Bob Click / For The BulletinOn a horse called Mile Away, Steven Peebles, of Redmond, scores 81.5 points to place third in the ninth round.

LAS VEGAS — Steven Peebles’ run at the average title in the bareback in this year’s National Finals Rodeo continued Friday night as the Redmond cowboy placed in the money for the sixth time in nine rounds, taking third with a ride worth 81.5 points.

Heading into tonight’s 10th and final round of the 2013 NFR at the Thomas & Mack Center, Peebles is in second place in the average standings with 735 points on nine rides. Utah’s Kaycee Feild, who is poised to win his third consecutive bareback world title, is first in the average with 740 points on nine horses. Peebles needs to outscore Feild by five points to tie for the average title and by six to win it outright.

Bobby Mote, the former Culver resident, tied for sixth place Friday with a ride of 79.5 points. The four-time world champion is second in the world standings entering tonight’s final performance. Terrebonne’s Austin Foss was an injury default Friday.

In team roping, Powell Butte’s Brandon Beers and partner Jim Ross Cooper, of Monument, N.M., just missed a paycheck as the duo finished seventh — one spot out of the money — Friday with a time of 4.8 seconds, one-tenth a second off sixth-place. Prineville’s Charly Crawford and partner Ryan Motes, of Weatherford, Texas, recorded a time of 10.1 seconds and did not place.

The 10th and final round of the 2013 NFR starts tonight at 7 o’clock.