2017 San Antonio Stock Show and RodeoFeb 20, 2017 by Cassie Emerson Emerson
San Antonio Rodeo Contestants Use Opportunity To Qualify For Semifinals
San Antonio Rodeo Contestants Use Opportunity To Qualify For Semifinals
The fifth and final bracket of competition at the San Antonio Stock Show is well underway with two rounds completed in the AT&T Center on Sunday.
SAN ANTONIO -- The fifth and final bracket of competition at the San Antonio Stock Show is well underway with two rounds completed in the AT&T Center on Sunday.
Contestants who have already advanced to the semifinals are making their travel plans to return, and some who are competing in Bracket 5 are planning to stay in the Alamo City after the third and final round is completed on Monday.
Two of those individuals are team ropers Kelsey Parchman from Cumberland City, Tennessee, and Kinney Harrell from Marshall, Texas. With Parchman doing the heading and Harrell heeling, they won a second-place check during the matinee and then earned a first-place check with a 5.5 second run Sunday night. They have earned $3,992 and are the high-money winners so far in the bracket.
Harrell is a three-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR) qualifier who nearly made it a fourth last year. He closed the season in 18th place, just three spots out of the top 15 finish needed to compete at rodeo's championships. He and Parchman are on a mission to get back there this year.
Parchman joined the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association in 2008, the same year that Harrell qualified for his last NFR. One year later, Parchman made his only trip to Las Vegas. The roping partnership is working well for both of them in 2017. Harrell is currently 14th in the world standings, and Parchman is 11th. Prior to San Antonio's rodeo, they had won $11,564. They can add more to that here Monday night and then in the semifinals.
Wyatt Maines, from Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, is making the most of his first trip to the San Antonio Rodeo. Maines won the second round of bareback riding on Sunday night with an 81-point effort on Cervi Brothers Rodeo's Grin & Bear It. That added $2,281 to his third-place finish from the afternoon rodeo. He is looking at a semifinals qualification with $3,422.
Monday night's rodeo will start in the AT&T Center at 7 CT. The top four money earners in each of the events will fill the finals spots in the semifinals, which starts on Tuesday.
By Susan Kanode
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Contestants who have already advanced to the semifinals are making their travel plans to return, and some who are competing in Bracket 5 are planning to stay in the Alamo City after the third and final round is completed on Monday.
Two of those individuals are team ropers Kelsey Parchman from Cumberland City, Tennessee, and Kinney Harrell from Marshall, Texas. With Parchman doing the heading and Harrell heeling, they won a second-place check during the matinee and then earned a first-place check with a 5.5 second run Sunday night. They have earned $3,992 and are the high-money winners so far in the bracket.
Harrell is a three-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR) qualifier who nearly made it a fourth last year. He closed the season in 18th place, just three spots out of the top 15 finish needed to compete at rodeo's championships. He and Parchman are on a mission to get back there this year.
Parchman joined the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association in 2008, the same year that Harrell qualified for his last NFR. One year later, Parchman made his only trip to Las Vegas. The roping partnership is working well for both of them in 2017. Harrell is currently 14th in the world standings, and Parchman is 11th. Prior to San Antonio's rodeo, they had won $11,564. They can add more to that here Monday night and then in the semifinals.
Wyatt Maines, from Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, is making the most of his first trip to the San Antonio Rodeo. Maines won the second round of bareback riding on Sunday night with an 81-point effort on Cervi Brothers Rodeo's Grin & Bear It. That added $2,281 to his third-place finish from the afternoon rodeo. He is looking at a semifinals qualification with $3,422.
Monday night's rodeo will start in the AT&T Center at 7 CT. The top four money earners in each of the events will fill the finals spots in the semifinals, which starts on Tuesday.
By Susan Kanode