Mitch Crews (Currumbin, Qld) today claimed the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Grade–5 Oakley Pro Junior in a dominating fashion ahead of Narrabeen’s (NSW) Davey Cathels.
Held in clean three foot (1 metre) waves at Main Beach on Queensland’s (Australia) North Stradbroke Island, Crews defeated Cathels in the Final of the prestigious professional junior event, registering a combined two-wave total of 16.30 points (out of a possible 20) to Cathels’ 13.00.
“The monkey is finally off my back,” Crews said. “I won a Pro Junior about three years ago as a grommet and have been struggling to get over that final hurdle again for ages, so I’m just super stoked. This year had been so frustrating, because in the first three events of the series I’ve finished Runner-Up twice and made a Semifinal, so to finally win one…I’m just over the moon.”
After disposing of 140 of the world’s best international surfers this week, today’s result levels the score between Crews and Cathels at one win a piece in finals this year, after Cathels toppled Crews in the Final of last month’s opening event of 2010 ASP Australasian Pro Junior Men’s series.
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More than a dozen people have been injured while watching a surfing contest in Northern California. Two huge waves swept away spectators who were standing on a seawall. An official estimates that “a couple hundred” people were on the seawall when the waves struck. He says two of the injured were taken to hospitals and 11 others were being treated at the beach for injuries that included broken legs. He says no one is missing.
One of the injured says a wave “came out of nowhere and wiped us all out.” Also taken out was a large scaffold holding speakers broadcasting the Mavericks Surf Contest, held in the tiny harbor town of Half Moon Bay, 25 miles south of San Francisco. Authorities moved bystanders about 100 yards back from the water, where they could continue to watch the surf contest. Competitors voted to hold the contest despite warnings of strong winds and unpredictable surf, because forecasts called for record-high waves.
