Minneapolis Pro Tour Stop, Day 1 Recap
RSS FeedWhat originally started as a bleak forecast, with ominous skies and tornado-warnings to the south, turned out to be one of the best days the pro tour has yet seen in 2008. After the majority of the tour-faithful arrived on Friday to plane-turbulence and 40-mph winds, it was looking like Minneapolis would treat her tour stop worse than any year – if the contest could even happen at all.
Sure enough, however, the shred gods parted the skies the entire day with calm conditions, the almost-complete absence of rollers (only one bozo in an I/O who was shut down as quickly as he started) and a booting wake.
You would have thought Minneapolis was a purpose-built wake lake for how few ripples and rollers the riders had to contend with.
The result: super high levels of wakeboard prowess for women, men and junior men. The highlight video will be out soon enough, but for now you'll have to content yourself with the below placement stats until tomorrow comes around for what will hopefully be another stellar day.
Saturday, June 7 – Day 1 Results:
Pro Men
Round of 40 Heat #: 01
1 Adam Fields USA 97.00
2 Chad Sharpe CAN 86.25
3 Zane Schwenk USA 83.25
4 Derek Grasman USA 73.50
Pro Men
Round of 40 Heat #: 02
1 Shane Bonifay USA 91.75
2 Shaun Murray USA 87.25
3 Bryan Hutton USA 85.25
4 Josh Palma USA 75.75
Pro Men
Round of 40 Heat #: 03
1 Andrew Adkison USA 98.50
2 Jimmy Trask USA 81.00
3 Sean O'Brien USA 80.50
4 Dylan Miller CAN 80.00
Pro Men
Round of 40 Heat #: 04
1 Erik Ruck USA 94.00
2 Danny Thollander USA 83.75
3 Trevor Hansen USA 83.50
4 Marcelo Giardi BRZ 78.75
Pro Men
Round of 40 Heat #: 05
1 Kyle Alberts USA 95.00
2 Olivier Derome CAN 90.75
3 Dustin O'Ferrall CAN 84.25
4 Alex Brown USA 54.25
Pro Men
Round of 40 Heat #: 06
1 Shawn Watson USA 100.00
2 Bradley Smeele NZL 86.25
3 Dean Smith AUS 77.25
4 Nick Weinacker USA 76.50
Pro Men
Round of 40 Heat #: 07
1 Adam Errington SCT 95.25
2 Aaron Rathy CAN 92.50
3 Brett Lee USA 82.25
4 Jesson Vedel TAH 70.00
Pro Men
Round of 40 Heat #: 08
1 Rusty Malinoski CAN 100.00
2 Austin Hair USA 85.75
3 Corey Bradley USA 82.00
4 Cory Harris USA 72.25
Pro Men
Round of 40 Heat #: 09
1 JD Webb USA 97.25
2 Kyle Rattray CAN 89.25
3 Josh Sanders AUS 83.50
4 Paul Hernaez 59.50
Pro Men
Round of 40 Heat #: 10
1 Phillip Soven USA 97.75
2 Chris O'Shea AUS 87.75
3 James Hindes USA 84.50
4 Rhett Whatley USA NS
Pro Women
Semifinals Heat #: 01
1 Dallas Friday USA 94.75
2 Amber Wing AUS 85.50
3 Laura Lohrmann USA 82.00
4 Raimi Merritt USA 73.50
5 Gretchen Vedel USA 38.75
Pro Women
Semifinals Heat #: 02
1 Nicola Butler UK 93.25
2 Melissa Marquardt USA 90.25
3 Shelby Kantar USA 81.25
4 Ashley Leugner USA 71.00
5 Barrett Perlman USA 50.75
Pro Women
Qualifying Round Heat #: 01
1 Shelby Kantar USA 95.50
2 Gretchen Vedel USA 68.25
3 Hayley Smith AUS 65.50
4 Tarah Mikacich USA 65.00
Pro Women
Qualifying Round Heat #: 02
1 Melissa Marquardt USA 73.25
2 Barrett Perlman USA 72.50
3 Emily Copeland Durham USA 60.50
Pro Women
Qualifying Round Heat #: 03
1 Amber Wing AUS 97.75
2 Raimi Merritt USA 89.50
3 Danni Petraitis USA 66.75
Pro Women
Qualifying Round Heat #: 04
1 Dallas Friday USA 100.00
2 Laura Lohrmann USA 90.00
3 Shawna Hoffman USA 46.00
Pro Women
Qualifying Round Heat #: 05
1 Nicola Butler UK 95.75
2 Ashley Leugner CAN 94.25
3 Maeghan Major USA NS
Junior Men (14-18)
Quarterfinals Heat #: 01
1 Stephen Cahail USA 89.50
2 Ryan King USA 87.00
3 Raphael Derome CAN 85.00
4 Danny Burnstein USA 78.50
Junior Men (14-18)
Quarterfinals Heat #: 02
1 Julian Cohen USA 93.00
2 Kirby Liesmann USA 87.75
3 Jarrod Askew AUS 85.25
4 Daniel Powers USA 74.00
Junior Men (14-18)
Quarterfinals Heat #: 03
1 Robert Soven USA 97.75
2 AJ Racinelli USA 86.25
3 Sam Thomson AUS 86.00
4 Andrew Shearer USA 70.00
Junior Men (14-18)
Quarterfinals Heat #: 04
1 Harley Clifford AUS 100.00
2 Phillip Aslinger USA 88.00
3 Pierce Homsey USA 82.00
4 Gunnar Shuler USA 70.00
Junior Men (14-18)
Quarterfinals Heat #: 05
1 Jimmy LaRiche USA 95.25
2 Steel Lafferty USA 84.00
3 Ryan Anderson USA 81.00
4 Alex Scagliotti USA 79.75
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