ProRodeo Sports News - June 12, 2020

Reo Lohse won the Guns Up Steer Roping in Levelland, Texas, with a four- head time of 72.8 seconds June 1-2. Back in the Saddle

“It was 14 hours for me to get down there, but it felt good to get away and go to a rodeo and have some luck at it.” – REO LOHSE, Steer Roper

USA Today Readers’

Choice awards

underway The USA Today 10 Best Readers’ Choice travel awards is underway, and rodeos are once again one of the categories. Among the contenders for the Best Rodeo, which just launched, are the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo, National Western Stock Show & Rodeo in Denver, Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo and the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. To see the complete list for the Best Readers’ Choice, go to https:// www.10best.com/ awards/travel/best- rodeo/.

HOT TAKES

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Riley Pruitt stopped the clock in 6.5 seconds in Fort Worth, Texas, May 30.

Pruitt sticks to it Tie-down roper Riley Pruitt continues to pepper the 2020 season with incredible times. With less than four months remaining in the regular season, the two-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier has posted the two fastest times of the season in tie-down roping. The 28-year-old from Nebraska posted the fastest time of the season when he stopped the clock at 6.5 seconds in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Super Series Finish, May 30. He also tied for the second-fastest time of the season, a 6.7-second run at the Heart O’ Texas Fair & Rodeo in Waco in October.

144 NUMBER OF PRCA-SANCTIONED RODEOS IN THE 2020 SEASON AS OF JUNE 8

$11,768,261

MONEY WON BY PRCA COWBOYS IN THE 2020 SEASON

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