Giella and Battle win Anderson Open
While Compton and Bond Claim South Carolina State Championship
With the cold, wet and generally nasty weather finally taking a break over the South Carolina skies, two teams emerged as champions of the TBF/FLW High School Open event on scenic Lake Russell.
Connor Giella and Zach Battle of Augusta Georgia tied with Laurens High School’s George Compton and Hunter Bond with identical 4 fish bags that weighed 9lbs 9oz. Since both teams brought in identical bags with all the fish alive, that led to the third tiebreaker, which is the earliest registration date for the event. Fortunately for Giella and Battle their team mom was a little quicker in getting them signed which led them to the overall championship. Both of these teams shared the Booyah Big Bag award that goes to the largest sack of fish each day at the tournament.
Compton and Bond didn’t complain too much since they won the crown they were really looking for which was the South Carolina State Championship which went to the highest finishing team from south Carolina. Finishing third overall and second in the South Carolina Championship portion of the event was the team of Levi Neave and Stephen Brooks who brought in two Lake Russell bass that weighed 8lbs to claim the South Carolina runner-up spot and a regional qualifying berth in the Southeastern Conference Regional event in September. Neave and Brooks actually tied Compton and Bond for the Lew’s Big Bass award as each team caught beautiful 4lb 13oz fish to share the Lew’s gift bag. Continue reading