Bryan College Is One Round Away From Winning The Bassmaster College National Championship

Cole Sands and Conner Dimauro of Bryan College maintain the lead on Day 2 of the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops at Lake Chickamauga out of Dayton, Tenn., with a total of 44 pounds, 4 ounces.

Aug. 2, 2019

Bryan College Is One Round Away From Winning The Bassmaster College National Championship

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DAYTON, Tenn. — Bryan College anglers Cole Sands and Conner Dimauro dipped into their vastknowledge of Lake Chickamauga once again Friday and maintained their lead in the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship presented by Bass Pro.

Sands and Dimauro caught a limit of five bass that weighed 19 pounds, 11 ounces. Added to Thursday’s weight of 24-9, they have a two-day total of 44-4 that gives them a 12-ounce lead over Bethel University’s Carter McNeil and Cole Floyd (43-8) heading into Saturday’s final round.

Bryan College is located only a few blocks from Lake Chickamauga and Dayton Municipal Park where takeoffs and weigh-ins are being held this week. The Bryan team practices and competes on the lake year-round, which provides its anglers an edge no others in the championship field enjoy.

Still, no team (including the four other Bryan College tandems in the tournament) have produced quite like Sands and Dimauro so far. The leaders didn’t catch another 7-15 lunker like Sands had Thursday, but Friday’s catch was consistent — a quintet of 4-pounders that puts the duo in prime position to clinch a national title on home water.

“We’ve got hundreds, if not close to a thousand waypoints on this lake,” Dimauro said. “We had a decent practice, but we’ve been able to narrow things down and target some key areas. We have to keep our heads down and not get psyched out. We’re not spending too much time running. We’re just fishing a lot, which I think is the right thing to do.”

Sands and Dimauro have utilized a variety of techniques and lures to boat their best bass. They didn’t divulge their methods, but they noted that clear skies over the Volunteer State have aided their cause.

“We were with a camera guy today and we told him ‘Get ready, we’re about to catch a big one,’” Sands said. “When that sun got out, it was right (for us). We’re praying for one more day with conditions just like this.”

McNeil and Floyd stayed in second place with a 21-2 limit Friday to go with the 22-6 they weighed a day earlier. Despite the similar weights, the Bethel duo said they found conditions to be vastly different on Friday.

“We started out a lot slower than we did the first day,” Floyd said. “We ended up getting one of the right bites we needed with a 6-pounder early. We caught another good one, but then we were stuck on two for a long, long time. It was a grind.

“We wound up having four of the right ones and a little one.”

McNeil said one more big bite on Friday could have been enough for the tournament lead. They believe they found an area late in the day that could produce quality bites, and they’ll target that spot to begin the final round Saturday.

“There definitely are big fish (at Chickamauga,)” McNeil said. “Right now, it’s just getting the number of quality bites (to catch them.)”

Dalton Combs and Jack Rankin of Missouri’s Drury University weighed the heaviest bag Friday (22-11) and are in third place overall with a two-day total of 38-0. Their Day 2 limit was buoyed by an 8-9 kicker that Combs said he caught on his last cast of the day.

“I caught a 9-6 in practice and I thought this fish today was bigger,” Combs said. “It was close. I caught it doing the same thing on the same bait.”

They’ll target more big bites and hope to close the gap on the top two teams.

“This is Chickamauga,” Rankin said. “Anything’s possible.”

Just ask Michigan State angler Riley Welch, who didn’t weigh a fish Thursday, but rebounded Friday with the Big Bass of the tournament to date — a 9-14 lunker that was a personal best.

“I caught a bunch of 14-inch fish yesterday,” Welch said. “That was disappointing. Today, I was just chucking a big swimbait and I got that one to bite. It’s a nice way to end my tournament. I’ll drive home with a smile on my face.”

The field of 116 teams was cut to 12 after Friday’s weigh-in. The Top 4 of those dozen teams (eight anglers in all) will advance to the Bassmaster College Classic Bracket event to be held Aug. 27-29 at Watts Bar Lake, also in Tennessee. They will compete individually in a head-to-head format there with a berth in the 2020 Bassmaster Classic at Alabama’s Lake Guntersville going to the winning angler.

The Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship presented by Bass Pro resumes Saturday with takeoff from the Dayton Boat Dock at 6:40 a.m. ET. The final championship weigh-in is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. at Point Park.

Bryan College, the City of Dayton and Fish Dayton are hosting the event.

2019 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops 8/1-8/3Lake Chickamauga, Dayton  TN.(BOATER) Standings Day 2

Angler                                       Club/School                       Pts

1.  Cole Sands – Conner Dimauro                  Bryan College- TN                     0Day 1: 5   24-09     Day 2: 5   19-11   Total:  10  44-042.  Carter McNeil – Cole Floyd                   Bethel University- TN                 0Day 1: 5   22-06     Day 2: 5   21-02   Total:  10  43-083.  Dalton Combs – Jack Rankin                   Drury University- MO                  0Day 1: 5   15-05     Day 2: 5   22-11   Total:  10  38-004.  Cody Huff – Garrett Enders                   Bethel University                     0Day 1: 5   18-06     Day 2: 5   18-10   Total:  10  37-005.  Jordan Hartman – Will Gentry                 Murray State University- KY           0Day 1: 5   15-15     Day 2: 5   20-14   Total:  10  36-136.  Robert Gee – Saxton Long                     University of Tennessee               0Day 1: 5   19-12     Day 2: 5   15-08   Total:  10  35-047.  Jarrett Brown – Elliot Torode                University of Montevallo              0Day 1: 5   19-14     Day 2: 4   14-15   Total:   9  34-138.  Perry Marvin – Cantley Krafft                Virginia Tech University              0Day 1: 5   15-10     Day 2: 5   18-07   Total:  10  34-019.  Will Andrie – Gaige Blanton                  Kansas State University- KS           0Day 1: 5   14-08     Day 2: 5   19-02   Total:  10  33-1010. Noah Boyett – Hunter Hanby                   University of Arkansas- AR            0Day 1: 5   18-12     Day 2: 5   14-05   Total:  10  33-0111. Trevor McKinney – Ethan Jones                McKendree University                  0Day 1: 5   15-07     Day 2: 5   17-09   Total:  10  33-0012. Tyler Christy – Trey Schroeder               McKendree University- IL              0Day 1: 5   18-02     Day 2: 5   14-06   Total:  10  32-0813. Joshua Boone – Blake Riley                   Eastern Kentucky University- KY       0Day 1: 5   18-00     Day 2: 5   14-04   Total:  10  32-0414. KJ Queen – Dax Ewart                         Bethel University                     0Day 1: 5   15-14     Day 2: 5   16-04   Total:  10  32-0215. Bailey Fain – Trevor St. John                Bryan College                         0Day 1: 5   09-15     Day 2: 5   20-10   Total:  10  30-0916. Cal Culpepper – Mason Waddell                University of Montevallo              0Day 1: 5   16-08     Day 2: 5   14-00   Total:  10  30-0817. Isaac Duncan – Fisher Young                  Blue Mountain College- MS             0Day 1: 5   09-09     Day 2: 5   19-14   Total:  10  29-0718. Tyler Bounds – Carson Leber                  Chico State                           0Day 1: 5   12-11     Day 2: 5   16-08   Total:  10  29-0319. Collin Cropp – Mitch Van Ert                 University of Wisconsin-Whitewat      0Day 1: 5   13-15     Day 2: 5   15-01   Total:  10  29-0020. Derek Freeman – Caleb Allgood                Clemson University                    0Day 1: 5   15-13     Day 2: 5   13-00   Total:  10  28-1321. Brian Linder – Nathan Thompson               Bemidji State University              0Day 1: 5   11-11     Day 2: 5   17-01   Total:  10  28-1222. Jacob Woods – Samuel Vandagriff              Tennessee Tech University             0Day 1: 5   14-10     Day 2: 5   14-01   Total:  10  28-1123. Griffin Heffington – Mason Cizek             Bryan College- TN                     0Day 1: 5   14-11     Day 2: 5   13-09   Total:  10  28-0424. Brandon Mann – Hunter Bryant                 Arkansas Tech                         0Day 1: 5   17-09     Day 2: 5   10-04   Total:  10  27-1325. Cole Breeden – Cameron Smith                 Drury University                      0Day 1: 3   13-13     Day 2: 5   13-13   Total:   8  27-1026. Jackson Carrell – Bryton Kurtz               Sam Houston State University          0Day 1: 5   13-03     Day 2: 5   14-06   Total:  10  27-0927. Aidan England – Braden Perry                 Carson-Newman University              0Day 1: 5   13-14     Day 2: 5   13-10   Total:  10  27-0828. Fisher Overton – Alden Keel Jr               Blue Mountain College                 0Day 1: 5   12-05     Day 2: 5   15-00   Total:  10  27-0529. J T Russell – Porter James                   University of Montevallo              0Day 1: 5   16-01     Day 2: 5   10-12   Total:  10  26-1330. Spencer Lambert – Wesley Banks               University of Louisiana at Monro      0Day 1: 5   12-14     Day 2: 5   13-08   Total:  10  26-0631. Joshua Gruen – Riley Blair                   University of Wisconsin- Plattev      0Day 1: 3   08-00     Day 2: 5   18-03   Total:   8  26-0332. Chase Serafin – Jack Hippe                   Adrian College                        0Day 1: 5   18-02     Day 2: 4   08-01   Total:   9  26-0333. Jacob Moore – Gilliam Tharpe                 North Carolina State University       0Day 1: 5   15-03     Day 2: 4   10-15   Total:   9  26-0234. Aaron Digh – Jerris Bush                     East Carolina University              0Day 1: 5   12-11     Day 2: 5   13-02   Total:  10  25-1335. Jared Turnbloom – Thomas Milstead            University of Alabama                 0Day 1: 4   19-04     Day 2: 2   06-03   Total:   6  25-0736. Grant Pavelka – Dylan Petersen               MPCC                                  0Day 1: 5   13-10     Day 2: 3   11-13   Total:   8  25-0737. Tyler Price – Preston Kendrick               Bryan College                         0Day 1: 5   12-05     Day 2: 5   13-01   Total:  10  25-0638. Garrett Warren – Eric Lampkin                Snead State Community College         0Day 1: 5   12-08     Day 2: 5   12-07   Total:  10  24-1539. Nicholas Inzeo – Nick Montilino              Murray State University               0Day 1: 5   13-07     Day 2: 3   10-15   Total:   8  24-0640. Tristan McCormick – Dakota Pierce            Bethel University                     0Day 1: 5   13-00     Day 2: 5   11-05   Total:  10  24-0541. Landon Siggers – Logan Reynolds              Wytheville Community College          0Day 1: 5   20-06     Day 2: 2   03-13   Total:   7  24-0342. Josh Flynn – Zac Hopkins                     Kansas State University               0Day 1: 5   16-00     Day 2: 3   06-08   Total:   8  22-0843. Chris Carnes – Tyler Lawwill                 UNC-Charlotte                         0Day 1: 5   11-08     Day 2: 3   10-14   Total:   8  22-0644. John Garrett – Kyle Palmer                   Bethel University- TN                 0Day 1: 4   11-03     Day 2: 4   10-14   Total:   8  22-0145. Jacob Louis – Nathan Doty                    McKendree University- IL              0Day 1: 5   11-02     Day 2: 5   10-13   Total:  10  21-1546. Cole Lamb – Tristan Weaver                   Arkansas Tech University- AR          0Day 1: 5   10-10     Day 2: 5   11-00   Total:  10  21-1047. Ben Seaman – Dante Piraino                   Clarkson University                   0Day 1: 5   14-02     Day 2: 3   07-07   Total:   8  21-0948. Brad Ableman – Seth Roberts                  Bethel University                     0Day 1: 4   11-12     Day 2: 5   09-09   Total:   9  21-0549. Thad Simerly – Ethan Shaw                    Bryan College                         0Day 1: 2   04-10     Day 2: 5   16-10   Total:   7  21-0450. Miller Spivey – Trey Dickert                 University of Montevallo              0Day 1: 3   06-06     Day 2: 5   14-13   Total:   8  21-0351. Ty Cox – Chandler Boman                      Blue Mountain College                 0Day 1: 5   10-10     Day 2: 5   10-08   Total:  10  21-0252. Chandlar Ellis – Gil Senn                    Lander University                     0Day 1: 5   09-11     Day 2: 5   11-03   Total:  10  20-1453. Benjamin Hager – Noah Shaver                 UNC-Charlotte                         0Day 1: 5   14-03     Day 2: 3   06-06   Total:   8  20-0954. Chase Sansom – Tyler Drown                   Marshall University                   0Day 1: 5   10-11     Day 2: 3   09-08   Total:   8  20-0355. Shane Nelson – Brayden Federer               Adrian College                        0Day 1: 3   07-11     Day 2: 5   12-07   Total:   8  20-0256. Aaron Denny – Bill Mathews                   Grand Valley State University- M      0Day 1: 5   09-06     Day 2: 5   10-11   Total:  10  20-0157. Griffin Fernandes – Gunner Wilson            Adrian College                        0Day 1: 4   08-02     Day 2: 4   11-14   Total:   8  20-0058. Logan Parks – Lucas Lindsay                  Auburn University                     0Day 1: 4   11-15     Day 2: 4   07-13   Total:   8  19-1259. Derek Pietsch – Trey Dawson                  Texas A&M                             0Day 1: 4   07-05     Day 2: 5   12-06   Total:   9  19-1160. Tyler Lubbat – Harold Wells                  University of Alabama                 0Day 1: 5   11-12     Day 2: 5   07-13   Total:  10  19-0961. Walker Wilson – Jackson Hall                 Univeristy of Arkansas- AR            0Day 1: 1   02-01     Day 2: 5   17-06   Total:   6  19-0762. Jacob Schrimsher – Nathan Wight              Calhoun Community College- AL         0Day 1: 3   06-10     Day 2: 5   12-12   Total:   8  19-0663. William Nichols – Jamon Phillips             Jacksonville State University         0Day 1: 5   13-05     Day 2: 3   05-14   Total:   8  19-0364. Conner Choate – Hunter DeSplinter            University of Wisconsin – Platte      0Day 1: 5   14-04     Day 2: 2   04-03   Total:   7  18-0765. Louis Monetti – Andrew Weaver                UNC-Charlotte                         0Day 1: 4   07-03     Day 2: 5   11-03   Total:   9  18-0666. Jason Felter – Joseph McClosky               Bethel University                     0Day 1: 5   09-08     Day 2: 3   08-08   Total:   8  18-0067. Rob Hendrick – Chad Pruner                   Western Carolina University           0Day 1: 2   07-15     Day 2: 3   09-11   Total:   5  17-1068. Lucas Murphy – Mitchell Gunn                 Grand Valley State University         0Day 1: 4   08-09     Day 2: 3   08-08   Total:   7  17-0169. Alex Williamson – Coleman Roberts            Liberty University                    0Day 1: 5   12-05     Day 2: 2   04-11   Total:   7  17-0070. Mitch Moore – Clark Mannas                   Texas A&M University                  0Day 1: 2   03-09     Day 2: 5   13-04   Total:   7  16-1371. Scott McClellan – Huff McIntosh              LA Tech                               0Day 1: 4   08-02     Day 2: 4   08-08   Total:   8  16-1072. Austin Phillips – Samuel Scott               Arkansas Tech University- AR          0Day 1: 1   02-15     Day 2: 5   13-10   Total:   6  16-0973. Anthony Vintson – Brandon Mathews            Auburn University                     0Day 1: 4   11-14     Day 2: 2   04-06   Total:   6  16-0474. Jonathan Kelley – Grant Tattersall           Coastal Carolina University           0Day 1: 5   09-07     Day 2: 3   06-13   Total:   8  16-0475. Matt Baker – Kory England                    Arkansas Tech University-AR           0Day 1: 5   13-02     Day 2: 1   03-01   Total:   6  16-0376. Nolan Minor – Casey Lanier                   West Virginia University- WV          0Day 1: 5   14-02     Day 2: 1   02-00   Total:   6  16-0277. Matthew Davis – Jarrod Layton                Adrian College                        0Day 1: 5   10-07     Day 2: 3   05-08   Total:   8  15-1578. Charley Kuhn – Reese Penfield                University of South Carolina- Be      0Day 1: 1   02-05     Day 2: 4   13-08   Total:   5  15-1379. Brandon Buckley – Michael Orris              Penn State University                 0Day 1: 2   05-00     Day 2: 5   10-11   Total:   7  15-1180. Zeke Gossett – Hayden Bartee                 Jacksonville State University- A      0Day 1: 5   12-11     Day 2: 1   02-12   Total:   6  15-0781. Reid Strobl – Samuel Scott                   Dallas Baptist University- TX         0Day 1: 1   02-05     Day 2: 3   13-00   Total:   4  15-0582. Bradley Dunagan –                            Campbellsville University             0Day 1: 4   12-11     Day 2: 1   02-07   Total:   5  15-0283. Grant Adams – Adam Carman                    Campbellsville University- KY         0Day 1: 3   05-13     Day 2: 4   09-04   Total:   7  15-0184. Taylor Hamburger – Tristen Turley            Oklahoma State University- OK         0Day 1: 3   05-01     Day 2: 4   09-14   Total:   7  14-1585. Mitchell Naler – Lee Mattox                  University of Alabama                 0Day 1: 4   07-03     Day 2: 3   07-10   Total:   7  14-1386. Dalton Smith – Wil Rigdon                    Campbellsville University- KY         0Day 1: 5   14-05     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   5  14-0587. Carter Henderson – Connor Whisenant          Texas A&M University- TX              0Day 1: 5   13-13     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   5  13-1388. Riley Welch –                                Michigan State University             0Day 1: 0   00-00     Day 2: 2   13-13   Total:   2  13-1389. Grant Adams – Shane Stafford                 Texas A&M University                  0Day 1: 0   00-00     Day 2: 5   13-07   Total:   5  13-0790. Justin Barnes – Adam Carroll                 University of Montevallo              0Day 1: 1   01-13     Day 2: 5   11-10   Total:   6  13-0791. Alex Moore – Marshall Wiggins                U. of Central Florida                 0Day 1: 4   10-13     Day 2: 1   02-03   Total:   5  13-0092. Mason Bishop –                               Southern Illinois University Car      0Day 1: 3   05-12     Day 2: 2   06-15   Total:   5  12-1193. Ty Black – Avry Thomason                     Georgia Southern University           0Day 1: 4   12-05     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   4  12-0594. Grant Ehlenfeldt – Seth Korb                 University of Wisconsin- Plattev      0Day 1: 3   06-09     Day 2: 3   05-08   Total:   6  12-0195. Justin Sisavath – Nathan Ragsdale            University of Georgia                 0Day 1: 4   08-12     Day 2: 1   02-08   Total:   5  11-0496. Tanner Ward – Rory Franks                    Kent State University                 0Day 1: 2   04-07     Day 2: 3   06-06   Total:   5  10-1397. Grant Hack – Jonathan Stepp                  Ohio State                            0Day 1: 1   01-14     Day 2: 2   08-07   Total:   3  10-0598. Liam West – Brady Waits                      Clemson University                    0Day 1: 1   01-15     Day 2: 3   07-11   Total:   4  09-1099. Britt Myers – Tanner Maness                  Lander University- SC                 0Day 1: 3   04-08     Day 2: 2   04-02   Total:   5  08-10100. Nick Schultz – Trey Autry                    UNC-Charlotte                         0Day 1: 3   08-08     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   3  08-08101. Justin Carr – Austin Carr                    Illinois State University             0Day 1: 3   06-05     Day 2: 1   02-03   Total:   4  08-08102. Josh Worth – Calvin Corey                    Colorado Mesa University              0Day 1: 1   02-00     Day 2: 3   06-01   Total:   4  08-01103. Zach Oldre – Andrew Okada                    University of North Dakota            0Day 1: 1   01-13     Day 2: 3   06-00   Total:   4  07-13104. David Dueland – Cameron Glasscock            University of Montevallo              0Day 1: 1   01-14     Day 2: 3   05-13   Total:   4  07-11105. Tanner Johnson – Guy Wegienka                LaGrange College                      0Day 1: 3   07-09     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   3  07-09106. Adam Puckett –                               Murray State University               0Day 1: 3   06-12     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   3  06-12107. Rudy Worley – John Nowlin                    Blue Mountain College- MS             0Day 1: 1   02-04     Day 2: 2   04-04   Total:   3  06-08108. Dan Dubose – Jon Kilpatrick                  University of Alabama                 0Day 1: 2   06-07     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   2  06-07109. Zachariah Edwards – Drew Douglas             University of Central Oklahoma        0Day 1: 2   04-00     Day 2: 1   01-12   Total:   3  05-12110. Connor Usher – Omar Petty                    UNC-Charlotte                         0Day 1: 0   00-00     Day 2: 2   05-07   Total:   2  05-07111. Luke Lamb – Wilson Smith                     Bethel University                     0Day 1: 3   05-05     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   3  05-05112. Brian Volkernick – Erik Zilgme               University of Maine                   0Day 1: 1   01-15     Day 2: 2   03-01   Total:   3  05-00113. Emma Mullineaux –                            University of Maryland                0Day 1: 1   02-11     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   1  02-11114. Ethan Wallace – Tyler Beckerman              University of Missouri                0Day 1: 1   02-03     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   1  02-03115. Anthony Fazio – Luke Jasper                  Illinois State University             0Day 1: 1   01-07     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   1  01-07116. Logan Tate – Chase Chastain                  Jacksonville State University         0Day 1: 0   00-00     Day 2: 0   00-00   Total:   0  00-00———————————————————————–TotalsDay   #Limits    #Fish      Weight1        60       434      1185-032        53       400      1127-15———————————-113       834      2313-02

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