On a slightly shortened GS hill at Jiminy Peak with another great
snow surface, only 0.03 seconds separated the women’s podium and the top
six men were within half a second in what proved to be possibly the closest alpine race so far this season.
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| Dartmouth's Foreste Peterson |
GS leader Foreste Peterson claimed her second GS victory of
the year, this time by only 0.01 seconds over her Dartmouth teammate Kelly
Moore. UVM’s Laurence St. Germain had the fastest second run to finish third,
only 0.03 seconds behind Peterson. Fellow Catamount Mille Graesdal had her best
GS finish of the year in fourth, and Colby’s Sierra Leavitt also had a personal
best result in fifth, only 0.05 behind Graesdal. Elise Tefre of UVM ended in the sixth
position, just ahead of Dartmouth’s Hannah Melinchuck. Melinchuch had the
second fastest second run to jump from the 24
th start position to
seventh, beating UNH’s Lisa Wesjoe by only 0.01 seconds. Colby’s Mardi Haskell
finished back to back with Wesjoe for the third race in a row, this time in
ninth to Wesjoe’s eighth, and Libby Gibson made sure that Dartmouth once again
put four women in the top 10. Dartmouth’s Maise Ide capped a great day for the
Big Green women as she jumped from bib 31 to 13
th.
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| UVM's Dom Garand |
As in the women’s race, the GS leader bib reigned supreme for the men. Dom
Garand once again won a carnival GS as UVM put three in the top four finishers.
Garand won by 0.10 seconds in front of Middlebury’s Rob Cone, who placed second
for the second week in a row. UVM’s Morgan Megarry and Max Roeisland came in
the third and fourth place positions, only 0.03 seconds apart from each other.
Saint Michael’s Guillaume Grand won the second run to finish fifth, only 0.02
in front of Dartmouth’s Kevyn Read. Read had the second fastest first run
behind Garand, but made a mistake second run to end the day in sixth. UVM’s
Will St. Germain finished seventh, followed by Dartmouth’s Thomas Woolson.
Bryan Cookson led UNH in ninth, only 0.03 seconds behind Woolson. Robert
Overing followed up his great weekend at Dartmouth with a tenth place, and Saint
Lawrence’s Kei Kullburg just missed out on the top ten from bib 23, only 0.04
seconds behind Overing. The Boston College mens team also had a great day as Carter
Robertson and Keith Schuman jumped from bibs 51 and 42 to finish 14
th
and 16
th, respectively.
Going into tomorrow’s SL at Berkshire East, UVM leads the
overall team standings by 22 points over Dartmouth with UNH in third, a
significant 64 points behind Dartmouth. But on a new venue to the EISA circuit,
anything can happen.
