It was a challenging weekend for the Ladies, the Youth and the Open teams at the 5th Annual Ingomar Ranch Rodeo as the stock, feeling pretty happy after getting fat and sassy on this year’s grass, the dust kicked up from the welcome breeze, and the challenge of roping, riding, milking, branding, sorting, doctoring and bucking (not only during the ranch bronc ride, but from some contestant horses as well) led to a heck of an event.

The contestants, the judges, the announcer, the volunteers and the crowd were ‘all in’ from the first notes of the Star Spangled Banner on Saturday that kic...