consecutive qualification to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in jeopardy. The Paris, Texas, bull rider, who was 13th in the July 30 PRCA | RAM World Standings with $68,630, suffered a collapsed left lung and

three broken ribs when he was bucked off Four Star Rodeo’s Kermit, July 18, at California Rodeo Salinas. “I slid off his butt a little bit into the well, and he had me strung out there,” said Melancon, 25. “My hand stayed in my rope and it spun me around where my back was toward him, and as he was turning back, he hit me in the back with his head.” Melancon, who finished 13th last season, tried to fight through the pain. “We had some guys riding with us who were up in Spanish Fork (Utah) the next day,

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and we needed to leave right after the bull riding was done in Salinas so we could get them to Spanish Fork on time,” Melancon said. “We drove all night to Spanish Fork, and I just laid in the camper. When we got to Spanish Fork (July 19), they were doing slack, and I went and saw the woman with Justin Sportsmedicine. She talked me into getting an X-ray. I got an X-ray with a local doctor, and he told me

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