Dartmouth may have claimed victory at Vermont’s home
carnival over the last two weekends, but UVM made a strong case to return the
favor after the first day at the Dartmouth Skiway. Morgan Megarry and Laurence
St. Germaine both won in the men’s and women’s GS to give the Catamounts a 40
point lead over second place UNH.
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| Colby's Mardi Haskell |
St. Germaine won the women’s race by only 0.44 seconds over
Colby’s Mardi Haskell, followed by UNH’s Lisa Wesjoe in third, 1.04 seconds out
of the top spot. Randa Teschner helped UNH to second place in the overall team
score by finishing fourth, only 0.07 seconds behind her teammate Wesjoe. Just
behind UNH’s duo came a flurry from Dartmouth, with Kelly Moore, GS leader
Foreste Peterson, and Libby Gibson finishing fifth, sixth, and eighth,
respectively. UVM’s Elise-Woien Tefre
had the second fastest run to jump from eleventh to seventh, and her teammate
Mille Graesdal finished ninth. Dartmouth’s Hannah Melinchuk had her first top
ten result of the year in tenth after starting bib 35.
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| Middlebury's Rob Cone |
In the men’s race, UVM’s Megarry won his first carnival GS
of the year by half a second over Middlebury’s Rob Cone. Dom Garand - still wearing
the leader bib from Week 1 - finished third, 0.80 seconds behind his teammate
Megarry. In yet another extremely stacked top 5, UVM’s Max Roeisland and Dartmouth’s
Brian McLaughlin tied for fourth, only 0.01 seconds behind Garand. Saint
Michaels’ Guillaume Grand’s fast first run landed him another top 10 in sixth,
followed by three UNH Wildcats. Philippe Rivet, Jay Ogle, and Bryan Cookson all
finished within a second of each other in seventh, eighth, and ninth.
Middlebury’s Chris McKenna rounded out the top 10. Looking through the top 20,
Saint Lawrence’s Graham Hayes more than halved his bib to finish 18th,
and while Colby’s Sam Glaisher vaulted from bib 64 to 19th place.
As the second day of the Dartmouth Carnival looms, less than
100 points separate the top 5 teams in the overall standings. UVM is out
front, but UNH, Dartmouth, Middlebury, and Colby are all in hot pursuit.
