XAVIER Huxtable and Bella Wilson claimed top honours earlier this month in the 2018 Woolworths Victorian Junior Surfing Titles, held in two- to three-foot waves at Cape Woolamai on the wave-rich Phillip Island.<\/p>\n
The 2017 Victorian Under 16 Champion, Xavier Huxtable from Jan Juc, used his knowledge of rip bowl conditions to convincingly take the win in the Under 18 Final with a massive heat total of 18.00 (9.67 and a 8.33).<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m completely stoked to take the win at Cape Woolamai. The waves were really good,\u201d Xavier said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone was ripping in the final, but also throughout the whole comp, all the boys had a real dig over the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coming in 2nd gallantly with some amazing surfing was Chad Garrett from Cape Woolamai, with goofy footer Indi White from Jan Juc in third.<\/p>\n
In the premier Under 18 Girls division, 2017 Victorian Open Women’s champion Bella Wilson from Jan Juc narrowly fought off a determined Daisy Corbett from Phillip Island who kept her on her toes in her runner up performance in the final.<\/p>\n
Bella is now looking forward to surfing in the rest of the year\u2019s events.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe waves were pretty tricky, but I am stoked to start off the year with a win in the first event of the Junior Series,\u201d Bella said.<\/p>\n
Filling in fourth place was Angelique Kefalas from Jan Juc, who surfed extremely well throughout the event.<\/p>\n
The Under 16 Boys saw Codie Jeffery from Newhaven make the most of the onshore afternoon conditions posting a 9.17 and 8.50 to take out the final over Ethan Huxtable from Jan Juc who came in a close second.<\/p>\n
In third was Bohdie Williams from Ocean Grove and in fourth was Spencer Kay from Jan Juc.<\/p>\n
Under 16 Girls was run and won by former Australian Under 14 Girls Champion Sage Goldsbury from Cape Woolamai.<\/p>\n
Goldsbury used her local knowledge to her advantage beating runner up Jazz Wylie from Jan Juc.<\/p>\n
All results and scores can be found online at surfingvic.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
XAVIER Huxtable and Bella Wilson claimed top honours earlier this month in the 2018 Woolworths Victorian Junior Surfing Titles, held in two- to three-foot waves at Cape Woolamai on the wave-rich Phillip Island. The 2017 Victorian Under 16 Champion, Xavier Huxtable from Jan Juc, used his knowledge of rip bowl conditions to convincingly take the […]<\/p>\n