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CHELAN — Group USA captured its first Continental Surf Cup title, defeating three-time defending champion Group Europe 27.75-23.25 through the two-day standing wave browsing competitors at Lakeside Surf.
Money Hoover of Oahu, Hawaii, led the U.S. girls and received the person championship. Hoover earned the utmost 9.5 group factors accessible to her, together with 5 factors for the person title and a half-point for successful the perfect trick competitors.
Hoover and Chelan surfer Reese Bordner helped safe the group victory within the girls’s total remaining after Group Europe’s comeback had lower a five-point U.S. benefit after the opening day to 1.5 factors.
Bordner scored an 8.83 on her first run within the remaining after touchdown her first air-reverse in an ordinary warmth. She completed second individually and contributed 7 group factors through the competitors.
Hoover’s victory was her second particular person Continental Surf Cup championship and her third consecutive main title at Lakeside Surf after successful the 2025 Gerry Lopez River Surf Invitational.
Chelan’s Maya Cowan and Wenatchee’s Sierra White additionally competed for the U.S. girls, who received six of eight heats through the first 4 rounds and contributed 14.25 factors to the group whole.
The U.S. males received six of eight heats through the Browsing Basic and Finest Trick rounds. Jose “Cacaro” Lopez, the 2025 Panama Ocean Browsing nationwide champion and a Group USA wildcard entry, led the U.S. males with 4.5 factors, together with a half-point for the perfect trick title.
Chelan’s Money Eygabroad contributed 4 factors and superior to the boys’s total remaining. Germany’s Lenny Weinhold received that remaining to say his fourth particular person Continental Surf Cup championship.
Ben Benson helped halt Group Europe’s late comeback within the males’s comfort remaining. The three-time Continental Surf Cup runner-up scored a 9.08 on his opening run and improved his rating on his subsequent two makes an attempt, ending fifth and including to the U.S. lead earlier than the general finals.
Group USA held a three-point benefit after 4 rounds and expanded the margin through the comfort and total finals to complete with a 4.5-point victory.
Different U.S. opponents included Kielan Jardini and 12-year-old Jax Oshiro-Labbe of Hawaii, Elijah Moody and Logan Watson of Chelan and Austin Fernand of Boise, Idaho.
The following Continental Surf Cup is scheduled for Labor Day weekend in 2028 at Lakeside Surf in Chelan.
