ProRodeo Sports News - Dec. 21, 2018

YEAR IN REVIEW AUGUST 2018

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The ProRodeo Hall of Fame inducts its newest class: world champion team ropers Speed Williams and Rich Skelton ; world champion bareback rider Deb Greenough ; rodeo notable Walt Garrison ; barrelman/clown Leon Coffee ; stock contractor Billy Minick ; and the Black Hills Roundup . From the WPRA are Billie McBrid e; Kristie Peterson ; and Peterson’s horse French Flash Hawk ( Bozo ). Former PRCA Chief Operating Officer Kay Bleakly is honored with the Ken Stemler Pioneer Award. PRCA ProRodeo photo by James Phifer

PRCA WORLD STANDINGS LEADERS AS OF AUG. 23, 2018 Bareback riding Tim O’Connell $160,144 Steer wrestling Tyler Pearson $96,518 Team roping (header) Kaleb Driggers $96,963 Team roping (heeler) Junior Nogueira $96,963 Saddle bronc riding Jacobs Crawley $129,285 Tie-down roping Tyson Durfey $103,354 Steer roping Tuf Cooper $75,408 Bull riding Sage Kimzey $227,418

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ProRodeo Hall of Fame rodeo clown/bullfighter Chuck Henson

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dies at the age of 87.

Henson worked

the 1967 and 1971 National Finals

Rodeo. He served on the PRCA’s Board of Directors as contract member director from 1974-77. He was PRCA Clown of the Year in 1977.

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Bareback rider Connor Hamilton posts 173.5 points on two head

Bull rider Jordan Spears wins more than $9,000 at the Lea County Fair & PRCA Rodeo Xtreme Bulls title in Lovington, N.M. Peggy Gander photo

to win the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour’s Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo.

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