(Race
Results)
GILFORD, N.H. - It was another good day for the Plymouth
State University ski teams Friday as the Panther men took first
place among nine teams and the Panther women finished second among
10 schools at a MacConnell Division giant slalom race at Gunstock
Mountain.
PSU had three of the top seven individual finishers out of 72
skiers in the men's race, and five in the top 14. The Panther
men have now won the team standings five races in a row and
maintained the lead in the MacConnell Division season
standings. The Panther women had three of the top 13
finishers out of a race of 65 skiers, finishing second as a team
for the sixth straight race and taking over first place in the
MacConnell Division women's standings.
Plymouth State had a two-second advantage over runner-up
Colby-Sawyer College in the men's standings, with Boston College,
Babson College and UMass Amherst rounding out the top five.
Brown University finished ahead of PSU to capture the women's
standings, with Boston College, Colby-Sawyer and UMass placing
third through fifth.
Freshman Chris Beadon (Ridgefield, Conn.) paced
the Panther men with a second-place finish, his fourth top-two
finish of the year in seven races. Junior Peter
Ostroski (Intervale, N.H./Kennett) and freshman
Parker Spear (Sodus Point, N.Y.) were sixth and
seventh, respectively. Ostroski has placed in the top seven in all
seven races this season and Spear has finished in the top 10 in six
out of seven. Juniors Travis Nevins
(Henniker, N.H./John Stark) and Austin Nevins
(Henniker, N.H./John Stark) were 11th and
14th, respectively.
Senior Alyssa Deane (Casper, Wyoming) was the top
Panther finisher in the women's race with a season-best third
place, her fifth top 10 finish. Freshman Martina
Ryberg (Stockholm, Sweden) rebounded from a disappointing
performance a week ago with a strong sixth-place finish, her fifth
top-six finish this winter. Sophomore Kait
Pawlak (No. Windham, Vt.) brought home a solid
13th place to help the team to its second place.
The teams will be back on the slopes Saturday with a slalom race at
Blackwater Ski Area in Andover, N.H.
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