Creasy, a 28-year-old from Brownfield, Alberta, scored 79 points on Beutler & Son’s Showbiz. “I was always tight and I though it would be worth a shot.”Īlso during Friday’s performance, former Texas Tech standout Luke Creasy took over the lead in saddle bronc riding. “It sounds un-cowboy like, but it is hard, and it has helped me out a lot with my flexibility, my balance and my core. “I do yoga throughout the week,” Beaty said. Regardless of the video, Beaty said he was “going to ride him anyway.” That confidence stemmed from his somewhat secret training regime -yoga. “I watched him get ridden last night for 70 points and he was a good bull,” Beaty said. Bechthold scored a 65.īeaty watched a video of Brett Custer riding his bull, Smokin’ Joe from the night before to prepare for his ride. Bechthold and Colten Beaty went back-to-back and qualified, with Beaty inching into fourth place with score of 68. Until Saturday afternoon there were only two qualifying rides. We left home at 5:30 this morning … it is a lot of work that goes into it, so when it goes good you appreciate it.”įriday, Douglas Duncan, a two-time qualifier to the National Finals Rodeo when he was not long out of high school and a seven-time qualifier to the PBR world finals, stayed on Nutrena’s Catching Hell for 83.5 points. I think every rodeo cowboy works hard and puts the time in. “You also got to be tough and strong a little bit and that kind of fits me. “My family grew up around horses and it is something where you have to grow up around them and be a cowboy,” Melvin said. And him becoming a cowboy and her becoming the Masked Rider wasn’t surprising. Like most rodeo cowboys, Melvin said his family grew up around horses his entire life. “I had a good steer, a good hazer and a good horse, so it was just my day today,” Melvin said. Melvin, a 25-year-old from Fort Pierre, South Dakota, got himself into contention for the prize money in the steer wrestling competition first, pulling down his steer in 6.3 seconds -a time that placed him second going into the final round Saturday night at the Coliseum. “She is die hard (fan), I root for them when they are playing football or whatever, but not like her.” “(Because she is here) I always make Lubbock a rodeo to be at,” Melvin said. Melvin’s sister, Jessica, was the Masked Rider for Texas Tech from 2002-03. She had to ride the horse through the pep rallies and onto the football field and I just got to ride in an arena about 200 feet,” said Melvin, who was on pace to place in two separate events Saturday afternoon at the ABC Pro Rodeo at City Bank Coliseum - steer wrestling and tie-down roping. He only has to ride about 200 feet before he leaps off the horse anyway. Jace Melvin knows he isn’t the best rider in his family.īut, that’s OK.
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