By OAKLEE FIELDER
Sports Editor
Last weekend, the NWOSU rodeo team was at the Garden City Community College in Garden City, Kansas.
The Rangers and Lady Rangers were not their typical selves. Usually, they go out and pretty well dominate most, if not all of the competitions they are entered into.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason, they were not as good as they usually are. Not as many of them placed as usual. There are some unrecognizable names that did place, as NWOSU had some new competitors do really well this time around.
The men’s team placed tenth out of the seventeen teams that competed. The men ended with 95 points.
The women’s team did not do as well, only placing twelfth out of seventeen. The women only had 10 points to show.
In the tiedown, Kerry Duvall, from Oakdale, California, placed third overall.
Hazen Sparks, a freshman who is from Talihina placed fifth.
River Hamaker, from Leon, Iowa, was the highest Lady Ranger in the breakaway, in sixth.
Freshmen Brylee Zook, from Garnett, Kansas, and Trista Regner, from Apple Valley, California, tied for eighth in the breakaway.
In the steer wrestling, Emmett Edler who is a senior from State Center, Iowa, led the Rangers. He placed sixth overall.
Jacob Haren who is a graduate student from Erie, Colorado placed eighth.
Dale Lee Forman, a senior from Highmore, South Dakota, placed seventh in the goat tying event, leading the Lady Rangers.
Savannah Greenfield, a sophomore from Lakeview, Oregon placed tenth.
Tess Mortenson, a freshman from Souris, South Dakota was the only Lady Ranger to place in the team roping, although she was in twelfth out of twelve.
This was the rodeo team’s sixth competition, they have nine scheduled amd three remanining for the 2024-25 season.
The NWOSU rodeo team will head to Southwestern Oklahoma State University to compete in Weatherford.
This rodeo will be the third to last and will be on April 10-12.