KEANU ASING WINS VANS ECSC PRO JR. ZIETZ & O’CONNELL= 5TH IN MAIN EVENT
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia/USA (Sunday, August 26, 2012) – The ASP 6-Star
Coastal Edge ECSC Vans Pro Junior saw Keanu Asing (Ewa Beach, HI), 19, take
out a hard fought victory over Evan Thompson (Jacksonville, FL), 20, Michael
February (ZAF), 18, and Taylor Clark (San Diego, CA), 16.
Asing notched an impressive 14.73 out of 20 heat total of his own in the
Final and held on to the win while engaging in a seesaw paddle battle
against Thompson. Thompson secured the ASP Pro Junior’s highest single-wave
score in the Final of 9.60, but Asing made it nearly impossible for the
Floridian to find a backup score and the young Hawaiian’s strategy helped
him hold on for the win.
“After that Semifinal, I was just happy to be in the Final,” Asing said. “I
finished 3rd last year and Nat Young got a 9 and beat me, so when Evan
(Thompson) got the 9.60, I was thinking there was no way I was going to let
him get his backup score. It’s tough to sit on your friends and your fellow
team rider, but we all come here to do one thing and that’s to win, so I was
going to make it hard for him.”
Asing, who finished No. 1 on the ASP North America Pro Junior Series, took
on several international campaigners at the Coastal Edge ECSC Vans Pro
Junior and looked at the opportunity as the perfect training grounds for the
upcoming ASP World Junior Championships in Bali.
“Coming from US Open and then the Junior here, it’s a great warm up for us
to know what’s coming to us when we go to Bali to battle it out for the
world title,” Asing said. “It’s really good to mix it up with everyone and
see what everyone is doing and see talents from around the world. It was a
tough international field and it’s good to compete with them.”
In the ASP 6-star 6-Star Coastal Edge ECSC presented by
Vans and hydrated by vitaminwater, Hawaii pair Sebastien Zietz and Dege O’Connell finished in equal 5th place after both bowing out in the quarter finals.
The final was an all-Brazilian affair, won by Jean Da Silva
(BRA), 27, over Filipe Toledo (BRA), 17, in clean two-to-four foot waves at 1st
Street Jetty in Virginia Beach.
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COASTAL EDGE ECSC PRES. BY VANS FINAL:
1 – Jean Da Silva (BRA) 14.76
2 – Filipe Toledo (BRA) 14.50
COASTAL EDGE ECSC PRES. BY VANS SEMIFINALS:
SF 1: Jean Da Silva (BRA) 15.57 def. Nathan Yeomans (USA) 8.20
SF 2: Filipe Toledo (BRA) 17.76 def. Hizunome Bettero (BRA) 8.20
COASTAL EDGE ECSC PRES. BY VANS QUARTERFINALS RESULTS:
QF 1: Nathan Yeomans (USA) 13.74 def. Michael Dunphy (USA) 13.60
QF 2: Jean Da Silva (BRA) 13.67 vs. Dege O’Connell (HAW) 6.67
QF 3: Hizunome Bettero (BRA) 13.37 def. Sebastien Zietz (HAW) 12.56
QF 4: Filipe Toledo (BRA) 15.40 def. Tanner Gudauskas (USA) 12.27
COASTAL EDGE ECSC VANS PRO JUNIOR FINAL RESULTS:
1 – Keanu Asing (HAW) 14.73
2 – Evan Thompson (USA) 13.87
3 – Michael February (USA) 11.87
4 – Taylor Clark (USA) 9.50
COASTAL EDGE ECSC VANS PRO JUNIOR SEMIFINALS RESULTS:
SF 1: Evan Thompson (USA) 15.50, Michael February (ZAF) 11.80, Cooper
Chapman (AUS) 9.23, Andrew Doheny (USA) 6.34
SF 2: Taylor Clark (USA) 12.00, Keanu Asing (HAW) 11.50, Carlos Munoz (CRI)
10.36, Kaimana Jaquias (HAW) 7.50
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