{"id":194490,"date":"2026-03-07T07:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194490\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:55:16","slug":"athens-roper-takes-1st-at-san-antonio-rodeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194490\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens roper takes 1st at San Antonio rodeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Athens man Lightning Aguilera roped in over $34,000 in winning at the San Antonio Stock Show &amp; Rodeo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Aguilera competed as the header and he and his heeler Wyatt Cox finished in first place of the second round of the Super Series Five for $2,752. They then placed in second place in the third round to win $2,202. In the qualifying round, they finished first for a check of $4,954. In the wildcard round, they finished first for $5,504. In another qualifier, they finished first for $5,504 and then they finished in a tie for first place in the finals for $13,760.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning Aguilera wildcard round<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There were two other East Texans who won money in San Antonio. Justin Shaffer of Hallsville won $13,760 in steer wrestling. Roper Will Woodfin of Marshall won $6,056 in team roping. Steer wrestler Holden Myers of Van won $14,862.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Keene Justesen of Malakoff won $835 in the saddle bronc competition at Wide Open Pro Rodeo in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kash Martin of Lufkin won $1,320 in the bareback competition at La Fiesta de los Vaqueros in Arizona. Hayden Ford of Whitehouse won $528 in the tie-down roping competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Athens man Lightning Aguilera roped in over $34,000 in winning at the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77070,77069,77072,82,84,83,18802,77071],"class_list":["post-194490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-east-texas-rodeo-winners","tag-lightning-aguilera-athens-texas","tag-pro-rodeo-results-2026","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-antonio-stock-show-and-rodeo","tag-team-roping-winnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}