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Area sports notes: Whitwell’s Hensley Powell fifth in Champlain bass tourney

Largemouth bass
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Hensley Powell of Whitwell, Tennessee, caught a five-bass limit weighing 19 pounds, 8 ounces Sunday and finished fifth at 73-12 in the FLW Tour regular-season finale on Lake Champlain in New York. That earned him $19,000. Jackson Kayak-sponsored Eric Jackson of Walling, Tennessee, was second at 74-7 with an 18-10 final round, good for $30,000. Casey Scanlon of Lake Ozark, Missouri, won the tournament and $102,700 with a 19-10 haul for 76-2. The leader after each of the first three days, Tyler Stewart of West Monroe, Louisiana, weighed only 10-4 Sunday and dropped to ninth and $15,000 with 68-10. Buddy Gross of Chickamauga, Georgia, finished fifth in the season point standings.

» Jacob Wheeler of Harrison placed seventh and Andy Morgan of Dayton, Tennessee, finished eighth Sunday in the Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour’s Evinrude Stage Eight in Wisconsin. They totaled 35-14 and 33-9, each with 15 fish, in the 10-man start-from-zero final round on Green Lake. Morgan’s 4-14 largemouth was the big bass of a day interrupted by a weather delay. Cliff Pace of Petal, Mississippi, won with 81-9 for 47 bass, and Bobby Lane of Lakeland, Florida, was second with 68-12 for 43 fish. Dayton’s Michael Neal wound up third and Wheeler fifth in the tour standings, and Morgan and Wesley Strader of Spring City, Tennessee, also have qualified for the REDCREST championship back in Wisconsin on Aug. 21-25 on the Mississippi River at La Crosse.

Soccer

» The Chattanooga Lady Red Wolves closed out a dominant regular-season run in the Women’s Premier Soccer League’s Southeast Conference with a 3-0 victory against North Alabama SC on Sunday in Huntsville. Hollie Massey scored for the second time in three days, while Jess Shepherd and Hannah Tillett had the other goals. The Lady Red Wolves (9-1-2) will host the first round of the conference tournament with a 7:30 p.m. match Friday at David Stanton Field.