Andy Irons Dominates Round 1 Of Pipeline Masters; Competition On Hold For Today After a days worth of action yesterday that saw Andy Irons impressive return to the Vans Triple Crown and Adrian Buchan's defeat of Kelly Slater, The Billabong Pipeline Masters is off today due to small surf. As mentioned yesterday featured a completion of Round 1 action where a newly married Andy Irons reinserted himself into the Vans Triple Crown conversation with a event high score of 17.50 that boosted him straight into Round 4 (all first place finishers and the top 8 second place finishers in Round 1 heats at Pipeline get a direct line to Round 4). The defending Triple Crown winner Irons had been AWOL from the O'neill World Cup Of Surfing two weeks ago in order to get married, but with his Round 1 score at Pipeline he's looking to end his WCT year on a high note. While Irons pulled off the event's highest score for a heat Aussie Adrian Buchan came through with the event's highest single wave score with a 9.63 in Heat 6 of Round 1 which was good enough to push Kelly Slater into Round 3 action (the middle 16 finishers at Round 1 head to Round 3 while the last 16 finishers head to Round 2 to face HPSU qualifiers). Buchan had re-qualified himself for the 2008 Dream Tour after the first two legs of the Triple Crown so he was riding some personal momentum when he faced Slater. For the rest of the story check the site... Publish Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:06:00 EST Read more...