After two weeks of Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association action, Dartmouth has shown itself a worthy defender of the NCAA title it won last March.
The Big Green won the Bates Carnival handily in Week 1, and then captured the St. Lawrence Carnival with 587 points, 32 more than Middlebury. Vermont placed third with 527 points - the Eastern powers finishing in the same order for the second straight week.
Vermont won both men's and women's slalom races at Whiteface Mountain Saturday, with four Catamount women finishing in the top five. The Catamounts' Lyndee Janowiak took her first win of the season, edging New Hampshire's Veronique Archambault-Leger for line honors, with Vermont's Kara Crow placing third.
Following a disappointing seventh-place finish at the Bates Carnival, the Vermont men placed three slalom racers in the top six to win the event, topping Middlebury and Dartmouth.
Macartney sent home
Scott Macartney was released from an Innsbruck, Austria, hospital yesterday, four days after he suffered a concussion and was placed in a medically induced coma following a crash during a World Cup downhill race. Macartney, 30, has flown home to Salt Lake City where he is to undergo neurological tests, the Austria Press Agency reported.Macartney was clocked at 87 miles per hour when he crashed Saturday in Kitzbuehel. The race was interrupted for a half-hour after Macartney lost his balance at the final jump and fell on his head, the impact breaking his helmet. He briefly lost consciousness and organizers said at the time he had a brain contusion. He was flown to Innsbruck, where doctors placed him in a coma from which he awoke Sunday.
'Cross comes to Conn.
Ski Sundown in Connecticut brings amateur boardercross/skiercross racing to southern New England with an under-the-lights series starting Sunday and continuing Feb. 10 and March 3. Groups of skiers and boarders will go head-to-head over the same course of obstacles and jumps, with the first two racers past the finish line advancing to the next round. Categories in each discipline are split among males (under 13, ages 14-21, and over 22), plus an open category for all females. Overall winners at the New Hartford course will receive prizes. Registration will be from 5 to 6 p.m. with a $10 entry fee. Course preview starts at 6 p.m., with the races running from 7 to 9 p.m. Helmets are required, as are release forms signed by the parents of those under 18.Over the river and . . .
It's long-distance time for cross-country skiers. The first of the four-stop 2008 NENSA Marathon Series gets under way Saturday with the TD Banknorth White Mountain Classic at Jackson, N.H. The 30K classic loop is both race and tour, taking skiers over the popular Ellis River and Wentworth Golf Course trails as part of a fund-raiser for the Mount Washington Valley's junior cross-country program. Registration closes tonight. There's more information at nensa.net . . . The Okemo Ross Powers halfpipe competition Sunday will benefit the Lindsey Baron "Bubba" Foundation, which raises money for scholarships and programs that promote acts of kindness. Baron, the first junior female snowboard instructor at Okemo in Ludlow, Vt., was hit and killed by a car in 1996. The competition series is open to skiers and snowboarders and carries a $20 registration fee . . . Wildcat, in conjunction with its 50th anniversary, is having $9 lift tickets tomorrow - that was the rate when the now-defunct gondola lift was turned on in 1958. At Vermont's Mad River Glen, lift ticket prices are being rolled back Tuesday to the 1948 level of $3.50.Globe correspondent Marty Basch contributed to this report; material from Associated Press was used.
