Bob Click / For The BulletinBobby Mote, of Culver, scores 81.5 points on a horse called Red Bandana to tie for forth in the seventh round of the Bareback Riding. Mote still leads in the aggregate with three rounds to go.

LAS VEGAS — With three rounds remaining at this year’s National Finals Rodeo, the world bareback title is still up for grabs.

Central Oregon cowboys Bobby Mote and Austin Foss both finished in the money Wednesday night during the seventh round of the NFR to keep within striking distance of world leader Kaycee Feild, of Spanish Fork, Utah. Feild, who tied for fourth Wednesday with Mote — both cowboys earned $6,436 for their 81.5-point rides — leads the bareback standings with $208,243. Foss, who took sixth Wednesday with an 81 — he cashed a check for $3,065 — is second in the world standings with $165,473 and Mote is third at $150,017. Mote also is in first place in the average.

Richmond Champion, of The Woodlands, Texas, won the seventh round of the bareback competition with an 86-point ride.

With round winners earning $19,002 a night and the average payout expected to be more than $40,000, both Foss and Mote are within striking distance of Feild, who is looking for his fourth consecutive bareback world title.

Wednesday night was a wash for Central Oregon’s team ropers. Neither Prineville’s Charly Crawford and his partner Shay Carroll, of La Junta, Colorado, nor Powell Butte’s Brandon Beers and his teammate Jim Ross Cooper, of Monument, New Mexico, recorded times. Crawford and Carroll enter today’s eighth round sitting eighth in the world standings while Beers and Cooper are 11th.

The NFR, which runs through Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center, continues today.