Bear Paw Roundup sees big rides and great scores

One of the biggest rodeo weekends of the entire summer took place last week in Chinook. 

Last Thursday and Friday, the annual PRCA Bear Roundup was held as part of the Blaine County Fair.

Thursday night’s performance saw Ty Owens win the Bareback, Jaret Whitmen take first in Steer Wrestling, Brady Tryan and Calgary Smith win the Team Roping, Hunter Haskins and Liam Pauley tie in Saddle Bronc, Haven Meged win the Tie-Down Roping, Abigail Knight taking first in Varrell Racing and Brooklyn Berg and Joey Williams winning the Breakaway Roping.

On Friday night, Bodee Lambers, while Dakota Louis took first in the Bull Riding with 78 points. 

Bear Paw Roundup

Final Results

All-around cowboy: Bode Spring, $2,237, tie-down roping and steer wrestling.

Bareback riding: 1. Bodee Lammers, 84 points on J Bar J’s Straight Stick, $1,849; 2. Ty Owens, 82.5, $1,401; 3. Tucker Zingg, 80.5, $1,008; 4. Will Norstrom, 79.5, $672; 5. Jake Kesl, 78.5, $392; 6. Tristan Hansen, 76.5, $280.

Steer wrestling: 1. Jaret Whitman, 3.6 seconds, $2,017; 2. Quentin Wheeler, 4.2, $1,669; 3. Bode Spring, 5.0, $1,322; 4. Jaden Whitman, 5.1, $974; 5. J.D. Struxness, 6.4, $626; 6. Brady Boyce, 6.7, $348.

Team roping: 1. Brady Tryan/Calgary Smith, 4.8 seconds, $2,686 each; 2. Dillon Johnson/Kory Mytty, 5.1, $2,336; 3. Clay McNichh McNichol/Riley Wakefield, 6.1, $1,986; 4. Shawn Bird/Zachary Schweigert, 6.2, $1,635; 5. Ian Austiguy/Sam Levine, 6.4, $1,285; 6. Jace Bishop/Jake Newton, 6.9, $934; 7. Nolan Conway/Alonzo Skunkcap, 7.2, $584; 8. Shayne Bishop/John Graham, 7.3, $234.

Saddle bronc riding: 1. (tie) Hunter Haskins, on J Bar J’s Night Ringer, Reginald Lecourt, on J Bar J’s Boots, and Liam Pauley, on J Bar J’s Painted Commotion, 74 points, $1,702 each; 4. JC DeSaveur, 72, $802; 5. (tie) Judd Applegate, Garrett Varilek and Sam Weston, 71, $389 each; no other qualified rides.

Tie-down roping: 1. Haven Meged, 8.7 seconds, $2,216; 2. Jason Smith, 8.9, $1,927; 3. Trevin Baumann, 9.1, $1,638; 4. Shane Smith, 9.4, $1,349; 5. (tie) Hank Hollenbeck and Bode Spring, 10.9, $915 each; 7. Ty Wilcox, 11.0, $482; 8. Clayton Miller, 11.7, $193.

Barrel racing: 1. Abigail Knight, 17.53 seconds, $1,822; 2. Brittney Cox, 17.64, $1,562; 3. Jamie Martin, 17.67, $1,301; 4. Tammy Carpenter, 17.71, $1,128; 5. Lisa Warfield, 17.78, $868; 6. (tie) Heather Crowley and Lexi Murer, 17.87, $607 each; 8. Anna Pethel, 17.91, $347; 9. Ashley Day, 17.96, $260; 10. (tie) Valee Miller and Bailee Murnion, 17.99, $87 each.

Bull riding: * 1. Dakota Louis, 78 points on J Bar J’s Apollo 12, $5,946; no other qualified rides. *(all totals include ground money).

Breakaway roping: 1. (tie) Brooklyn Berg and Joey Williams, 2.4 seconds, $2,582 each; 3. (tie) Taylor Engesser and Brittany Schweigert, 2.5, $1,815 each; 5. (tie) Brooke Curuchet and Celie Salmond, 2.6, $1,187 each; 7. (tie) Montana Brown and Kirsty Stewart, 2.7, $628 each; 9. (tie) Dusti Bird, Kierra Hougen and Ariana Varischetti, 2.8, $419 each; 12. (tie) Alicia Bird, Shelby Boisjoli-Meged, Samantha Fulton and Cadee Williams, 3.0, $70 each.