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obituario/u.s. news Diasabra 27 November 2021
2 Auburn students win $1 million bass fishing
tournament
(AP) — Two Auburn University stu-
dents have won the $1 million first-
place prize in the Bass Pro Shops
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada U.S. Open National Bass Fishing
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega. Amateur Team Championships.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”. Logan Parks, a senior, and Tucker Smith,
Salmo: 23 a sophomore, topped 350 teams in the
three-day event at Table Rock Lake in
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di: Ridgedale, Missouri, pulling in five fish
last Sunday for a total of 16.41 pounds,
news outlets reported.
The tournament, which celebrated Bass
Pro Shops 50th anniversary and also
raised money and awareness for conser-
vation, will be aired on NBC at 4 p.m.
on Sunday, Dec. 5.
Parks and Smith split the prize and also
went home with 2022 Toyota Tundra
CrewMax trucks and Nitro Z21 bass
boats for their efforts.
Luisito Figaroa
*21-06-1947 - †15-11-2021 “It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” said Parks,
23, who will graduate with degrees in
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tion systems management in December.
“We woke up this morning thinking it
was a dream, but then we looked at our
phones and realized it wasn’t. We’re just
blown away.”
“We’re speechless. To win a tournament
of this caliber is amazing,” said
Smith, a 20-year-old marketing major
who won three Bassmaster national titles
in high school, said they were “speech-
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada less.”
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega.
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega. E ta hibami na awa trankil, “To win a tournament of this caliber is
E ta hibami na awa trankil, Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”. amazing,” he said.
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”. Salmo: 23
Salmo: 23 Auburn’s team was 10th out of 350
A fayece: teams after the first day of competition,
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di: finished eighth among the top 200 teams
on day two and then hit the jackpot on
the final day. They topped the team of
Joseph Nicholson and Gary Sterkel,
both of Cleveland, by just .23 of a pound
in the final tally to take home the win.
The key to the championship, Parks said,
was spotting a group of birds diving in
the water in an area of the 45,000-acre
(18,210-hectare) lake they had not yet
explored.
Sterkel and Nicholson won the second-
place prize of $200,000. Chris Martin, of
Oscar Edwin Oduber Nixa, Missouri, and Kevin Burnett, of
*26-02-1940 - †25-11-2021 Cape Fair, Missouri, took the third-place
prize of $50,000.
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Both Parks and Smith want to fish pro-
fessionally one day.
“It’s been the goal since day one, and I
was already planning on doing it, but was
really struggling to figure out how I was
going to do it monetarily. This tourna-
ment really, really helps boost my confi-
Ricardo Soriano dence that, yes I can fish professionally,
*07-11-1951 - †24-11-2021 do well and win, but also it helps know-
ing I’m pretty much set for the next few
years,” Parks said.
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