Rookie Creek Young Snares Division 1 Xtreme Bulls Win in Lovington
Bull rider Creek Young’s outstanding rookie season got even better Tuesday night.
The Missouri native won the Lea County PRCA Rodeo Xtreme Bulls with 169.5 points on two head in Lovington, N.M.
It was Young’s first Division 1 Xtreme Bulls win.
“This was my first time in Lovington, and this feels good for sure,” said Young, 20. “I’ve been wanting to win one of these Division 1 events for a while. These big X Bulls events like this pay so well.”
Young started his night with an 82.5-point ride on Pete Carr Pro Rodeo’s Curley Bill. He then met up with Pete Carr Pro Rodeo’s Bayou Bengal in the short round.
“I had never ridden Curley Bill before, and that ride worked out for me,” Young said. “(Bayou Bengal) bucked me off in San Angelo (Texas) at the Xtreme Bulls (April 18), and I got him ridden tonight. Things went my way in the rematch. I knew what to expect coming out of there. Last time I left back a little bit, and he kind of rears out and has a lot of front-end coming out of there. I stayed more forward this time and I left better with him. I got tapped off right out of there better. He felt pretty good because I stayed where I was supposed to.”
Young entered the Lovington event sixth in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $74,040. He will move closer to the top 5 after earning $10,247 for his 16 seconds of work.
“It feels really good to get a check like that, especially since it is later in the season,” Young said.
With his win, Young joins Clayton Sellars (San Angelo, Texas, and Reno, Nev.), Fletcher Jowers (Austin, Texas), Dustin Boquet (San Antonio), T.J. Gray (Del Rio, Texas), and J.B. Mauney and Sage Kimzey (tied at Spanish Fork, Utah) as winners on the 2021 Division 1 Xtreme Bulls Tour.
“Yes and no,” said Young when asked if he thought he would have this type of success as a rookie. “It’s a thrill that this is actually happening. This is what I dreamed of, and this is what I wanted to do, and this is just a big blessing for it to actually come true and be right where I want to be and have everything going good.”
Courtesy of PRCA