Charly Crawford

Five Central Oregon cowboys are headed to pro rodeo’s biggest stage.

Bareback riders Steven Peebles, Austin Foss and Bobby Mote and team ropers Brandon Beers and Charly Crawford have all qualified for the 2014 National Finals Rodeo. The top 15 money-earners in each of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s eight disciplines advance to the 10-day NFR, which starts Dec. 4 at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

Bareback riders highlight the list of locals headed to Vegas. Peebles, 25 and of Redmond, is second in the PRCA world standings with $126,929.25 in winnings. He has now qualified for six consecutive NFRs and finished second in the world last year. Foss, a 22-year-old Terrebonne cowboy making his second NFR appearance, is third with $122,717.16. And Mote, the 38-year-old four-time world champion from Culver, rolls into the NFR sixth in the bareback standings with $95,208.82.

Kaycee Feild, of Spanish Fork, Utah, who has won the last three bareback world titles, ends the PRCA regular season atop the money list with $172,383.69.

In team roping, Beers returns to Las Vegas for his fourth NFR. The 28-year-old Powell Butte resident finished eighth in the 2013 team roping header standings and is seventh on this year’s money list with $79,490.78 in winnings. Beers’ roping partner, Jim Ross Cooper, of Monument, New Mexico, is seventh in the team roping heeler standings with the same amount of money. Crawford, also a header, will participate in his eighth NFR. The 36-year-old Prineville cowboy is 12th in the world standings with $71,558.66.

His partner Shay Carroll, of La Junta, Colorado, is 10th on the heeler money list with $72,618.04.

Partners Clay Tryan (header), of Billings, Montana, and Jade Corkill (heeler), of Fallon, Nevada, lead the team roping world standings; each has won $110,180.74 this season.

Eastern Oregon cowboy Trevor Knowles, of Mount Vernon, makes his 11th trip to the NFR looking for his first steer wrestling world title. Knowles, 34, leads the bulldogging standings with $91,803.58.

Terrebonne barrel racer Brenda Mays just missed out on advancing to her seventh career NFR. Mays, 45, finished 16th in the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association’s barrel racing standings, one spot away from moving on to the NFR. Mays ended the regular season with $70,017.18, less than $400 back of Jana Bean, of Ft. Hancock, Texas, who finished 15th with $70,415.60.

The National Finals Rodeo runs Dec. 4-13.