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Slalom: The
Onekama Girls Team placed 4th in Slalom with 50 points
taking the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 18th and 22nd placings
tonight. There were 34 girls racing in this event. Kaylie
Mathieu's runs of 32:25 and 33:39 gave her the fastest
OHS girls team time for the evening in slalom for 11th
place.
There was only 0:08
difference between Kaylie and Manistee's Danielle
Schubert who placed 10th. Frankfort's Stephanie Griffin
racing for OHS placed 12th with her times of 33:42 and
34:18. Kelli Hopwood finished with 33:54 and 34:61 for
13th place. Erika Jach is back! Her times of 33:67 and
35:31 put her in the 14th spot. Charlette Kalbach of
Frankfort racing for OHS placed 18th with times of 36:57
and 37:61 and Dani Olson snared the 22nd position with
39:99 and 40:62. The OHS Girls Team was the ONLY girls
team not suffering a DNF or DQ tonight in Slalom!
Girls Giant Slalom:
The girls placed 5th in GS
tonight with Kaylie Mathieu coming in 12th with her times
of 21:42 and 21:62 and Kelli Hopwood 16th with a first
run of 22:52 and a second run of 21:89. Erika Jach slid
into 18th place with 22:22 and 22:31 and Frankforts'
Stephanie Griffen for OHS 19th with 22:43 and 22:94.
Charlette Kalbach finished
26th with her times of 25:17 and 24:73 and Dani Olson
took 27th with times of 26:37 and 26:62. The GS course
was a little kinder to the girl teams tonight with only
Manistee and Bellaire suffering DNF's.
Racing as an
individual tonight was Frankfort's Amanda Redder coming
in with times of 41:55 and 44:25 for 25th place in
slalom. Amanda is steadily improving her race skills.
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1/31/02 OHS Invitational TBA
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2/5/03 Race @ Schuss Mtn. 5pm
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Boys
Giant Slalom: The
boys placed 5th tonight in GS after suffering a couple of
DNF's. Jackson Carter was the fastest Portager boy in GS
tonight pulling out times of 20:15 and 19:85 for 11th
place. Christopher Smith is starting to put it back
together again and slid into 12th place right behind
Jackson with 20:33 and 20:70. Travis Berklund raced down
for 15th place with times of 20:80 and 21:10, while Alex
Harris of Bear Lake racing for OHS came in 17th with his
times of 22:07 and 23:06. Frankfort's Garry Honeycutt's
first run came in at 25:35, but he DQ'd on his second run
bringing in a no score. Tom Meoak had a very bad fall on
his first run giving him a DNF and sending him to the
hospital for xrays. Manistee was the only Boy's team not
suffering a DNF.
Boys Slalom:
The boys went on to finish
5th in Slalom with only 3 members scoring for the
Portagers. Christopher Smith proved to be the fastest
Portager Boys racer in Slalom tonight, placing 6th place
with times of 28:87 and 29:20. Jackson Carter had a slip
up near the bottom of the course giving him a first run
of 41.10 , but he redeemed that nicely with a second run
of 29.19 placing him 15th. Garry Honeycutt placed 21st
with his times of 38:65 and 39:73. Alex Harris and Travis
Berklund both DNF'd on their first runs and of course Tom
Meoak was at the hospital so he DNS'd (did not start).
There were 31 boys in this race. Benzie and Manistee were
the only boys teams that did not suffer a DNF tonight in
slalom.
Ben LaDuke, Captain and MVP
of last year's boys team made a surprise visit at
tonight's race. Ben stayed for the race and helped out
anyway he could from reviewing the courses with the boys
to running for times that couldn't be heard by the
announcer due to loud bell ringing. With my fingers too
frozen to barely write the scores, I was not able to snap
a picture of Ben proudly helping with the race. Ben has a
way of calming souls and that he did! Ben is currently
racing for Grand Valley State University which is having
a race this weekend at Crystal Mt. Stop by and cheer him
on!
Monday, Jan. 20th all
schools will meet again at Crystal Mt at 5pm. On Tuesday
Jan 21st the Portagers head off to Caberfae for their
first medal race of the season at the Cadillac
Invitational.
Mrs. Hopwood (Kelli's mom)
and a parent from another school, swing around to watch
and make sure that the racer on the GS course doesnot
miss a gate. Mr. Harris (Alex's dad) was up by the start
shack lining up racers.Gate keeping is a very important
job as you are actually officiating the race. It is your
job to instruct the racer who falls or misses a gate what
gate to hike back to and when they can "go"
again or if they are DQ'd. Special hand signals are
learned as well as what is considered a DQ or missed
gate. Training is free and Coach Miller is willing to
train any and all for the job!
*Note* In a phone
conversation with Tom Meoak later in the evening from his
home ,he reports that he will be off of his skis for at
least the next week. Hyper extending his knee,he has
suffered pulled ligaments and tendons in his knee as well
as scrapes and bruises on his body, but no "severe
or permanent damage".
From my understanding,
there won't be any 2 schools going at it on the Mountain
on a given night as was done in the past. Each race will
pit all the schools in the conference against each other
through out the normal race season. And so the story
goes........
Reporter/Photographer: Gwen Smith
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