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Young world cham= pions win big at PBR Challenge

SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas – The 2009 version of the Texas Heritage National Bank PBR Challenge presented by Priefert Ranch Equipment was a showcase of young world champio= ns.

Bull rider Austin Meier of = Kinta, Okla., and= bullfighter Wacey Munsell of Ulysses, Kan= ., are just 22 years old, and Crosswired is a 4-year-old bucking bull.

Meier won the Championship = Bull Riders and International Professional Rodeo Association world titles in 200= 4, riding most of the season as a 17-year-old. Munsell was 18 when he won the = 2005 freestyle bullfights that were associated with the Professional Bull Riders World Finals. Since then, he’s added several more, including the Professional Bullfighters Daisy Protection Bullfight world title in 2007. C= rosswired, owned by D&H Cattle Co./Wiggins, is in his second season in the American Bucking Bull Inc. Classic, which he won in 2008.

Over this past weekend, all= three walked away from the Hopk= ins County Regional Civic Center with the PBR Challenge titles in their respective events.

There’s something in = the east Texas= water that Munsell likes. Representing Team CNB Bank, Munsell and Chad Dowdy of Bristo= w, Okla.= , stood above a crowd of elite athletes to win the PBF Daisy Protection Bullfight T= our event, earning $3,500 in the process. The tandem finished with 340 points o= ver two nights of competition to outlast the reigning PBF world champs – = Andy Burelle of Ardmore, Okla., and Dusty Tuckness of Meeteetse, Wyo., representing Team Texas Heritage National Bank – by just three points= .

In the two-year history of = the PBR Challenge in Sulphur Springs, Munsell has won the championship twice; last year, he was teamed with fellow Kansan Sam Gress.

Burelle and Tuckness seemed= to be in top form in winning the opening round, securing 174 points and earning t= he $2,000 first-place round payout. But Team CNB Bank bounced back big on the second night, scoring an event-high 178 points and earning the crown.

Tuckness, 23, earned the prestigious TwoBulls Most Valuable Player honor, which was voted upon by his fellow bullfighters.

Saturday night also proved = to be fruitful for Meier, who opened the 2009 PBR season on fire. While he’s cooled off some, he’s No. 14 on the PBR’s premier tour, the Bui= lt Ford Tough Series, and is 15^th in the qualifier standings, refer= ring to those cowboys who are trying to earn enough dollars to be among the top = 40 at season’s end and earn a spot in the World Finals.

Meier won the first round w= ith an 89-point ride, then added an 88-point ride in the championship round to cla= im the overall title, edging Brazilians Robson Palermo and Guilherme Marchi by two poi= nts – Marchi is the reigning PBR world champion.

Meier added $4,246 and move= d past $80,000 in 2009 earnings.

Paler= mo and Marchi were part of a stellar showing on Friday night, finishing with 8= 7s in the opening round and just behind Caleb Sanderson of Kissimee, Fla., who had an 87.5. Palermo and Marchi then scored 88s in the short go-round to take the lead in the average. Those stood tall until Meier solidified his win on the final night= of competition.

Crosswired is another in a = long list of excellent young bucking bulls that is part of the D&H Cattle Co. string. Also owned by Clifton Wiggins, the bull won last year’s ABBI Classic championship. Crosswired is the son of the great bull Crossfire Hurricane, which helped D&H Cattle land PBR Stock Contractor of the Year titles from 2001-06.

RESU= LTS

Texas Heritage National Bank PBR Challenge

pres= ented by Priefert Ranch Equipment

PBR Enterprise-Rent-A-Car Tour:

First round: 1. Austin Meier, = Kinta, Okla., 89 points, $944; 2. Caleb Sanderson, Kissimee, Fla., 87.5, $708; 3. Robson Palermo, Acre, Brazil, and Guilherme Marchi, Lemi, Brazil, 87, $354.=

Average: 1. Meier, 177 points = on two rides, $3,303; 2. Palermo and Marchi, 175, $1,887; 4. Sanderson, 172, $944;= 5. Valderon de Oliviera, Aparecida Goiania, Brazil, 168, $566; 6. Clay Lewis, = Mt. Pleasant, Texas, and Ryan McConnel, Atoka, Okla., 86.5; 8. Clayton Baethge, Johnson City, Texas, Jason O’Hearn, Rothbury, Australia, and Dusty Higgins, Midland, Texas, 86, $63.

ABBI Classic:

Overall champion: Crosswired, owned by D&H Cattle Co./Clifton Wiggins

Daisy Protection Bullfight Tour:

First round: 1. Team Texas Heritage National Bank, Andy Burelle, Ardmore, Okla./Dusty Tuckness, Meeteetse, Wyo., 174 points, $2,000; 2. Team CNB Bank, Wacey Munsell, Ulysses, Kan./Chad Dow= dy, Bristow, Okla., 162, $1,500; 3. Team Timber Ridge Belgians, Dave Jantzi, Sugarcreek, Ohio/Toby Inman, Davis Junction, Ill., 143, $1,000; 4. Team Alliance Bank, Joe Garretson, Springfield, Mo./Lance McIlvain, Arlington, Texas, 134, $500.

Second round: 1. Team CNB Bank, Munsell/Dowdy, 178 points, $2,000; 2. Team Texas Heritage National Bank, Burelle/Tuckness, 163, $1,500; 3. Team Timber Ridge Belgians, Jantzi/Inman, 148, $1,000; 4. Team Alliance Bank, Garretson/McIlvain, 146, $500.

Overall results: 1. Team CNB B= ank, Munsell/Dowdy, 340 points; 2. Team Texas Heritage National Bank, Burelle/Tuckness, 337; 3. Team Timber Ridge Belgians, Jantzi/Inman, 291; 4. Team Alliance Bank, Garretson/McIlvain, 280.

TwoBulls Most Valuable Player: Tuckness.

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