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Carter Seabrook Josh Hagler
elcome to the 2022 GHSA Bass Fishing State Championship presented by Georgia Farm Bureau Insurance! The best teams from all classifications throughout our state will compete in what is sure to be the highlight of the Bass Fishing season. The students competing today earned their way to the championships through a series of qualifying tournaments so this championship will certainly have the best high school anglers Georgia has to offer.
Fisher Carver
The GHSA is fortunate to have many partners and volunteers that make quality events such as this possible. We are grateful for the many volunteers and staff who generously give their time to ensure a quality event. Special thanks go out to Associate Director Kevin Giddens who serves as the Bass Fishing administrator for the GHSA. This event is made possible through our corporate sponsors whose ads you will see throughout the venue. I encourage you to support them whenever possible.
Emilee Akins Samuel Shoemaker
The Georgia High School Association believes that life lessons are learned through participation in athletics and hard work and discipline are especially true in fishing. Our participants have worked tirelessly and sacrificed much to reach this point. Thanks again for your support of these fine students and get ready for an exciting Championship Tournament!
SCHEDULE
WILDWOOD PARK 3780 DOGWOOD LANE APPLING, GA 30803
Gage Sellars Bowynn Brown Cy Taunton Tyler Godwin Matthew Carter Brandon Smith Hunter Shuman
APPLING COUNTY BACON COUNTY BRAINBRIDGE
BRANTLEY COUNTY BREMEN BRYAN COUNTY BUFORD
Nathan Odom James Caden McMillian Gavin Jarrett Lane Parker Luke Garofalo Bo Brodrick Dakota Atkinson Jake Wilkes Jacob Brightwell Josh Odom Sean Lawson Miles Graham Lee Sophia Allison Dykes Ayden Slick Tucker Smith Brady Bowden Lyndon Webb Thomas Brady
CALLAWAY CHATTOOGA CHEROKEE
CLARKE CENTRAL COFFEE COLQUITT COUNTY COLUMBUS EAST FORSYTH EAST PAULDING EFFINGHAM COUNTY ELBERT COUNTY
Trent Hammock Eli Rowell Jack Reeves Lane Ferguson
Brock Lewis Shane Dill John David Bell Caden Goodwin Weston Middleton Jake Kreft Logan Sehr Peyton Rinker Avery Shoemaker Dawson Foster Krystyn Garrett Caden Smith Noah Dzyuba Jude Greco Lukas Cornish JP Harper Hardin Roberts Hunter Horne Andrew Fredrick Brooks Lawson Jacob Albright Madison Hawkins Brener Volano Carson Baggett Trace Wright Eli Harris Lance Wray Fisher Powell
EVANS Baden Culpepper FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN Holden McClung Robert Wade Grayson Brock Liam Gibson FORSYTH CENTRAL Colton Laningham Carter Brown Garrett Hunt Kessler Jordan GREENBRIER Hayden Reville Mason Garnto Parker Lester Carson Tomac Roger Deuce Garland Tripp Tamasi Matthew Johnson Jordan Duncan Logan Dixon Walker Cely Jacob Hodge Henry Garrett GREENVILLE Hunter Long Austin Shoemake HARRIS COUNTY Storm Clark Gunnar Williamson HEBRON CHRISTIAN Bennett Waters Lucas Bisschop JACKSON Kason Ingram Kevin Miller Waylon Witcher Colby Nails Brayden Smith Blake Wood JEFFERSON Cole Griggs Camden Gunter Mason Boatright Lane Kinlaw Isaac Dewsbury
CLARKS HILL LAKE AUGUSTA, GA - MAY 14, 2022 TAKEOFF: 6:15 a.m. WEIGH-IN: 3:00 p.m.
Fisher Landis
ALEXANDER
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Jackson Thomas Ryan Black Hunter Rudd Matthew English Caleb Cromer Pate Langdale Preston Hart Landon Cooper AJ Moss Dawson Niblett Michael Head Kelly Rollins Grayson Spence Braydon Rhoades Will Thomas Ethan Lepard Gage Smith Timothy Dykes Nathan Ruis Carter Hicks James Dubose Blake Edwards Delbert Wilson Jackson Keadle Owen Garbade
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202 2 GHS A B A S S FISHING STATE CHAMPIONSHIP G H S A B A S S F I S H I N G S TAT E C H A M P I O N S H I P R E T U R N S F O R Y E A R T W O
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BY CRAIG SAGER II | CSAGER@SCOREATL .COM he GHSA successfully introduced Bass Fishing as a
Bryan County’s Hunter Shuman and Logan Sehr were
sanctioned sport for the first time last year and now
the top qualifiers at the Lake Oconee competition with
qualifiers from across the state will ascend on Geor-
a 16-15 catch and Alexander’s Trent Hammock and Car-
gia’s largest body of water—Clarks Hill Lake in Augus-
ter Seabrook finished second-best with a 12-15 combined
ta—to compete for the 2022 state title this Saturday. The
weight. The back half of the qualifiers began at West Point
second annual Bass Fishing State Championship follows a season that featured four qualifying tournaments. This statewide-circuit began at Lake Seminole in Bainbridge, Ga. on Jan. 22 and then continued to Lake Oconee (Feb. 12), West Point Lake (March 19) and Lake Lanier (April 16). Hundreds of registered student anglers competed in the four qualifiers and the duo of Gage Sellars and Brock Lewis took first at Lake Seminole with a 20-10-pound haul.
Lake. Trion’s Andrew Melton and Joseph William took first with 16-10 and were one of the nine teams that surpassed 10 pounds that day. Jacob Hodge and Henry Garrett represented Greenbrier at West Point Lake and finished second with 12-15. Hodge and Garrett had an outstanding run in 2021 as well and placed seventh at the state finals with a 15-02 haul. Lake Lanier was the final qualifier and it proved to be
Sellars and Lewis earned a sixth-place finish at the
the most competitive of the four. A total of 32 different
state tournament last season with a 15-11 total weight.
teams tallied 12 pounds or greater and Morgan County’s
Their win marks the second-straight year that the
Will Thomas and Wyatt Spinks had the largest haul with
Basscats have won the Lake Seminole qualifier. The
17-07. South Forsyth’s Fisher Edwards and Christian Weh-
20-10-pound haul is also the second-best mark since the
man tallied 16-15 for a second-place finish and Coffee’s
sports’ introduction. Bowynn Brown and Shane Dill also
Dakota Atkinson and JP Harper racked up 16-04.
represented the Basscats and placed third with a 14-08 total behind Lowndes’ Pat Langdale-Granger and Cole
This will be the first time that Clarks Hill Lake is host-
Ratliff ’s 17-04 at Lake Seminole. Brown and Dill opened
ing a GHSA bass fishing competition and the state’s best
last season with a 25-15 catch that still stands as the all-
anglers will be vying for the ultimate prize as the sport
time state-record.
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