JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. - The University of Pikeville bass fishing team competed at Cherokee Lake on Friday, Oct. 23, in the Columbia PFG College Fishing event, highlighted by a top-five finish from Cameron Gates and Nick Giompalo. 

Gates and Giompalo led the Bears with a fifth-place finish, bringing in five fish for a total weight of 15 pounds, 1 ounce. 

Silas Jones and Carrson Sizemore finished 66th with a four-fish catch weighing 10 pounds, 12 ounces. Benjamin Chesney and Carson Mathieu placed 105th with four fish totaling 6 pounds, 11 ounces, while Levi Griffith and Gunner Willoughby finished 106th with three fish weighing 6 pounds, 11 ounces. 

Hunter Napier and Joshua Smith recorded a 118th-place finish with three fish weighing 5 pounds, 14 ounces. Ethan Elliott and Elijah Ward followed in 133rd with two fish totaling 4 pounds, 7 ounces. 

Peter Mortenson finished 149th with one fish weighing 3 pounds, 1 ounce, while Nicholas Schaefer and Matthew Strickland placed 151st with one fish weighing 2 pounds, 15 ounces. Paxton Howard and Seth Shuler finished 157th with one fish weighing 2 pounds, 8 ounces, and Dalton Blakley and James Howard placed 171st with one fish weighing 1 pound, 13 ounces. 

Caden Ayers and Dillon Downey rounded out the Pikeville entries in 174th place with one fish weighing 1 pound, 11 ounces. 

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