LAS VEGAS — On Friday, Dakota Eldridge continued his fight for his first-ever steer wrestling world championship. After failing to get down on his steer in Round 5 during the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Eldridge battled back with a second-place 3.9-second run in Round 6, shared the victory in Round 7 with a time of 3.
5 and ranked sixth in Round 8 on a time of 4.1 seconds. On Friday, in Round 9, he kept the ball rolling — splitting second place with a 4-flat.
On the run, Eldridge stacked up another $23,364. After the ninth round, Eldridge maintained his $13,352 lead in the PRCA world standings with $287,798 in earnings for the season. J.
D. Struxness — who tied Eldridge for second and third with a 4-flat of his own in Round 9 — was in second place with a total of $274,446. Struxness was eighth in the average — the cutoff for an aggregate check — with an eight-steer total of 32.
4 seconds. Eldridge was a spot outside of the average cutoff in ninth with an eight-steer tally of 33.4 seconds.
LAS VEGAS – The team roping race for gold buckles is as tight as any at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge. As the battle heats up, header Coleman Proctor and heeler Logan Medlin set themselves up for success with a 3.8-second run to win Round 9 and bring 17,158 fans at the Thomas & Mack Center to their feet.
It marked their second round win in the last three days and sent them to the pay window for the fourth straight night. They won Round 7 with a 3..
