Dartmouth Pulls Out Second Place at Middlebury Carnival

Saturday, February 14

Middlebury Snow Bowl and Rikert Touring Center, Vt.

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Day Two

Dartmouth Pulls Out Second Place at Middlebury Carnival

2/14/2015 5:44:00 PM | Skiing

By: Dartmouth

RIPTON/HANCOCK, Vt. — It took every last skier Dartmouth had on Saturday, but the Big Green continued their string of second-place finishes at Middlebury this weekend, edging out the host Panthers by five points and New Hampshire by 15 with their total of 788. Vermont won the carnival with a robust 931 points by winning five of the eight events.

Dartmouth beat out the Catamounts in the women's giant slalom, however, as freshman Foreste Peterson (Berkeley, California) took second with a combined time of 2:12.57, a full 1.6 seconds behind Vermont's Kristina Riis-Johannessen. Peterson was sitting in sixth after the first trip down the mountain at the Snow Bowl, then ripped off the second-fastest time on the second run. Her second time was actually faster than her first, making her the only skier in the top 10 to accomplish that feat. Freshman Libby Gibson of Jamaica, Vermont, gave the Big Green another competitor in the top 10 with her time of 2:14.15, good for sixth. The other scorer for Dartmouth was another rookie in Kelly Moore (Ottawa, Ontario), who placed 11th in 2:15.50. Middlebury still managed to beat out the Big Green for the best team score by taking third, fourth and fifth.

Peterson wasn't the only Dartmouth skier to claim second place in a race today as sophomore Patrick Caldwell (Lyme, New Hampshire) returned from competing at the U23 Cross Country Championships in Kazakhstan last weekend to take second in the men's 10K Free with a time of 25:20.6. He barely held off Vermont's Jorgen Grav by two-tenths of a second, while another Catamount, Rogan Brown, won the event by just over 11 seconds. Sophomore Fabian Stocek (Jilmenice, Czech Republic) skated across the finish line in seventh at 26:05.9, while senior Silas Talbot made it three in the top 10 by finishing up in 20:26.4, good for ninth. The three Big Green skiers amassed 113 points with only Vermont (133) ahead of them.

In the women's 5K Free, junior Corey Stock (Lincoln, Massachusetts) followed up her third-place finish in the 10K Classic yesterday with another stop on the podium in third today with a time of 16:18.5, not even 10 seconds off the pace of the winner, Annika Taylor of UNH. Others scoring for the Big Green were junior Molly Siegel of Bethel, Maine (17:23.2, 19th) and freshman Cara Piske of Steamboat Springs, Colorado (17:38.2, 24th) to bring the team's total to 87 points, good for fourth. Vermont clipped New Hampshire at the top, 111-107.

Sophomore Dylan Brooks (Mammoth Lakes, California) was the top Dartmouth skier in the men's giant slalom, putting together two runs that put him in 10th at 2:10.05. Two freshmen, Brian McLaughlin (Topsfield, Massachusetts) and Kevyn Read (Calgary, Alberta), also finished in the top 15 with the former 12th (2:10.20 and the latter 15th (2:11.06). The race at the top for the team title was decided by a single point as the Catamounts beat out their hosts, 121-120, while the Big Green finished fourth with 86 points, trailing UNH in third with 100.

While the alpine team will travel to Alberta to compete in the Nor-Am Series next weekend, the next time the team will compete as a whole will be at the Eastern Regional Championship on Feb. 27-28 that will take place at Whiteface Mountain and Lake Placid in New York.