Dickinson State rodeo team 'ropes-up' season in Nebraska

Gaylon Wm. Parker, The Dickinson Press, N.D.
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May 9—LINCOLN, Neb. — The Dickinson State University Blue Hawks rodeo teams wrapped up and roped-up their seasons at the final rodeo at the University of Nebraska last weekend, and the DSU women's team was again number-one on the board with 385 team points. That total was more than 100 points above their closest competitors from Black Hills State University, who scored 275 points in the event.

Meanwhile, the men's team roped-in a tie for sixth with 180 points with Graceland University from Lamoni, Iowa, but a few of the men stood out during the competition.

DSU's Kiarra Marie Reiss took top-honors in barrel-racing with a time/score of 32.34 points, while her teammate Kelly Jo Bang had a fifth-place finish in the event with a 32.57. Kailyn Kelly Groves was at the top of the list for breakaway-roping with a time/score of 4.9 for the Blue Hawks and Samantha Jan Sabrosky turned in a sixth-place mark of 10.3 in the event.

The men's all-around saw DSU's Clay Roper Gerhardt end up in sixth-place with 100 points that included an 11.2 time/score and a 7.9 time/score in team-roping header category.

Meanwhile, Jory Alan Boote turned in a fourth-place 10.7 time/score in tie-down roping and Cayden Don Kling was seventh in the team-roping heeler category with an 8.3 time/score with teammate Owen McGowan Gustafson shortly behind in eighth with an 8.5 in the same event.

According to the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association, the 2022-23 Great Plains Region standings — of which Dickinson State University is a member in competition — the women's-team win propelled them to the number-one ranking for the year with 2,614.33 points, which was almost 400 points ahead of their rivals from Black Hills State University out of Spearfish, SD, which scored 2,260.50 and far ahead of third-place University of South Dakota's 1,417.50.

On the men's side, DSU had a respectable third-place finish at 3,866, which was behind Black Hills State's 4,534 and top-ranked Iowa Central Community College's 5,512.50 to close out the season.

Kelly Jo Bang's 825 overall points was good for third-place in the women's all-around competition, while her teammate Morgan Danielle Foss ended up in eighth with 446. The top men's all-around competitor for the Blue Hawks was Kling with 629 points on the year at ninth — place and Boote was just behind him with 550.

Mason James Hood ended up in third-place for saddle-bronc riding for DSU with 390 points and Chance D. Isaak, Tanner Thomas Jarrett and Kling were fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-place in bareback riding with 630, 520 and 270 points, respectively.

Dalton Kincaid Praus took third-overall in bull-riding with 316 points on the year and his teammate Izaak Benjamin Boekelman took sixth with 187 points and Jack Wyatt Rodenbaugh was tied for eighth with 110.

Boote ended up at seventh in tie-down roping with 340 points and Gerhardt was 12th with 190, while Chasyn Ryley Ystaas took team-roping header honors at #1 with 565 combined points and Gerhardt took second with 435 with Foss finishing 14th in the category with 210.

Kling ended up in fifth in the team-roping heeler events with 339 points and his teammate Trey Ray Bohlman was eighth with 307 and Boote was tied at 13th at 210 points on the year.

Bang's barrel-racing finish was strong and she ended up with a second-place total of 547 points, while Reiss wound up at eighth with 390, and Bang ended up in fifth in breakaway-roping with 278 points, barely ahead of teammate Jade Nicole Boote's 276 with Foss's 236 good enough for eighth and Groves's 185 taking 12th in a tie, and Groves ended up high in the rankings at goat-tying with a second-place 680 for the 2022-23 season.

For more information about the Dickinson State University rodeo team, please keep reading The Dickinson Press and/or visit

http://collegerodeo.com/standings/great-plains-region-standings/

and

https://www.dsubluehawks.com/sports/rodeo/index

.