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The World Surf League’s Big Wave Tour on Saturday issued a green alert for the Jaws Challenge at Pe‘ahi on Maui for Monday.
A final call will be made at 7:30 a.m Monday.
“We are all systems go for the Jaws Challenge at Pe‘ahi to run Monday,” WSL Big Wave Tour commissioner Mike Parsons said. “All the competitors are gearing up. The swell is looking in the 35- to 45-foot face range and we are excited for the world’s best big wave surfers to put on a show for the world.”
Hawaii surfers Ian Walsh and Paige Alms will defend their men’s and women’s titles.
The holding period for two other big surfing events starts today — the Vans World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach and the Beachwaver Maui Pro at Honolua Bay. The contest window ends for both on Dec. 6.
The Vans World Cup is the second leg of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing season-ending series. It is also a WSL qualifying series contest in which surfers are trying to pile up points to make it to next season’s championship tour. The third leg is the Billabong Pipe Masters (Dec. 6-20), which is the championship tour finale at Ehukai Beach, where a world champion will be determined among the final three tour contenders — No. 1 Gabriel Medina of Brazil, No. 2 Julian Wilson of Australia and No. 3 Filipe Toledo of Brazil.
The Beachwaver Maui Pro is the season-ender for the women’s championship tour. No. 1 Stephanie Gilmore is going for her seventh world title. No. 2 Lakey Peterson of Santa Barbara, Calif., is the only other competitor with a chance to stop her.
HPU basketball falls in Anchorage
Abbey Noblett and Samantha Lambrigtsen each scored 12 points, but it was not enough as Hawaii Pacific fell to Alaska Anchorage 65-54 on Saturday in the D-II Coast-to-Coast Classic women’s basketball tournament at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage.
The Seawolves (6-0) hit 20 of 23 free-throw attempts and forced 16 turnovers, leading from start to finish against the Sharks (1-4). Hannah Wandersee and Kian McNair each had 14 points for Anchorage.
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