10-second penalty spoils Whitecone cowboy’s hopes for all-around
Navajo Times | Adron Gardner Creighton Curley holds on for a 66-point ride in the saddle bronc competition during the Jacobs NNRA Rodeo in Grants May 20. 10-second penalty spoils Whitecone cowboy’s hopes for all-around
GRANTS, N.M.
A week after winning the all-around race in Page, Clifford Williams nearly pulled off the same feat in Grants on Sunday.
The Whitecone, Arizona, cowboy won the bareback event with a 68-point ride. But in the team-roping event, Williams was assessed a 10-second penalty in what was a good solid run at the Jacob’s Custom Buckers Rodeo.
“I broke out by a hair but that’s the name of the game,” said Williams of his 15.57 run with partner Shane Jodie. “You don’t win until all the dust settles.”
Williams, who was the only contestant to register an eight-second ride in the bareback event, said everything worked out perfectly aboard Scar Face, a Cleveland Rodeo Company product.
“I had a good mark out,” he said.
Scar Face “came just right and he had some good kick. That is what a rider wants all the time…I’ve been drawing good and hopefully that continues,” he said.
At the end of season Williams is hoping to be the year-end winner in the bareback event with Indian National Finals Rodeo only taking the regular season champion in the entire rough stock event. In the timed events, there will be two qualifiers.
“That is my goal to make it back to the INFR in not just one event but two,” he said.
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