Manistee Invitational at Crystal Mountain

February 2, 2004

<--OHS/BLHS/FHS Medalists from the Manistee Invitational. Left to right, Stephanie Griffin, Jackson Carter, Wiley Heller and Kaylie Mathieu
OHS/BLHS/FHS Boy's Team WIN the Slalom race with a score of 45 points! East Jordan came in second to our boys with a score of 57 points.

Boy's Final Team Standings:

  • 1st Mt. Pleasant 88
  • 2nd East Jordan 89
  • 3rd Grayling 122
  • 4th OHS/BLHS/FHS 130.5
  • 5th Manistee 149
  • 6th Benzie 187
  • 7th TCSF 188
  • 8th Clare 203
  • 9th Harrison 294

Girls Final Team Standings:

  • 1st TCSF 55
  • 2nd Manistee 96
  • 3rd East Jordan 146
  • 4th Benzie 146.5
  • 5th Mt. Pleasant 150
  • 6th Harrison 189.5
  • 7th Grayling 218
  • 8th Onekama 224
  • 9th Clare 238

Boy's Slalom:

The OHS/FHS/BLHS Boy's team won the slalom event today placing 1st as a team with 45 points. The team placed 5th in GS for a final standing of 4th place overall. There were 9 schools and 54 boys at today's race. Frankfort's

Wiley Heller racing for Onekama, won the slalom event in the medal race with his combined of :51.25

Onekama Boy's Individual Placings:

  • 1st Wiley Heller :24.76 and :26.49
  • 3nd Jackson Carter :25.23 and :27.34
  • 15th Chris Smith :27.46 and :28.47
  • 26th Travis Berklund :30.47 and :32.42
  • 35 Joe Dontz :35.40 and :36.87
  • Eric Baumler Did Not Finish when he lost a ski coming over the head wall.

Boy's GS:

OHS/BLHS/FHS boy's placed 5th as a team in Giant Slalom with 85.5 points. Manistee's Connor Pelton won the medal race. Leading the Onekama team was Frankfort's Eric Baumlerwith his 13 place finish.

OHS Individual Placings:

  • 13th Eric Baumler :20.22 and :20.19
  • 18th Chris Smith :20.76 and :20.39
  • 23.5th Jackson Carter :19.56 and 21.98
  • 31st Travis Berklund :21.47 and 21.83
  • 46th Wiler Heller :29.11 and :20.51
  • 47th Joe Dontz :24.95 and :25.44

Girls Slalom:

East Jordan's Margaux Rowley won the medal race.

The Portager girls placed 8th as a team with 108 points today in Slalom. Frankfort's Stephanie Griffin racing for Onekama led the team with her 6th place finish and a medal.

Individual placings:

  1. 6th Stephanie Griffin :28.63 and :29.70
  2. 29th Dani Olson :32.88 and :33.63
  3. 32nd Kaylie Mathieu :37.48 and :29.44
  4. 41st Monika Higley :37.46 and :39.68

Girl's Giant Slalom:

East Jordan's Margaux Rowley won the medal race.

Onekama girls placed 8th with 116 points as team for a final placing of 8th overall for the day. Leading the Portagers was Kaylie Mathieu with her 8th place finish and medal. Dani had to hike on her first run, but she redeemed herself nicely with a second run of :24.17.

Onekama Individual Girls:

  • 8th Kaylie Mathieu :20.42 and :21.15
  • 19th Stephanie Griffin :21.50 and :22.22
  • 40th Monika Higley :26.48 and :26.52
  • 49th Dani Olson :57.09 and :24.17

The final conference meet for the Lake Michigan Ski Conference will be held at Schuss Mt. 2-3-04

Thank you,

Gwen Smith and Coach Miller

Travis rolls up some of the fencing to help the Manistee team wrap the day up.

Once again Reporter Gwen Smith has provided "on the spot" photographs and text! Gwen attends the meets to cheer the team on. Then she rushes home to down load her camera, write text, and send the finished work to me by e-mail. I get the easy part: while sitting in a soft chair, with a cup of coffee, I make the page using her material. I really appreciate all you do for our Onekama Web, Gwen!

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Spectator's watch as Chris skis out of the race corral after he finished his Giant Slalom run on the tree side of Thor.

Chris listens closely to Coach Miller in between his runs. Coach was explaining what he could do for the back pain he has suffered since football season. It included stretching and strengthening exercises as well as an over the counter anti-inflammatory to reduce swelling.

Breakfast of Champions! Ummmm...that looks like brownies and hot chocolate to me! It must have worked though as the boys team WON the slalom event as a team, as well as Wiley won the event in the medal race.

Travis stands up out of his tuck and slides to stop after his Giant Slalom run...he didn't get me with a spray of snow this time! I have learned where not to stand!

Joe and Coach Mathieu discuss Joe's run he just finished. Joe was smiling, so he must have felt ok with it. :)

Our very own Deb French from OHS came and took action photos of the team today! The team appreciates everything she does for them for the yearbook and team photos. We made sure to offer her lunch!, but she had eaten before she came up and only nibbled on ONE potato chip. Thank you, Deb, for coming to our races when time permits it!

After losing a ski near the head wall during the Slalom event, Eric skied over to us where we were gate keeping. One of the Manistee Ski Club men helped him with his bindings. Eric figures that his "DIN's" were set too low and that is what allowed the ski to eject from his foot causing a fall.

Wiley, you deserve that nap! You just won the Slalom event over 9 schools and 54 boys! Congratulations! (Wiley wasn't really sleeping, and he had a huge smile on that face!)