RUSSELLVILLE, Ark.—  Drury University's Hunter Baird and Beau Browning earned a first-place finish at the Major League Fishing tournament at Lake Dardanelle near Russellville, Arkansas, last weekend. Drury's Cole Breeden and Nathan Fideldy also had a seventh-place finish in the single-day event that featured 133 boats.
 
Baird, a junior from Salina, Kansas, and Browning, a Hot Springs, Arkansas native in his sophomore year, caught their limit of five fish weighing a total of 16 pounds, 10 ounces. They took first in the event over a boat from Tarleton State that brought in 15 pounds, three ounces.
 
Breeden and Fideldy caught a total of 12 pounds, seven ounces, with the five fish they landed to finish seventh.
 
Drury's Sam Engelmeyer and Jake Peck came in 44^th with catching three fish totaling six pounds, six ounces, while Clay Henderson and Zachery Ward finished 49^th landing three fish and a total of five pounds, 14 ounces. The Panthers also had Brant Rowland and Brycen Soliday come in 51^st with three fish totaling five pounds, 13 ounces, and Hunter Alsip fishing with Trenton Webster landed one fish at two pounds, five ounces, to come in 88^th.
 
Drury bass fishing returns to the same lake next weekend for the ACA Collegiate Bass Fishing event. The tournament starts Oct. 9 and concludes the following day.
 
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