Noah Lane and Laura Enever Win the Fantastic Noodles Pro Junior in South Australia 0
WAITPINGA BEACH, South Australia (Sunday, July 19, 2009) – Noah Lane (Rainbow Beach/Queensland) and Laura Enever (North Sydney Beaches/NSW) have won the ASP Pro Junior Men’s and Women’s divisions of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Australasia Fantastic Noodles Pro Junior.
In very good three-to-four feet (1 meter) surf, both surfers produced outstanding 9-point-plus rides to secure today’s wins.
Laura Enever’s victory was one of the best of her career, and has further extended her lead on the 2009 ASP Australasian Pro Junior Series Women’s ratings.
Enever, 17, was staring at a big defeat at the halfway stage in the Final which saw Tyler Wright open with a strong 7.75 and shortly after take a commanding lead with an excellent 8.75.
Enever, with just two moderate scoring rides was requiring a combination of scores to take the lead, and with just 10 minutes remaining in the 30 minute Final, she found an excellent wave, unleashed four major bottom-to-powerful-top turn snaps and found herself right back in the Final when she was awarded the heat’s top scoring ride of a 9.25.
Her task was still difficult, requiring a 7.25 to win with Wright also holding priority, and by the time Enever had returned to the outside peak, the Final had less than 5 minutes to go.
Surprisingly Wright allowed Enever to take a mid-sized wave under priority (Wright had the right to take the wave), and Enever wasted no time extracting every potential point out of the ride which she rode through to the beach and was awarded a 7.35 to take the Final on 16.60 out of a possible 20 to Wright on 16.50.
“I never gave up at all in the final even tho I knew Tyler had a big lead,” Enever said. “I scored a 9.8 in the opening round so I actually thought I need to do that again and I was chasing a 9.5 ride to try and win it on one wave when I caught that second last ride.”
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