Push Admin

Promising Siargao pro surfer succumbs to injuries after road accident

Article (news)

ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/sports/04/22/escoltura2.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Surfer Mike Escoltura. <cite>Courtesy of Mark Escoltura</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>BUTUAN CITY – A professional surfer who sustained severe injuries in a vehicular accident died Friday evening, after two days of fighting for his life in a hospital.</p><p>Twenty-year-old Mike Escoltura, one of Siargao&#x27;s rising professional surfers, sustained fractures, chest trauma, and a head injury on Wednesday after a car hit the motorcycle he was riding with two friends.</p><p>Escoltura and his friends were on their way to Pilar town in Surigao del Norte when the accident happened.</p><p>Escoltura&#x27;s body is expected to be released from the Butuan Doctors Hospital on Saturday night, then brought to General Luna town in Siargao Islands early on Sunday.</p><p>A date for the surfer&#x27;s interment has not been set, said his twin brother Mark Escoltura.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/sports/04/22/escoltura.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Surfer Mike Escoltura. <cite>Courtesy of Mark Escoltura</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>Escoltura was considered one of the most promising pro surfers in the country.</p><p>His surfing skills were recognized as early as 2010 when he reached the quarterfinals of the 12th Siargao National Surf Cup.</p><p>In 2011, he finished third in the juniors division of the 3rd Cantilan Surfing Open, and 1st runner-up at the 9th National Lanuza Surfing Festival.</p><p>He finished 2nd at the 18th Siargao International Surfing Cup in 2012, and was declared champion at the Cloud 9 Masters Championship Juniors Division in the same year. Last year, he bagged the juniors championship at the Siargao Surfing Cup. <strong>--with reports from Rodge Cultura, ABS-CBN News</strong></p>

<p>BUTUAN CITY – A professional surfer who sustained severe injuries in a vehicular accident died on Friday evening, after two days of fighting for his life in a hospital.</p>

BUTUAN CITY – A professional surfer who sustained severe injuries in a vehicular accident died on Friday evening, after two days of fighting for his life in a hospital.