Savill savours success at Sandon Point
Another hugely successfull weekend of surfing has stamped the Save Sandon Point Surfing Festival as Wollongong's premier surfing event. Surf was highly competitive in the 3ft(1.5m) with favourable conditions to complete competition on Sat and Sun.

Highlights included:

On Sat young Riely Killham from Stanwell Park (only 13 years old) scored a 9.0 and surfed really well along with the other Stanwell Park young crew including Angus Mackay (Brad's son). Riely picked up a sponsorship from the events sunglass sponsor Carve Eyewear.
The opens section featured some super hot surfing.

Sunday saw finals day held in similar conditions with the standard of surfing incredible, showing this area has some present and future champions in the making.
In the opens Micheal Hopkins and Nik Squires, the number 1 and 2 seeds were eliminated in the semi finals in very close affairs.
The under 18's produced some great surfing with the results:
1st Phill Watt from Thirroul, 2nd Justin Arnold (Gerringong), 3rd Jack Hobbs (Sandon Point), 4th Coby Nau (Woonona).

The over 45's were surfed in a great spirit but was also highly competitive, results were:
1st Andrew Johnson (Sandon Point), 2nd Keith Miller (Bulli) who is the local lifegaurd, 3rd Steve Sugden (Wollongong), 4th Wayne Tomkins (Bulli).

The under 15's were super keen for this event as there aren't many events in the local area, the standard was very high and we really like to encourage these youngsters. We are very greatfull for all our sponsors but in particular Ocean & Earth who supplied over $3000 worth of prizes ensuring these grommets went home with there arms full of prizes.
1st Zac Scott(Cronulla), 2nd Riki Tucker (Cullburra), 3rd Nick Clifford (Kiama), 4th Troy Langerdon.

Over 35's was a great success story for 1st place Greg Macann after his much publised family illness the 1983 Austalian open champion picked off the better waves to produce some excellent surfing to beat locals Mark Spooner and Jason Gava with Shellharbour's Mick Mathesius 4th place. The final was surfed in the great spirit with other competitors cheering as one another was taking off.

The opens were red hot from round 1 and to make the final you had to be right on your game.
1st was Dan Savill from Woonona from local surfboard shaper Chad Ryan 2nd, 3rd place went to last years champion Luke Nolan with 4th place going to Sandon Point's Karl Lavis.
Karl was super stoked as he also picked up the best tube ride award for his efforts in the semi final and was the lucky surfer picked out of the barrell(pardon the pun) for the Indonesian boat trip aboard Surf Desert Storm.
All surfers embraced the motto of "surfers caring for the environment"

A great event again this year with the usual thanks going to the sponsors and organising commitee for putting on Wollongong's premier surfing event!!!

Thanks

Jason Gava