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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Bobby Martinez Leaves Channel Islands
Has the attrition already began at Channel Islands surfboards after the Burton buyout? One could think that after Bobby Martinez left CI to surf for DHD Surfboards. This news became official on April 9th. Bobby wasn't surfing his CI boards at the Bells Beach contest and his name is long gone form the CI team riders page. Other surfers of note riding DHD is current World Champion Mick Fanning.

Locals at Lowers Pro
The 6 star WQS event at Lowers is going on now, with a lot of Santa Barbara County talent still in the running. Here is the current breakdown with Round 3 just starting.

Round 1 Heats
Peter Mussio placed 1st to advance
Colin Schildhauer placed 2nd to advance
Adam Lambert placed 2nd to advance

Round 2 Heats
Peter Mussio placed 2nd to advance
Colin Schildhauer placed 1st to advance
Adam Lambert placed 4th to get knocked out
Bobby Morris placed 1st to advance

Round 3 Heats
Cory Arrambide: Surfs in Round 3
Colin Schildhauer
Bobby Morris
Peter Mussio

Round 4 Heats
Tyler Anderson: surfs in Round 4

SBHS at ISF State Championships
JP has a good rundown on the Dons surfing at ISF States. In summary the boys longboard placed 2nd, girls shortboard and longboard placed 3rd. This is a great showing for a Santa Barbara County team to go down to the ultra competitive SoCal region and score well. Here is the rundown on the surfers, big props to them:

Boys' Longboard: Shane Orr, Gabe Biancone and Willy Radis

Girls' Longboard: Chelsea Zaniboni, Glennie Rodgers and Elle Iverson

Girls' Shortboard: Cory Radis, Glennie Rodgers and Chelsea Zaniboni

Boys' Shortboard: Shane Orr, Gabe Biancone, Tristan Cronshaw, Emmery Hickenbockum, Antoine Allain, John Outwater, Bryce Lupolli, Willy Radis and Christian Soulages

Body Board: Tristan Cronshaw, Austin "Gibby" Gibson and Ryan Cook
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