It's bay all the way

RIP IT UP: Mount Maunganui student Indica Corcoran tears up a wave at the Primary School Surfing Championships here over the weekend. Picture by Paul Rickard

SURFING

Mount Maunganui’s Bay Boardriders bested 13 clubs from around the country to win the overall team title at the Sticky Johnson Primary School Surfing Championships at Gisborne’s Midway Beach over the weekend.

The club was led by Tyler Stenzel, who won the Year 6 and below boys division.

There were also podium finishes by his Bay Boardriders clubmates Tao Mouldey (second in Y7 and Y8 boys), Indica Corcoran (third in Y6 and below boys) and Cooper Roberts (fourth in Y7/Y8 boys).

Whangarei’s Cooper Ashill won the Year 7/8 boys title, Piha’s Leia Millar the Y7/Y8 girls division and Orewa’s Alani Morse the Y6 and below girls section.

Gisborne turned on beautiful spring weather, participants enjoying clean waves of up to one metre and brisk offshore winds all weekend.

The groms took part in round-robin competition, followed by semifinals and finals.

Diminutive natural footer Stenzel was the star performer in the finals, posting the highest heat total of 13.26 points out of a possible 20.

Ashill led his Ocean Beach Boardriders Club to third overall, helped by Indi-lee Ruddell, who was third in the Y6 and below girls division.

Team runners-up Whangamata Boardriders secured two finalists — India Kennings (second in the Y6 and below girls) and Pia Rogers (third in the Y7/8 girls).