Tominaga wins shortboard, and longboard at high school contest
Mira Costa’s Rachael Tominaga performs a fin-first take-off on her way to winning both the longboard and shortboard divisions in the South Bay Surf League All Star Individuals contest. Photo (CivicCouch.com) The South Bay Surf League All Star Individual Championships took place Saturday under grey skies and glassy, low-tide, 3-foot walls on the south side of the Hermosa Beach Pier. The ocean was so smooth and the sky so grey that it was hard to see where the sky ended and the ocean began. League director John Joseph had two areas running, with the rights coming off the pier and the lefts coming off the lifeguard tower a half block to the south. In the early heats Mira Costa freshman Noah Collins was all over the speedy-walled lefts, racing up and down like the amped hummingbird he is. He took first in the shortboard division. Redondo’s senior Connor Beaty took second, riding the rights from the other side, demanding not to be ignored. The girls long board division saw Mira Costa freshman Rachel Tominago cruising down a few high-point, medium-size waves, then switching her board around backwards to attempt fin-first take-offs on the remaining sets. She didn’t make them but she…
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