Title's a breeze for Sandy Bay's Divers

Sandy Bay's Paco Divers scored the best result of his summer to take out the Under-20 title at the Rip Curl Pro held at Manu Bay near Raglan over the weekend.
Divers took to Manu Bay on his backhand, going vertical on turn after turn to post 17.90 out of a possible score of 20 and easily win the U20 Division final. His massive score gave him an easy victory - his opponents required near perfect scores to catch him - and no one came near.
"It was good fun, there were some pretty good waves, the light sea breeze made it easy to go for broke out there and it helped my surfing out a lot in the final," Divers said.
"I won the final event of 2009 but haven't gone so well this summer so I think this win will get me back on track."

 Conditions for the third and final day of competition on Sunday improved with perfect 1.5m waves running down Manu Bay under a light sea breeze.
Divers had earlier made the final eight of the open men's competition but struck the eventual winner, young Gisborne surfer Morehu Roberts, in the quarter-final.
Roberts upset another Gisborne surfer, Jay Quinn, to secure the biggest win of his career to take out the Open Men's Division.
Divers' result was good enough to improve his national ranking in the Export Gold Series from seventh to third after the Raglan results. Mount Maunganui's Alex Dive was second in the U20 final scoring 15.25, a mere 0.10 points ahead of Tairua's Sean Peggs in third.
Dive was clinical completing big turns right down the point but did not match the aggression of Divers in the final. Placing fourth in the final was Mimiwhangata's Joe Moretti, who secured a career best result, elevating him from 13th to seventh in the U20 ratings.
Piha's Tane Wallis and Raglan's Alexis Poulter were victorious in the Rip Curl GromSearch national finals both winning the chance to compete at the international final held in conjunction with the Rip Curl Pro held at Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia, over Easter.
Wallis whipped his opponents in the boys' final, posting 17.35 points out of a possible 20.  Despite surfing with a badly injured knee, Wallis attacked every wave he surfed and was aptly rewarded with excellent wave scores of 9.00 and 8.35.
Mount Maunganui's Todd Doyle held down the early lead but was pushed back to second place, where he remained for the remainder of the final.
Another Sandy Bay surfer, Patxi Scott-Arrieta, got off to a slow start but posted scores of 7.35 and 8.05 on his last two waves to push into third place just behind Doyle.
Whangamata's Dune Kennings was out-muscled in the final to finish in fourth.

 Raglan's Jessica Santorik continued her exceptional run of form coming from behind to win the open women's title ahead of Thompson.
Santorik has dominated the open women's events this season and heads to Australia next week to try her luck in her first World Qualifying School event.