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There is plenty of action on Mount Maunganui Main Beach today with almost 500 junior life savers descending on the sand and surf for the Eastern Regional Junior Championships.

Hundreds of junior surf life savers are descending on Mount Main Beach today. Photos by: Daniel Hines.

A total of 480 junior life savers are taking to the beach for the second day of the competition which sees competitors race their way to individual and club glory.

Among the hundreds of junior life savers, are as many as 70 Papamoa Surf Life Saving Club junior members who are pulling on the club's blue and gold colours to compete for a fourth Eastern Regional Junior Championship title win.

Junior athletes are coming from throughout the North Island's surf life saving regions including Eastern, Northern and Central.

Fifteen clubs are competing with Omanu's 94 competitors and Mount Maunganui's 93 competitors making up the largest teams.

Beach action continues with the Volleyball New Zealand Secondary Schools Beach Volleyball Championships also on Mount Main Beach.

Volley ballers from more than 140 teams across the country are taking part in the competition with pre-match games already underway and finals scheduled from 3pm.

Tauranga Boys' College, Tauranga Girls' College and Mount Maunganui College are among the 143 teams competing with junior and senior divisions programmed.

Some standout performances from day one of the Eastern Regional Junior Championships are:

Under 8s - Logan West Flags 3rd, Beach Sprint 3rd

- Diego Reeves Run Wade Run 3rd, Diamond 3rd

- Grace Padfield Diamond 2nd, Run Wade Run 3rd, Body Board 2nd

Under 9s - Ethan Millington Flags 1st, Diamond 3rd

- Annabelle Moffatt Flags 1st

- Beach Relay - 1st Ethan Millington, Azrael Cabusao, Jack Chote, Harry McManaway

Under 10s - Emily Pilbrow Diamond 4th, Run Swim Run 3rd, Surf Race 4th

- Ashlyn Koce Beach Sprint 3rd, Flags 4th

- Claudia Farr Flags 1st

- Cameron Relay - 3rd Hayley Dawson, Taiana Day, Elise Luker, Emily Pilbrow

- Blake West Beach Sprint 1st, Flags 1st - Beach Relay - 2nd Nathan Rostron, Charlie Bury, Thomas Hawes, Blake West

- Board Relay - 3rd Alexander Padfield, Charlie Bury, Blake West

Under 11s - Chanelle West Flags 2nd

- Eden Kelly Beach Sprint 2nd

- Kian Grey Flags 1st

- Cooper Gibson Flags 2nd

Under 12s - Lewis Farr Flags 3rd

- Nikki Wright Flags 2nd, Beach Sprint 2nd

- Beach Relay - 3rd Lewis Farr, Billy Bury, Cooper Gibson, Max Millington

- Tube Rescue - 1st Max Millington, Angus Porter

Under 14s - Mitch Cowdrey Flags 2nd, Beach Sprint 4th

- Aidan Smith Flags 3rd, Beach Sprint 3rd

- Beach Relay - 2nd Mitch Cowdrey, Flynn Grey, Aidan Smith Daniel Courtis

- Board Rescue - 3rd George Mano, Mitch Cowdrey

- Tube Rescue - 2nd Liam Moffatt, Mitch Cowdrey

- Tube Rescue - 2nd Sophie Hayden, Kaylie Hansen