TIMED EVENT CHAMPIONSHIP

Two more performances today, so each contestant has now run 20 head. It was Cash Myers 25th birthday, and he maintained his lead during the afternoon performance. Tonight's show was a disaster for Cash, as his header Paul Petska hickied a horn causing Myers to take a 60 second time for his run in the heeling. This evenings performance was all Trevor Brazile. Brazile completed the 5 head go round in 44.6 seconds, breaking his own arena record and earning $3,000 for that. It will surely stand as the fastest go round of the TEC, earning him another $10,000, or a total of $13,000 for the one go round. His times per event were heading 6.5, tie-down 11.3, heeling 8.3, steer wresting 6.7, and steer roping 11.8.

Going into tomorrow's final round, the top four and their times are 1) Trevor Brazile, 252.5 2) Kyle Lockett 252.6 3) Chance Kelton 277.0 and 4) Luke Branquinho 320.1

There were two interesting bulldogging runs this afternoon. Chad Hiatt's doggin' horse ran wide, but Chad managed to reach out and grab the inside horn, and this somehow flipped the steer, kind of like a hoolihan. I sat right there and watched it and I still don't know how he did it. Anyway, he beat the steer up off the ground and managed to throw him in 9.6 seconds. Jimmie Cooper missed his steer, then jumped on the hazer's horse but couldn't get the steer lined up against the fence for a jump. He finally got the steer held up at the back of the arena, jumped off the hazer's horse, grabbed the steer by the tail, worked his way up to the horns and threw the steer. Unfortunately, the 60 second buzzer went off just before the steer's back hit the ground. Cooper got a great round of applause from the spectator's for his never-give-up effort. I sure wish GB had been here to see it.