First Day at St. Lawrence Carnival Leaves Big Green Atop the Field

Friday, January 11

Lake Placid, N.Y.

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Dartmouth College

SLU Day One (Alpine)

Alexa Dlouhy Dartmouth ski carnival action

Senior Alexa Dlouhy

Photo by: Herb Swanson

First Day at St. Lawrence Carnival Leaves Big Green Atop the Field

1/11/2019 2:06:00 PM | Skiing

Results Day One

Alexa Dlouhy leads the women's alpine team to 124 points while Drew Duffy took gold to lead the men

By: Rick Bender

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Dartmouth sophomore Drew Duffy made his collegiate debut in style by winning the men's slalom at Whiteface Mountain, while senior Alexa Dlouhy also stepped onto the podium in the women's slalom to help the Big Green to an early lead at the St. Lawrence Carnival on Friday. Dartmouth finished the day with 246 points as both the men and women won the team titles, while New Hampshire sits in second with 193 points.

The men kicked off the competition in frigid temperatures at 9 a.m., and Duffy — a veteran of the FIS circuit — made his name known quickly with the second-fastest run the first time through the lineup in 46.13 seconds. Times on the second run were generally faster across the board, and Duffy was no exception with the best time at 45.50 seconds to win the race with a combined time of 1:31.63.

The next-best time on the second run belonged to another sophomore making his collegiate debut, Jimmy Krupka. That surge allowed him to move up from 18th into a tie for fourth at 1:33.95. Senior James Ferri also scored for Dartmouth with a pair of solid times that left him in 11th place at 1:35.91. Two of the Big Green's other four skiers were competing at the collegiate level for the first time as well — freshman Andrew Miller and junior Kipling Weisel — the latter of which would have finished among the top 10, but was disqualified during his second run. Still, Dartmouth amassed 120 points, well ahead of UNH's 94, while perennial contender Vermont lagged behind in seventh with 63 due to some spills on the course.

For the women, Dlouhy continued to display the consistent form that earned her second-team All-America honors in the slalom each of her first three years with the Big Green. The senior from Montreal posted the third-fastest time on her first run, then was fourth-fastest the next time down to maintain her position and claim third in 1:35.74. Her teammates were not far behind with sophomore Claire Thomas taking fourth (1:36.34) and junior Stephanie Currie comfortably in fifth (1:37.08) to produce 124 points between them.

Vermont placed second with 107 points with All-American Paula Moltzan winning the event by more than a full second in 1:34.18. But the Catamounts' skiers with the next two best times on the first run struggled the second time down with one falling and the other stumbling that proved costly, though Vermont is still in striking range with 170 points overall in third. Emma Woodhouse of New Hampshire took the other spot on the podium by edging out Dlouhy in 1:35.37.