Mission Mountain Rodeo Photos (Day 2)

Here are some photos from the Mission Mountain Rodeo last night in Polson. Click "read more" to see the full gallery.

Mission Mountain Rodeo Photos

Here are photos from the Mission Mountain Rodeo last night in Polson, make sure you head out to the rodeo again tonight at 7 p.m. at the Polson Fairgrounds. Click on the "Read More" link to see the full gallery of photos.

Update from the High School Rodeo State Finals

Here's a Sunday update from Wyatt Lytton, who is sending us updates about the Montana High School Rodeo State Finals in Bozeman. Here's what he had to say...

What a great finals! Our competitors all did well. We had two goes yesterday. Some of us made the short go today. Abby took second in the average for poles and third in the average for breakaway for the rodeo. My partner in team roping, Colton Johns, who heeled for me, and myself took fourth in the average team roping this weekend. There are other awards to be given out today.

We are still waiting on the tallies from today to see how we ended up for nationals. We will know soon here. They take the top four from each event. It is close. Everyone gave their best and made this year's state a blast. Congrats to all my friends and competitors from our valley. It was great to get to rodeo with all of you this rodeo season. See you this summer on the rodeo trail!

Update from the High School Rodeo Finals

Here is an update from Wyatt Lytton, one of the Lake County Rodeo athletes currently at the state rodeo finals in Bozeman.

We are having a great time. We had two goes Friday, slack and performance. Our girls and boys have made a great showing in their events. Some of us have gone out two rounds and some are up today. Don't have it confirmed who is to come back for Sunday's championship go round. It all depends on the final standings. We have all given our best so no matter what the outcome is we are happy with our year.

We had the battle of the districts before the rodeo last night. The theme was games. There is five districts, and our district game was scrabble. We had fun getting our idea together for this competition. We did not win although we felt good about it. And ours was funny, we had spelled out in the arena with all of us holding a squad, "district five five rocks". It turned out great and you could read it! Last night after the rodeo, we had a hypnotist entertain us. This guy was amazing. He was great and wowed all of us with his ability to hypnotize my buddies.

More will certainly be on the way!

Update from the High School Rodeo Finals

Wyatt Lytton is sending updates via text on the Montana High School Rodeo Finals. Here is his first update after one day of competition...

Thursday was the first day of competition. It was a cloudy wet day, but in rodeo you still compete despite weather. Our rodeo group is doing well. Some of us got our first round done with a time or score and some came up empty. All in all the spirits of everyone is great.

The arena is in great condition. Bozeman is putting on a great finals! We had a dinner last night for all competitors. It is in support of tobacco free rodeo, which High School rodeo declares. It was a full house and a great dinner. We are in slack this morning and performance tonight.

All of us from the valley are up at different times these next two days. We are supporting one another and having a great rodeo finals.

"RODEO YOU GOTTA LOVE IT!" as we all say!

More will certainly be on the way!

Vaughn High School Rodeo Results

Here are the results from the Vaughn High School Rodeo from last weekend, several rodeo athletes from the Mission Valley competed in it and here are their times.

Saturday
Barrels
Rebecca Lake - 16.06
Lexi Bagnell - 16.30

Poles
Rebecca Lake - 27.55
Lexi Bagnell - 22.60

Breakaway
Rebecca Lake - 4.74 10th
Lexi Bagnell - NT

Goat Tying
Rebecca Lake - 14.71
Lexi Bagnell - 10.82

Calf Roping
Wyatt Lytton - NT

Team Roping
Colton Johns (heading) Wyatt Lytton (heeling) 13.40 3rd

Sunday
Barrels
Rebecca Lake - 21.50
Lexi Bagnell - 16.34

Poles
Rebecca Lake - 27.28
Lexi Bagnell - 26.58

Breakaway
Rebecca Lake - NT
Lexi Bagnell - 4.34 3rd

Goat Tying
Rebecca Lake - 13.13
Lexi Bagnell - 9.51 3rd

Calf Roping
Wyatt Lytton - 19.43 11th

Team Roping
Colton Johns (heading) Wyatt Lytton (heeling) NT

Q&A with John Robertson

Check out this Q&A article with John Robertson. He's a PRCA team roper and is currently third on the money list in the Montana Circuit.

Click here to read the full article.

We'll stay updated with how he does for the rest of the season. You can check the PRCA standings here.

Southwest Youth Rodeo Results

Here are the results from this week's Southwest Youth Rodeo, held Sunday in Ronan.

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2010 Pioneer Days Rodeo Results

Here are the results from the 2010 Pioneer Days Rodeo that took place last weekend. See your name? (Click on the "read more" to see the results)

Updates from High School Rodeo Nationals

Tara Sheridan has been sending me updates from the National High School Rodeo Finals. Here's what we've received so far...

June 21 -

Emily Schall had a 18.137 in barrels on Tuesday night. Cody Sheridan and Colt Nagy got a no time this morning in the performance but are up tonight. The kids are having a great time with all the events going on other then rodeo... such as the volleyball tournament, Montana beat Texas in the first round but lost to Illinois on the second. They also are enjoying NRA shooting competition on a college fair.

June 22 -

Cody Sheridan caught the steer right put of the box... steer fell down... Colt Nagy missed no time. Emily Schall is up this morning.

28th Arlee Rodeo Results

Here are the results from last weekend's Fourth of July Open Rodeo.

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Heading to Rodeo Nationals Journal

Wyatt Lytton was kind enough again to text me about the Lake County rodeo stars down at the Junior Rodeo Nationals in Gallup, N.M. Here's his last entry as they wrapped up on July 3.

The finals have ended. It is a sad time in a way just because you work so hard throughout the year to earn your way here and then you are excited to get here and the finals went by so fast. The final results for Montana are:

Team Standings
Montana was 18th
Montana Boys were 15th
Montana Girls were 18th

Will Powell placed second in the All-Around Rookie Cowboy. We did fantastic and Montana as well as the Mission Valley can be proud of the representation from Will, Abby and Wyatt. This finals was a huge honor for me and I know for my teammates as well. Soon we will be back at it in August starting our new rodeo year. I hope you all enjoyed our view from the finals
-Wyatt, Abby and Will

Here is the whole Montana team. A great group of people and many years we plan in our future of sharing together rodeoing...

Heading to Rodeo Nationals Journal

Wyatt Lytton sent me an update from the Junior Rodeo Nationals last night with plenty of photos. Click on the "read more" to see more.

Heading to Rodeo Nationals Journal

Will getting ready to breakaway.

Wyatt Lytton was nice enough to send me an update last night via text while I was at the Mission Valley Mariners game. Here is what he had to say...

(Click the "read more" to see the full entry)

Heading to Rodeo Nationals Journal

Talented local rodeo athletes have been competing in the Junior Rodeo Nationals down in Gallup, New Mexico. One of those athletes, Wyatt Lytton has been nice enough to send up updates from the event via text. Here's texts he sent me on Monday...

(Click on "read more" to see the full journal entry)

Photos from the Mission Mountain Rodeo

Here are some shots I took from the Mission Mountain Rodeo in Polson, MT.

Heading to Rodeo Nationals Journal

Three talented athletes are heading to the National Finals Junior Rodeo on June 27 in Gallup, New Mexico. One of those athletes, Wyatt Lytton, was kind enough to spend some time writing a journal on how the entire team is doing while preparing for nationals. Here is his first entry.

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Montana State High School Rodeo Results

BOZEMAN - Several Lake County rodeo athletes competed at the Montana High School Rodeo Association State Finals last weekend and five of them will be moving on to nationals.

Emily Schall won a spot to nationals in Gukkette Wyo. after finishing the season with the highest scoring average in the barrels competition. She went into the competition ranked 10th but ended up winning a saddle, coat and buckle to go with the top average.

Cody Sheridan and Colt Nagy placed fourth overall in team roping and will also head to nationals.

Jessica Read ranked eighth overall in goat tying and she’ll go to Silver State in Fallon, Nev. for not only her event but also to serve as the first attendant in the Montana State High School Rodeo Queen Contest.

Becky Jo Dumont qualified to go to Silver State in Fallon, Nev. in the Barrels event after placing fifth.

Nichele Marmon won the Best Foot Forward Scholarship Award for $250

The Silver State International Rodeo will be on July 4-9 and the national finals will take place on July 17-24.
Click "read more" to see full rodeo results.