ProRodeo Sports News - October 13, 2023

CINCH PLAYOFFS GOVERNOR’S CUP

Proctor/Medlin nab Governor’s Cup title Clay Guardipee photo Team roping header Coleman Proctor celebrates after he and his partner Logan Medlin won the championship round in Sioux Falls with a 3.4-second run.

The Cinch Playoffs have been kind to Coleman Proctor/Logan Medlin the past two seasons. In 2022, the team roping duo captured the first-place check in Puyallup, pocketing $13,000 each. They one upped themselves in 2023. Proctor/Medlin advanced to the final-four showdown round in Sioux Falls after clocking a 4.0-second run in the semifinals. They were the third team coming back in the finals, so at that point they knew they had to lay it all on the line. It paid off and then some. The dangerous duo put together a 3.4-second run to win the Cinch Playoffs Governor’s Cup and a $25,000 first-place check, edging out a 3.6-second time by Clint Summers/Jake Long. Their time tied them for the fastest run of the ProRodeo regular season and just a tenth of a second off the PRCA world record. “The teams we were up against were great teams and the steers were good,” said Medlin, 32. “I knew it was going to get silly fast and the first team jumped out and was 3.7 (seconds). I knew it was all or nothing at that point. That’s kind of how this format is setup.”

Proctor admits he didn’t get the start to the run he was hoping for, but his horsepower had his back. After that it was all a blur for the veteran team ropers. “I asked my partner, ‘we came all this way to win it didn’t we’ and he said ‘yeah,’ ” said Proctor, who’s now an eight-time Wrangler NFR qualifier. “That puts a lot of trust into what you have in one another. “I’ll be honest I took way too bad of a start and my horse took care of me. I was so glad to hear them yell that we were out clean, and it was all a blur after that. “That’s probably the fastest I’ve ever been heading, so to have it happen at a place like this, at a rodeo like this, for money like this, it couldn’t have been any sweeter.” They hope the momentum carries right into Las Vegas this December. “It’s the momentum that we can hopefully carry into the NFR,” Medlin said. “Anytime you have this much money, whether it’s at the beginning of the year or the end it’s how we make a living to pay our bills. It’s going to go a long way.”

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