TexasTerror
October 1st, 2006, 06:53 PM
Got to give SFA some credit. They may be 0-5 in football, but they are this year's national champs in Smash-Mouth Bass...congrats 'Jacks! Time for the Kats to organize and contend!
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But with or without the "College GameDay" crew on hand, welcome to the world of college bass fishing, a sport proudly displayed Oct. 14-15 during the inaugural College Smash-Mouth Bass Championship on Arkansas' Lake Monticello.
When that event was over, no complicated BCS computer calculations were necessary to determine the first Smash-Mouth champs — an honor bestowed upon the Stephen F. Austin University Lumberjacks duo of Casey Sobczak and Jonathan Garrie.
Thanks to a 6.6-pound bass landed minutes into the tournament's third and final round, the two Texans vaulted to a three-round total of nine bass weighing 17.8 pounds.
That was easily enough to outdistance the tourney runner-up team of Rob Russow and Doug Macchia from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which weighed in a collective tally of 11 bass tipping the scales at 12.4-pounds.
Texas A&M's Clinton Robertson and Jason Chapman started the final round in the lead but were unable to find the big fish necessary to close out the win for the maroon-and-white faithful back in College Station.
As a result, the Aggie squad finished in third place with nine bass weighing 11.4-pounds. Where's that 12th Man … err, pound … when you need it?
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/general/news/story?page=f_fea_college_bassing_championship05_LB
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But with or without the "College GameDay" crew on hand, welcome to the world of college bass fishing, a sport proudly displayed Oct. 14-15 during the inaugural College Smash-Mouth Bass Championship on Arkansas' Lake Monticello.
When that event was over, no complicated BCS computer calculations were necessary to determine the first Smash-Mouth champs — an honor bestowed upon the Stephen F. Austin University Lumberjacks duo of Casey Sobczak and Jonathan Garrie.
Thanks to a 6.6-pound bass landed minutes into the tournament's third and final round, the two Texans vaulted to a three-round total of nine bass weighing 17.8 pounds.
That was easily enough to outdistance the tourney runner-up team of Rob Russow and Doug Macchia from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which weighed in a collective tally of 11 bass tipping the scales at 12.4-pounds.
Texas A&M's Clinton Robertson and Jason Chapman started the final round in the lead but were unable to find the big fish necessary to close out the win for the maroon-and-white faithful back in College Station.
As a result, the Aggie squad finished in third place with nine bass weighing 11.4-pounds. Where's that 12th Man … err, pound … when you need it?
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/general/news/story?page=f_fea_college_bassing_championship05_LB