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Larson finally owns the Chili Bowl trophy

Kyle Larson scored one of t he biggest victories of his career by ending an 0- for -12 streak to finally win the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals in Tulsa.

Larson passed Christopher Bell of Norman with 17 lap sin Saturday night' s main event to end his fr ustrating streak of futility and deny Bella fourth consecutive win in the prestigious dirt race.

Bell passed Larson on the final lap of last year's Chili Bowl to hand the NASCAR star a crushing defeat.

"Its a pretty different range of emotions 365 days later ," Larson said after ward ." I feel like I' m going top ass out. I' m sorry NASCAR, I' m sorry Daytona, but this is the biggest ... race I've ever won."

Larson collected the coveted Golden Drill er trophy and the 27- yearold, stills martin ga blood shot eye from a nasty crash in New Zealand last month, seemed in disbelief.

"It' s taken me 13 years. That' s almost half my age ," Larson said ." I' ve been coming here for 13 years, and it feels better than I can imagine."

Bell, who moves full-time in NASCAR this year to the Cup Series, was second and Cannon McIntosh was third.

OU wrestling edges West Virginia

The Oklahoma wrestling squad defeated West Virginia, 22- 18, Sunday afternoon in McCasland Field House in Norman.

The Sooners (3-2 overall, 1-1 Big 12) capitalized on three bonus-point victories to pull ahead of the Mountaineers (3-8 overall, 0-2 Big 12).

Anthony Madrigal scored a technical fall at 133 pounds, Jacob Butler had a major decision at 149 pounds and Anthony Mantanona posted a major decision at 174 pounds for the Sooners.

Oklahoma won six of the 10 bouts.

RODEO Parkinson wins all-around title at IFR

Ty Parkinson of Salibury, North Carolina, was declared the allaround champion Sunday of the International Professional Rodeo Association after the final round of the International Finals Rodeo at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie.

The Australia native tallied $52,775 in earnings for the season to finish ahead of defending all-around champion Justin Thigpen of Waycross, Georgi a , who won $49,655.

Parkinson won the bull riding average at the IFR and earned almost $11,000 during the championship rodeo to overtake Thigpen in the all-around race.