ProRodeo Sports News - March 9, 2018

Video Stars Proctor and Saebens enjoy victory lap(s)

TOPS AT SAN ANTONIO — Feb. 8-25 BAREBACK RIDING “This is the biggest win of my career, as far as the regular season,” Proctor said. “Winning a go-round at the (Wrangler National Finals Rodeo) or a gold buckle would be the only way to top this. I’ve been coming to this rodeo since ’07, and I won second that year. I’ve had a chance to win it a couple times, just never came through.” The title was the first for both in San Antonio. BY SCOTT KANIEWSKI A fter winning the first round of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, team roping header Coleman Proctor realized he and heeler Billie Jack Saebens needed at least one more win. That was because Proctor’s wife didn’t record video of the teammates taking their victory lap. Proctor and Saebens came back for three more curtain calls – setting an AT&T Center record in the process – on their way to winning the title with $23,015 each.

“That one (victory lap) was pretty sweet,” Saebens said. Proctor and Saebens won rounds one and three. Then they won their semifinals run, stopping the clock in 3.7 seconds, besting the previous arena record of 3.8 set by Kaleb Driggers and Jade Corkill in 2012. Saebens was occupied with other things, he didn’t know that his name was being written down in the record books. “I was in the tunnel and didn’t know what was going on, and then he (Proctor) told me that,” Saebens said. “Last night was amazing,” Proctor said. “We didn’t have a very good steer. I told Billie he’s going to hit fast, he’s good on my end but not real good on your end. I asked if he had any suggestions to make his job easier and he told me not to worry about it, he’d handle it. He handled him in a big way. “That (arena record) is something really special, especially at a rodeo as historic as San Antonio. To have an arena record at the AT&T Center, that’s something you can really hold on to.”

STEER WRESTLING 1. Dakota Eldridge........................$23,081 2. Cole Edge...................................20,014 3. Jacob Shofner............................13,777 4. Tyler Waguespack.......................13,268

TEAM ROPING 1. C. Proctor/B.J. Saebens............$23,015 2. B. Buckaloo/J. Harrison..............21,863 3. N. Wyatt/T. Porter.......................14,978 4. T. Brazile/P. Smith.......................12,394

SADDLE BRONC RIDING 1. Jacobs Crawley........................$25,765 2. CoBurn Bradshaw.......................23,981 3. Zeke Thurston............................13,983 4. Cort Scheer................................11,010

1. Caleb Bennett...........................$22,169 2. Mason Clements.........................20,889 3. Richmond Champion..................11,725 4. Bill Tutor.....................................11,502

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