{"id":40870,"date":"2013-04-01T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40870"},"modified":"2013-04-01T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T19:02:33","slug":"carissa-moore-rings-the-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40870","title":{"rendered":"Carissa Moore Rings The Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carissa Moore<\/strong> made it two in a row by taking the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach<\/a><\/strong> over Tyler Wright<\/strong> in 3- to 5-foot surf moving her even further ahead in the ASP 2013 World Title race.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo win Bells is a dream,\u201d Moore said. \u201cAs a little kid, you always looked forward to watching it and reading about it. The history and the prestige and the people who have won it are really legendary. To be a part of it now is really special.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the official word from the ASP, follow the jump.BELLS BEACH, Victoria\/AUS (Monday, April 1, 2013) \u2013 Carissa Moore (HAW), 20, has claimed the 2013 Rip Curl Women\u2019s Pro Bells Beach presented by Ford over Tyler Wright (AUS), 19, in clean three-to-five foot (1 \u2013 1.5 metre) waves today in front of a capacity crowd at Bells Beach. Today\u2019s win vaults the young Hawaiian back into the lead on the ASP Women\u2019s World Championship Tour (WCT) ratings for the first time in over a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo win Bells is a dream,\u201d Moore said. \u201cAs a little kid, you always looked forward to watching it and reading about it. The history and the prestige and the people who have won it are really legendary. To be a part of it now is really special.\u201d<\/p>\n

After opening the heat with a 9.57 on her first wave, Moore survived a psychologically-draining 25-minute lull in action before she and Wright battled it out in a final exchange in the dying moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy heat,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI was fortunate to get a good score to start, but Tyler (Wright) is really powerful and a really fierce competitor. If she got the waves, it was going to be a challenge. We had a really long lull during the heat and then a little flurry at the end.\u201d
\nToday\u2019s win marks Moore\u2019s second in a row this season, previously collecting a victory in Western Australia last week, and the Hawaiian now sits in the driver\u2019s seat in this season\u2019s race for the 2013 ASP Women\u2019s World Title.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels great to be a part of the World Title race again this year,\u201d Moore said. \u201cLast year wasn\u2019t the greatest for me and it was an adjustment transitioning from going for a world title to defending one. I learned a lot though and I\u2019m back this year feeling focused with a great support group around me. It\u2019s still early in the season so I\u2019m just going to stay focused on the next event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wright, a standout on last Saturday\u2019s marathon day of competition, was unable to capitalize during her third, consecutive Finals\u2019 berth of the season and drops from ASP WCT No. 1 to ASP WCT No. 2 heading into the fourth event of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing for sure,\u201d Wright said. \u201cI felt like I was surfing well all week and I really wanted to ring the bell
\n. The waves just didn\u2019t deliver for us though. Congrats to Carissa (Moore) though. She was ripping and I\u2019ll try to go one better at New Zealand.\u201d
\nThe next stop on the 2013 ASP Women\u2019s World Championship Tour (WCT) will be the TSB Bank NZ Surf Festival in New Zealand from April 3 \u2013 7, 2013.<\/p>\n

While the women have finished at Bells for the year, the ASP Top 34 are currently doing battle and LIVE action can be accessed via www.live.ripcurl.com and broadcast live on Fuel TV in Australia and Portugal, ESPN in Brazil and MCS Extreme in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland and Africa. You can also watch the event live via the Rip Curl Pro iPhone app, available free in the iTunes App Store.<\/p>\n

For more information, log onto www.aspworldtour.com<\/p>\n

RIP CURL WOMEN\u2019S PRO BELLS BEACH FINAL RESULTS:
\n1 \u2013 Carissa Moore (HAW) 15.40
\n2 \u2013 Tyler Wright (AUS) 8.00<\/p>\n

CURRENT ASP WOMEN\u2019S WCT TOP 5 (Following Rip Curl Women\u2019s Pro Bells Beach):
\n1. Carissa Moore (HAW) 26,500 pts
\n2. Tyler Wright (AUS) 26,000 pts
\n3. Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 19,700 pts
\n4. Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 18,200 pts
\n5. Courtney Conlogue (USA) 16,900 pts<\/p>\n

RIP CURL PRO BELLS BEACH REMAINING ROUND 3 RESULTS:
\nHeat 4: Josh Kerr (AUS) 16.50 def. Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 14.17
\nHeat 5: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 17.47 def. Bede Durbidge (AUS) 17.16
\nHeat 6: Willian Cardoso (BRA) 16.66 def. Kelly Slater (USA) 14.96
\nHeat 7: Raoni Monteiro (BRA) 19.17 def. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 19.10
\nHeat 8: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 18.06 def. Damien Hobgood (USA) 17.74
\nHeat 9: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 18.67 def. Kolohe Andino (USA) 16.00
\nHeat 10: Filipe Toledo (BRA) 15.10 def. Gabriel Medina (BRA) 14.56
\nHeat 11: Jordy Smith (ZAF) 18.27 def. Alejo Muniz (BRA) 10.60
\nHeat 12: Mick Fanning (AUS) 18.50 def. Tiago Pires (PRT) 14.73<\/p>\n

RIP CURL PRO BELLS BEACH ROUND 4 RESULTS:
\nHeat 1: Taj Burrow (AUS), Kai Otton (AUS), Nat Young (USA)
\nHeat 2: Josh Kerr (AUS), Adrian Buchan (AUS), Willian Cardoso (BRA)
\nHeat 3: Raoni Monteiro (BRA), C.J. Hobgood (USA), Adriano de Souza (BRA)
\nHeat 4: Filipe Toledo (BRA), Jordy Smith (ZAF), Mick Fanning (AUS)
\nThe Rip Curl Pro is presented by FORD with partners the Victorian Government, Momentum Energy, mophie, Tooheys Extra Dry, Jim Beam, Skullcandy, Red Bull, Telstra, Surf Coast Shire, Surfing Life Magazine, Fuel TV, Ozmosis, Nova, CO2 Australia, Coastalwatch Plus and co-managed by Surfing Victoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carissa Moore made it two in a row by taking the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach over Tyler Wright in 3- to 5-foot surf moving her even further ahead in the ASP 2013 World Title race. \u201cTo win Bells is a dream,\u201d Moore said. \u201cAs a little kid, you always looked forward to watching it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40871,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870\/revisions\/40871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}