BassPack reels in 9th-place finish
Published: Thu, Oct. 04, 2007 12:00AM
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closeA year after winning the inaugural collegiate bass fishing title, two teams of anglers from the BassPack, a fishing club at N.C State, finished ninth and 43rd at the second annual BoatU.S. National Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship in Texas.
The event, held this past Thursday through Saturday at Lake Lewisville near Dallas, attracted 83 teams from 48 schools. A team from Texas A&M won $14,000 in scholarship money.
"The experience was awesome, even better than last year I couldn't ask for a better trip, " the BassPack's Alex Freeman, 24, said Monday, after he and Randall Hess, 36, finished ninth.
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* www.foxsports.com/fcs/bass or www.collegiatebasschampionship.com
* BassPack: www4.ncsu.edu /~jphillip/bass/
COLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Eighty-three teams from 48 colleges and universities turned out for the second BoatU.S. National Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship in Texas.
TOP FIVE
1. Texas A&M, four fish, 7.60
2. Western Kentucky, four fish, 6.72
3. Alabama, three fish, 6.48
4. Wisconsin, three fish, 5.90
5. Louisiana Tech, two fish, 3.24
FROM THE REGION
7. Virginia Tech, Chase Grinnell and Brett Thompson, eight fish, 17.12
9. N.C. State, Alex Freeman and Randall Hess, seven fish, 15.74
34. Virginia Tech, Charlie Machek and Scott Wiley, four fish, 8.32
43. N.C. State, Bryce McClenney and Josh Quisenberry, three bass, 6.67
56. UNC Charlotte, Luke Helms and Brooks Beatty, two fish, 4.34
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Hess, from Raleigh, and wife Pam soon are expecting another big catch -- triplets in March.
Freeman, an extension education major from Duncan, said he and Hess fished mostly with deep-diving crankbaits and used adviser Jonathan Phillips' Ranger bass boat.
Fellow BassPack anglers Bryce McClenney and Josh Quisenberry finished 43rd.
The top five teams qualified for the final round by having the highest cumulative weights after the first two days. Their weights were zeroed to start the last day.
"The boys did excellent," said Phillips, a lecturer in agriculture resource economics. "The thing I'm most happy with is the reports coming out that the kids were a joy to be around. They were very professional, and everyone had a good time."
mike.zlotnicki@newsobserver.com or (919) 829-4518
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