Dartmouth Finishes UNH Carnival at the Top

Saturday, January 19

Jackson/Franconia, N.H.

TBA

Dartmouth College

UNH Day Two

Lydia Blanchet

Photo by: Clarkson Creative

1/19/2019 4:29:00 PM | Skiing

Final Results

Blanchet, Nef take gold as the Big Green win the carnival by 137 points

By: Rick Bender

JACKSON/FRANCONIA, N.H. — The Dartmouth Big Green won two more events at the New Hampshire Carnival and cruised to the team title with 986 points, outdistancing second-place Vermont by 137. Senior Lydia Blanchet took the gold in the women's freestyle sprints while junior Tanguy Nef — last year's NCAA slalom champion — bested the field in the slalom by 1.5 seconds.

Dartmouth made it a clean sweep on the podium of the women's sprints at Jackson XC with Blanchet edging sophomore Katharine Ogden and senior Taryn Hunt-Smith for the top step in the finals on Saturday afternoon, while junior Lauren Jortberg placed fifth for good measure. That trio gave the Big Green 141 points, well ahead of the Catamounts with 105.

The Vermont men duplicated Dartmouth's feat by taking the top three spots in their sprints with Bill Harmeyer earning the win for the second straight day. Senior Callan Deline was the Big Green's top skier in fourth place while sophomore Adam Glueck took sixth. The final Dartmouth scorer was senior Koby Gordon in 25th place as the Green beat out Colby for second place, 99-96.

Over at Cannon Mountain, Nef took the lead on the first run with a time of 51.53 seconds, more than a full second ahead of Middlebury's Erik Arvidsson in second. Sophomore Drew Duffy, who won each of the first three men's alpine races this carnival season, was sitting fourth, a mere six-hundredths of a second behind St. Michael's Guillaume Grand in 52.71 seconds, while junior Kipling Weisel entered the second run in sixth in 53.23 seconds.

While sophomore Jimmy Krupka shook off finishing the first run in 24th place to record the best time on his second attempt, Nef was putting together the next-fastest time to easily win the event with a combined time of 1:43.66. Duffy leap-frogged Grand to take the third spot on the podium in 1:45.47, and Weisel slipped only one spot into seventh in 1:46.93 as Dartmouth collected 129 points. Host New Hampshire was a distant second with 92 points and St. Lawrence third with 81.

Senior Alexa Dlouhy had the second-fastest run to start the women's slalom with a time of 54.05 seconds, while Vermont's Paul Moltzan had the lead by four-tenths of a second. Big Green junior Stephanie Currie — yesterday's giant slalom winner — was in fifth (55.79 seconds) and sophomore Claire Thomas sat seventh (56.13).

While Moltzan failed to complete her second run, Dlouhy remained in second with a combined time of 1:51.50 as she was overtaken by another Catamount, Laurence St. Germain, due to a sizzling run that was 1.7 seconds faster than the rest of the field. Both Currie and Thomas moved up a slot into fourth (1:53.33) and sixth (1:53.62), respectively, and New Hampshire's Emma Woodhouse took the final podium step in third, just edging out Currie in 1:53.14.

Dartmouth will be back in action in two weeks at the Vermont Carnival in Stowe on Feb. 1-2.