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           Adkison Pulls Double Win at Inaugural Wake Games

Lake Elsinore, CA — Andrew Adkison of Orlando, Florida pulled off an individual and team victory at the inaugural Air Nautique Wake Games in Lake Elsinore today. Adkison won the final in the pro men’s division to give him the title, but the victory also clinched the team championship for the team he captained Team Adkison.

Adkison scored a 100.00 to win the marquee event of the contest, the pro men’s final, topping Tino Santori’s 87.5 and Trevor Hansen’s 76.5.

The victory in his division for Adkison gave Team Adkison an additional 100 points in the team competition to give his team 460 points for the weekend enough to top the second place team captained by Hansen.

Team Adkison took three-first places in the running team totals with Adkison’s win in pro men, Raequel Hoffman’s win in pro women and Savannah Barber’s win in women’s wakeskate.  Paulie Koch, competing in junior boys, and pro men rider Aaron Rathy rounded out the five-person victorious team.

Hoffman’s win in pro women was a bit of a surprise as she knocked off local favorite Melissa Marquardt, from nearby Canyon Lake. Eddie Valdez, also of Canyon Lake, also fell short finishing fifth in junior men. But Eddie’s younger brother, Jacob, did win one for the local crowd topping the field in the boys division.

The next major wakeboarding event for Nautique is the Air Nautique WWA Wakeboard National Championships August 23-27 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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Day Four Results:

Men's Professional – Finals 

1 Andrew  Adkison USA  100.00

2 Tino  Santori     USA  87.50

3 Trevor  Hansen USA  76.50

4 Shane  Bonifay USA  76.00

Team Competition:

Women's Professional - Finals 

1 Raequel  Hoffman            USA  41.39

2 Melissa  Marquardt     USA   40.83

3 Shelby  Kantar  USA  31.67

4 Lauren  Loe     USA  23.33

Professional WakeSkate - Finals 

1 Brian  Grubb     USA  83.33

2 Ben  Kaiser      USA  71.67

3 George  Daniels    USA  63.33

4 A.  Rathy         USA  53.33

Junior Men (14-18) Finals 

1 Adam  Errington   USA  83.33

2 Jimmy  Lariche USA  73.33

3 Anthony Jr.  Racinelli  USA   61.67

4 Nate  Miller      USA  50.00

5 Eddie  Valdez   USA  37.22

6 Alex  Scagliotti    USA    23.33

Junior Boys (9 and under) - Finals 

1 Blake  Payton   USA  60.67

2 Paulie  Koch     USA  53.33

3 Cody  Coffey    USA  45.56

Boys (10-13) - Finals 

1 Jacob  Valdez   USA  51.00

2 Daniel  Powers USA  50.56

3 Gunnar  Shuler  USA  39.33

4 Ben  Kaiser      USA  30.00

5 Cale  Middleton USA  23.89

6 Cooper  Swink   USA  15.00

Men's 1 (19-24) - Finals 

1 Chris  Jones      USA  43.67

2 Graham  Whaley USA 39.44

3 Tyler  Heinz     USA  38.67

Men's 2 (25-29) - Finals 

1 Wade  Wagley  USA  50.00

2 Brandon  Poser USA  41.67

Men's Professional - Semi Finals 

(Top 2 Riders advance to next round !)

Heat  1

1 Shane  Bonifay USA 96.00

2 Trevor  Hansen       USA                                                                 91.00

3 JD  Webb         USA  80.50

4 Clay  Fletcher   USA  72.50

5 Corey  Bradley USA  60.00

Heat  2

1 Andrew  Adkison     USA  98.50

2 Tino  Santori  USA  91.50

3 Aaron  Rathy   CDN  73.00

4 Shaun  Murray  USA  71.00

5 Scotty  Broome AUS  66.00