Fairgoers packed the grandstand Wednesday night at the Lorain County Fair to see live rodeo action.

The event was a stop on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s Heartland Prorodeo Series, which includes rodeos with purses of $30,000 or less, according to the PRCA Web site. The series was created “to encourage cowboys to enter rodeos of all sizes, and to give emerging stars a chance at some big money.”

There were some tense moment just minutes into the show when a bareback bronc rider went down hard. He had to be LifeFlighted to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. His condition was not yet available.

Fairgoers enjoyed more than two hours of rodeo action, which included bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping and bull riding.

Contact Rona Proudfoot at rproudfoot@chroniclet.com, (440) 371-0792 or stop by to see her at the fair. She’s based at the WEOL booth and will be wandering the fairgrounds in a bright gold Chroniclet.com T-shirt.