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Drew Erichson wins the 2009 Zuma Beach Contest by BIA Tour Print E-mail
Tuesday, 30 June 2009 11:09

2009 BIA Zuma Beach Contest 

If you didn’t make the drive to Zuma... you missed out!

Summer is here and evident with warm water and literally all day barrels. Surf was two to three foot and glassy and the set of the day came through in the Female semi finals.  The girls were all over  it.

Highlights of the day include the Pro Open and Drew Erichson barely edging out the smooth moves from Claudia Castello in a close 1 point seperated heat. Claudia did win the Female division, and more of the older guard was represented by Team Madrid who laid it down in the Masters with Bob Forbes taking 1st and Tom Prince 2nd.

Other notables from the day include Dylan Digiacomo making the finals in three divisions AA, Youth and winning AAA. Mike Glezos won DK , Dusty Brizzolara won Mens, Ryley Colle won AA and Nick Borgens won Juniors.

In the pros, Joe Grodzen barely beat Wally Sani to take Pro DK.

But best of all, and everyone who sat on the sand can agree, the funniest waves of the day came from the slams in the stand up division. Joe, Alex Krist and Colton all took an old fashioned beat down and made it a total summer event. BTW in that event, Colton Overin “stood” victorious.

Overall, a super fun summer day and good job to all of the competitors.


RESULTS:


Pro Open

Drew Erichson
Claudia Castello
Alex Gero
Collin Goddard
 

Pro Drop Knee

Joe Grodzen
Wally Sani
Alex Gero
Bobby Kithkart
 

Masters

Bob Forbes
Tom Prince
Marcus Hirth
Mike Glezos


Drop Knee

Mike Glezos
Nick Borgens
Nick Gero
Jose Peralta
 

Mens

Dusty Brizzolara
Travis Schwarskoff
Dayne Kim


AAA

Dylan Digiacomo
Dyane Kim
Collin Goddard
Hunter Fedden
 

AA

Ryley Colle
Hunter Fedden
Dylan Digiacomo
Rocket Klein


Female

Claudia Costello
Kelia Grodzen
Monica Dell Amore
Monica Dunn
 

Juniors

Nick Borgens
Ryan Colle
Ryley Colle


Stand Up

Colton Overin
Alex Gero
Joe Grodzen
Krist Erikson
 

Youth

Rocket Klein
Dylan Digiacomo
Luke Overin
Julien Myrtye 


SOURCE: BIA Tour


 

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