Juc surfer faces sudden death in Portugal

Jane Emerick
Jan Juc surfer Todd Rosewall will compete in a repechage round after taking on the world’s best this week at 2007 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships in Portgual.
The seventeenyearold placed fourth in roundfour competition to enter the suddendeath round.
Rosewall is reigning Australian junior champion and the only surfer in the team from Victoria.
The rest of the Australian team took advantage of improved conditions at Costa de Caparica where warm offshore winds brushed a consistent swell.
In the men’s under16 competition Queensland’s James Woods and Davey Cathels, of New South Wales, will join Rosewall in the repechage round, while Byron Bay’s Garret Parkes continues in the main competition.
In men’s under18 Queensland’s Chris Friend has progressed through to round five, while Chris Salisbury and Ellis Erickson, both of NSW, and under18 Australian champion Teale Vanner are in repechage rounds.
In under18 women’s competition, NSW surfers, Laura Enever, Ashleigh Smith and Sally Fitzgibbon have progressed through to the next round, while Queensland’s Amy Hart will contest a repechage heat.
The Australian team is defending its overall title from 2006.