MOLLYMOOK'S contingent of athletes helped South Coast finish seventh at the weekend's 2019 NSW Interbranch Championships at Bulli Beach.
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Payton Williams again proved why she is one of the top open women's athletes in the country, by claiming gold in both the beach flags and sprint - edging out Alexandra Rampoldi and Isabellah Walker respectively.
"It was a really challenging event, as I had a few rough turns in there but I made sure it all came together at the end," Williams, who is competing in her first full season after six years away from the sport, said.
"In the final, it's all in the turn, especially against Alex [Rampoldi] - whoever comes up first usually gets it between us two."
Clubmate Sam Zustovich also had to settle for silver in the open men's beach flags - one week after getting the better of rival Blake Drysdale at the Super Surf Teams League.
But he got revenge in the open's male sprint, claiming line honours over Drysdale and third-placed Jett van der Wallen.
The other two Mollymook athletes in action at the weekend were Karla Jones and Jack Bridges.
Jones, competing in the under 15 girls, won the beach flags and finished sixth in the sprint, while Bridges won the beach flags and claimed third in the sprint - both in the under 17 boys.
Joining these four in the 40-person South Coast squad, which also had Mollymook's Daniel Robberds on the coaching staff, Warrilla-Barrack Point's Kyah Shipley, Yva Fittock, Montana Doubell, Ivy Miller, Kelly Blair, Jarlee Carberry, Tylah Richards, Ivy Halliwell, Zeely Carberry, Abbie Davies, Daniele Holt, Kira Dale, Jordan White, Madeleine Bakker, Taylah Allen, Storm Balmain, Lucas Krstevski, Ashton Moran, Will Fowler, Layke Shipley, Kynan Burke, Kynan Burke, Kynan Burke, Kynan Burke, Zach Byron, Zach Byron, Nathan Robinson, Nathan Robinson, Jayden Allen, Tyler McEwen and Lachlan Blake, Kiama's Soraya Philp-Rud, Daisy Laird and Jackson Farland and Gerringong's Ethan Smith.
At the end of the two-day carnival, South Coast finished on 753 points, behind winners Sydney Northern Beaches (1133) - with Sydney (1121) and Hunter (1005) rounding out the top-three.