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5:37AM Tuesday 02 December, 2008

Youth have easy title wins

7 October 2008

Young Maroochydore gidget Charlie Roach led a dominant Sunshine Coast charge on finals day of the Arnette Junior Surf Challenge at Coolum Beach.

In clean, contestable one-metre waves, Roach won two of the divisions on offer on Friday.

She convincingly beat Tahlija Redgard (Peregian Beach), Keely Andrew (Sunshine Coast) and Ashley Goodall (Caloundra) to take the under-16 girls’ title, and later in the day repeated the dose in the under-14s.

Local surfers took full advantage of the familiar conditions, with Caloundra’s Eli Steele scoring a perfect 10-point ride on his way to the under-14 boys’ title ahead of Hayden Cervi (Sunrise Beach), Harry Bryant (Sunshine Beach) and Tommy Boucout (NSW).

In the battle of the “Micro Groms”, Dextar Muskins (Kirra) and Kai Hing (Wurtulla) emerged with wins in the under-10 boys’ and girls’, and under-12 boys’ divisions respectively.

In the intermediate divisions, Marcoola’s Will Myers came out on top in the under-18s, and Sheldon Paris of Surfers Paradise won the under-16s.

Surfing young gun Jaiden Elgey (Palm Beach) won the blue ribbon under-18 boys’ advanced final, scoring a come-from-behind win to beat Sunshine Coast surfers Ben Milgate (Maroochydore) and James Cervi (Sunshine Beach), and One Anwar (Palm Beach).

Under the pump in the opening stages of the 25-minute final, Elgey hit back with a good scoring 7.17 to remain in contention with five minutes remaining.

In need of a second scoring wave, the talented goofy-foot put the result beyond doubt, nabbing a set wave before executing three controlled yet radical forehand manoeuvres to net a 9.00 from the judges.

“I’m over the moon,” said 17-year old Elgey.“My main goal was to make the final today, so I’m pretty damn happy. I can’t believe I won.”

The high-performance action continued in the under-16 boys’ advanced final, with Casuarina ace Damo Norman trumping Wurtulla’s Nick Edgerton, Coolum’s Adam Parnell and Coolangatta’s Sol Ryan by more than three points. Norman finished with a two-wave total of 17.77 to Edgerton’s 13.83.

Parnell (6.90) and Ryan (5.60) finished third and fourth respectively.

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