CPHS Fishing: Two Sandite teams place top-ten at OBN State Championship

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Five teams and ten anglers from Charles Page High School competed at a pair of Oklahoma Bass Nation High School events this past weekend. The fifth OBN Trail event was held Saturday on Lake Texoma, followed by the State Championship on Sunday.

Mack Taylor and Reese David had the best performance overall for Sand Springs, catching the five-fish limit both days. They placed 26th on Saturday with 10.44 pounds and 9th on Sunday with 13.07 pounds. Both were season-best performances.

Kyle and Kale Hilligoss also caught the limit both days. On Saturday they hauled in 9.03 pounds for 32nd and on Sunday they had a season-best 13.00 pounds for 10th place.

Austin Smith and Joe Nelson had their best performance of the season Saturday, placing 18th with five fish weighing 11.99 pounds. On Sunday they caught five fish weighing 9.13 pounds for 22nd place.

Seth Kearns and Cole Scott caught a season-best five fish weighing 10.69 pounds for 25th place on Saturday. On Sunday they took 36th with two fish weighing 5.59 pounds.

Hayden King and Collin Brady caught a 1.74 pound fish on Saturday for 61st. On Sunday they caught two fish totaling 3.25 pounds for 46th.

Grove High School’s Kade Sharp and Josh Glenn won the Saturday event with 19.50 pounds. Central Oklahoma’s Hunter and Cameron Meadows won the State Championship handily with an 18.52-pound haul. Westmoore duo Jaxon Hanson and Seth Lee came in runner-up with 15.93 pounds.

The top-two teams from the Championship will advance to the National Tournament. Several of the top-placing teams from the Trail standings will also qualify. Final Trail standings and National qualifiers have yet to be announced.

CPHS Fishing: Mack Taylor and Reese David place 13th at Lake Eufala

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Seven Charles Page High School fishing teams competed the Oklahoma Bass Nation High School Trail event this past weekend. The teams fished back-to-back single day tournaments on Lake Eufala Saturday and Sunday.

Mack Taylor and Reese David had the most success among the Sandites, placing 13th on Saturday and 35th on Sunday. They caught six fish on day one, totaling 7.67 pounds and two fish on day two, weighing 4.58. They are 21st in the trail standings with 221 points.

Carl McClaflin and Montana McCarthy caught three fish on Saturday weighing 6.76 pounds for 17th place.

Austin Smith and Joe Nelson caught two fish totaling 5.51 pounds on Saturday for 20th place. They are tied for 44th in the standings.

Hayden King and Collin Brady caught a 5.29 bass on Saturday, the largest fish of the season for Sand Springs, to take 25th place. They are fifteenth in the trail standings with 243 points thanks to a top-ten finish in September.

Seth Kearns and Cole Scott caught two fish on Saturday for 4.57 pounds and 27th place, then caught a 2.07 pound bass on Sunday for 53rd place. The two are in 22nd place on the trail with 217 points.

John Miller and Caden Pennington caught a 2.04 bass for 49th place on Saturday and beat the King/Brady catch on Sunday with a 5.69 bass for 30th place.

Jerret Haley and Dalton DuVall caught a 1.47 pound bass on Saturday and a 2.38 pounder on Sunday for 54th and 49th, respectively.

The final trail event will be held April 27th on Lake Texoma, followed by the State Championship on the 28th. The top five teams in each event, plus the next 45 highest-scoring teams from the overall trail will qualify for the State Championship. Only the teams’ top four events will be scored and their worst event will be dropped.

CPHS Fishing: Mack Taylor and Reese David qualify for National Tournament

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The 2017-2018 Oklahoma Bass Nation High School season came to a close Sunday afternoon at Fort Gibson Lake, and two Sand Springs teams placed top ten in the final trail event.

Mack Taylor and Reese David finished seventh on Sunday with five fish weighing 13.15 pounds for fourth place in the final State standings. 362 points punched their ticket to the National Tournament at Kentucky Lake in Paris, Tennessee. The event will be held August 2-4.

Hayden King and Collin Brady came in runner-up with the best finish of their career, catching four fish weighing 14.7 pounds. They finished the season 46th in State standings with 188 points. 

Seth Kearns and Cole Scott placed 24th at the final event with two fish weighing 5.13 pounds. They finished the season with 243 points for 31st place.

Braden Millican and Ty Steelman ended their senior season in 21st place overall with 279 points after a 31st place finish on Sunday. They caught two fish weighing 3.92 points. 

Noah Daczewitz and Hunter Hilger placed 47th on Sunday with a 2.06 catch and 38th overall with 217 points.

Kyle and Kale Hilligoss finished the season sixteenth with 300 points. John Miller and Caden Pennington finished the year 44th with 202 points. Jerret Haley and Dalton Duvall finished the year 61st with 154 points. Austin Smith and Joe Nelson finished 71st with 137 points. Corbin Williams and Montana McCarty placed 114th with 44 points.

136 teams competed in the 2017-2018 season.

CPHS Fishing: Two Sand Springs teams in top-ten State standings after Texoma tournaments

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116 boats descended on Lake Texoma this weekend for a pair of Oklahoma Bass Nation High School Trail events, including ten teams from Sand Springs.

Reese David and Mack Taylor had a career-best haul of five fish totaling 10.91 pounds for twelfth place on Saturday. On Sunday they led all Sandites with four fish weighing 7.22 pounds for eighteenth place. They improved to fourth place overall in the state standings with 340 points.

Kyle and Kale Hilligoss placed fiftieth on Saturday with two fish weighing 3.56 pounds and 38th on Sunday with two fish weighing 4.69 pounds. They dropped to eighth in the state with 300 points.

Braden Millican and Ty Steelman placed 51st on Saturday with two fish weighing 3.33 pounds and are 26th in the state with 219 points.

John Miller and Caden Pennington hauled in three fish on Saturday for 25th place with 6.38 pounds. They finished 39th on Sunday with two fish weighing 4.54 pounds and are 31st in the state with 202 points.

Noah Daczewitz and Hunter Hilger led the Sandites with a ninth place finish on Saturday, catching the five-fish limit for a total weight of 12.38 pounds, the second-largest catch of their careers. They are tied for 38th in the state with 173 points.

Jerrett Haley and Corbin Williams had the second-best haul of their career on Sunday, catching three fish weighing 6.73 pounds for 22nd place. They placed 46th on Saturday with two fish weighing 3.91 pounds. The duo just cracked the top fifty in the state with 166 points to tie for 47th.

Austin Smith and Joe Nelson had a career-best performance on Sunday with three fish weighing 5.82 pounds for thirtieth place. They caught a 2.86 bass for 55th on Saturday.

Carl McCalaflin and Hunter Johnson caught a 1.44 bass for 68th on Saturday. On Sunday they finished 45th with a career-best catch of two fish weighing 2.87 pounds.

Colin Brady and Hayden King caught a 1.59 pound bass on Sunday for 57th place.

Seth Kearns and Cole Scott caught a 1.38 pound bass for sixtieth place on Sunday.

The final high school trail event will be held June 3rd at Fort Gibson Lake. The final standings will be based on the top four performances of the year for each team. The top teams in the state will qualify for the National Tournament on Kentucky Lake in Paris, Tennessee this August. 

Kyle and Kale Hilligoss place 2nd of 115 boats at OBN Season Opener

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The Charles Page High School  fishing teams got off to a great start this weekend at the Oklahoma Bass Nation Season Opener on Lake Tenkiller. Two teams finished in the top five on Saturday and several had impressive performances both Saturday and Sunday. 

115 boats signed up for the first and second trail events of the year. The two-day event counts as two separate tournaments towards the trail standings.

The sport is sponsored by Bassmaster and is not officially recognized by the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association (OSSAA). Sand Springs Public Schools does not provide funding for the teams, who rely on private sponsorships to pay for tournament entry, equipment, and supplies. Each team consists of two student anglers and one adult coach/pilot. 

Kyle and Kale Hilligoss were Saturday's runners-up with four fish weighing 10.73 pounds, just 0.08 pounds behind the winners from Noble. The performance was the best of their BASS career, beating a 6th place finish at a tournament in June by 0.27 pounds. Not far behind the Hilligosses was Reese David and Mack Taylor with three fish weighing 5.44 pounds for a fifth place finish in their career debut. Braden Millican and Ty Steelman placed 31st on Saturday with one fish weighing 2.34 pounds, Seth Kearns and Cole Scott placed 36th with one fish weighing 2.06 pounds.

Millican and Steelman led on Sunday with two fish weighing four pounds for 12th place, followed by the Hilligosses with a 3.19 pound fish for 14th place. Taylor and David caught one fish weighing 2.11 pounds for 29th place, Hunter Hilger and Noah Daczewitz caught a 1.61 pound fish for 39th place, Kearns and Scott caught a 1.49 pound fish for 40th place, and John Miller and Caden Pennington caught a 1.13 pound fish for 46th place. 

Team Hilligoss sits in third place in the State standings, followed by Taylor/David in ninth, Millican/Steelman in thirteenth, Keans/Scott in 24th, Hilger/Daczewitz in 60th, and Miller/Pennington in 71st.

The next OBN event won't be held until May 5th with another two-day, two-tournament weekend on Lake Texoma.

Sandites of the Week: Seth Kearns and Cole Scott win OBN Tournament, qualify for Nationals

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Sand Springs High School fishing team No. 5 was selected as our Sandites of the Week for their first place finish this past weekend in an Oklahoma Bass Nation Trail event.

Seth Kearns and Cole Scott took first place out of 89 teams Saturday on Lake Eufala, hauling in four fish weighing 13.11 pounds.

The young Sandites are wrapping up their first season of high school fishing and had a strong debut year, finishing 6th in the state standings out of 136 teams. They finished top-ten in three out of five tournaments and qualified for the Bassmaster High School National Championship in Tennessee.

Team 5 will be joined by Team No. 1 (Noah Daczewitz and Hunter Hilger) and Team No. 2 (John Miller and Caden Pennington) at Kentucky Lake on June 19th. 

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