Tyler Viers of the Mid-Plains Rodeo team won the bull-riding event with 79 points at   the University of Nebraska-Lincoln rodeo this past weekend.

The Mid-Plains men’s team took seventh in the team standings with 150 points, while the women’s team took sixth place with 105 points.

Individually, besides Viers winning the bull riding, Duell Puttergill took fifth in the saddle bronc riding. Kalie Jacobson took third in the women’s breakaway roping.

On the year, the Mid-Plains men’s team is in seventh place with 1070 points and the women’s team is in 10^th place with 110 points.  Individually, Puttergill is in sixth place with 260 points in saddle bronc riding.  Tyler Murray is tied for 11^th in steer wrestling with 200 points. Jacobson is in 14^th place with 110 points in breakaway roping.

In the bull riding, Mid-Plains has five cowboys in the top 15 led by Keali’i’auka Kaai in fourth place with 290 points. Colter Glendy and Tyler Viers are fifth and sixth in the region with 230 and 190 points respectively. Tyler Wriedt is 10^th with 80 points and Dakota Rice is tied for 11^th with 70 points.

Mid-Plains travels this weekend to Spearfish S.D. to compete in the Black Hills State University rodeo on April 24 – 25.