Battle Mountain’s Emma Lemaire finished her week long stay in Lebanon, Tenn., at the National Junior High Finals Rodeo.
Lemaire and Spring Creek partner Lexi Carter were 16th in the average in team roping with a time of 40.47 seconds. The duo were fourth in their Friday morning performance at an even 14.00. They finished the second go-around in 22nd and were 16th entering the short go-around. They were unable to record a time in the short go.
Lemaire and Paradise Valley’s Cade Bell had no time in the first go-around of ribbon roping and placed 103rd in the average for the week.
Lemaire was 10th in her Saturday morning performanc eof barrel racing at 17.03 ands was 71st in the second go-around. She was 68th in the average after both go-arounds.
She was 13th in her performance in pole bending on Thursday morning at 21.077 and was 29th in the go-around. Lemaire was 35th in the average at 43.163.
National champions included: Bradon Ben (boys breakaway) of Peridot, Ariz., Wacey Day (goat tying) of Fleming, Colo., Colten Leach (chute dogging) of Billings, Mont., girls breakaway roper Sawyer Gilbert of Buffalo, S.D.; bareback steer rider Keenan Hayes of Hayden, Colo.; saddle bronc steer rider Gus Gaillard of Morse, Texas; boys goat tier Briar Teague of Rattan, Okla.; ribbon ropers Zoie Bedke and Cooper Duffin of Idaho; tie-down roper Trevor Hale of Perryton, Texas; pole bender Maci Jo Zimmerman of New Ross, Ind.; team ropers Tanner Brown, Florence, Miss., and, Matt Watt, Geiger, Ala.; and bull rider Chris Villanueva of Mesquite, Texas.
