Juniors Step Up
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Finals day of the Billabong Junior Series presented by All Aboard Travel offered a contestable stage for the third stop of the grom invasion. A busy South African season has seen a steady increase in the standard of surfing as the juniors are vying for that top spot in the rankings. The little humans on 4’11’s led the brigade as they charged Ballito’s unforgiving shore break. Semi finals began with the u/12’s, moving up in age and class as the day progressed. By midday the light onshore breeze had picked up, further ruffling the shifty line up. The women’s premier division semi-finals was a 50/50 match up of local and international blood. Despite getting a win over her the day before, KZN local Sne Makubu lost to the in-form Hawaiian Zoe McDougall. East london’s Zoe Steyn made an impressive appearance in the u/18 girls semis at just fourteen years old but lost out to the experienced Australian Pacha Luque-Light. The u/18 boys semi-finals were finals in their own right with JBay local Angelo Faulkner and Cape Town’s Ethan Fletcher in heat 1 and Capetonian Adin Masencamp matched up against Brazilian Samuel Pupo – brother of CT surfer Miguel. Just the […]