• LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Barrel racer Mary Walker closed in on a season championship in her first National Finals Rodeo appearance, finishing third at 13.90 seconds Friday night in the ninth round.
• The 53-year-old Walker from Ennis, Texas, leads the standings with $233,302 with one round left. Second-place Brittany Pozzi of Victoria, Texas, shut out after failing to place among the top six in the round, has made $194,224.
• Walker also leads all NFR competitors with $106,010. She's second in the NFR aggregate standings with a cumulative time of 129.51. Brenda Mays of Terrebonne, Ore., who tied for fourth in 14.24, leads at 127.67.
• Lisa Lockhart of Oelrichs, S.D., won the round in 13.66.
• In saddle bronc, Jesse Wright of Milford, Utah, was sixth with a 75.5 on Cimmaron Jack, and remained first in the world standings with $209,218. Wright also tops the NFR saddle bronc earnings race with $76,121, and is second overall behind Walker.
• Wade Sundell of Boxholm, Iowa, remained second in the standings with $163,458 after failing to finish in the top six.
• Cody DeMoss of Heflin, La., second with an 83 on Multi-Chem Frustrated Fletch, leads the NFR aggregate standings with 712.5 points for a rodeo-high nine rides. He's third in the standings with $161,012.
• Two-time and defending world champion Taos Muncy of Corona, N.M., won the round with an 84 on Awesome.
• "Those guys (Wright, DeMoss and Sundell) have all been in this situation before and they know what it takes, and I just want to wish them all luck," Muncy said. "They all ride real good and it's going to come down to that last horse; to me, all of those guys deserve a buckle."
• In bull riding, J.W. Harris of Mullin, Texas, remained the standings leader despite being bucked off Ugly Time in 5.6 seconds. Trevor Kastner of Ardmore, Okla., was the lone successful rider out of the 15 cowboys with an 84.5 on Bailey Hou.
• Harris has earned $192,971, and Cody Teel of Kountze, Texas, was second at $190,494.
• Beau Schroeder of China, Texas, leads the NFR aggregate standings race with four successful rides for 343.5 points, while Seth Glause of Cheyenne, Wyo., was second with four rides for 336 points.

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