Umina surf club hosts first round of series

Umina Surf Life Saving Club hosted the first round of the 2018 Street Boats Series on October 20.

Fifty-nine teams made up from 13 different surf clubs from across the Central Coast and the Hunter descended on Umina Beach to take part in the opening round of the series.

The Peninsula was represented by Umina and Ocean Beach Surf Life Saving Clubs which participated in five events across the round.

Umina competed in the Open Women's, Under 23 Men's, Masters Men's and Master's Women's.

Ocean Beach competed in the Open Men's, Open Women's and Under 23 Men's.

For Umina, top performers were the G-Stringers team, who took out the Open Women's event, followed by team G-Wizz who placed second in the Masters Women's.

The Under 23 Men's, the Mad Dogs, placed fourth in their event and the Masters Men's team, the Superdry Lepers, placed fifth.

Ocean Beach's Goats Open Men's team placed fifth.

In the Open Women's, the Ocean Beach Who Haas narrowly missed out on the gold, taking second place to the G-Stringers.

Ocean Beach's Under 23 Men's Goats team also took out second in their event.

Round 2 of the series will be hosted by Tea Gardens Hawk's Nest Surf Life Saving Club on November 3.

SOURCE:

Newsletter, 20 Oct 2018

Stuart Harvey, Surf Life Saving Central Coast