Home   |   Contact Us   |   About Speed   |   Sign In   |   Register Now News & Information   Main News Page Speed Williams aims for history after tour victory DALLAS – A few minutes after the team roping ended at the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Championship, presented by the Texas Stampede, Chad Masters got a text message. "Almost got you," it said. It was old friend Speed Williams letting Masters know that Williams'' Sunday win in the finals at the American Airlines Center had put the world championship in a virtual dead heat, a $2,053 difference heading to the Dec. 6-15 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. Williams and partner Dean Tuftin were third in the semifinals and won the finals in 3.7 seconds -- just a tenth of a second off the arena record -- to finish the weekend with $17,145 and make sure that the header category will be the closest race at the Wrangler NFR. A race within a race. "Actually, the goal coming in here was to catch Chad and go to Vegas with the lead," Williams said, "but this is good. Chad is one of my best friends. I am actually rooting hard for him to do well in Vegas. Just not as hard as I''m rooting for myself." Williams, of Deleon, Texas, is taking aim at a ninth team roping gold buckle, to break the record he shares with former partner Rich Skelton. Tuftin used the big weekend in Big D to increase his lead in the heeler standings over Michael Jones to just more than $24,000 and the pairing of Jimmy Edens and Ryan Motes came through with a second place result in the semifinal round Sunday to qualify for the Wrangler NFR, bumping header Matt Funk and heeler Cody Hintz. Edens joins his brother Tommy in making the field. There will be four sets of brothers competing in Las Vegas, the Edens joining Clay and Travis Tryan along with Cody and Heith DeMoss and twins Jake and Jimmie Cooper, and a father-son pairing of Brandon and Mike Beers. Home   |   Contact Us   |   Shop on Line   |   © SW Western Products, LLC Webste by Creative Impressions Marketing, LLC