Hailey Ski Team coach Robin Sarchett, 30, showed the young racers how it's done by winning the first three races—two giant slaloms and one slalom--of the 62nd annual Intermountain Division Snow Cup Friday through Sunday at Snowbird.
Sarchett took a stroll down the 32-gate Primrose Path Friday to capture the opening GS by .47 seconds, then he added a .71-second GS victory Saturday and raced to a overwhelming 1.75-second triumph Sunday in the Wilbere Ridge slalom.
Biche Rudigoz put up an 11th place in Friday's GS and 11th in Sunday's SL, while Kristian Timmons (6th J1) and Dixon Mooseau (6th J2) cracked the top 15—Timmons landing in 13th place in GS and Mooseau putting down two SL runs in 14th place overall.
There were 125 men and 80 women in the field for the four-day technical race event including a contingent of about 30 Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation (SVSEF) and Hailey Ski Team ski racers.
Hailey's Meghan Luck had an outstanding pair of slalom heats on Wilbere Ridge Race Hill in Sunday's slalom—particularly her sixth-fastest second run—and the 14-year-old prospect climbed all the way to 10th place (the winning J3) out of 54 finishers on the 48-gate course.
Sun Valley's Calley Brown and Lauren Parsons podiumed in each of the giant slaloms. Brown (2nd J2) was fourth overall, just .09 seconds off the overall bronze, in Friday's GS and Parsons (2nd J1) placed sixth. Saturday, Parsons (2nd J1) earned the overall bronze in third place and Brown (3rd J2) was sixth overall.
Monday, Sun Valley's Katie Rothgeb (5th J2) was eighth overall in the final slalom.
Duke adds another SL win
Former Wood River Valley ski racer Hailey Duke, 20, of Boise and the Park City Ski Team earned another women's slalom win Thursday as the Western Series FIS (International Ski Federation) Finals wrapped up at Park City, Utah.
It was Duke's fourth victory of the 2004-05 season in an FIS slalom race. Other local placings in the slalom finale where 83 men and 57 women completed both runs on Picabo's run at Park City:
Thursday women's SL: 37—McKenna Peterson. 52—Sara Berman. 53—Charlie Baser. Men's SL: 11—Miles Fink-Debray. 23—Corey Bellinger. 25—Ben Luck. 30—Bryce Newcomb. 34—John Campbell. 36—Ford Hebard. 52—Ryon Campbell. 69—John Anderson. 73—Michael Greer.
Here are local class placings from the Snow Cup, which was the concluding event of the 2004-05 Intermountain Division schedule:
J1 women: Lauren Parsons 2-GS; McKenna Peterson 6-GS; Charlie Baser 7-GS.
J1 men: Kristian Timmons 6-GS; Taylor Stoecklein 8-GS; Ross Campbell 16-GS; Willi Cannell 7-SL.
J2 women: Calley Brown 2-GS; Katie Rothgeb 8-GS/5-SL; Amanda Alexander 10-GS/9-SL; Sara Berman 12-GS/10-SL.
J2 men: Corey Bellinger 7-GS/9-SL; Dixon Mooseau 9-GS/6-SL; Tristan Brown 11-GS/8-SL; Scott Isaacs 13-GS/18-SL; Ford Hebard 14-GS/11-SL; John David Davidson 16-GS/12-SL; Ryon Campbell 18-GS/26-SL; Michael Greer 20-GS/21-SL; Derek Blash 22-GS/24-SL; Tyler Chandler 22-SL.
J3 women: Meghan Luck 4-GS/1-SL; Ainsley Gourlay 11-GS/5-SL; Jasmine Campbell 17-GS/11-SL.
J3 men: Riley Berman 11-GS/29-SL; Gregory Roos 26-GS/19-SL; Willie Adicoff 26-GS/33-SL.
