Saturday, September 25, 2021

Defiance Royalty Named; Liz Brown Wins Barrels at Rodeo Saturday

Newt Holmes and Dawsyn Moutray were named Little Mr. and Miss Defiance Friday and rode in the parade. Dalanie Auffert was named Defiance Day Queen. They also rode in the Rodeo Saturday night. The weather was much nicer than the rainy weather that forced the postponement of Defiance Days this year. 

Liz Brown won the Barrel Races Saturday, getting a time of 16.533 seconds. She beat out Haley Nichols, who would have had a faster time but who knocked down a barrel, and Kayla Cochran, who came down from Minnesota to compete and got a time of 16.918. 

There were three entrants in the outhouse races. Tyson Troutwine and Cash Jacobs won the event, while Colton Perry and Zavian Dierenfeldt were second. Dustin Rowen exacted some revenge on his dad for dragging him around the ring at Allendale, returning the compliment Saturday. 

Some of the current and former football boys were sitting on the north side and were involved in the Cupid Shuffle stick races, where the object of the event was to have four boys tie down their feet to a stick and walk in unison to the finish line. Aydan Gladstone and Andrew Alarcon were on the north side, while Cash Jacobs was on the south side. Justin Dye could not stay away from his football boys and tried to coach the team of Gladstone and Alarcon, but despite his best efforts, the other team won. Unlike the hard hitting game the night before at King City, Saturday night's efforts were all in good fun. The losers got sprayed with water guns by the winning team.

Smiley the Clown entertained throughout the Rodeo, from taunting the bulls, to holding forth about humor and life. He alleged that only 15% of men knew what kind of flowers their wives like. He polled the crowd and found that there were more happily married men than women. 

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