Two Nordic Races, Three Podiums for Dartmouth at Colby Carnival

Sunday, January 14

Waterville, Maine

All Day

Dartmouth College

Colby (Nordic Day 2)

Two Nordic Races, Three Podiums for Dartmouth at Colby Carnival

1/14/2018 2:16:00 PM | Skiing

By: Dartmouth

WATERVILLE, Maine — The Dartmouth cross country ski teams put three skiers on the podiums in the two freestyle races today, leaving the Big Green right on the heels of the Vermont Catamounts at the conclusion of the Nordic events. Rookie Katharine Ogden and sophomore Lauren Jortberg finished two-three in the women's 5K, while senior Luke Brown took third in the men's 10K.

Running on the North Koons Trail at Quarry Road, the course was shortened to a 1.7K loop which the women had to traverse three times and the men six. Ogden, a three-time Junior World Championship participant, made an immediate impression in her first collegiate race by claiming second with a time of 15:48.5, 19 seconds off the pace set by the winner, Alayna Sonnesyn of Vermont. The race for the third step of the podium as brisk, but Jortberg managed to fend off Vermont's Evelina Sutro by less than three seconds in 16:09.2.

Dartmouth's third scorer was another freshman in Sofia Shomento, coming off a strong performance at the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships last week. The native of Bozeman, Montana, skated across the finish line with a time of 16:21.8, good for fifth place to allow the Big Green to win the event. Two other Dartmouth skiers finished just outside the top 10 in senior captain Zoe Snow (16:36.5, 11th) and freshman Maddie Donovan (16:39.4, 13th).

The men got started at 11:30 this morning, and the Big Green put two in the top five, led by Brown in third with a time of 28:34.2 behind Colby's Zane Fields (27:52.2) and Vermont's Finn O'Connell (28:07.3). Junior Gavin McEwen crossed the tape in fifth, barely four seconds behind Brown (28:38.4), with freshman Adam Glueck rounding out the Dartmouth scorers with a collegiate debut in 11th place and a time of 28:58.7. The other Big Green skier among the top 20 was senior Callan DeLine who finished up right behind Glueck in 12th in 29:02.6.

With the cancellation of yesterday's races due to recent rain and warmer temperatures, the freestyle races at the Colby Carnival counted double. Vermont won the men's 10K, edging out Dartmouth, 242-226, while the Big Green women boasted 260 points to the Catamounts' 248. But those totals left Vermont with a slight 490-486 advantage with the alpine events scheduled for next Saturday and Sunday at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley.

The Nordic teams will head to Huntington, Vermont, next weekend to begin the St. Michael's Carnival on Saturday.