Babson College/ Tom Martin
The colleges of the Atlantic Highlands and Japanese conferences had been capable of kick off their first races of the season over the previous week and a half, a full week forward of lots of the different conferences.
Atlantic Highlands Convention
The Atlantic Highlands convention opened the season with their first races held at West Mountain. The Princeton males’s staff was capable of declare the highest of the rostrum throughout the slalom race, because of efforts from Lorenzo Lizzeri in third, Andrew Rosen in sixth, and Eli Padoan in tenth. The USA Navy Academy claimed second, and Columbia College took third. Eben Gifford completed in first place within the slalom race for Lehigh College with a scorching 1:10.57 second mixed race time, though it wasn’t sufficient to convey Lehigh onto the rostrum for slalom, as they completed solely fifth.
Nevertheless, a 3rd place end for Gifford, in addition to excessive outcomes for Nathan Driker in fourth, and Jack Darov in thirteenth, was sufficient to push Lehigh to second throughout the GS race. That also wasn’t sufficient to take the gold spot, which was snatched up by USMA and James Lahrman, who positioned first, together with robust performances by Callum Donovan and Ryan Oberweis-Manion. Columbia College positioned third in GS because of fast occasions from Mathias Habal-Shore, Augie Goldberg, and Reid Hu, who had been additionally the highest three racers for Columbia throughout their slalom race as effectively.
The Lehigh ladies’s staff began their season on fireplace throughout their opening races, taking first in each GS and Slalom. Abi Masillo positioned first for the staff in each occasions. Eliza Hirschey positioned eighth in GS and fourth in slalom, with Sadie Grey shortly on her heels to take ninth and fifth in every occasion respectively. As a staff, Fairfield College grabbed the silver spot in GS, with Rutgers behind them. Fairfield additionally managed to take third in slalom, however this time they had been beat out by Lafayette College, with Lily Gouse in second place, Gwendolyn Brown in eighth, and Katherine Schaefer ending fourteenth.
The Princeton ladies’s race confirmed Sophie O’Connor placing up a 1:22.93 mixed time in GS, in addition to a 1:33.38 in slalom, to complete third as a person in each occasions.
East Convention
Over within the Japanese Convention, St. Joseph’s School of Maine dominated the Reynold’s Division in each the lads’s and girls’s races. Throughout their first race, Avalin Beaudin, Megan Cook dinner, and Sierra Mack of St. Joseph’s swept the rostrum with first, second, and third place finishes. All three appeared once more within the second race at midday, the place the ladies of St. Joseph’s cleaned up as soon as once more by claiming the highest 5 finishes. Cook dinner took second, Mack fourth, and Beaudin fifth, with Hannah Golden ending third, and Kathleen Yeaton in first with a mixed time of 1:15.80, a full second forward of second place.
Regardless of excessive scoring from Logan Davis and Jack Worth of St. Joseph’s Maine, inserting first and second respectively, back-to-back-to-back finishes from Alexander Wiseman in fifth, Owen Benison in sixth, and Niko Fortier in seventh had been sufficient to place Bowdoin on the highest of the leaderboard for the 9:30 AM races, and pushing St. Joseph’s into second place. The boys’s staff of St. Joseph rallied for his or her second race, with a primary place end from Jack Worth, a sixth place end from Sam Plummer, and a seventh place end from Owen Pethic to assist push the staff into first.
Through the opening race within the McBrien Division at Vacation Mountain, the lads of america Coast Guard Academy confirmed out, notably in racers Logan Schwartz and Noah Barnes. Schwartz completed first in each GS and Slalom occasions, placing up occasions of 28.78 and 29.52, for a mixed time of 58.30, nearly 5 seconds forward of second place. Barnes claimed the second place spot in slalom, in addition to third within the GS race. Racer Benjamin Cook dinner of Marist reached the rostrum for each occasions additionally, ending second in GS, and third in Slalom.
The rostrum for the GS and Slalom ladies’s races had been dominated by the identical three racers in each races as effectively. Liva Olina of MIT took first place in slalom, and third in GS. Kelsey Callahan of Marist School took first in GS and second in slalom, whereas Anna Erb of URI took second in GS, and third in slalom.
Though the Thompson Division was pressured to cancel their Jay Peak races on the tenth, they had been nonetheless capable of maintain GS races on the eleventh, the place each the lads’s and girls’s groups of Northeastern took first place. Ellie Stram of Northeastern took first individually. Haley Kutzer positioned third individually, adopted sequentially by her teammates Miriam Maculova, Piper Macartney, and Carey Ritter, giving the Northeast ladies 5 of the highest six ending occasions. The Northeastern males additionally claimed lots of the quickest occasions, with Jake Strobeck in third place, adopted by Ethan Munson in fourth, Christopher Pyle in fifth, Asher Lockwood in seventh, and Miles Rucker in eighth. The Tufts staff got here in second, led by Alexander Doyle with a second place end individually, and Nathan Kessler of WPI completed first individually, serving to the WPI staff into third place.
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