Two 3.2 runs at Rodeo Austin set the team roping pace

Rodeo Austin gave up the two fastest team roping runs of the season on the same ground. James Arviso and Rance Doyal stopped the clock at 3.2 seconds and split $5,277. Junior Nunes Nogueira and Kaleb Driggers matched the 3.2 and took $4,589.

Nobody else has gotten under 3.3. Nelson Wyatt and Jonathan Torres came closest, a 3.3 at the Fort Worth Stock Show Rodeo.

The most reliable header and heeler of the winter were Tanner Tomlinson and Coleby Payne, who posted 3.5 three separate times, at the National Western timed-event roping, the Sandhills Stock Show, and Rodeo Austin. Three rodeos, the same number, the kind of consistency that wins a season instead of a round.

Team roping is two ropers and one clock, and the margin between a check and a no-time is a single missed dally. Austin had two teams get everything right at 3.2. The summer run decides who does it most.