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The agony of defeat

By Melanie Jarrett
ESPNOutdoors.com

Friday, July 11, 2008

Day Two recap | Standings | Photos MAUMELLE, Ark. — Skies hung low and gray over the competitors this week in the Under Armour College Bass National Championship, but it was the metaphorical kind of rain cloud that gave many a team fits during the first two days of competition. Take, for example, the team of Slayton Gearin and Kevin Shorey from the University of Tennessee-Martin. The duo opened the tourney with a bang, bagging 8.79 pounds for fifth place on the first day. But it was a t ...

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