Men Take 8th Place at GCCC

March 7, 2010

GARDEN CITY, Kan. - Southwestern Oklahoma State University advanced a number cowboys in bareback riding event and took three of the event's top six spots in the recently completed Garden City Community College rodeo.

 The Bulldogs ended up eighth as a team with 110 points. Western Oklahoma State College was the top winner collecting 595 points, Northwestern Oklahoma State was second with 435 points and Oklahoma Panhandle State was third with 390 points. The Bulldogs remain in seventh place in the tightly bunched Central Plains Regional standings with 1,255 points.

Dillon Green was the top scoring cowboy for SWOSU at the event.  In the bareback riding competition, Green placed fourth in the long run and won the short run with a score of 77. He finished second in the average.

SWOSU also got points from Justin Anderson and Cody Teel in the bareback event. Anderson split fifth and sixth in the long-run and then placed fifth in the short run. His scores were good enough for him to finish fifth in the average. Teel tied with Anderson in the long run and placed fourth in the short run. Overall, he finished one spot back from Anderson in sixth.

Cody Schelly had a good rodeo finishing first in the long run in the calf roping competition. Schelly had a time of 8.6 in the long run but did not place in either the short run or average.

Two other cowboys, Jared Parker and Greg Schaffield, also advanced in the competition by finishing in the top 10 in the initial round. Parker advanced in bareback riding while Schaffield went forward in steer wrestling.

SWOSU will next compete at the Fort Scott Community College event beginning March 12.