The ProRodeo Sports News - March 6, 2020

SAN ANTONIO

Waguespack scores second straight San Antonio win Repeat Feat TOP SCORES

BAREBACK RIDING 1. Mason Clements .................. $23,500 2. Tim O’Connell ........................ 19,875 3. Ty Breuer ................................17,250 4. Leighton Berry ....................... 13,000 STEER WRESTLING 1. Tyler Waguespack ................ $23,250 2. Curtis Cassidy ........................ 21,375 3. Jace Melvin ............................ 12,500 4. Tanner Brunner ...................... 11,750 TEAM ROPING 1. D. Egusquiza/T. Graves ........ $24,000 2. M. Sherwood/T. Yates ........... 20,500 3. C. Crawford/L. Medlin ........... 16,375 4. J. Flenniken/T. Worley ........... 11,000 SADDLE BRONC RIDING 1. Brody Cress ......................... $24,750 2. Allen Boore ........................... 21,000 3. Shorty Garrett ....................... 17,167 4. Wyatt Casper ......................... 16,250 TIE-DOWN ROPING 1. Shad Mayfield ...................... $24,500 2. Timber Moore ........................ 19,250 3. Tuf Cooper ............................. 15,500 4. Cody Huber ............................ 14,000 BARREL RACING 1. Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi .......... $23,500 2. Jill Wilson .............................. 23,250 3. Jimmie Smith ......................... 14,375 4. Kathy Grimes ......................... 13,000 BULL RIDING 1. Denton Fugate ...................... $23,000 2. Trevor Kastner ........................ 21,250 3. Dustin Boquet ........................ 18,750 4. Ruger Piva ............................. 16,222

$46,000 The combined money steer wrestler Tyler Waguespack earned while winning the 2019 ($22,750) and 2020 ($23,250) San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeos. $1.5 million The combined payout of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo – Feb. 6-22 – and the Division 1 Xtreme Bulls event in San Anto- nio, Feb. 22. The top money earner was sad- dle bronc rider Brody Cress with $24,750. Scooter, 14, is owned by Pearson and Kyle Irwin and was the PRCA steer wrestling horse of the year in 2017-18 and was second in 2019. A year ago, Waguespack finished seventh in the world standings after a chance to snare his third world crown slipped away when he received a no time in Round 9 at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. After eight rounds at the Finals, Waguespack led the average with a 34.6-second time on eight head. The tough break in Round 9 knocked him out of the average and the world championship hunt. “The ninth round at the NFR took my world title chances away, but San Antonio 2020 got my chances back up this year,” Waguespack said. BY TRACY RENCK I t was back-to-back for steer wrestler Tyler Waguespack at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo. The Gonzales, La., cowboy clocked a 3.8-second time in the finals Feb. 22 to snare the coveted San Antonio crown for the second year in a row before a sellout crowd of 16,500 at the AT&T Center. “I was a little nervous being first out (in the finals), but I set the pace,” Waguespack said. “My great horse Scooter got me on the ground in a great spot and Tyler Pearson made a great haze, and I was able to get a win.” Waguespack earned $23,250 in San Antonio – $15,000 for winning the finals. The two-time PRCA world champion in 2016 and 2018 moved up to fifth in the March 2 PRCA | RAMWorld Standings with $26,123. In 2018, Waguespack won the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo for the first time with a 3.5-second run in the finals. “This is one of the toughest rodeos out there, and right now I know it is my favorite being able to win it back-to-back,” Waguespack said. “Scooter makes my job super easy. There’s not a horse out there that tries any harder each time and gives you a chance to win.”

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