Teams from Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee, finished first and third Saturday in the 2019 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops on Chickamauga Lake out of Dayton. Between the Bethel boats were two-day leaders Cole Sands and Conner DiMauro from Dayton’s Bryan College, and a team from McKendree in Illinois also qualified for the Bassmaster College Classic Bracket event Aug. 27-29 on nearby Watts Bar Lake. There the four duos will become eight individuals vying for a spot in the 2020 Bassmaster Classic on Lake Guntersville. Sands and DiMauro’s five-bass limit Saturday totaled 14 pounds, 4 ounces, giving them 58-8 for the tournament, but Carter McNeil and Cole Floyd closed with a 16-3 limit for 59-11 and Bethel’s second set of Carhartt Bassmaster national champions in a row. The 2018 winners, Cody Huff and Garrett Enders, were third this time with 55-2 on a final-day 18-2, and McKendree’s Tyler Christy and Trey Schroeder had the best last round, 18-7, for 50-15 and a 2-ounce edge over Murray State’s Jordan Hartman and Will Gentry for the last College Classic Bracket spot. Tennessee’s Robert Gee and Saxton Long finished sixth in the 12-boat finals with 50 pounds even.
Golf
* Sport Allmond jumped to a four-stroke first-day lead in the 2019 Brainerd Invitational golf tournament with an 11-under-par 61 Saturday. The Dalton State College senior from Heritage High School in Ringgold starts the final round with a comfortable margin, but there’s a crowd under par in the regular division. Hunter Cornelius and Taylor Lewis shared second place at 65, one ahead of Jay Potter and Trent Mansfield, and Foster Wood was sixth at 67. Beck Lewis and Mike Dunn carded 68s, and Richard Keene and Tom Schreiner had 69s. Seven others were at 70 or 71. Potter led the 40-over flight of the regular division, with Dunn second and Keene and Schreiner tied for third. Bob Rice topped the senior division at 66 with Johnny Pierce and Tom Baird tied for second at 68 and Frank Hollowell, John Lambert and Larry McGill sharing fourth at 70.
Swimming
* The Baylor Swim Club’s Trey Freeman was third in the B final of the men’s 400-meter freestyle Saturday at the USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships at Stanford University, and Cecilia Porter and Ellie Waldrep continued BSC’s run of women’s D finals at the event. Freeman, who competes collegiately for Florida, did a 3:51.16 in the 400 – his second B final of the competition. Waldrep was third in the D final of the 100 backstroke in 1:07.01, and Porter had a 1:10.62 for seventh in the D final of the 100 breaststroke. Waldrep had a D-final third Thursday in the 200 back, where she got a 2020 Olympic trials qualifying time of 2:14.56 in the preliminaries, and teammate Addison Smith registered her fifth trials-qualifying time with a D-final effort Friday in the 400 individual medley. That’s the most ever for a Baylor Swim Club athlete.