There were good results for Sutherland Shire schools at the Sydney Schools South regional titles held at Maroubra Beach last week.
Cronulla High School was the big winner taking three of the four divisions in the coveted MR Shield event. MR Shield teams are based on the results of the individual event where the top two-placed surfers from the same school are announced the winning team. Only one school team per division advances to the NSW state titles.
“Everybody surfed well,” Cronulla surfing co-ordinator Bevan Gosby said.
“The team did themselves and the school proud as they all surfed with commitment and enthusiasm.”
Woolooware High School’s Jay Brown won the senior boys with Cronulla’s Maxime Rayer and Cooper Manion taking the next two positions and the team win.
In the senior girls event Summer Halliwell-Quinn from OLMC Burraneer was second taking the team win for their school with Harriet Hurst who finished fifth.
In the junior divisions, Kirrawee High School was the big winner when Jordan Turansky was the best placed local finishing second in the boys with the Cronulla pair of Kalani Van Depolder and Dane Decoque taking the team with a fourth and fifth.
In the girls April Davey was first with Cronulla’s Neve Barber and Elly Hollingsworth finishing third and fourth giving their school three division wins.
Cronulla surfers have been smashed over the last week with massive waves and howling sou/east winds not making it easy.
This morning it has dropped and conditions are clean-I took some of today's pics on Tuesday and this morning and some on Saturday because it's so dark its hard to shoot in the mornings or afternoon.
Even yesterday it was still solid with swell from the East and average winds-Swellnet predicts today the swell will bottom out and Thursday will have good conditions in the mornings, with another small swell increase from Wednesday afternoon onwards.
Friday we will finally see easing swells with light offshore winds and it looks like a small 2ft weekend ahead, but conditions are looking nice .
Lakey Peterson (USA) and Italo Ferreira (BRA) have taken out the Corona Bali Protected presented by Hurley, Stop No. 5 on the World Surf League Championship Tour . The final day saw incredible performances in clean waves at Keramas on Bali’s east coast, allowing the world’s best surfers to put on a show at one of the most high-performance waves on the planet.
Peterson’s emphatic win sees her reclaim the Jeep Leader Jersey, continuing her red-hot form in 2018. The Californian had only two final appearances last season and settled for second on both occasions. After only four completed events this year, Peterson secured three finals and took top honors in two.
Ferreira cemented himself as a bonafide World Title contender by reclaiming the Jeep Leader Jersey and taking his second win of the 2018 season. Ferreira held the two highest single-wave scores of the event and three of the event’s top heat totals. The goofy-footer launched and landed massive aerials, attacked the lip with precision, and threaded backhand tubes throughout to prove himself as the worthy winner of the Corona Bali Protected.
Surfers are now at Ulu waiting for the margarets contest to start on June 8th-Connor has a hard round 3 surfing against the inform Tahitian Michel Bourez -good luck.
Meanwhile the WQS is hotting up with Jeronimo Vargas (BRA)winning his first-ever WSL event by a score of 17.50 to 17.17 over Jacob Willcox (AUS) at the QS 3,000 Maui and Sons Arica Pro Tour in Chile.
Jared Hickel made the third round at the Chilean left slab but really needed to go another round-Alejo Muniz leads the ratings with 3 Brazilians in the top 5 plus 2 Aussies.
Shane Campbell still sits inside the top 50 at 48 and Jared is 74th.
