Harrison resident Jacob Wheeler dropped to second place going into the final day of the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest on Lake Travis. He had 48 pounds, 6 ounces to 51 pounds for Drew Benton of Panama City, Florida. The winner today out of 12 finalists will earn $100,000 and a spot in the 2019 Bassmaster Classic at Knoxville. Benton's five-bass limit weighed 20-4 Saturday, when Wheeler caught a bunch of fish but no big keepers and totaled 12-15. Spring City's John Murray finished 38th at 33-9 and got $11,000.
' Spencer Childers from Pickens High in Jasper, Georgia, with Bassmaster Elite pro Mark Menendez had the largest two-fish combination at 9-12 in the Bassmaster High School All-American tournament held in conjunction with the Texas Fest. Warren County's Samuel Vandagriff with Brock Mosley had the fourth heaviest at 7-9.
' Michael Neal of Dayton surged into seventh place at 48-14 with a 19-10 bag of bass Saturday in the FLW Tour tournament on Kentucky Lake and will be in the final 10 competing today. Fellow Dayton resident Andy Morgan finished 13th at 45-12 and received $12,000. Jason Lambert of Michie, Tennessee, broke his own 2016 Kentucky Lake record with 30-8 and at 74-6 has a 19-pound lead on second-place Scott Martin of Clewiston, Florida.
Golf
' Stan Gann Jr. of Warner Robins stretched his Georgia Mid-Amateur lead from two strokes to four at 139 with a 71 Saturday at Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta. Former Calhoun High School quarterback Tre Lamb was tied for 26th at 149, and Calhoun's Mike Nance and Cres Dodd were at 150 and 151.
Academics
' Led by the men's cross country team's aggregate 3.85, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga had 11 sports programs with team grade point averages of 3.0 or better for the spring semester. A school-record 46 athletes had 4.0 averages for the semester, and the schools' athletes had an overall GPA of 2.954. The men's runners' GPA tied the UTC semester best set by women's cross country in the spring of 2014. "Congratulations to Coach Andy Meyer and the men's cross country program on their outstanding performance in the classroom," vice chancellor and athletic director Mark Wharton said in a release. "Having over 15 percent of our student-athletes with a 4.0 is definitely something to brag about." Also this week, UTC revealed that the women's basketball, women's cross country and women's tennis teams had perfect 1000 Academic Progress Rate scores for the school years beginning in 2013 and ending in 2017. All three programs are in the top 10 percent of the NCAA in the measurement of player eligibility, retention and graduation. This is the fourth consecutive year with at least three UTC teams in the top 10 percent - and the fifth time overall for women's tennis, the fourth for women's cross country and the second for women's basketball. APR awards began in 2011.