11/06/07The Bodyglove Bodyboards USBA 2007 National Championship Tour

Event # 4: The IB Pro

Sponsors:  Bodyglove Bodyboards, No Friends Clothing, 662mob.com and
the Town of Imperial Beach

Amateur Tour Sponsors: Custom X


The IB Pro was compiled into  two days of action from Amateur upsets
and darkhourse Pro efforts abound. The Amateur Division left a very
important situation to be decided over the next two USBA events. New
Jerseys new USBA prospect Dillon Druz who swept the northeast leg of
the tour, was taken out due to poor wave selection in the first round.
This left Reis Yanaheiro still in the running for the USBA Amateu
Championship. Ries took home the win and a rekindled a motivation to
compete for the title.

Heading into the Women's Pro Division an on fire former world champ
Kira Lyllelyn was surfing better then most of the Men's Pro
contestants. In the final she was able to land three ars's and one
invert cleanly proving why she is world champion material. Monique
Delamore placed second with a great effort narrowly beating the
current USBA Champion Roberta Bitzer.

The IB Pro's DK division was a whirlwind of upsets and rouge
performances. Bobby Kitchart (CA) was on a mission  smashing every
section that came his way and knocking out current DK USBA Champ Dave
Hubbard. Jeff Hubbard was able to sneak by his brother as well and
make it to the final where he finished 2nd to Willy Sani (CA) who put
in a huge performance in his first ever USBA appearance winning the
entire event!

Heading into the Pro Divisions there were some slow starts but big
finishes that outweighed the early rounds. The early rounds noticeable
names where Robby Grey (AUS), Jacob Romero (HI), Jason Bitzer,Brian
Cruz (Guam) and Sacha Specker(SA). Early round upsets came in the form
of local hero's Ross McBride, Jeremy Wright, Brad Mebust amongst other
new USBA new comers. Jeff Hubbard who consistently placed second in
his heats seemed to never find his rhythm and was stopped in the
semi's to leave his brother Dave and buddy Spencer Skipper to carry
the Hawaiian flag into the finals. Also Jorge Colomer (PR) put in
consistent efforts gaining him access to the final, but it was South
Africa's Sacha Specker  who was on fire after his near loss in the
semis. Sacha stamped his name in the USBA history books and took home
the $1000 dollar first place check.

The USBA heads to the Rosarito Beach Pro next weekend Nov 9-11th with
and expected 1,500 plus crowd on hand. Check out usbamag.com/webcast
for live action of the event as well usbatour.org for a live link
webcast on the home page.

	
Thank you again to our sponsors Bodyglove Bodyboards , Nofriends
Clothing and all our supporters who made this event possible

USBA Staff



Amateur
1.	Reis Yanoherio
2.	Taylor Paige
3.	Rob Mack

DK Pro
1.	Wally Sani
2.	Jeff Hubbard
3.	Shawn Convoy
4.	Bobby Kichart

Women's Pro
1.	Kira Llewellyn
2.	Monique Delamore
3.	Roberta Bitzer
4.	Marcella Bingham *(AM)
Men's Pro
1. Sacha Specker
2. Spencer
3. Dave Hubbard
4. Jorge Colomer



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