State anglers advance to high school championship

ROYAL — Jonathan Pipkins of Benton and Elijah Luna of Cabot recently won the The Bass Federation High School Fishing Arkansas State Championship tournament at Lake Ouachita to qualify for the High School Fishing National championship June 27-July 1 at Pickwick Lake in Florence, Ala. Pipkins and Luna won the tournament by catching 5 bass that weighed 15 pounds, 7 ounces. A field of 115 teams competed in the no-entry fee tournament with the top 10 percent advancing to the championship. Teams moving on include: 2. Trenton Bailey of Stephens and William Hill of El Dorado, representing Smackover High School 3. Spencer Wiles of Hardy and Matt Boyd of Cherokee Village, representing Highland High School 4. Jay Gore and Noah Boyett of Norfork, representing Mountain Home High School 5. Kory England and Dylan Watson of Hope, representing Spring Hill High School 6. Hunter Davis and Tyler Allenbrand of Mount Ida, representing Mount Ida High School 7. Larry Thompson of Paron and Nathan Stout of Perryville, representing Perryville high School 8. Fisher Bissell and Fisher Davis of Mount Ida, representing Mount Ida High School 9. Ellison Caldwell of Hot Springs and Josh Walpole Mountain of Pine MountainHigh School Pine, representing 10. Ricky Pennington and Bryer Pennington of Prescott, representing Prescott High School 11. Cole Trotter of Ozark and Cody Jackson of Altus, representing the Western Arkansas High School Hawghunters.