05/30/2019
The SBSSA 2018-2019 contest season concluded with Men's finals day in the All-Stars competition. All six of Costa's entries in the All-Stars had made it through an earlier round the week before, and Zach Rosenberg and Alex Fry won their Round 2 heats on this day to go right through to the final, where they ultimately placed 2nd and 3rd.
We finally got a scholastic contest in during some thumping swell - but who would have guessed it would have taken place in mid-May? It has been a strange school year for waves and weather, and this was probably a fitting conclusion. Powerful head high south swell had enough west in it to deliver the goods to 26th St. The shape was pretty good, the rides fun, but the paddling was brutal, with current constantly sweeping competitors north out of the contest zone. Parker Browning nabbed a buzzer be**er in his quarterfinal heat to make it through to the repercharge, and he just barely got out that. But by the time he got to the final, he had the kinks worked out and was on fire, taking the win. Costa's Zach Rosenberg and Alex Frey finished 2nd and 3rd.
