Devin and Brandon Wells taking 1st and 2nd place. Robbie Virostek too 3rd but didn't hang for the awards.
pics by Melissa DeCarlo and Katie Wagner
Devin along with four other youths had in it out in two heats with the top two from each heat making the finals. In the end Devin dominated his heat and the finals by a fair margin over the others. Devin and Todd Wells, age 16 had to chase down a boat from a swimmer below TopDrop before getting back up to their next heat. Guess the safety crew didn't feel it was important to have a boater in the water or ready to drop in if needed?
Devin being the youth winner then advanced to the Men's semi's where he was in first coming into Maytag by 20 yards when he flipped and had a kayak on top of him when he tried to roll, got his paddle knocked out of one hand. Finally able to roll up he paddled down to take 3rd but not advance to the next round but he did get to make his presence known with the big dogs!!
