ProRodeo Sports News - May 4, 2018

R OUND THE SHORT BY THE NUMBERS The number of rodeo records broken at Rodeo Corpus Christi (Texas), April 26-29.

Out Indefinitely

Saddle bronc rider Jacobs Crawley had a 92-point ride on Frontier Rodeo’s Maple Leaf to break the previous mark. Steer wrestler Cody Devers’ 15.0 seconds on three head was a rodeo record, as was the time of 17.0 seconds on three head by team ropers The number of career Xtreme Bulls Division 1 victories captured by J.W. Harris. His latest win came April 28 in Del Rio, Texas. Harris is second on the Xtreme Bulls Division 1 career wins list, behind Matt Austin’s eight wins. Austin won the 2005 Xtreme Bulls year- end championship with a tour-record $119,584. The number of times bull riders Wacey Cathey (1976, 1978- 79, 1981-91) and Ted Nuce (1982-95) qualified for the National Finals Rodeo, an event record. Nuce won the 1985 bull riding world championship. Bubba Buckaloo/ Clint Summers.

Bareback rider Evan Jayne, who qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 2015-16, is out indefinitely after breaking his pelvis. The injury occurred during a ride on United Pro Rodeo’s Happy Trails on April 27 at the Ropin’ Dreams Cowboy Fellowship PRCA Rodeo in Jourdanton, Texas. “I had some issues with my pelvis with tendinitis, and it had been bugging me for about a year and I kept rodeoing on it,” Jayne said. “I was hoping it would get better, and I think that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I hit my riggin’ and I felt a pop. I tried to come off my horse and he sent me back against my riggin’ and I felt a second pop. I finally bailed off about five seconds into the ride and I just called somebody to help me get up because I knew I broke my pelvis.” Jayne also tore some arteries in his pelvis, which caused internal bleeding and resulted in emergency surgery. “I had to have surgery (April 27) to get the internal bleeding taken care of, and then I had surgery (April 28) Evan Jayne likely to retire due to pelvic injury

to fix my pelvis,” Jayne said. “They put one plate and a screw in my pelvis. The doctors said I will be on crutches for three months because I can’t put any weight on my left leg, and I will be out of action for a year total.” Jayne was 19th in the April 30 RAM PRCA World Standings with $21,605. The 35-year-old Jayne said he will likely retire following the injury. “I’m going to try and stay positive and hold on to the positive things in my life,” he said. “I was thinking about retiring after this year, or definitely slowing down. But I have been hurt so much the last 20 years, and bareback riding, you never feel 100 percent. After 20 years of riding bareback horses, I’m just ready to turn the page and try new goals in my life. So, I think this is going to be it for me.” Jayne and his wife, Kristin, have a daughter, Sienna, 5, and are expecting a baby boy in August. The couple also moved into a new home in Glen Rose, Texas, in August.

The highlight of Jayne’s rodeo career came in 2015 when he made history as the first European-born competitor at the Wrangler NFR. The Marseille, France, native saw his first rodeo at age 14, and at 16 he moved to the United States as a foreign-exchange student. He started off riding bulls in America, but after getting stepped on, decided that bareback riding was the event for him. Jayne placed ninth in the world standings in 2015 and 13th in 2016.

Re-Ride Four-time WPRA champion and ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductee Billie McBride was misidentified in a photograph in the Hall of Fame story on page 42 of the April 20, 2018, edition of ProRodeo Sports News .

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