Mira Costa cruises through the SBSSA Team Challenge at the Hermosa Beach Pier
PV’s Jack Rowan photo by Richard O’Reilly
On Saturday January 16, all 11 schools in the South Bay Scholastic Surfing Association competed at the Hermosa Beach Pier in the league’s Annual Team Challenge. Surf was consistently fun with waist to chest sized waves.
“The team challenge is an unique event,” said SBBSA League Director Dickie O’Reilly. “Each surf team picks three shortboarders, one bodyboarder, one boy’s longboarder, one girl’s longboarder and one girl’s shortboarder. The format allows a ‘double whammy’ to double one scoring wave.”
O’Reilly said top performances came from Mira Costa’s Peter Matt Hodges and Andrew Neal and Palos Verdes’ Jack Rowan and Peter Healey.
photo gallery by Saul Zaragoza
1st Place: MCHS (green) – Cody Purcell, Matt Hodges, Danny Charvatte, Lauren Freidrich, Andrew Neal, Amelie Vergnolle, Luc Jacquemetton
2nd Place: MCHS (gold) – Doug Golubovic, Chad Parks, Chad Coons, Charlotte Sabina, Peter Neal, Kyra Williams, Cooper Garner
3rd Place: PVHS – Jack Rowan, Peter Healey, Chad Brown, Rodney Buck, Sophie Travesi, Alicia Stephan, Max Minshell
Andrew Neal of Mira Costa on a high scoring wave. photo by Dickie O’Reilly