6.0 Lowers Pro

Oakley Pro Junior

ASP 6-Star Prime Mens WQS event
ASP Grade 2 Mens Pro Junior event
Lower Trestles, San Clemente Ca
28 April - 3 May 2008

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Fred Patacchia wins 6.0 Lowers Pro, Barger takes Oakley Pro Junior

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 2 May, 2009 : - - San Clemente -- Fred Patacchia (North Shore, HI), 27, won mainland America’s first Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 6-Star PRIME, the 6.0 Lowers Pro, when he defeated defending event champion Ben Bourgeois (Wrightsville Beach, NC), 30, by a score of 16.84 to 14.10 in two-to-four foot surf at the famed cobblestone reef of Lower Trestles in San Clemente, California.

Today’s action also saw defending ASP World Junior Champion Kai Barger (Haiku, HI), 19, claim the ASP Grade-2 Oakley Pro Junior Global Challenge U.S.A. Qualifier, which ran in conjunction with the 6.0 Lowers Pro.

Patacchia demolished the Lower Trestles righthanders in his Final against Bourgeois, opening up his battle against the former ASP World Tour campaigner with a 9.17 out of 10 in the opening minutes of the heat. The Hawaiian talent backed up the score with a 7.67 to solidify the win.

Patacchia is currently sitting in the No. 3 position on the ASP World Tour after two events and was using the premier ASP WQS 6-Star PRIME to help his competitive focus before launching into the Billabong Pro Teahupoo next week.

“It’s a good warm up for the Hurley Pro,” Patacchia said. “It’s not a good warm up for Tahiti, but I just want to stay in contest mode, keep my body in shape and keep my mind strong. I’m having a fairly decent year this year so I just want to keep it going.”

Fred Patacchia : photo Hilleman

Bourgeois won the 6.0 Lowers Pro last year, when the event was an ASP 4-Star, and worked his way through to the Final again this year. The talented regular-footer gave stellar performances throughout the event but fell short of the scores needed in the Final to overtake Patacchia for the 6.0 Lowers Pro win.

“I’m stoked to make the final, it was amazing,” Bourgeois said. “I wish I could have caught a few more waves there at the end, but I’m stoked for Fred (Patacchia). He’s been ripping.”

Bourgeois, who was a competitor on last year’s ASP World Tour, topped several of the finest up-and-coming competitors and also defeated current ASP World Tour No. 6 Adriano de Souza (Guaruja Sao Paulo, BRA), 22, who was in top form throughout the event, on the way to his result.

“It was a stacked field for sure,” Bourgeois said. “To make the Final with all of those guys is huge.”

Bourgeois, who is now living in Carlsbad, California, is only a part-time competitor and will be back in a jersey at the ASP 6-Star Hurley U.S. Open of Surfing this summer. His win at Trestles also earned him a berth into a Trials event for a wildcard into the Hurley Pro, on only the World Tour Stop in North America. The trials will run during the Hurley U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California .  In the meantime, the California transplant will be spending his time working on other surf related projects.

“I’m doing the U.S. Open and the O’Neill Cold Water Classic in Santa Cruz,” Bourgeois said. “I’m going on a boat-trip to Panama at the end of this month and for now I’m just hanging out at home in Carlsbad.

Barger claimed the Oakley Pro Junior Global Challenge U.S. Qualifier in an amazing display of progressive surfing alongside fellow finalists Davey Cathels (North Narrabeen, AUS), 18, who finished second, Dillon Perillo (Malibu, CA), 18, and Hawaiian charger Kiron Jabour (Haleiwa, HI), 18, with an amazing two-wave-score of 18.60 out of 20. Each surfer went wave-for-wave, unleashing massive fins-free turns and huge air reverses, but in the end, Barger’s performance would go unmatched.

“Man, that Final was epic, it glassed off out there and the sets just started pumping,” Barger said. “I finally got my chance to get a nice open face right and just tee off, which is what I’ve been waiting to do this whole time, so I’m just super stoked.”

The Oakley Pro Junior victory at Lower Trestles was the first event victory for Barger since his win at the ASP World Junior Championships in Narrabeen, Australia in January, and the result came as a relief to the progressive goofy-footer. “I’m so stoked because I felt like people would be wondering if I didn’t back up my win from Worlds with another result,” Barger said. “This is a solid result for me and it’s good.”

Cathels came from behind to bump Perillo down to the third place position with a last-second effort on a long righthand Lowers wall. The young Australian combined a variety of vicious turns and finished the wave off with a solid reverse to take second overall in the event.

“The waves are so fun out there, it’s just perfect little Trestles,” Cathels said. “The wave is just so rippable. Everone was getting great waves and Kai was just ripping out there. So what can you do, he’s the ASP World Junior Champion for a reason. To get that second, I’m just frothing, that’s what I came here to do.”

Cathels, who entered the contest after just missing qualifying for the Oakley Pro Junior Global Challenge in Australia with a third-place finish, traveled to the states specifically to garner that lucrative qualification. His first trip to the U.S. resulted in just that, and he definitely hopes to come back to compete at Trestles again in the future.

“This is my first time to America and my first time to Trestles about a week ago,” Cathels said. “I just fell in love with this wave. It just turned on for us in the Final. It was so good and I’d love to come back.”

Both Barger and Cathels also qualified for the Oakley Pro Junior Global Challenge in Bali in October. Tomorrow will crown two more qualifiers, the first and second-place finishers from the Oakley Pro Junior Global Challenge South Africa Qualifier in Port Alfred, which has been running concurrently with the Trestles event.

View complete results, photos and video highlights at online. Heats On Demand from the last two days of competition are available at fuel.tv. The 6.0 Lowers Pro and Oakley Pro Junior wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of sponsors Nike 6.0 and Oakley, co-sponsor Red Bull, and media sponsors Surfer (surfermag.com), Surfing (surfingthemag.com), WaveWatch.com and FUEL TV.

6.0 Lowers Pro Final:
1 – Fred Patacchia (HAW)16.84
2 – Ben Bourgeois (USA) 14.10

6.0 Lowers Pro Semifinals Results:
Heat 1: Fred Patacchia (HAW) 13.17 def. Tim Boal (FRA) 7.60
Heat 2: Ben Bourgeois (USA) 15.80 def. Nathan Yeomans (USA) 14.66

6.0 Lowers Pro Quarterfinals Results:
Heat 1: Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 15.00 def. Dusty Payne (HAW) 8.83
Heat 2: Tim Boal (FRA) 14.96 def. Tanner Gudauskas (USA) 11.94
Heat 3: Ben Bourgeois (USA) 15.77 def. Adriano de Souza (BRA) 14.67
Heat 4: Nathan Yeomans (USA) 16.50 def. C.J. Hobgood (USA)

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Oakley Pro Junior Final:
1 – Kai Barger (HAW) 18.60
2 – Davey Cathels (AUS) 16.13
3 – Dillon Perillo (USA) 15.94
4 – Kiron Jabour (HAW) 15.33

Oakley Pro Junior Semifinials Results: (1st and 2nd advance)
Heat 1: Kiron Jabour (HAW) 15.06, Kai Barger (HAW) 14.94, Dege O’Connell (HAW) 9.56, Andrew Doheny (USA) 9.05
Heat 2: Dillon Perillo (USA) 17.90, Davey Cathels (AUS) 15.44, Nat Young (USA) 14.54, Chris Friend (AUS)

Oakley Pro Junior Quarterfinals Results: (1st and 2nd advance)
Heat 1: Davey Cathels (AUS) 16.00, Chris Friend (AUS) 15.87, Cory Arrambide (USA) 15.50, Evan Thompson (USA) 14.94
Heat 2: Kai Barger (HAW) 15.50, Dege O’Connell (HAW) 11.77, Albee Layer (HAW) 10.76, Luke Davis (USA) 10.13
Heat 3: Davey Cathels (AUS) 16.00, Chris Friend (AUS) 15.87, Cory Arrambide (USA) 15.50, Evan Thompson (USA)
Heat 4: Nat Young (USA) 14.67, Dillon Perillo (USA) 13.07, Spencer Regan (USA) 12.77, Victor Done (USA) 7.47

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Current Mens WQS Ratings

1	Ross,Daniel	AUS	8325
2	Andre,Jadson	BRA	7475
3	Simpson,Brett	USA	7338
4	Polo,Marco	BRA	6950
5	Thompson,Jay	AUS	6900
6	Yeomans,Nathan	USA	6813
7	Payne,Dusty	HAW	6800
8	Wright,Owen	AUS	6613
9	Logie,Travis	ZAF	6301
10	Gudauskas,Tanner	USA	5850
11	Paulino,Pablo	BRA	5713
12	Melling,Adam	AUS	5576
13	Silva,Jean da	BRA	5525
14	Gudauskas,Patrick	USA	5200
15	Moura,Paulo	BRA	5151
16	Atkinson,Dion	AUS	5125
17	Zubizarreta,Gony	ESP	5100
18	Duru,Joan	FRA	5038
19	Ware,Austin	USA	4832
20	Wright,Warwick	ZAF	4813
21	Jackson,Brandon	ZAF	4800
22	Ohno,Masatoshi	JPN	4601
23	Sedley,Leigh	AUS	4563
24	Wilkinson,Matt	AUS	4475
25	Gudauskas,Dane	USA	4463
26	Ettinger,Brad	USA	4414
27	Hall,Glenn	IRE	4413
28	Flintoff,Kirk	AUS	4376
29	Courtney,Drew	AUS	4363
30	Aranburu,Aritz	EUK	4300
31	Boal,Tim	FRA	4250
32	Riou,Alain	PYF	4226
33	Muscroft,Nic	AUS	4213
34	Hobgood,Damien	USA	4113
35	Cardoso,Willian	BRA	4077
36	Bourgeois,Ben	USA	4038
37	Neves,Leonardo	BRA	3981
38	Dantas,Wiggolly	BRA	3926
39	Thornton,Blake	AUS	3813
40	Merle-Jones,Jesse	HAW	3757
41	Goodrum,Darrell	USA	3742
42	Gonzalez,Jonathan	CNY	3725
43	Basnett,Ricky	ZAF	3688
44	Taylor,Lincoln	AUS	3626
45	Palmboom,Rudy	ZAF	3604
46	Lopez,Cory	USA	3545
47	Farney,Marcio	BRA	3538
48	Selman,Manuel	CHL	3532
49	Nicol,Yadin	AUS	3526
50	Campbell,Luke	AUS	3525

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The 6.0 Lowers Pro and Oakley Pro Junior wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of sponsors Nike 6.0 and Oakley, co-sponsor Red Bull, and media sponsors Surfer (surfermag.com), Surfing (surfingthemag.com), WaveWatch.com and FUEL TV.

About Nike 6.0:
Welcome to Nike 6.0 … a  multi-action sports brand supporting the next generation. Our mission is simple: Instigate, inspire and elevate the next generation.  The barriers that once existed between action sports have been reduced by those who skate, surf, and ride with equal and inclusive passion. 6.0 is dedicated to this new crop of athletes through our multi-sport team, innovative product, and events. From the streets to the surf, from the dirt to the park, Nike 6.0 symbolizes the creativity and progression inherent in the DNA of action sports.  
 
About Oakley, Inc.
Oakley, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes high-performance sunglasses, prescription lenses and frames, goggles and technology-enabled eyewear that utilize the company’s High Definition Optics® (HDO®), a collective platform of patented technologies that offer unbeatable optical performance. The company also produces technical and active apparel, footwear and accessories.

About Source Interlink Media’s Action Sports Group (ASG):
Reaching more than two million enthusiasts, Source Interlink Media’s Action Sports Group (ASG) is the dominant force in the action sports and adventure sports arenas. In addition to publishing leading lifestyle publications such as Surfer, Surfing, Snowboarder, Skateboarder, Bike, Powder and Canoe & Kayak, Source Interlink Media’s ASG delivers a cutting-edge network of online properties, events and television programming. 

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Previous reports:
# 1 : 6.0 Lowers Pro first ASP 6-Star Prime on U.S. mainland
# 2 : Top seeds preparing for ASP 6-Star 6.0 Lowers Pro WQS
# 3 : Wildcards finalized for 6.0 Lowers Pro & Oakley Pro Jnr..  

# 4 : Good surf predicted for 6.0 Lowers Pro start at Trestles 
# 5 : Michel Bourez dominates opening day of 6.0 Lowers Pro 
# 6 : Nate Yeomans leads top seeds in 6.0 Lowers Pro Rnd 2 

# 7 : Improved surf ups the action ante Day 3 of 6.0 Lowers 
# 8 : Quarterfinalists decided at 6-star prime 6.0 Lowers Pro

 
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