Boyle County graduates Keenan Stewart and Coleman Stewart finished 41st to lead local anglers competing in the Bassmaster High School National Championship last week on Chickamauga Lake in Tennessee.

The Stewart brothers finished their two days of fishing Friday with six fish totaling 17 pounds, 4 ounces to finish in the top 15 percent of the field of 272 boats. They were in 29th place after the first day of the tournament.

It was the third appearance in the national tournament for the pair, who also finished fifth in the KHSAA boys state championship this spring.

Colin Wise and Emmitt Grubbs of Boyle finished 170th with a total weight of 7-13. Brayson Claunch, another recent graduate, was 213th at 4-11. Claunch fished only one day.

Claunch and the Stewart brothers will fish competitively at Campbellsville University next season; Grubbs and Wise remain at Boyle.

Landon Pierce and Korbin Neat of Casey County were in 144th place at 9-2.