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1999 National Finals
OPEN PENNER GREG NASH, STILL HOT ON THE TRIAL FROM A WINNING PERFORMANCE IN THE SHOOT OUT, TEAMED UP WITH BRYCE BARKER AND GAIL FRANK TO PEN THREE IN A 32.89. WITH THIS BEING JUST THE THIRD TEAM OUT IN THIS DIVISION, THEIR COMPETITION KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE TOUGH, AND TOUGH IT WAS. HOLDING ON TO THE FAST TIME TITLE DID NOT LAST FOR LONG. BOB BISHOP, EDDIE SORENSON AND LEE SHELTON DRAWING LAST IN THE FIRST HERD PUT THEIR THREE IN THE PEN IN 26.08. NOT LETTING A 26 SECOND RUN SCARE THEM TEAM NUMBER 28 OF KATHY RODGERS, BRIAN STUCKY AND LOWELL WESTFALL PUT THE PEDAL TO THE METAL AND DROVE THEIR THREE HEAD TO THE PEN IN A WHOPPING 22.17 SECONDS. THE RACE WAS ON..... FORTY-TWO TEAMS OF THIS DIVISION WOULD FIND THEMSELVES WITH TIMES UNDER 50 SECONDS. TWENTY -FIVE OF THOSE 42 WOULD HOLD CLAIM TO RUNS UNDER 40 SECONDS. BRINGING BACK 30 TEAMS TO THE SECOND GO SET THE PENCIL TO THE PAPER FOR SOME TEAMS. TIMES LOGGING IN AT 1/100 OF A SECOND IN DIFFERENCES KEPT THE STRATEGIES AND COMPETITION ROLLING. EVEN WITH THESE EXTREMELY FAST RUNS ONE RIGHT AFTER THE OTHER, IT TOOK CONSISTENCY TO DRAW THE BIG CHECKS. REIGNING VICTORIOUS WITH THREE RUNS IN THE LOW THIRTIES GAVE $ 5,931.00 TO THE TEAM OF DAVID HALL, JODI HILL AND LARRY PANCOST.
1ST GO 24.95 ON 3 ** # 168 NASH / PEIRCE / JORDON 27.08 ON 3
IT WAS EARLY ON IN THE DIVISION WHEN A CUT OFF TIME IN THE MID THIRTIES WAS ESTABLISHED. HANGING IN THERE — TEAM NUMBER 151 — BETTY MACKEY, CYNTHIA CAVANAUGH AND TWINK POTTS RODE IN AND TOOK COMMAND OF THE HERD AND PULLED THREE HEAD OUT AND PENNED THEM IN 20.62 SECONDS. THE RUN WAS SO PERFECT AND IT HAPPENED SO FAST THAT THERE WAS HARDLY TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT. THE CHEERS OF THE CROWD LASTED LONGER THAN THEIR ENTIRE RUN. WELL DONE LADIES, WELL DONE !! THE TEAM PEN AMERICA STAFF AND CREW RAN THE NUMBER SEVEN
DIVISION IN LESS THAN TWELVE HOURS. 301 TEAMS IN THIS DIVISION REALLY MEANT
A TOTAL OF 379 RUNS - 4 ARENA WORKINGS - 38 CATTLE CHANGES - AND A FEW HERD
CHECKS. AND WE STILL HAD TIME FOR A GOOD DINNER !!
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AND BUSINESS IT WAS. ALL BUSINESS TO THE TEAMS THAT FOLLOWED. TEAM
TWO OF ROBERT ESPINOSA, LON HATFIELD AND DAVID RATH CAME AND WENT COLLECTING
A NO TIME FOR THEIR EFFORTS. IN RIDES TEAM NUMBER THREE, THE ARIZONA TEAM
OF BROTHERS KIP AND KERRY APPENZELLER AND YOUNG KAREN MARTIN . IN A SHORT
32.99 SECONDS , THEY HAD PUT THREE IN THE PEN AND CLAIMED THE TITLE OF FAST
TIME — AT LEAST FOR THE MOMENT. IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE THIRTIETH TEAM
RODE OUT THAT THE FAST TIME TITLE CHANGED HANDS. THE NEW OWNERS JODI HILL,
DAVID HALL AND LARRY PANCOST WOULD NOT RELINQUISH THIS HONOR. A 31.23 ON
THREE HEAD WAS CARVED IN STONE AND FAST TIME CHECKS WERE CUT WITH THEIR
NAMES ON THE - PAY TO THE ORDER OF - LINE. 
TALK ABOUT TOUGH. SOME PENNERS THOUGHT
THE CATTLE WERE UNFORGIVING. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE PENNERS
WERE THE TOUGH ONES. OUT OF 128 TEAMS, 43.5 % PENNED THREE HEAD OF CATTLE
IN THE THIRTIES AND FORTIES IN THE FIRST GO AROUND. ARIZONA PENNERS KERRY
APPENZELLER , MIKE RHODE AND LISA LEONARD SHOWED NO MERCY WHEN THEY HIT
THE HERD ON THEIR FIRST GO. CLOCKING IN AT AT AN AMAZING 21.96 ON THREE
HEAD, THIS TEAM # 123, DID NOT LET THE FAST PACE AND HARD COMPETITION SHAKE
THEM UP. THIS WAS ONE OF THE FASTEST TIMES TURNED IN THE ENTIRE WEEK. TEAM
AFTER TEAM STOPPED THE CLOCK IN THE MIXED WITH TIMES IN THE LOW THIRTIES
AND FORTIES. METHODICAL TEAM WORK EVENTUALLY PAID OFF FOR THE ARIZONA TEAM
OF APPENZELLER / RHODE AND LEONARD. THEIR CONSISTENCY HELD OUT TO THE SHORT
GO WHEN THEY TURNED IN AN INCREDIBLE 27.69 ON THREE TO CLINCH THE TITLE
IN THE MIXED. THIS TEAM SHARED $9,755.00 FOR THEIR FAST TIME AND FIRST PLACE
WINS. 
UP WITH NEW AND LOWER RATED RIDERS.
FOR SOME OF THE NUMBER NINE DIVISION TEAMS , THIS IS THEIR FIRST DAY OF
COMPETITION AS MANY OF THEM WILL RIDE OUT THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK TO TEST
THE WATERS IN THE SEVENS AND FIVES. BUT DON’T SPEND TOO MUCH TIME WONDERING
ABOUT SKILL LEVELS IN THIS DIVISION. RIGHT OFF THE BAT TEAM NUMBER FOUR
OF FRANK YOUNG , CINDY YOUNG AND BONNIE WEAVER PULL THREE HEAD OUT OF THE
HERD AND PEN THEM IN A 30.68. SETTING THE HOOK THIS EARLY WILL ONLY MEAN
THAT THOSE TO FOLLOW WILL HAVE TO STAY ON THEIR TOES. ALL DAY LONG GREAT
TIMES WERE 
2ND GO 32.09
ON 3 ** SHORT GO 27.69 ON 3 GAVE THIS TEAM A TOTAL
OF AN EYE POPPING 1:24.73 ON 9 HEAD AND INDIVIDUAL CHECKS OF $4,091.00,
SENDING THIS TEAM AWAY WITH $12,273.00. NOT A BAD RETURN ON AN ENTRY FEE
OF $270.00. OUT OF 191 TEAMS IN THE NUMBER NINE DIVISION 78 OF THOSE TEAMS
PENNED THREE HEAD OF CATTLE ON THEIR FIRST GO IN THE TWENTIES THIRTIES AND
FORTIES. FAST TIMES WERE TURNED IN ALL THROUGH OUT THE DAY. TEAM # 91 OF
MIKE VAN ZANT, JEFF DUNCAN AND PAUL FAIR ALMOST BEAT THE CLOCK WITH 26.41
ON THREE. TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THESE OTHER BREATH TAKING TIMES
SOMETIMES NOT — THROUGH THE HERD CUT THEIR CATTLE
AND DRIVE THEM TO THE PEN. FORTY -FOUR PERCENT OF THE TEAMS PENNING REMAINED
IN THE RUNNING WITH TIMES IN THE LOW FORTIES. THE TOP SIXTY FIVE TEAMS IN
THE FIRST GO RECORDED TIMES IN 39.00 SECONDS OR LESS. INCREDIBLE RUNS IN
THE LOW TO UPPER TWENTIES DOMINATED THE DIVISION. ALL WEEK LONG THE PENNERS
HAD BEEN TRAINING THE CATTLE. ALL WEEK LONG ALL THE “BAD HABITS”
SO VISIBLE FROM THE STANDS, PLAYED SHOW AND TELL ON THE PENNERS WHO OVER
RODE THEIR COW, PUSHED TOO HARD IN THE HOLE OR THOUGHT THAT FAST WAS BETTER.
YET OVERALL THE NUMBER FIVE PENNERS PENNED MORE CONSISTENTLY TURNED IN SUPER
GOOD TIMES ( AND LOTS OF THEM TOO) AND CREATED TONS OF EXCITEMENT. WITH
FIFTY TEAMS COMING BACK TO THE SECOND GO , THE PRESSURE WAS ON ALL THE WAY
THROUGH THE DIVISION. THE FAST TIME OF THE DAY WAS NOT SECURE UNTIL TEAM
NUMBER 201 OF POWELL MCKIDDIE & SIMON RODE IN AND PENNED THREE IN A
23.58, BUMPING OUT TEAM NUMBER 72 OF STITES / FAIR & GANN WHO HELD A
23.72 . WHEN TEAM NUMBER 239 MADE UP OF JARRARD / KENT AND LYONS RODE IN
AND STOPPED THE CLOCK AT A 24.99 THE CROWD WENT WILD. SO CLOSE ! THE NUMBER
FIVE DIVISION. SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST.