Dayton Boat Dock operator Michael Neal is third with 424 points in Major League Fishing’s 2019 Bass Pro Tour standings, and Harrison resident Jacob Wheeler is fifth with 414 and is second to points leader Edwin Evers of Oklahoma in earnings with $178,000. Evers has won $193,600 and has 471 points, three more than Jeff Sprague of Texas. Jordan Lee of Cullman, Alabama, is fourth in points with 422. Dayton’s Andy Morgan and Spring City’s Wesley Strader are 18th and 21st with 355 and 344. The top 30 through the Stage Eight tournament June 25-30 on Lake Winnebago out of Neenah, Wisconsin, qualify for the Redcrest Tour Championship Aug. 21-25 at La Crosse, Wisconsin. Wheeler won Stage Seven and $100,000 the first week of June at Table Rock Lake in the Ozarks; Neal was 12th.
» The Bassmaster Elite Series will be at Lake Guntersville out of Goose Pond Colony in Scottsboro, Alabama, this week. The series’ first visit to Guntersville in four years is set for Friday through Monday, June 24, and the lake will host the 50th Bassmaster Classic next March. Only Sam Rayburn Reservoir with 32 editions has been a B.A.S.S. tournament site more times than Guntersville’s 23. Daily weigh-ins at Goose Pond Landing will be at 3:15 p.m. EDT, and the Bassmaster Outdoors Expo will be open Saturday and Sunday, beginning at 1 EDT. Scottsboro’s Miracle Mile Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday also.
Golf
» The 2019 Georgia Junior Championship and Georgia Girls’ Championship golf tournaments are set for Monday through Wednesday, and Tucker Windham of Fort Oglethorpe, Boone Creswell of Cohutta, Beck Burnette of Blairsville and Wyatt Brackett, Ethan Day and Matthew Rollins of Dalton are in the 144-player boys’ field at Augusta Country Club. The girls’ event at Harbor Club in Greensboro includes Chatsworth’s Tori Owens and Calhoun’s Ella Manley.