Posted on: Monday, December 16, 2002

Duarte second in bull riding

Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Blue Stone of Ogden, Utah, won his second straight bull riding world championship with $157,707 in earnings and also finished with the best average at the 10-day National Finals Rodeo.

Cody Hancock of Taylor, Ariz., won the final round with a 92.

Stone and Myron Duarte, of Auburn, Wash., and a former Maui resident, tied for third in yesterday's final round. Duarte finished fourth at the NFR and second in the world standings with $148,915. Duarte had led the world standings through most of the NFR.

Trevor Brazile of Anson, Texas, won his first world all-around cowboy with $273,997 to edge Jesse Bail of Camp Cook, S.D., by $14,051.

"I've been dreaming about it since I was a little kid," said Brazile, who won $79,157 in calf roping and finished third in that event at the NFR.

"I had already been making plans for an all-around world run for next year because they had kind of written me off," said Brazile, who also won $47,871 in steer roping and $41,527 in team roping. "I had some bad things happen earlier in the week. As far as the all-around goes, this is what I've spent my whole life working for."