Four More Podiums Help Skiing Finish Second at Bates

Saturday, January 17

Sunday River Resort and Black Mountain, Maine

TBA

Dartmouth College

Day Two

Four More Podiums Help Skiing Finish Second at Bates

1/17/2015 8:12:00 PM | Skiing

By: Dartmouth

RUMFORD/NEWRY, Maine — On a raw and blustery day at Sunday River and Black Mountain, the Dartmouth ski team put four on the various podiums to enjoy a final solid performance at the Bates Carnival and finish in second place with 854 points, well ahead of Middlebury in third with 720. Vermont took the title, however, by winning both slaloms to end the event with 914 points.

After finishing second in the men's 20K Classic yesterday, sophomore Patrick Caldwell (Lyme, N.H.) dominated the 10K Free this afternoon by completing the course in 23:17.5, more than 45 seconds ahead of Harvard's Akeo Maifeld-Carucci, to easily win the race. Joining Caldwell on the podium was senior captain Silas Talbot (Anchorage, Alaska) in 24:15.6, while sophomore Fabian Stocek (Jilemnice, Czech Republic) crossed the finish line in 24:30.4 for seventh place. The trio combined to tally 129 points, 28 ahead of the second-place Catamounts.

In the women's 5K Free, junior Corey Stock (Lincoln, Mass.) found her way to the podium by finishing third in 14:11.1. Other Big Green racers to put points on the board in the event were junior Emily Hannah (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) in 16th with a time of 15:01.5 and senior captain Julia Harrison in 19th in 15:10.8. Middlebury, which won the event by edging Vermont, 119-111, had the top skier on the podium in Heather Mooney (13:52.0) who was able to stave off New Hampshire's Annika Taylor by little more than two seconds. The Big Green tied the Wildcats for third with 95 points.

The alpine races featured a number of individuals outside of the college ranks competing, so when considering just the collegiate skiers, the women put one on the podium and another a step away. Junior Maisie Ide (Minneapolis, Minn.) had the second-fastest time the first time down the mountain (53.30), and followed that up with another solid effort to hold on to second in 1:47.85. Following up a terrific collegiate debut race yesterday was freshman Foreste Peterson (Berkeley, Calif.), who was seventh after the first run before posting the second-fastest time on her second try to vault into fourth with a combined time of 1:48.33. Also scoring for the Big Green was sophomore Nicole Anderson (Centennial, Colo.) in 17th place with a two-run time of 1:52.49.

Vermont edged Dartmouth in team points, 120-112, as the Catamounts' Kristina Riis-Johannessen sat atop the podium in 1:47.12. Her former teammate, Kate Ryley (with whom she finished 1-2 in the slalom at the NCAA Championships last year), competed as an individual and bested the field in 1:46.94.

The men's alpine team placed its three scoring skiers among the top 15, led by senior Dylan Fisher McCarney (Toronto, Ontario) in seventh place with a combined time of 1:45.88 after sitting in ninth after the first run. In 13th and 14th places were senior captain Ben Morse (Carrabassett Valley, Maine) and Sam Macomber (Plymouth, N.H.) with times of 1:46.25 and 1:46.35. Vermont handily won the event, however, with four of the top five times on the day, with Gabriel Coulet winning the slalom in 1:44.75.

The Big Green return to each venue tomorrow to compete in the slalom and freestyle races.