CROOKSTON,
Minn. – Win prizes and support scholarships during the 7th Annual
Justin Knebel Memorial Ice Fishing Tournament to be held Saturday, February 4,
2017. The tournament, which supports scholarships at the University of
Minnesota Crookston, will be held at Zippel Bay Resort on Lake of the Woods,
Williams, Minn. Tickets are available for $20 by contacting Alysa Tulibaski at
701-215-4300. Tickets are also available at Zippel Bay Resort, 6080 39th
St. NW, Williams, Minn., 800-222-2537
On
Friday, February 3 prior to the fishing tournament, all alumni in the area are
invited to an alumni social at Izzy’s Bar & Grill, 801 State Ave, Warroad,
Minn., from 5 to 8:30 p.m. There will be food, door prizes, and a chance to
reconnect with your classmates and friends from the Northwest School of Agriculture
and the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Registration
for Saturday’s fishing tournament, limited to the first 225 tickets, begins
at 9 a.m. on the ice at the tournament site with fishing from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Prizes will be awarded to the first person to catch a fish,
along with prizes for the largest walleye, northern, sauger, perch and other
species caught during the tournament. The registration fee also includes a
raffle ticket and road access fee.
All
proceeds from the tournament support the Justin Knebel Memorial Scholarship
Fund at the U of M Crookston. Following the tournament, there will be a social
at the igloo on the ice. The Justin Knebel Memorial Ice Fishing Tournament
corporate sponsors are Streiff Sporting Goods and Zippel Bay Resort.
Prizes
sponsored by Streiff Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Fishing House Supply.com, and
Grayden Outdoors LLC. A number of other businesses in Northwest Minnesota
support the tournament through the donations of prizes and monetary support.
For
more information on the tournament, visit http://z.umn.edu/1brc.