| Follow @UVMskiingJEFFERSONVILLE/HUNTINGTON, Vt. – The Vermont ski team moved to 3-0 on the season and earned its 18th straight EISA Carnival victory with a first-place finish at the Saint Michael's Carnival on Saturday.
The Catamounts finished 1-2 in both the men's and women's slalom races and Vermont's top three skiers placed in the top five in each race. The Nordic relay team added a second place finish in the only event of the day at Sleepy Hollow Inn to help UVM pick up 883 points, 167 more than second-place Dartmouth (716). New Hampshire rounded out the top three teams in the standings with 666 points.
RELATED LINKS
Team Scores (.pdf)
Men's Slalom Results (.pdf)
Women's Slalom Results (.pdf)
Nordic Relay Results (.pdf)At Smugglers' Notch Resort,
Will St. Germain beat out teammate
Taylor Wunsch to earn his first collegiate victory in the men's slalom race. St. Germain posted a time of 1:40.78 and was the only skier to finish with a time under 49 seconds in the first run of the day (48.83). Wunsch finished second with a time of 1:41.12.
Griffin Brown and
Gaby Coulet added a fifth and sixth place finish, respectively, for the Catamounts.
In the women's slalom race,
Kristina Riis-Johannessen, the defending NCAA slalom champion, completed the weekend sweep with a winning time of 1:47.75, just edging out teammate
Elli Terwiel. Terwiel, a 2014 Olympian for Team Canada, was .13 hundredths of a second behind her fellow Catamount to capture second place (1:47.88).
Laurence St. Germain finished fifth overall (1:49.50) and
Brittany Lathrop earned another top-10 finish on the year, placing eighth (1:50.94).
The Nordic squad had just one event on the schedule on Saturday, the mixed 4x3 freestyle relay. The Catamount team of
Marion Woods,
Rogan Brown,
MK Cirelli and
Jack Hegman combined to post a time of 38:48.5 and finish second to Middlebury.
The EISA Carnival moves to Dartmouth next weekend (Feb. 6-7). The alpine races will be held at the Dartmouth Skiway and the Nordic events will take place at Craftsbury (Vt.) Common.
