LUBBOCK, TEXAS – The Eastern New Mexico Rodeo team competed in their final rodeo of the fall stretch at Texas Tech University this past Halloween weekend. The Hounds earned two event wins by
Orran Hart in the steer wrestling and
Evann Segura in the breakaway roping, plus ten others who finished in the top ten. The women finished third overall in the team race, while the men finished in seventh and eighth.
Orran Hart earned ENMU's first event win on the men's side in the steer wrestling, clocking a speedy 3.9-second run in the long round, and followed it up with a 5.4 in the short go. Hart has placed in the top ten in the bulldogging in four out of five weekends, finally capping off the fall run with a championship title.
Bowdy Neece finished as the reserve champion in the tie-down roping with times of 10.2 and 9.2 seconds, improving on his ninth place finish at the Frank Phillips College Rodeo two weeks ago.
Foster Krempin found the top ten for the first time this season, joining Hart in the steer wrestling finals and finishing in tenth.
Cash Chavez and
Walker Dennis rounded out the men's finalists, finishing in 7
th and 9
th respectively in the team roping. Chavez roped an 8.4 in the long round and a 13.6 in the short round. Dennis had a lightning-fast 6.6 run in the long round, but recorded a no time in the finals.
Evann Segura earned the Greyhounds second breakaway title of the season in her first trip to the finals of the season. Segura roped a 2.6 in the long round and improved to a 2.3 in the short go. Just behind her as the reserve champion was
Shaylee Baxley, who matched Segura in the long round with a 2.6 and had a 2.4 in the finals.
Leah Wood finished in fifth with a 3.1 and a 4.5, and
Allie Murphy rounded out the ENMU field in the breakaway finals with a ninth place finish. Murphy also found herself in the barrel racing finals, as she has done at all five rodeos so far this season, finishing in third. Murphy ran the fastest time of the rodeo in the long round at 15.86, and followed it up with a 16.04 in the short go. Her two top-ten finishes earned her fourth place in the all-around.
Harlee Barela made her first finals of the 2026 season as well in the barrels, placing eighth with times of 16.43 and 16.74. Two Greyhounds made the goat tying finals;
Georgia Shields finished in third with times of 7.8 and 9.1, and
Natalie Larabee placed just behind in fourth with two runs of 8.4 and 8.6.
The women's team finished third in the team competition, while the men tied for seventh for the fifth consecutive time. Coming into the weekend, the women sit in second place in the Caprock Region standings while the men ranked at seventh.
