Dartmouth Wins East Regional at the Bates Carnival

Saturday, February 23

Rumford/Newry, Maine

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Dartmouth College

Bates Day Two

Junior Tanguy Nef

Photo by: Gil Talbot

Dartmouth Wins East Regional at the Bates Carnival

2/23/2019 3:03:00 PM | Skiing

Day Two Results

Tanguy Nef and Katharine Ogden both won their respective events to carry the Big Green to their third-straight regional title

By: Rick Bender

RUMFORD/NEWRY, Maine — With victories in two of the four events on the final day of the Bates Carnival, Dartmouth captured the East Regional title for third consecutive year, edging out Vermont by a 973-965 margin. Junior Tanguy Nef and sophomore Katharine Ogden won gold in their respective events for the Big Green, helping overcome the one-point deficit behind their twin-state rival to start the day.

By the women's alpine team took to the slopes for the slalom at Sunday River for the afternoon run, Dartmouth had a 12-point lead in the standings with its skiers boasting four of the five fastest times from the first run. Vermont put some pressure on, however, as Laurence St. Germain jumped into the lead and two other Catamounts were right behind her in second and third with the Big Green down to their final three skiers. Senior Alexa Dlouhy did enough to push one down with a combined time of 1:55.21, and sophomore Tricia Mangan maintained her second-place standing in 1:54.43. Although she didn't know it, by the time junior Stephanie Currie began her trek through the course, Dartmouth had wrapped up the title. Currie finished just behind Dlouhy in fifth (1:55.30), and while Vermont won the event with 131 points, the Big Green had 127 to clinch the East Regional championship.

Nef had a similar experience to his female counterparts in the men's slalom, taking a huge lead after the first run by 1.76 seconds ahead of his sophomore teammate, Kalle Wagner, in 55.11 seconds. Dartmouth also had sophomore Drew Duffy and senior James Ferri in sixth and seventh, respectively, going into the afternoon.

For the second run, Nef played it safe with the 18th-best time and still won by over a minute with a combined time of 1:51.32. Less than three-tenths of a second separated the skiers in second through seventh places with St. Michael's Guillaume Grand sneaking into second in 1:52.71, ahead of Duffy (1:52.83) in third and junior David Domonoske (1:52.85) — who jumped over nine others — in fourth. Wagner settled for seventh (1:52.99) while Ferri did not finish his second attempt as Dartmouth piled up 135 points to Vermont's 95.

In the women's 15K classic at Black Mountain, Ogden pulled away from the field early and never looked back. By the time she completed the first 5K loop, she was in the lead by more that 16 seconds. She continued to put distance between herself and Vermont's Evelina Sutro, extending her lead to nearly a full minute with 5K still to go. From there, Ogden cruised to the finish line in 42:48.7 to win her seventh straight individual classical race dating back to her freshman season.

Meanwhile, junior Lauren Jortberg was hanging right with Sutro, then passed her up on the final loop. Down the stretch she had to hold off another Catamount, Anna Bizyukova, which she did with less than a second to spare in 43:55.1. Bizyukova, Margie Freed and Sutro were the next three to cross the tape, giving Vermont 124 points, and senior Lydia Blanchet took sixth for the Big Green in 44:46.8, more than a minute ahead of the rest of the field. That left Dartmouth with 134 points to beat out the Catamounts for the team victory in the race.

Senior Callan Deline led the way for the Big Green men in the 20K classic, and although he was only 21st after the first 5K loop, he was a mere 16 seconds behind the leader at the checkpoint. Gradually he worked his way to the front, moving up to 10th at the halfway point, then joining the lead pack consisting of four skiers with 5K remaining. Down the stretch, it was Deline vying with Vermont's Bill Harmeyer and Ben Ogden with just 1.6 seconds separating the three at the finish. Harmeyer claimed the gold in 52:49.6 while his teammate Ogden just edged out Deline (52:51.2) by four-tenths of a second. Still, Deline earned his second podium of the winter and appears to be peaking at the right time with the NCAA Championship next on the horizon.

Sophomore Adam Glueck was skiing alongside Deline for the first 5K but eventually finished in 15th with a time of 54:04.0, one spot behind senior teammate Gavin McEwen who concluded his race in 53:46.3. The Catamounts amassed 138 points to win the event, Middlebury took second with 107 and Dartmouth third with 101.

The NCAA Championship will be hosted by the University of Vermont in Stowe in two weeks. The Big Green finished third last year in the team standings, their best finish in seven years, and Ogden will attempt to defend her national titles in both the freestyle and classical races, as will Nef in the slalom.