The emotion on Paden Bray’s face said it all after he took a victory lap in the first NFR performance of his career.
The 22-year-old hollered passionately at his partner Erich Rogers after the duo had a time of 4.8 seconds to win Round One in team roping.
BRAY/ROGERS ROUND ONE WIN
“It’ll dang sure give us more confidence, but what I feel confident about is we just made our run we didn’t do anything crazy,” Bray said. “Erich did a great job at the barrier and stuck him, and it wasn’t radical or out of control, and I feel like we can do that every time.”
Splitting second was Dustin Egusquiz/Travis Graves and Luke Brown/Joseph Harrison. Both were one-tenth off the round winners.
NFR TEAM ROPING RESULTS
First Round: 1. Erich Rogers / Paden Bray, 4.8 s, $26,231; 2. Dustin Egusquiza / Travis Graves, 4.9 s, $18,192; 2.Luke Brown / Joseph Harrison, 4.9 s, $18,192; 4. Clay Smith / Jade Corkill, 5.1 s, $11,000; 5. Brenten Hall / Chase Tryan, 5.2 s, $6,769; 6. Cody Snow / Junior Nogueira, 5.7 s, $4,231.
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