HONOLULU — Kaua‘i’s Roy Powers advanced to the round 3 at the Reef Hawaiian Pro, Tuesday afternoon. Powers, the 2007 winner, won his heat of four by posting a total of 10 points. Powers edged out Ian Gentil (8.5), Corey
HONOLULU — Kaua‘i’s Roy Powers advanced to the round 3 at the Reef Hawaiian Pro, Tuesday afternoon.
Powers, the 2007 winner, won his heat of four by posting a total of 10 points. Powers edged out Ian Gentil (8.5), Corey Lopez (7.5) and ASP Women’s world champion Carissa Moore (5.6).
Moore, the first woman to compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, made it through her first heat on Monday, but ran into a tough grouping on a day where there weren’t many waves to catch.
“I am so stoked that I have the opportunity to surf in the first two events of the Triple Crown but I honestly was pretty disappointed with myself and in my performance today,” Moore said in an ASP release. “I think that if I was even surfing with the girls I probably would not have made the heat.”
Powers said he was happy to make it out of the round ahead of Moore.
“She’s a world champion at a time when women’s surfing is out of this world. All she needed was good waves to show everyone what she’s got. I’ve surfed with her a bunch of times (outside of competition) and 90 percent of times she smokes me,” Powers told ASP. “I was as nervous for that heat as I’ve ever been. Thank God I got that one decent wave.”
Powers will compete in round 3 this afternoon.
