Three surfers selected for State

Three surfers from the Ocean Beach Malibu Club have been selected to represent NSW in the Australian Titles in August.

Tom Payne, Kai Ellice-Flint and Hayden Emery competed at the NSW Longboard Titles held at Rainbow Beach in Bonny Hills from June 18 to 22.

They were each selected at the end of the competition to represent NSW in the Australian Titles in August.

Payne is the newly-crowned NSW Cadets under-16s champion and easily outpointed his opponents in the final to claim first place.

Tom also contested the under-18s and progressed to the final where he finished in fifth spot.

Kai continued his recent form to claim second place in the final of the under-18s and claimed third place in the Open Loggers against much older competitors.

Despite being knocked out of his semi-final by just 0.23 of a point, Emery, surfing in the Men's Open High Performance was still selected for the NSW team to contest the Australian Titles.

Email, 18 July 2013

Craig Coulton, Ocean Beach Malibu Club

Photo: Tony Gilbert