Friday — March 12, 2004

Fast times on
the ridge up high

Soldier Mountain downhills

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Parents don’t usually encourage fast behavior by their teenagers. The exception is parents of ski racers and more than 100 teens fulfilled their need for speed at a series of Intermountain Downhills at Soldier Mountain Tuesday and Wednesday.

Apples Bar & Grill sponsored the J1/J1 qualifiers and racers from the Intermountain and Northern divisions participated.

Laura Durkheimer of the Hailey Ski Team won all three women’s downhills and posted a three-second margin of victory in the second race.

Sun Valley’s Calley Brown had an extremely consistent series. Brown was the top J3 woman in every race and finished in the top six twice.

Sun Valley A racer Carl Rixon Jr. was a two-time winner. Former SVST racer Jason Eder, now competing for Rowmark Ski Academy in Utah, won the final downhill.

Sun Valley J2 Kristian Timmons topped his class every time and was the silver medalist in all three races.

Other class winners were Andrew Benson, Michael Greer and Scott Isaacs.

 

Results:

Race 1

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Men

Overall top three: 1—Carl Rixon Jr., 1:35.94. 2—Kristian Timmons, 1:37.36. 3—James Huffman (SB), 1:37.47.
J1: 1—Andrew Benson. 2—Hunter Storey. 5—Cam Minor. 7—Slater Storey. 8—AJ Cronk. 10—Tyler Hoyt.
J2: 1—Kristian Timmons. 3—Corey Bellinger. 4—Luke Chaney. 7—Bryce Newcomb. 8—Willi Cannell. 11—Matthew Preucil. 12—Dewey Moss. 13—Taylor Stoecklein. 14—John Anderson. 15—Derek Blash. 18—Ben Luck. 19—John David Davidson.
J3: 4—Barrett Cincotta. 5—Michael Greer. 6—Quinn Baser. 7—Nick Carnes. 9—Toby Eagan. 11—Scott Isaacs.

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Women

Overall top three: 1—Laura Durkheimer, 1:37.86. 2—Sarah Scott (SB), 1:38.63. 3—Ashley Bembenek (SB), 1:39.22.
J1: 1—Durkheimer. 6—Charlotte Gourlay. 7—Amy Alexander. 10—Danielle Maniere. 11—Charlie Baser.
J2: 2—Laura Speck. 4—Lauren Parsons. 11—Mandy Alexander. 14—McKenna Peterson. 16—Lauren Rust.
J3: 1—Calley Brown. 2—Cody Curran. 3—Alisa Durkheimer. 5—Katie Rothgeb. 10—Alexis Dupont.

 

 

Race 2

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Men

Overall top three: 1—Carl Rixon Jr., 1:26.17. 2—Kristian Timmons, 1:27.15. 3—Jason Eder, 1:27.36.
J1: 3—Slater Storey. 4—Cam Minor. 5—Hunter Storey. 7—Andrew Benson. 8—AJ Cronk. 13—Tyler Hoyt.
J2: 1—Kristian Timmons. 3—Luke Chaney. 5—Tyler Chandler. 6—Willi Cannell. 7—Dewey Moss. 8—Ben Luck. 12—Bryce Newcomb. 14—John David Davidson. 15—Taylor Stoecklein. 17—John Anderson. 20—Derek Blash.
J3: 1—Michael Greer. 3—Barrett Cincotta. 5—Toby Eagan. 6—Scott Isaacs. 10—Quinn Baser. 12—Nick Carnes.

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Women

Overall top three: 1—Laura Durkheimer, 1:30.38. 2—Steph Peters (SB), 1:33.41. 3—Nora Nieminski (SB), 1:33.56.
J1: 1—Durkheimer. 4—Amy Alexander. 6—Charlotte Gourlay. 9—Charlie Baser. 11—Danielle Maniere. 14—Mandy Alexander.
J2: 6—Lauren Parsons. 7—Laura Speck. 8—Lauren Rust.
J3: 1—Calley Brown. 2—Katie Rothgeb. 3—Cody Curran. 5—Alexis Dupont.

 

 

Race 3

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Men

Overall top three: 1—Jason Eder, 1:28.76. 2—Kristian Timmons, 1:28.81. 3—Carl Rixon Jr, 1:28.87.
J1: 1—Eder. 3—S. Storey. 4—Benson. 5—H.Storey. 6—Minor. 9—Cronk.
J2: 1—Timmons. 3—Chaney. 4—Moss. 5—Newcomb. 6—Cannell. 7—Chandler. 11—Davidson. 13—Luck. 16—Stoecklein. 17—Bellinger. 18—Anderson. 21—Blash.
J3: 1—Isaacs. 4—Cincotta. 9—Eagan. 10—Carnes. 11—Baser.

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Women

Overall top three: 1—Durkheimer, 1:34.01. 2—Meredith Riley (PC), 1:35.62. 3—Bembenek, 1:35.88. J1: 1—Durkheimer. 5—A. Alexander. 6—Gourlay. 10—Baser.
J2: 4—Speck. 6—Parsons. 9—Rust. 13—M. Alexander. 14—Peterson.
J3: 1—Brown. 2—Rothgeb. 4—Curran. 10—Dupont.

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