Andy Morgan of Dayton, Tennessee, and Jacob Wheeler of Harrison finished third and ninth Saturday in the knockout round on Lake Butte des Morts and will be among the 10 finalists Sunday on Green Lake in the Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour’s Evinrude Stage Eight in Wisconsin. With the 40 semifinalists starting from zero, Morgan caught 24 bass totaling 41 pounds, 13 ounces, trailing only Bobby Lane of Lakeland, Florida, with 42-10 (22 fish) and Brent Ehrler of Redlands, California, with a whopping 56-7 (28). Wheeler, the Group B leader after each of his first two rounds on Lake Winnebago, totaled 28-3 on 17 fish Saturday. Sunday’s 10 anglers start at zero again. Wesley Strader of Spring City, Tennessee, finished 19th at 19-7, and Dayton’s Michael Neal wound up 35th at 11-9.
» Hensley Powell of Whitwell, Tennessee, was 10th at 54 pounds, 4 ounces after Saturday’s semifinal round in the FLW Tour bass tournament on Lake Champlain in New York. By 2 ounces, that put him among the finalists trying Sunday for the top prize of $125,000. Jackson Kayak pro Eric Jackson of Walling, Tennessee, was third at 55-13. Tyler Stewart of West Monroe, Louisiana, was the overall leader for the third consecutive day at 58-6, and Casey Scanlon of Lake Ozark, Missouri, was second at 56-8. David Dudley of Lynchburg, Virginia, was sixth at 55-2 and won his series-high fourth Angler of the Year title (previously 2008, 2011 and 2012) by 17 points.
Soccer
» The Tennessee High School Soccer Coaches Association’s 2019 all-state boys’ teams for Division I included eight players from the Chattanooga area. Three were from Signal Mountain: George Coogan, Aaron Easterly and Lucas Whitney. Class AAA all-staters included Cleveland’s Casey Beck and Daniel Collins, Ooltewah’s Connor Moser, McMinn County’s Andy Sullins and Rhea County’s Carson Ruehling. Division II choices were previously reported.
Golf
» Recent Kentucky transplant Olivia DiPaolo survived a second-round 78 and won the Tennessee Girls’ Junior Amateur golf tournament this past week at Cleveland Country Club. DiPaolo, an incoming Lipscomb University freshman whose family moved to Franklin after her May graduation in Union, Kentucky, finished the 54 holes at 10-over-par 226. Vilda Westh Blanc of Wartrace was second at 228, one shot ahead of Clarksville’s McKinley Cunningham and Memphis resident Anna Heck. Cleveland’s Hannah Nall tied for eighth at 237, and Baylor School’s Kyndall Shamblin was 13th at 242. Sale Creek’s Ashley Holland tied for 15th at 245.
» Collin Jones from Black Creek Club and Audrey Grace Holder from Dalton Golf & Country Club won City Junior championships Friday at Moccasin Bend, he with a 143 (75-68) and she by 11 strokes with a 145 (74-71). Jones’ overall win left Honors Course representative Sam Levine as the boys’ 14-15 champion with a 145, and Nob North’s Kipp Coker and Trevor Owens led the 16-18 boys with 144s, with Signal Mountain’s Benjamin Burns at 146 and Riley Grant at 147. WindStone’s Griffin Law and Maclaine Donovan won the boys’ 12-13 and girls’ 12-14 titles by 12 and 14 shots with a 155 and a 164, respectively.
Shooting
» Young shotgun competitors from Hamilton and Cumberland counties had numerous high finishes in the Tennessee Scholastic Clay Target Program state championships June 18-23 in Nashville. The Tennessee program is one of the largest in the United States. The Str8 Shooters from Hamilton County were No. 1 in the varsity and intermediate-entry-level team categories in sporting clays, and Blythe Booker was the junior varsity/varsity grand champion in that discipline and overall, where the Str8 Shooters were first in varsity with the Cumberland County Youth team second in varsity and in intermediate. That Cumberland team’s Connor Webb was second to Monroe County’s Cylas Prince in the overall rookie individual category. The Str8 Shooters had another sporting clays grand champion, Jacob Sullivan in rookie/intermediate, and were second as a team in skeet intermediate entry level. Also in skeet, Cumberland Youth as a team had a second place in varsity and thirds in intermediate entry level and intermediate advanced. It also was second in sporting clays intermediate entry level and third in trap intermediate entry level. Another group from the Crossville area, the Cumberland County Clay Crushers, was first in trap varsity and second in both doubles trap categories of intermediate entry level and junior varsity. The Coffee County Claybusters were the trap junior varsity team winners, and the Coffee Middle Claybusters were intermediate advanced runners-up.